Posted on Dec 06, 2008 under Steel Buildings |
Another great building in Austin is the Austin City Lofts. The Austin City Lofts is a 14 story high rise with 82 luxury loft homes. The average loft size in the Austin City Lofts is 1700 square feet. The First 4 floors are dedicated to retail and parking a residential lobby and management offices plus eight flats fronting Shoal Creek. then from floors 5 through 10 there are 54 flats with 12 foot ceilings. The last floors 11 through 14 include 20 two-story loft-style homes with 20-foot high ceilings. All lofts have a view of either The State Capitol to the north or Town Lake to the south.
“Individual homes feature spacious balconies, hardwood and exposed concrete floors, maple cabinetry, granite kitchen surfaces, superior appliance packages, and large bathrooms with granite countertops, oversized showers and whirlpool tubs. Building amenities include a pool and garden area, 24-hour security, and controlled-access parking.
Austin City Lofts, located on the Shoal Creek Greenbelt near the new Whole Foods flagship store, offers contemporary luxury loft residences. Located on the northwest corner of West 5th Street and West Avenue, Austin City Lofts is within two blocks of many retail and restaurant establishments, fashionable shops and boutiques. Immediately across Shoal Creek are restaurants, shops and a 12-screen movie theater. Nightlife opportunities abound just down the street and around the corner on Austin’s famous 6th Street. Homeowners also have immediate access to Austin’s urban parks via the Town Lake Hike and Bike trail.
Not only does the development have direct access to Austin’s employment base, but also the City has identified this area as a desired urban residential neighborhood. An exceptional location amid high-end residential and retail, the Austin CBD, Shoal Creek and Town Lake gives this project a unique advantage not readily duplicated by competing projects. ”
Austin City Lofts features a private lap pool and spa, fire pit and communal cooking area, on-site secured parking, a porter and concierge service, Hill Country and Downtown views, and large private balconies.
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Posted on Dec 05, 2008 under Steel Buildings |
As mentioned in the last post we will now write about the hotel that resides below the 5 Fifty Five residential units. The Hilton Austin Hotel is an architectural work of beauty located just north of the Austin Convention Center. The hotel is the Largest in Austin with 800 rooms. The 31 story hotel has a 27,000 sq ft main ballroom, a 15,000 sq. ft. junior ballroom, and over 10,000 sq. ft. of meeting space. Other amenities include two restaurants, a coffe shop and wine bar, health club, business center, outdoor swimming pool and spa.
Guest Accommodations
As a guest of the Hilton Austin you can experience comfort and elegance in every guest room with the new Hilton Serenity Collection of bedding. The Hilton Suite Dreams bed features a super-topper mattress pad to provide comfort support and luxury, while the 250-count European-style linens, non-allergenic down duvet and down pillows allow a wonderful slumber.
Beyond the bed, we offer new La Source bathroom amenities created exclusively for Hilton by Crabtree & Evelyn. Our rooms measure 350 square feet in size and include one king or two double beds, a chair with ottoman or loveseat and a spacious work desk.
You can stay in touch with two phones (each with 2 lines), voicemail and a data port offering wireless high-speed Internet service. We also offer the Hilton Family Exclusive alarm clock/radio with connection cable for personal MP3 player, portable CD player, laptop and other entertainment devices. Our Printer On service enables our guests to send print jobs from laptops in their guestrooms directly to the hotel’s 24-hr business center for pick-up at their convenience.
Additionally each of the guest rooms include a flat-screen television with Cable TV and pay movies, video games and premium channels, mini-bar, coffee maker, iron/ironing board and hair dryer. A complimentary USA Today newspaper is delivered to each room Monday – Friday. Our spacious and stylish guest rooms include all the necessities for an unforgettable stay
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Posted on Dec 04, 2008 under Steel Buildings |
Another unique building in Austin, Texas The 5 Fifty Five is a residential building on top of a hotel. The architecture is both contemporary and timeless. First we will talk about the residential building and in the next article I will talk a little about the hotel. The residents of the 5 Fifty Five live a truly luxurious lifestyle with the elite services and amenities offered.
The 99 residential suites feature beautiful interiors, gourmet kitchens and the finest finishes.
The 5 Fifty Five offers the top 99 condo units above the downtown Hilton. The suites range in a variety of one-, two-, and three-bedroom designs ranging from approximately eight hundred to over five thousand square feet. Private residence elevators and a separate resident parking garage area. The private resident lobby…spacious yet intimate, with striking finishes and plush, intimate seating. State-of-the-art concierge desk. The exclusive staff includes twenty-four hour lobby attendant, concierge, porter, hospitality officer, and housekeeping coordination.
The properties offer fantastic panorama views of Town Lake & Hill Country. Private balconies at every residence, floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall windows, dramatic, high ceilings, kitchens featuring maple cabinetry, granite countertops, stainless steel appliances with gas cooking, recessed lighting, elegant travertine stone bathrooms, hardwood floors. The 5 Fifty Five is located on 5th St. across from the Austin Convention Center.
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Posted on Dec 02, 2008 under Steel Buildings |
Another great building we need to talk about from Austin, Texas is The Austin 360 Condominiums Tower which as of this post is the Tallest building in Austin Texas and the tallest Residential Building in Texas. This residential skyscraper is located at 360 Nueces Street, in Austin, Texas, United States of America. The Austin 360 Condominiums Tower stands at 563 feet tall and contains 44 floors.
