It’s not often that a building breaks ground in downtown Austin without us knowing the details — we’re not bragging, that’s literally our job and spending all our time downtown makes it hard to miss. But as construction fences started rising at the 15-story Shoal Creek Walk office tower site at 835 West Sixth Street sitting just east…
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Congress Avenue’s Smallest Art Deco Building Scores Historic Zoning
Though you’ll find examples here and there, there’s not a ton of Art Deco architecture in Austin, and if you’re searching for this style on Congress Avenue you’ll most likely stick to the Scarbrough Building at 522 Congress Avenue — not just the city’s first modern tower, but also overflowing with Deco’s classic geometric ornamentations at its grand…
Here’s How Paving an Alley Could Transform Rainey Street
The latest round of expansion in the Rainey Street District of downtown Austin could be the first step towards an improvement some of us have anticipated patiently for the better part of a decade — the paving of the alley that runs between Rainey Street and East Avenue. Discussed as a possible upgrade for at least a decade, paving…
On a Changing Barton Springs Road, McPhail’s Florist is the Last of Its Kind
There’s a lot to love about the eclectic jumble of buildings at 605 Barton Springs Road — the round windows, whimsically painted stucco walls currently rocking shades of turquoise and violet, and the long greenhouse running down the west end of the complex, its panes increasingly smashed out, allowing peeks at the few remaining plants…
Meet the East Tower, Planned to Break Ground in the Rainey District by 2021
Having topped out its Natiivo project at 48 East Avenue in the Rainey Street District just last week, Austin firm Pearlstone Partners has an only slightly different address on its mind at 84 East Avenue, where the developers’ 284-unit downtown Austin condo tower plan currently known by the placeholder name The East Tower is quickly passing through the permitting stages on the…
Austin’s Waller Creek ‘Supertall’ Project Would Be Texas’ Tallest Tower
In the aftermath of the revelation that Austin could soon receive its first “supertall” tower in the form of a mixed-use project called Waller Creek by developers Lincoln Property Company and Kairoi Residential at 98 Red River Street — a site that’s sat undeveloped despite multiple evolving plans for its transformation over the years — whichever anonymous individual first leaked the renderings…