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Originally Posted by ohhey
Woohoo! Another moderately tall and utterly forgettable tower for Austin. Will we ever raise our architectural standards?
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I'm thinking this one will be rather nice. As it is, we don't have any triangular shaped towers in Austin, so this will be something different.
I'm hopeful that we'll eventually see something really interesting like say Dallas' Fountain Place for a lot somewhere bordering a CVC. I'd like to see a tower have some interesting angles like that to avoid the corridor. Curved towers and flat out round ones don't really do it for me, unless it's an accent in the facade such as Chicago's Trump Tower. But just round or oval towers are kind of bland actually. Angled towers to me are more interesting and appear as completely different buildings from different angles. Just look at the Bowie. It already looks like three different buildings when viewed from different angles.