The studio and residence of groundbreaking sculptor Elisabet Ney is 129 years old. That’s only four years younger than the Capitol, a building that’s received more than its fair share of attention over the past century and change — needless to say, not every building this old looks so good, and Ney’s castle-like limestone haunt has shown…
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It’s Cranes Up for the Waller at Symphony Square in Downtown Austin
Years after our earliest news of the project and mere months after the first look at what we can confidently call downtown Austin’s bluest new building, the development at Symphony Square formerly also known as
Meet T3 Eastside, Austin’s First Modern Timber Office and Residential Building
Houston-based international developer Hines will bring East Austin the city’s first example of a modern office and residential building constructed from sustainably-sourced heavy timber at 1201 East Fourth Street in a project known as T3 Eastside — that’s “timber, transit, and technology,” a brand Hines calls its prototype for the use of engineered wood in contemporary office developments,…
Demolition Clearing West 17th and Guadalupe for the Linden Condo Tower
Demolition finally kicked off this week for the William Gammon Insurance building, a small office structure dating back to the 1980s at the southeast corner of West 17th and Guadalupe Streets in downtown, soon to be cleared from its 0.3-acre site at 313 West 17th Street where New York-based investment firm Reger Holdings plans to break…
In Praise of Austin’s TRS Headquarters, a Doomed ’70s Concrete Wonderland
After being solidly shamed out of a big-spending plan to relocate its Austin offices to the recently-completed (and architecturally quite brilliant) Indeed Tower, the . . . Become a patron to get the full story and gain access to TOWERS’ archive. (Sign-in)
Abolishing FAR Limits Downtown Is the Best Idea Austin’s Had in a While
As the City of Austin works to hammer out a new and improved version of its increasingly dated Downtown Density Bonus Program, we were blown free of our chairs last week by a memo from the city’s Design Commission recommending, among other things, the complete removal of