First broadcast out of the Driskill Hotel in 1952, Austin's longtime local television channel KTBC was the city's first TV station, holding down channel number seven and owned for many years by none other than Texas royalty Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson. The station, primarily a CBS affiliate until its switch to Fox in 1995, is an essential background element of the city's past ...
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Atlanta Might See This Austin Tower Before Austin, Somehow
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT UPDATE: In a classic twist of dramatic irony, mere hours after publishing this article the Republic tower project showed its first city permit activity in roughly two years -- if we didn't know better, we'd think it had something to do with us pestering the folks at Lincoln for this story all week. This new permit doesn't contain much beyond a description of ...
This Downtown Austin Office Plan Has an Art Gallery – But What Is Art, Anyway?
Let's say you're building an office building on top of a parking garage in a pedestrian-heavy area of downtown. Though some projects manage to get away with not doing it for various tricky reasons, for a building of this variety Austin's land development code typically requires parking garages to be screened from the street by a "pedestrian-oriented use." Here's what the code ...
See the Stunning Design of an Expanded MACC in the Rainey Street District
No matter how many downtown Austin condo and apartment towers rise in the Rainey Street District -- and the answer is "a lot" -- the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center (ESB-MACC) at 600 River Street will always be the most important building in this neighborhood. Designed by the late Mexican architect Teodoro González de León with help from ...
Shape the Future of a Downtown Public Space at Cypress and Shoal Creek
As part of its larger plan to improve trail connectivity and recreational spaces along Shoal Creek in downtown Austin and beyond, the Shoal Creek Conservancy along with the City of Austin and Downtown Austin Alliance hopes to create a new public destination in the heart of the area sometimes known as the Seaholm District, roughly centered around where West Third Street becomes ...
See Austin Condo Tower Construction Up Close With ‘Beyond the Fence’ Episode 2
Construction outfit Flintco, currently putting up developer Intracorp's 44 East Avenue condo tower in the Rainey Street District of downtown Austin, is giving us another episode of its documentary series "Beyond the Fence" -- providing an unusually inside look at the kitchen-sink process of developing a 49-floor building. Episode 2 of the series, "Harmony by Design," ...