Austin & Austin Metro Projects Compilation

[The ATX]

Here's my latest list of the 50 tallest active projects in Austin.  The highlighted projects are either U/C or have had their official groundbreaking and are financed.

 

Edited December 29, 2014 by The ATX

[The ATX]

Here's the site of the 400' 500 W. 2nd St. office tower from yesterday.  There are two underground parking levels.

Photo by Urbannizer:  http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6857343&postcount=32

 

 

This is from yesterday as well.  The U/C towers from left to right are the Austin Central Library, Seaholm Residences and Northshore apartments.

Photo by Urbannizer: http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6857347&postcount=232

 

 

Seaholm Residences and Northshore apartments up close:

 Photo by Urbannizer:  http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6857347&postcount=232

[The ATX]

Here's the U/C Hotel Van Zandt (on the left) and the U/C Westin (in the center) from yesterday.  The cranes are working the Millennium Rainey apartments which did not make my list of the 50 tallest projects.

Photo by Urbannizer:  http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6857340&postcount=108

 

 

Here's a rendering of the U/C Millennium Rainey apartments.

http://zieglercooper.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/dinerstein-rainy-streetYangliu-Joe-c02-011.jpg

Edited December 29, 2014 by The ATX

[The ATX]

Here's the site of the Rowlings Hall project which is part of the University of Texas McCombs' Business School from yesterday.  A popular restaurant was one of the buildings demolished for this project.  This one is too short to make my latest projects list.

Photo by Urbannizer:  http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6856980&postcount=36

 

 

Here's another view of it. The tall building behind it is the dorm from where Michael Dell began selling his first computers before dropping out of school to start his company.

Photo by Urbannizer:  http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6856980&postcount=36

 

 

Here are a couple renderings of the project.

http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/~/media/Images/MSB/Development/Rowling%20Hall%20Story%20Page/RowlingHall2.jpg?h=300&w=980

 

http://media.tumblr.com/63a5dbc9276f1782656a2d2155068d07/tumblr_inline_nctxcjJKgu1shapng.jpg

Edited December 29, 2014 by The ATX

[The ATX]

Here's closer shot of Millennium Rainey taken from I-35.

 

Photo by FM 2258:  http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=120173120&postcount=1943

[The ATX]

The Archer hotel (#45 on my list) on the north side of town in the huge Domain development officially broke ground less than two weeks ago.  

http://vccusa.com/blog/

Edited December 29, 2014 by The ATX

[The ATX]

The ABJ had an article with more details about the two new state office buildings proposals.  They are bigger than I expected, although the height is hard to predict without knowing their footprints.  One would be over 400K sq. feet and the other 360K sq. feet.  Since we don't have an income tax in Texas the state relies on oil and gas for much of its revenue.  If prices stay low, the budget hawks may postpone the projects even though the space for state offices is needed.    

 

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/blog/real-estate/2014/12/texas-legislators-to-push-for-new-office-buildings.html

[The ATX]

The excellent BuildingATX blog has some project updates.  

 

Demo is completed at the 5th & West condo tower site, and site prep has begun:  

http://buildingatx.com/2014/12/downtown-construction-update-dec-2014-photos/

 

 

The dual branded Indigo and Holiday Inn Express hotel:  

http://buildingatx.com/2014/12/downtown-construction-update-dec-2014-photos/

Edited December 30, 2014 by The ATX

[The ATX]

BuildingATX also has updates on two Downtown corporate projects.

 

Cirrus Logic's HQ:  

http://buildingatx.com/2014/12/downtown-construction-update-dec-2014-photos/

 

 

Dropbox offices (and connected parking structure.)  This is on the block adjacent to the U/C Westin hotel seen further down the street.  

http://buildingatx.com/2014/12/downtown-construction-update-dec-2014-photos/

[The ATX]

Number 38 on my list of the tallest Austin projects is now underway as demolition of the site is completed.  It's the Cockrell School of Engineering on the University of Texas campus.  Here're a couple renderings.  It doesn't look too bad for an academic building.  But then again an ugly building that houses the school of engineering probably isn't desireable.

