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Waterline (Austin)
Waterline is a supertall skyscraper under construction in Austin, Texas, United States. Planned to be 1,031 feet (314 meters) tall, it will be a mixed-use building with residential, office, and hotel space. Upon completion in 2026, it is expected to become the tallest building in Austin, the tallest building in Texas and the tallest building in the South Eastern United States until Waldorf Astoria Miami is complete. Waterline will surpass Bank of America Plaza in Atlanta. In Texas, the tower will displace the Chase Tower in Houston, which stood as the tallest building in Texas for over 40 years, longer than any building in Texas history. On April 25, 2025 ''Waterline'' surpassed the height of Sixth and Guadalupehttps://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/new-building-claims-tallest-in-austin-mantle/ Location ''Waterline'' is bordered, on the east, by the Rainey Street Historic District and on the west by Waller Creek. North of ''Waterline'' is Cesar Chavez Street and a few bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin, Texas
Austin ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat and most populous city of Travis County, Texas, Travis County, with portions extending into Hays County, Texas, Hays and Williamson County, Texas, Williamson counties. Incorporated on December 27, 1839, it is the Metropolitan statistical area, 26th-largest metropolitan area in the United States, the List of United States cities by population, 13th-most populous city in the United States, the List of cities in Texas by population, fifth-most populous city in the state after Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, and Fort Worth, and the second-most populous state capital city after Phoenix, Arizona. It has been one of the fastest growing large cities in the United States since 2010. Downtown Austin and Downtown San Antonio are approximately apart, and both fall along the Interstate 35 in Texas, I-35 corridor. This combined metropolitan region of San Antonio–Austin met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DPR Construction
DPR Construction Company is a commercial general contractor and construction management firm based in Redwood City, California. The privately-held, employee-owned company has 30 offices throughout the United States and specializes in projects for technology, life sciences, healthcare, higher education and commercial office markets. Its international offices were located in Europe and Asia. History In July 1990, DPR Construction was co-founded in Redwood City, California, by Doug Woods, Peter Nosler and Ron Davidowski (the D, the P, and the R) with $750,000 of pooled resources. By the end of its first year, DPR had 10 employees. Among the company's earliest projects were a six-month, $4.5 million tenant-improvement project for Argo Systems in Sunnyvale, California, which was followed by a $43 million wafer fabrication project for Rockwell International in Los Angeles, California. In 1992, DPR was awarded the Terraces skilled nursing facility. In 1994, DPR Construction was awarde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kohn Pedersen Fox
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) is an American architectural firm based in New York City that provides architecture, interior, programming and master planning services. They engineer different projects including civic and cultural spaces, commercial office buildings, transportation facilities, residential and hospitality developments, educational and institutional facilities, and mixed-use commercial developments. History Beginnings in the United States (1976–1980s) KPF was founded in 1976 by A. Eugene Kohn, William Pedersen, and Sheldon Fox, all of whom coordinated their departure from John Carl Warnecke & Associates, among the largest architectural firms in the country. Shortly thereafter, the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) chose KPF to redevelop a former armory building on Manhattan's West Side to house TV studios and offices. This led to 14 more projects for ABC over the next 11 years, as well as commissions from major corporations across the country, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Tallest Buildings In Austin, Texas
File:Downtown Austin, Texas from the Colorado River, October 2022.jpg, upright=2.5, alt=Wide photograph showing the Austin skyline, The Austin skyline viewed from across the Colorado River (Texas), Colorado River in October 2022 (Use cursor to identify buildings) poly 444 725 666 755 1044 888 1036 1414 422 1443 Gables Park Tower poly 688 748 1051 896 1029 1332 1244 1340 1251 600 681 526 The Bowie poly 163 1177 178 304 533 363 526 718 452 718 429 1207 Spring (building), Spring poly 1244 873 1592 873 1569 1362 1229 1340 The Monarch poly 1732 1325 1717 799 1895 799 1895 1303 Fifth and West Residences poly 3087 1214 3509 1229 3716 1251 3701 1340 3072 1355 Austin Public Library#Central Library, Austin Central Library poly 2206 792 2539 740 2672 762 2672 1295 2221 1295 Seaholm Residences poly 2280 777 2280 252 2398 215 2569 259 2569 733 2450 725 The Independent (Austin, Texas), The Independent poly 2613 755 2606 614 2776 622 2769 814 2798 807 2798 1295 2680 1295 2672 762 Sixth & Guadal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Tallest Buildings In Texas
This list of tallest buildings in Texas ranks skyscrapers in the United States of America, U.S. state of Texas by height. The tallest structure in the state, excluding radio towers, is the JP Morgan Chase Tower (Houston), JP Morgan Chase Tower, in Houston, which contains 75 floors and is tall. The second-tallest building in the state is the Wells Fargo Tower (Houston), Wells Fargo in Houston Texas, Houston, which rises above the ground. As of May 2011, there are 1,217 completed high-rises in the state. Texas's history of skyscrapers began with the completion in 1909 of the 14-story Praetorian Building in Dallas, which is considered to be the state's first high-rise. The building rose 190 feet (58 m) above ground. Buildings taller than This list ranks Texas skyscrapers that stand at least 600 feet (183 m) tall, based on standard height measurement. This includes spires and architectural details but does not include antenna masts or other objects not part of the original pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waldorf Astoria Miami
