It's not like we haven't had plenty of other important things to think about lately, but over the last few months our minds have wandered once again to the status of the Seaholm Waterfront, the long-awaited adaptive reuse project by the Austin Parks and Recreation Department, the Trail Foundation, the Austin Parks Foundation, and local architecture firm Cotera + Reed to ...
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Digging Into East Austin’s John Treviño Jr. Metro Park Master Plan
After about a year of development, the City of Austin's Parks and Recreation Department and Seattle landscape architecture firm GGN finally have a master plan for the improvement of the unused 330-acre East Austin parkland named for the city's first elected Mexican-American City Council member John Treviño Jr. -- and this is great news, because the tract at 9501 FM 969 is ...
Here’s Hanover Brazos Street, Ready for Its Close-Up in Downtown Austin
You'll notice in our prior coverage of Hanover Brazos Street, the 45-floor, 308-unit apartment tower planned by Houston developers the Hanover Company for the southeast corner of East Third and Brazos Streets, there are almost no images including the top of the building. That's because its architects at Chicago firm SCB were being pretty coy about releasing full views -- ...
Grab Some New Views of the 41-Story Condo Tower Headed to 84 East Avenue
As we announced back in February -- which feels like a decade ago -- the 41-floor downtown Austin condo tower headed for 84 East Avenue will bring a reported 283 "attainably priced" residences to the ever-popular Rainey Street District, courtesy of local developers Pearlstone Partners. A current view of the tower site on East Avenue. Though our minds are obviously ...
The Chicago Architects Behind Downtown Austin’s Rising Skyline
As you might imagine, most tall buildings in and around downtown Austin are designed by architects from Texas. But looking at projects either planned or under construction in the central city, you'll notice Chicago pops up a lot -- not exactly a close neighbor, but as a hotspot for architecture (and towers in particular) it seems the Windy City's helping steer the ship around ...
