They sure aren't wasting any money on public announcements or renderings. Has anyone seen any renderings of these yet? These are probably going to be some pretty big buildings. How tall are they supposed to be? I remember thinking one might be pushing 200 feet.
I think they're both going to end up being only 14-stories. That could be close to 200'. I haven't been able to find any renderings. Page Southerland Page is listed as the architect, but they don't feature them on their website.
The first office building and the huge 2,400 space parking garage on the States's North Austin campus are scheduled to break ground this December according to the TFC website.
Here's a 250 page PDF with everything anyone could want to know about the two new state office buildings. Oddly enough, the only thing missing are decent renderings. The buildings are named 1801 Congress and 1601 Congress:
That small structure in front of 1801 Congress near MLK is a 100-seat amphitheater with a lawn for additional seating. You can't have a proper music museum without a venue. A "spill out Cafe" will be adjacent to the amphitheater lawn. This is some excellent street interaction for state office building.
The mall construction is scheduled to start in 2019. This will be a cool area once the mall is finished.
Excited by all the development.!
Love the 'mall".
I wonder how they will get cars to the garage? The entrance is on 18th which is one way to the west.
Make 18th 2 way seems the only choice. Even with that there will have to be major signage as to how to find parking.
Unless.... the "Bus drop off" is intended to also be a way to get to the garage.?
Will be interesting to see what they do.
Looks a little sterile, to me. Just for giggles, compare it to Speer's Berlin:
At least he planned for a little variability in height and set-backs, which probably contributed to a somewhat less claustrophobic feeling.
Excited by all the development.!
Love the 'mall".
I wonder how they will get cars to the garage? The entrance is on 18th which is one way to the west.
Make 18th 2 way seems the only choice. Even with that there will have to be major signage as to how to find parking.
Unless.... the "Bus drop off" is intended to also be a way to get to the garage.?
Will be interesting to see what they do.
Page 24 , I think...
They plan to make 17th and 18 th two way streets!
The official groundbreaking should have been Tuesday. But I can't find any news about whether or not it happened. I would think the official start of a project that will include the Texas Music Museum would make the local news. But the only projects that tend to make the news are the ones that will probably piss off a few neighborhood activists.
Was the bill for the Texas State Music Museum passed in the House? Can't find any coverage.
This is another case of no follow up by local media. But item #9 in this Statesman blog post that includes a YouTube rant by a State Rep who really, really hates the idea, says this: "Status: Died in Calendars."
I think of this as a delay as opposed to Austin not getting a music museum. It's not that it didn't have enough support. It's just one of the many bills that wasn't considered a high enough priority to make it through our short Legislature session.
The building is still going up and as we can see in the plans, they had the museum space planned. The building will probably still not be open by the next Legislature session. If the museum is approved at that time it will almost be as if this delay didn't happen.
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