Assembling a design for the historic Ambassador Hotel restoration went forward by process of elimination at Monday’s Landmark Commission meeting. The commissioners didn’t like the style of the awning over the entrances, or the grasses in the landscaping. They weren’t too crazy about the color scheme, either. Given that guidance, Chair Katherine Seale told the project ...
Conversation with George Blume
Today, we’re picking up the conversation series originally featured on our sister site, Modern Austin, and sitting down with George Blume, Project Designer at the Austin offices of mega-architecture firm Gensler. Blume is heavily involved in the design of Gensler’s downtown towers, including Third and Shoal, 500 West Second Street, and the upcoming Block 87 mixed-use project, ...
Getting to Know Block 71, Downtown’s Most Fascinating Mixed-Use Plan
If we’re being precise, Block 71 is the City of Austin’s assigned number for a 1.75-acre downtown block owned by the University of Texas and bordered by West Seventh, Colorado, West Sixth and Lavaca Streets. But more importantly, it’s also the presumed name of developer Trammell Crow Company’s planned mixed-use complex, set to transform the site with a 36-story office tower, ...
Urban Grocers Sprouting Across Downtown Dallas
Royal Blue Grocery, a modern corner store brand originally founded in Austin in 2006 and only recently finding its footing in the Dallas market, announced plans yesterday with Dallas firm Stream Realty Partners to open an urban grocery inside Trammell Crow Center, an office complex in the Dallas Arts District currently undergoing renovation and expansion. This is one of two ...
South Shore Highline Development is East Riverside’s New Normal
I just can’t quit East Riverside. Between Oracle’s massive new office campus in Lakeshore and the general trend of new projects springing up all the way out to Montopolis and beyond, there’s a reason I keep crawling back. Don’t even get me started on the potential of the Project Catalyst development — point is, there’s suddenly a lot going on in a part... ...