There’s no question Austin is a boomtown.
A record-breaking 8.1 million square feet of office buildings is under construction in the capital city, according to CoStar Group Inc., as developers and investors try to capitalize on rising prices and continued demand for space. Austin ranks No. 2 in the country for office construction, behind Nashville — although the Texas capital has the momentum to overtake the Tennessee capital in the coming months.
— Austin Business Journal
The list of new Downtown Austin towers — under construction or proposed — contains the Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects-designed Block 185 for Google, the 36-story Indeed Tower, the Quincy by Ziegler Cooper Architects, the 66-story 6 x Guadelupe as well as a new University of Texas at Austin high-rise with Gensler as architect, and a 117-unit condo tower designed by Rhode Partners among many others.
If Austin's stock of Postmodernist skyscrapers is your preferred flavor (or not at all), read our recent piece Does a critique of Austin's 1980s skyline hold up?.
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It's like the architects save up their ugliest high rise designs for use in Austin.
I also hope that the next version of IBC will make it illegal for Gensler to design building exteriors.
Pelli cannot seem to find their design ass with a flashlight and both hands.
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