AUSTIN Update Thread - Page 389

ARCHifan · #**7761** Posted: **Feb 2, 2012, 3:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by ARCHifan

I looked at the Flickr link and the architect who designed the Austin Aquatic Center is "Runa Workshop", they did Caffe Medici at the Austonian! I love that place!...they are doing amazing work in Austin. I looked at their website...check it out

www.runaworkshop.com
www.facebook.com/runaworkshop

Great design Runa!!!

More information...this is so cool! I hope this gets build!

http://www.gayinaustintexas.com/texa...-cesar-chavez/

wwmiv · #**7762** Posted: **Feb 2, 2012, 5:26 PM**

Excuse my excitement, but Austin is already going through another boom. We could see a whole new group of towers in the top 10 over the next 10 years.

ahealy · #**7763** Posted: **Feb 2, 2012, 6:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by archifan

more information...this is so cool! I hope this gets build!

http://www.gayinaustintexas.com/texa...-cesar-chavez/

i want. Now.

MichaelB · #**7764** Posted: **Feb 2, 2012, 7:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by ahealy

i want. Now.

There is no icon for tantrum I guess.

maybe

Hill Country · #**7765** Posted: **Feb 2, 2012, 8:35 PM**

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Originally Posted by MichaelB

There is no icon for tantrum I guess.

maybe

http://i717.photobucket.com/albums/w...ey-tantrum.gif

BevoLJ · #**7766** Posted: **Feb 2, 2012, 8:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by MichaelB

There is no icon for tantrum I guess.

maybe

=)

Code:

:tantrum:

ahealy · #**7767** Posted: **Feb 3, 2012, 12:21 AM**

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Originally Posted by MichaelB

There is no icon for tantrum I guess.

maybe

= GOOD FUN

= ME WAITING IMPATIENTLY FOR PROJECTS TO START

Speaking of, Gables II is officially moving dirt as of today.

Jdawgboy · #**7768** Posted: **Feb 3, 2012, 12:23 AM**

Woohoo!!!

ahealy · #**7769** Posted: **Feb 3, 2012, 1:02 AM**

Yeah, I think it's safe to say we're on the path to another boom.

migol24 · #**7770** Posted: **Feb 3, 2012, 5:41 AM**

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Originally Posted by ahealy

= GOOD FUN

= ME WAITING IMPATIENTLY FOR PROJECTS TO START

Speaking of, Gables II is officially moving dirt as of today.

jesus, you animal! there are 3 projects already underway and you're still anxious! haha i can't wait to go back and see the big changes.

BevoLJ · #**7771** Posted: **Feb 3, 2012, 9:05 AM**

Oh, and speaking of pools... =)

They are doing work at Deep Eddy. Apparently after 100 years it had a few leaks. lol.

• Video Link

austintexas · #**7772** Posted: **Feb 3, 2012, 2:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by ARCHifan

More information...this is so cool! I hope this gets build!

http://www.gayinaustintexas.com/texa...-cesar-chavez/

I think the scheme and master plan are great but I have a real problem with the design aesthetic. Austin prides itself on being local and having its own voice while being rooted in the Texas vernacular. Many of Runas "trendy" architectural moves can be seen across the global by architects like Zaha and Michael Maltzan. The park doesn't need the curves at every surface or techno graphic skylights and openings. This is Austin not Dubai or Berlin.

As an Austinite for over 20 years I hate to see our new buildings taking on an international style. The last thing anyone wants is to turn our city into Dallas. Lets keep our strong local voice strong.

MichaelB · #**7773** Posted: **Feb 3, 2012, 4:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by austintexas

I think the scheme and master plan are great but I have a real problem with the design aesthetic. Austin prides itself on being local and having its own voice while being rooted in the Texas vernacular. Many of Runas "trendy" architectural moves can be seen across the global by architects like Zaha and Michael Maltzan. The park doesn't need the curves at every surface or techno graphic skylights and openings. This is Austin not Dubai or Berlin.

As an Austinite for over 20 years I hate to see our new buildings taking on an international style. The last thing anyone wants is to turn our city into Dallas. Lets keep our strong local voice strong.

Completely respect your point of view, but I am affraid I disagee. I like it. . Do i think it's ground breaking: no. It is derivitive? Perhpas a bit. But a style I like and I would like to see more of. I wish it went further.... but this seems like a good balance between style and cost. I simply see it as a breath of fresh air to our sometimes over "warm and fuzzy" point of view. Which , for me, has kept much of our architecture and bit dull. I welcome the variety. It has an exhuberance and movement to it that I find fun. For a town that prides itself on creativity.... I would like to see more in our architecture.