The Waldorf Astoria Hotel and Residences is a skyscraper currently under construction in Miami, Florida. It is the first supertall building (>300 meters or 1,000 ft) to begin construction in Florida, out of several that have been proposed in Miami in the 21st century. It is planned to be constructed on the proposed site of the Empire World Towers in the 2000s, which was ultimately scaled back and cancelled. It will be the tallest building in the southeastern United States, surpassing the Bank of America Plaza in Atlanta, and the Waterline tower under construction in Austin, Texas. The building is planned to rise to the maximum allowable height in downtown Miami of 1,049 ft (320 meters) above sea level, or about 1,040 ft (317 meters) above ground, making it easily the tallest building in Miami and Florida, surpassing the Panorama Tower built in 2017. Construction began in late 2022 and is expected to complete in 2027. It is located on Biscayne Boulevard between NE 3rd and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JPMorgan Chase Tower (Houston)
The JPMorgan Chase Tower, formerly Texas Commerce Tower, is a , , 75-story skyscraper at 600 Travis Street in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States. It is currently the tallest building in Texas and the South Central region of the United States, the tallest five-sided building in the world, the 29th-tallest building in the United States, and the 107th-tallest building in the world. Overview Originally completed in 1981 as ''Texas Commerce Tower'' and commissioned by Texas Commerce Bancshares, the skyscraper attains a height of 1002 feet with 75 floors. Overlooking United Energy Plaza located on Capitol Avenue and Milam Street, it features the Joan Miro sculpture, ''Personage and Birds.'' A terrace on the plaza includes a water garden.Fox (2012), p. 22 Khalid bin Mahfouz was a co-developer of the building, part of which occupied the former Uptown Theatre, demolished in 1965. Upon its completion, the building surpassed Aon Center in Los Angeles to become the tallest bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixth And Guadalupe
Sixth and Guadalupe is a 66-story mixed-use skyscraper in Downtown Austin, Texas. On November 2, 2022, the building celebrated its topping out, making it the tallest building in Austin, surpassing The Independent, and the sixth tallest building in Texas. History In 1925 a red-brick five-story hotel called the Alamo Hotel was built on the site. For a time this hotel was the home of Sam Houston Johnson, younger brother to President Lyndon B. Johnson. The Alamo Hotel was also featured, briefly, in the music videos for Rock the Casbah and Pancho and Lefty. and was a former stomping ground of actor Harry Anderson. In 1984 the Alamo Hotel was torn down to make way for a 27-story mixed use office-hotel complex called Lamar Financial Plaza which, if built, would have been the second tallest building in Austin at the time. However, those plans were scrapped amidst the savings and loan crisis The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s (commonly dubbed the S&L crisis) was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainey Street Historic District
The Rainey Street Historic District is a street of historic homes, many of the bungalow style, in downtown Austin, Texas. Rainey Street is positioned near Lady Bird Lake and Interstate 35 in the southeast corner of downtown. Though 21 buildings are specifically identified as a part of the historic district, the stretch of Rainey between River and Driskill includes 31 buildings built before 1934, giving the neighborhood a historic character relative to other areas of the city. The district includes from 70 to 97 Rainey Street. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Since the early 2010s, the formerly sleepy residential street has turned into a popular nightlife district. Much of the historic homes have been renovated into bars and restaurants, many of which feature large porches and outdoor yards for patrons. History The Rainey Street neighborhood was first developed in 1884 by cattle baron Jesse Driskill and Frank Rainey, who subdivided 16 acres o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waller Creek
Waller Creek is a stream and an urban watershed in Austin, Texas, United States. Named after Edwin Waller, the first mayor of Austin, it has its headwaters near Highland Mall and runs in a southerly direction, through the Commodore Perry Estate Hotel, Commodore Perry Estate, the University of Texas at Austin and the eastern part of downtown Austin, including the Red River Cultural District (Austin, Texas), Red River Cultural District, to its end at Lady Bird Lake. Hemphill Creek merges with Waller Creek just south of Dean Keeton St. A March 2024 article in ''Nature (journal), Nature'' suggested that up to 90% of the waterflow in Waller Creek is due to leaky pipes and irrigation runoff Historical Route Prior to 1929, the route of Waller Creek had a bulge in it, between second and third streets, that extended to present day Interstate 35 in Texas, IH35. This bulge can be seen going around Block 12 in the Waller Plan, 1839 Waller Plan and on page 89 of the 1928 Austin city plan. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Bird Lake
Lady Bird Lake (formerly, and still colloquially referred to as Town Lake) is a river-like reservoir on the Colorado River (Texas), Colorado River in Austin, Texas, United States. The City of Austin created the reservoir in 1960 as a cooling pond for a new city power plant. The lake, which has a surface area of , is now used primarily for recreation and flood control. The reservoir is named in honor of former First Lady of the United States Lady Bird Johnson. Lady Bird Lake is the easternmost lake of a chain of reservoirs on the river, which is completely located in Texas, and should not be confused with the larger Colorado River located in the Southwestern United States. This chain, known locally as the Texas Highland Lakes, also includes Lake Buchanan (Texas), Lake Buchanan, Inks Lake, Lake LBJ, Lake Marble Falls, Lake Travis, and Lake Austin. History The City of Austin constructed Longhorn Dam in 1960 to form Town Lake. The city needed the reservoir to serve as a cooling pon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buildings And Structures Under Construction In The United States
A building or edifice is an enclosed structure with a roof, walls and windows, usually standing permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for numerous factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the concept, see ''Nonbuilding structure'' for contrast. Buildings serve several societal needs – occupancy, primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical separation of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) from the ''outside'' (a place that may be harsh and harmful at times). buildings have been objects or canvasses of much artistic expression. In recent years, interest in sustainable planning and building practi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
