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Austin forum meet photos.

Here are the results from the Austin forum meet from this past weekend in Austin. 5 of us, including myself, Greg, Mopacs, JDawgBoy, and LoneStarMike attended.

We also bumped into a celebrity. We stopped in at a restaurant in downtown to eat. We're all standing there in the entrance looking over a menu. Myself, and 2 other forumers had our cameras out. I was nearest to the door. I hear the door open and 3 or 4 people stroll in and a woman places her hand on my arm and says: "There will be no photography, thank you." It kind of caught me off guard, like "Huh?" I figured this woman was the manager or owned the place and didn't want any flash photography in this nice restaurant. So I look up to tell her I won't take any and it was Sandra Bullock. We found out a few minutes later that she actually owns the restaurant. She lives in Austin, too.

Anyway, onto the photos of that day.

360 Condominiums construction. 581 feet tall with 44 floors.








Rendering and sign of the building.




Hilarious, there's this billboard in downtown, well they're building a new lowrise no more than 20 feet or so away from it.




The Monarch construction. 314 feet with 29 floors.










More of The Monarch construction.












The old Goodwill warehouse and downtown store closed and moved to another location. Much of the building was demolished, but the east facade is being left intact for a new condo project which is under construction.


Downtown views to the east.














Bridges on the Park construction.


Uptown area of Downtown.


Whole Foods downtown store and world headquarters.












The famous Zilker Christmas Tree in the distance at Zilker Park.






























This is where we met Sandra Bullock. Her restaurant in the sub-basement.
















I didn't stay still enough for the next two shots, sorry for the blur.






Altavida construction. This tower will be 416 feet tall with 37 floors.























Thanks for looking.
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Mopacs, and JDawgBoy, please feel free to post your forum meet photos here also.
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Great shots. That Office Max photo is the best shot of Austin I have seen. Almost wish a little I was there. Just a little.
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Great shots. That Office Max photo is the best shot of Austin I have seen. Almost wish a little I was there. Just a little.
I like how the photos show the funkiness of Austin, which is a big part of its appeal. Anything goes here. I also love the back alley shot. This is one of the few cities in this part of the country with alleys all over the place. A lot of people don't like them, but they remind me of when I lived back east for a while, years ago.
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^ If you watch the Tommy Lee Jones movie "Man of the House", there's a scene with him chasing a guy down that alley. It's near the beginning of the movie and sets up the whole plot for the movie.
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That 360 condominium highrise looks eerily similar to the Spire, which is a highrise condo tower set to break ground soon in Denver.

Nice work there, Kevin!

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^ There's a similar one in Atlanta, too that's actually called Spire also. Is the one in Denver by Novare?

http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/sh/?...&button=Search
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Excellent photos. Austin has changed a lot since my only visit there in 1981. Very interesting city.
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Oh wow. May of 1981. Rob, you mention on your site that there was a really bad flood during your trip. That's what Austinites know as the Memorial Day flood. I heard my parents talk about that. It was VERY bad. There were car dealerships in downtown that had brand new cars wash into the nearby creek. Some of them are even still there because they were buried in the creek by the flood. My dad and my brother and I would go "creeking", we'd go down and dig out all the collected metal and junk that washes into the creek. We'd sift through it and find everything from change to gold rings. I remember walking across the roof of one of the cars once that had washed into the creek. It's probably still there as a matter of fact.

And I quite enjoyed your photos of Austin on your site. Awesome!
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Here's my contribution to the forum meet photos:



AMLI2 Up to Floor 11





Ultimate Design



360 Condos, completing the 5th floor







Everyone's favorite, the 5 story ABC bank 'tower' (most of which is parking)



Monarch pushing 4 floors already





Next came the Goodwill residential project site, at Lamar and W 3rd St. The old east-facing facade of the former Austin Goodwill HQ building is being preserved for the project



Inside the wall



Plumbing emerges



First frames of residential units evolve





View back to the east and downtown









FYI... The 41-story Spring site is visible, across Lamar between Office Max and RR Tracks:



Future residences



Barton Creek and Zilker Park



Long train running











Local film student working on project



Looking east, from 5th and Lamar. Monarch starting to rise, on the right





Whole lotta foods



AMLI2..from the north, on Guadalupe





AMLI2 from the east, on Congress



Future Benchmark Tower site?





Altavida




A hole emerges



2nd Street at Colorado



AMLI I and accompanying retail



AMLI 2 from AMLI I



Cesar Chavez



Altavida



The Shore tower crane emerges...looking east from the congress avenue/Ann Richards bridge



Hyatt...with Bridges on the Park crane popping up in the distance (from Congress Ave Bridge)



AMLI 2, from the bridge



From atop the Hyatt









Altavida hole



Colorado St (UT's RLM tower in the distance)



More Altavida















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Thanks for sharing that with us Rob. Wow, I really liked the DT shots of Dallas and of Austin.
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Excellent photos. Austin has changed a lot since my only visit there in 1981. Very interesting city.
WOW, thanks for sharing! I can't get enough of this photo especially, taken from South Congress:



Now





I'll see if I can get a photo from the exact same angle as yours (which was taken a few blocks to the south of my photo's vantage point).

EDIT...

Greg: Try picturing Altavida in those recent shots, and you'll know what I meant by it balancing out the skyline view from South Congress.
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^ Note the cranes in rob_1412's picture. The blue tower crane to the extreme far left is for the Hyatt Regency Town Lake. And the red crawler crane about two inches to the right is for One American Center. That is a VERY cool picture.

This thread is delicious.
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Another item of note: There are a LOT more trees lining Congress Avenue downtown today than in '81.
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Another item of note: There are a LOT more trees lining Congress Avenue downtown today than in '81.
Or maybe mostly the same trees, just 25 years bigger.
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Lots happening in Austin. Great pics, guys!
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Or maybe mostly the same trees, just 25 years bigger.
That is certainly possible, yep. I do know that many of the trees lining North Congress avenue were planted during the 1980s. Any Austin forumers know more about the plantings?
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Wow, I love this shot.


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Lovin' the pics from this meet (and 1981 also). 360 looks great in the rendering. Austin sure has a ton of projects going on (including a nice array of talls). Thanks for the pics guys.


BTW Rob, isn't it amazing how fast 25 years went by? That's when I started dating my wife.
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