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 entrances, especially ...
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Downtown Austin’s First ‘Supertall’ Tower Plan Arrives at Waller Creek Site
After 20 years of unrealized development plans for the approximately 3.3-acre property at the southwest corner of Cesar Chavez and Red River Streets near the Rainey Street District of downtown Austin, the latest contender for a tower at the site would be the first in the city to qualify as a "supertall" skyscraper -- the tallest in Austin by a country mile, but possibly also ...
Meet the River Street Residences, Rainey’s Next Game-Changing Tower
Texas' most acclaimed architecture studio could soon bring its tallest building yet to one of Austin's most famous streets. Rising 48 floors and 571 feet at the northeast corner of Rainey and River Streets in the heart of the Rainey Street District, the project currently known as the River Street Residences designed by San Antonio-based architecture firm Lake Flato would ...
Central Austin Development Roundup: We’re Going Downtown Again
Show of hands, who thought we would still be doing this in October? One interesting side effect of the pandemic, if you're one of the chosen ones lucky enough to still be working from home, is that when you finally do go downtown you'll likely be struck by just how much progress some of our more prominent tower projects have made down here in the last several months. It's ...
The Linden Condo Tower’s On Deck for a Growing Northwest Downtown Austin
The Linden, a 28-story downtown Austin condo tower project by New York development firm Reger Holdings with local design by the architects at Rhode Partners, could be only months from breaking ground at the corner of 17th and Guadalupe Streets in the formerly sleepy, now fast-growing northwestern corner of downtown. According to the developer, the tower has received approval ...
