Though we stick to the written word for the most part, sometimes nothing beats a video for getting your point across -- so here's one of the best we've seen in a while. It's from construction firm PERI Formwork Systems, working with DPR Construction, describing some of the specific challenges of building the Block 71 / Indeed Tower office project in the heart of downtown ...
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Austin’s Second ‘Jenga Tower’ Could Rise at the Royal Arch Masonic Lodge
After a slightly chilly reception from the city's Historic Landmark Commission back in June, an adjusted plan for the 30-plus story tower imagined above the historic Royal Arch Masonic Lodge at 311 West Seventh Street in downtown Austin rides again at tonight's Commission meeting, and its applicants -- local architects Brett Rhode of Rhode ...
At La Vista de Lopez, an East Austin Holdout Imagines a Tower of Its Own
After holding out against development in a rising district of East Austin for more than 30 years, the Lopez house isn't giving up -- instead, it's planning to go up. This historic single-family home just east of I-35 at 809 East Ninth Street, officially known as the Routon-Alvarez-Lopez House, has enjoyed a long life despite a universe of growth around it due to its ...
Demolition at the 6 X Guadalupe Tower Site Could Arrive Next Month
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 for this world, with recent city documents pointing to its ...
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 ...