   

http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6110574&postcount=1

Edited December 31, 2014 by The ATX

[The ATX]

Looking eastward:  

Photo by Tom Spencer:  http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6859195&postcount=4047

[The ATX]

An aerial from last week:  

Photo by Photolith:  http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6858669&postcount=4043

[The ATX]

Seaholm Residences:

Photo by Urbannizer:  http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6857350&postcount=60

[The ATX]

Looking eastward.  I really like how night time lighting is becoming an important architectural feature of the new buildings: 

Photo by unknown:  http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6861357&postcount=1000

[The ATX]

The crown on the recently completed Colorado tower has just started lighting up at night.  This building really looks in person.  But its location and the fact that it's only `400' unfortunately mean it doesn't stick out much in most views of the skyline.  

Photo by SkyPie:  http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6860237&postcount=482

Edited January 2, 2015 by The ATX

[The ATX]

The Hotel Van Zandt with the not yet visible from this view Millennium Rainey apartments on the left:  

Photo by Urbannizer:  http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6857340&postcount=108

[The ATX]

Here's a rendering of a newly announced infill project on W. 6th St.  W. 6th is becoming a grownup version of the E. 6th St. entertainment circus.  I don't normally post about smaller projects like this one, but I thought this one looked cool.  It has good interaction with the street in area that is becoming more pedestrian oriented.

https://twitter.com/jboyenterprises/status/549738452389228546/photo/1

 

 

Here's what the site looks like now from Google Streetview.  This would be an obvious improvement:  

Edited January 2, 2015 by The ATX

[The ATX]

Here's a view from West Campus looking towards Downtown on a cold, overcast New Year's Eve:  

Photo by Urbannizer:  http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6860685&postcount=4051

[The ATX]

Also from New Year's Eve.  The site of the future McComb's Business School on the edge of the U.T. campus.  It's named after San Antonio billionaire and big U.T. donor Red McCombs.  He's one of the principal investors in the Circuit of the Americas F1 track as well as the former owner of the Minnesota Vikings and Denver Nuggets.

Photo by Urbannizer:  http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6860667&postcount=38

[The ATX]

Here's the new Austin Central Library going up at the Seaholm site.  Typical government project.  It's taken over a year to get three stories above ground while its U/C residential high rise neighbors (Seaholm and Northshore) are around 12 to 15 floors up now.

Photo by Urbanizer:  http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=6857430&postcount=121

Edited January 2, 2015 by The ATX

[The ATX]

The 1,000+ room JW opens in only six weeks, but they still have some work to do at street Level.  One of the restaurants has a sign up:  

BuildingATX:  http://buildingatx.com/2014/12/downtown-construction-update-dec-2014-photos/

[The ATX]

Here's the first 2015 Rev. of my list of the 50 tallest active projects in Austin that are at least 10-stories and/or 100'.  The highlighted projects are either U/C or have had their official groundbreaking and are financed.  The list should look a lot different after the first quarter because several of the projects should be completed by then, and several more will have started.

Edited January 2, 2015 by The ATX

[The ATX]

These look to be taken from either the 360 condo tower which is Austin's second tallest building or a drone:  

https://login.yahoo.com/config/login?.src=flickrsignin&.pc=8190&.scrumb=0&.pd=c%3DH6T9XcS72e4mRnW3NpTAiU8ZkA--&.intl=us&.lang=en&mg=1&.done=https%3A%2F%2Flogin.yahoo.com%2Fconfig%2Fvalidate%3F.src%3Dflickrsignin%26.pc%3D8190%26.scrumb%3D0%26.pd%3Dc%253DJvVF95K62e6PzdPu7MBv2V8-%26.intl%3Dus%26.done%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.flickr.com%252Fsignin%252Fyahoo%252F%253Fredir%253D%25252Fphoto.gne%25253Fshort%25253DqAxfUg

Edited January 2, 2015 by The ATX

[The ATX]

The Austin Business Journal reports that there are 8,649 hotel rooms in development around the Austin Metro:  

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/print-edition/2015/01/02/the-inn-crowd-if-you-re-in-the-hotel-business.html

 

 

My last list of Downtown hotel projects shows that 5,223 of those rooms are located in Downtown:

[The ATX]

Here's an updated photo of the demolition taking place on the site of the future University of Texas System Headquarters:  

Photo by SkyPie:  http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6862856&postcount=90