Result: It's a plus for me. (not that it's a compition.... just for perspective... resident for 25 years, )

East7thStreet · #**7774** Posted: **Feb 3, 2012, 7:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by austintexas

I think the scheme and master plan are great but I have a real problem with the design aesthetic. Austin prides itself on being local and having its own voice while being rooted in the Texas vernacular. Many of Runas "trendy" architectural moves can be seen across the global by architects like Zaha and Michael Maltzan. The park doesn't need the curves at every surface or techno graphic skylights and openings. This is Austin not Dubai or Berlin.

As an Austinite for over 20 years I hate to see our new buildings taking on an international style. The last thing anyone wants is to turn our city into Dallas. Lets keep our strong local voice strong.

As an Austinite for 35+ years I have to disagree. I love Austin and its people, but we have a history of horrible urban planning and architecture. Something new, sleek, and international would be welcome in my opinion. My only problem with the design is that there doesn't seem to be a bar ala the Clevelander in South Beach.

Jdawgboy · #**7775** Posted: **Feb 3, 2012, 9:42 PM**

As somebody who was born and raised here I also have to disagree with austintexas. Fact is Austin is growing up and people need to understand that. Austin is becoming more of an international city and we can do that and still have a strong local voice. I love our skyline it is much nicer than it was 20 years ago. I would like to see more cutting edge urban designs with an international flair. This is not Austin of 20 years ago remember but we still can change and at the same time keep what makes Austin special and unique.

kingkirbythe.... · #**7776** Posted: **Feb 3, 2012, 9:47 PM**

As someone who has lived in Austin for my past three lives...:-/...I like the design.

migol24 · #**7777** Posted: **Feb 3, 2012, 9:50 PM**

you know, i'm cautiously siding with austintexas on this one in a way. I'm all for the development that's been going on in Austin, but when we're talking about what makes Austin uniquely special is that its about keeping it "local". Growth is good and always will be. And the development, I am all for it just as much. But it would be nice to maintain this "local" theme going.

I'm not saying I dislike that project... I actually do like it, but I can see where austintexas is coming from. God forbid that Austin ever converts its downtown into some touristy trap and you have nothing but Willie Nelson replicas entertaining the tourists and chain stores dominating the Austin downtown. That being said, I'm all for this development I just hope that in the long run Austin does a pretty good job at doing what its been doing best all the years of its existence.... keeping it local, which honestly I feel Austin is still doing a pretty good job of it. I just don't want Austin to be another Union Square like here in SF. That would really suck.

wwmiv · #**7778** Posted: **Feb 3, 2012, 10:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by migol24

you know, i'm cautiously siding with austintexas on this one in a way. I'm all for the development that's been going on in Austin, but when we're talking about what makes Austin uniquely special is that its about keeping it "local". Growth is good and always will be. And the development, I am all for it just as much. But it would be nice to maintain this "local" theme going.

I'm not saying I dislike that project... I actually do like it, but I can see where austintexas is coming from. God forbid that Austin ever converts its downtown into some touristy trap and you have nothing but Willie Nelson replicas entertaining the tourists and chain stores dominating the Austin downtown. That being said, I'm all for this development I just hope that in the long run Austin does a pretty good job at doing what its been doing best all the years of its existence.... keeping it local, which honestly I feel Austin is still doing a pretty good job of it. I just don't want Austin to be another Union Square like here in SF. That would really suck.

Austin's downtown already is a tourist trap in a way, but it will never be dominated by tourists by the simple fact that we have a natural population base in the form of UT.

BevoLJ · #**7779** Posted: **Feb 3, 2012, 10:53 PM**

Good point WW

Also the State Government is always going to be big downtown, as will the cowboy boot, straw hat wearing hippies of South Austin. Austin will always be its own flavor of Hill Country Texan that is both progressive while keeping the more romantic of the Texan/Cowboy qualities.

I can't see that ever changing. Sure North Austin is pretty much a LA suburb, but it has always kinda been like that. Downtown with UT, the Capitol, and South Austin is just to big of a DT to ever go full on eurosnob.

wwmiv · #**7780** Posted: **Feb 3, 2012, 10:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by BevoLJ

Good point WW

Also the State Government is always going to be big downtown, as will the cowboy boot, straw hat wearing hippies of South Austin. Austin will always be its own flavor of Hill Country Texan that is both progressive while keeping some of those romantic Texan/Cowboy qualities.

I can't see that ever changing. Sure North Austin is pretty much a LA suburb, but it has always kinda been like that. Downtown with UT, the Capitol, and South Austin is just to big of a DT to ever go full on eurosnob.

Let's change that a little bit: North Austin is a Silicone Valley suburb, while South Austin is an L.A. suburb. I really hate discussions where we talk about how unique Austin is, as if Austin is any different than most of the United States...