To build the new tallest tower in Austin, you’ve got to break a few eggs — or, in this case, demolish a completely unremarkable hotel. In other words, the Extended Stay America now occupying the famously “cursed” former home of the late Alamo Hotel at the northwest corner of West Sixth and Guadalupe Streets is not long…
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Austin’s Tiny Home Startup Kasita Rides Again, With Tiny Hotels in Mind
Kasita, an Austin startup founded in 2015 amid significant local and national buzz for its prefabricated “tiny smart home” concept, is officially no more. Rising in its place is Kasita, a new firm fashioned in the rough image of its predecessor, but with a notably different application imagined for the modular dwelling technology constituting the previous company’s legacy —…
What’s the Worst Intersection in Austin?
For such a simple question, we’ve heard endless possible answers, so we’d like to ask our readers. Click here to fill out our survey, or use the embedded form below: (function(t,e,s,n){var o,a,c;t.SMCX=t.SMCX||[],e.getElementById(n)||(o=e.getElementsByTagName(s),a=o[o.length-1],c=e.createElement(s),c.type=”text/javascript”,c.async=!0,c.id=n,c.src=[“https:”===location.protocol?”https://”:”http://”,”widget.surveymonkey.com/collect/website/js/tRaiETqnLgj758hTBazgdwPZmV_2FAEs9sr8CUqTZNE6Upgi3u6zbvkQAnc1P5CWRv.js”].join(“”),a.parentNode.insertBefore(c,a))})(window,document,”script”,”smcx-sdk”); We’re mostly interested in troublesome intersections in the central city, like downtown and its surrounding neighborhoods, but we’re sure there’s plenty out there either way. A lot of factors are…
In 1986, an Architecture Critic Roasted Austin’s ‘Pompous’ Skyline
Are you old enough to remember when people cared about Newsweek? If so, you might also recall January 1986, when the magazine’s late arts and architecture critic Douglas Davis called Austin’s newly-booming skyline part of a “riot of wretched excess” breaking out across cities worldwide. The culprit? Postmodern architecture, with all its playfully goofy ornamentation and pastiche of historical styles. “By common…
At Least 12 Mobility Upgrades Planned for the Rainey Street District
As far as we can tell, the “comprehensive mobility study” of the Rainey Street area recommended by Austin’s Design Commission back in May hasn’t wrapped up yet, but that apparently doesn’t mean the city doesn’t already have some plans of its own for fixing up the area’s patchy sidewalks and other mobility infrastructure. This is great news for the neighborhood’s residents,…
Centro Office Project Heads for East Austin’s Booming Saltillo District
A mixed-use development planned a stone’s throw from the Plaza Saltillo Station of the Capital MetroRail Red Line will construct an estimated 300,000 square feet of office space and 25,000 square feet of street-level retail space in its first phase — and once the project is completely built out, it could span nearly two full…