Since it’s visible from almost everywhere in and around downtown, you probably won’t be surprised to learn that Austin’s next tallest tower, The Independent, is topped out and in a late stage of construction at 301 West Avenue in the emerging Seaholm District. Roughly 80% of the 58-story residential building’s 370 units are spoken for, and the…
VIDEO: Aerial Views From Downtown Austin to West Campus
We received the video below from a fan of the site who was lucky enough to take a helicopter ride low over downtown Austin and the West Campus area earlier this month. We don’t often see downtown from this perspective, and it’s a great way to see progress on some of the towers currently underway…
Lockless and Flockless: The State of Austin’s Dockless Vehicle Pilot Program
If you hadn’t heard, Austin has a newfangled pilot program for dockless bikes and scooters. This is awesome because scooters are awesome and bikes are awesome, and if you disagree, I’ll leave you in my scooter dust, at no more than 15 miles per hour. via GIPHY So, now that we’re a month into the city’s new dockless regulations, let’s…
A Field Guide To Austin’s Tudor Architecture
If you’re interested in the historic architectural styles of single-family homes, Virginia McAlester’s 1984 book, “A Field Guide to American Houses: The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America’s Domestic Architecture” isn’t just a good place to start — it’s the only place, really. This acclaimed 880-page guidebook to the design language of nearly every permutation…
The Scarbrough Building’s ‘Keep Austin Weird’ Sculpture Has Some Haters
Remember that pocket patio and “Keep Austin Weird” sculpture planned in front of the Scarbrough Building at the corner of Congress Avenue and Sixth Street? I ripped on the sculpture a little last time for being kinda corny, but now I feel bad about it. Turns out a significant portion of Austin’s Historic Landmark Commission really doesn’t like it….
Digging Into New Plans for the Seaholm Waterfront’s Long-Awaited Redesign
The saga of the Seaholm intake goes way back. After work began on a mixed-use project adapting the decommissioned historic Seaholm Power Plant in 2013, the City of Austin’s Parks and Recreation Department announced a competition soliciting designs from local architects for a remodel of the power plant’s intake building, located on the shores of Lady Bird Lake across Cesar Chavez…
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