The residential units in the Austin 360 Condominiums Tower features a lighted glass spire facing Town Lake, street-level retail, large balconies for each unit, limestone accents at street level and decorative metal panels created by local Austin artists. Inside, each unit includes floor-to-ceiling glass walls, kitchens with granite and stainless steel finishes, tall ceiling heights, high-speed Internet access, TV monitors in elevators, 24-hour concierge services and a prominent lobby featuring a virtual art gallery that digitally displays art on lobby plasma screens. The Austin 360 Condominiums Tower was completed on May 22nd, 2008 and was named Tallest building in Austin Texas as of June 2008 surpassing Frost Bank Tower.
Few Facts
The name “360″ was inspired by Austin’s history of having “360″ in the names of many things such as Loop 360, the Pennybacker Bridge, which is also known as the Loop 360 Bridge. The name was also given to the building for the 360 degree views that the building will have of downtown.
The building has 13,500 square feet of street level retail.
The building has a terrace level above the 17th floor at 174 feet 2 inches above the street. The podium level, which contains the swimming pool and sundeck above the 8th floor, will be 87 feet 6 inches above the street.
The building is the tallest all residential building in Texas, surpassing Mercantile Building in Dallas.
The final section of the spire was hoisted into place at 9:18 AM CST on January 15, 2008.
Surpassed the Frost Bank Tower to become the tallest building in Austin. The building is also one of only two in the city that is not on Congress Avenue to hold the title of tallest in the city.
The other was the Dobie Center.The 44-story, 432-unit glass tower in downtown Austin The Austin 360 Condominiums’ resort style amenity deck features a full-sized pool and an outdoor living room that includes a fireplace, cabanas and outdoor grills. An upscale fitness center includes advanced cardio equipment with West Austin views and a social center that includes a kitchen, Internet kiosks, and an entertainment area featuring plasma screen TVs and lush landscaping.
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architect: Preston Partnership, LLC
Other firms: Novare Group, Andrews Urban LLC, J.E. Dunn Construction, Echelon Engineering, LLC, Jordan & Skala Engineers, Inc., Doucet & Associates, Terracon Consulting Engineers & Scientists, Prudential Life Insurance CO., Wachovia Bank. |
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Posted on Dec 01, 2008 under Steel Buildings |
Another building from Austin, Texas that needs to be talked about is the new Samsung Wafer Plant, not only is it larger then 9 football fields, it is also that Samsung committed over $3.5 billion for the project, making it the largest single foreign investment in Texas and one of the largest in the United States.
This new plant manufactures NAND flash memory chips, which are widely used in a host of consumer- related products, such as MP3 players, cell phones, digital cameras, and other mobile devices. This is the largest semiconductor fab in Austin, Texas.
The old Samsung Wafer Plant will still produce Dram, is about half the size and with the two plants combined they will pay out to employees of Austin Texas Approximately $100 million a year which is $estimated $40 million more then before the new plant opened. This was done on a down turn in the Economy around the United States , Yet in Austin seems like The economy is as good or better then ever.
Here you can see the new Austin , Texas Samsung Wafer Plant under construction here you see steel rebar and concrete.
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Posted on Nov 28, 2008 under Steel Buildings |
As of this post The Frost Bank Tower is the second tallest building in Austin, Texas at exactly 515 feet, 9 inches tall. This building was completed in 2004 and began construction in 2001. It was developed by Cousins Properties Incorporated from November 2001 to December 2003.
This building contains over 525,000 sq. ft of leasable space. The tower is finished in an energy efficient blue glass. This type of glass is only known to have been used on one other building, the Reuters Building at 3 Times Square in New York City.
The signature 33-story Trophy tower features 560,674 square feet of premier office space in the heart of the Central Business District on the corner of Congress Avenue and Fourth Street, just blocks from the State Capitol. Most people in Austin call this the nose clipper building. It’s the tallest building here right now but not for long. The lower floors of the structure are finished in limestone.
Interesting Facts:
The crown of the tower contains more than an acre of glass.
Per tradition, tin crosses were embedded in the concrete on every floor. The last cross was added at 9 pm on May 27, 2003 to the penthouse. The idea came from a story about an immigrant who worked on construction during the 1940s in New York City.
Cousins Properties contends that at the time of its groundbreaking, “this was the tallest building in America to have started construction after the September 11th attacks”.
The height of the tower crane used during construction was 600 feet tall. This broke a record as the tallest ever used in Austin at that time.
Over 200,000 square feet of glass was used in the facade of the tower; 45,000 square feet of glass was used in the crown, about one acre’s worth (materials in the crown alone cost $1.5 million).
Four Frost Bank logo signs were added above the main roof. The logos are 20 feet in diameter. The signs are now the highest signs on a skyscraper in Austin at approximately 420 feet high.
Floorplates range in size from 16,826 to 25,856 square feet.
May 28, 2003, the building has its topping out ceremony for the main roof and mechanical penthouse. A 30-foot cedar tree was hoisted to the top of the mechanical penthouse.
The project includes a plaza with a restaurant, a workout facility and high-speed elevators. conference facilities, dry-cleaner, full-service bank, ATM, deli/carry-out restaurants, coffee shop, overnight courier drop box, and a fitness center. In addition, the property features an 11-level parking garage with more than 1,400 parking spaces. Frost Bank Tower is easily accessible to and from Mopac Expressway and Interstate 35.
Tallest building in Austin when it opened.
The building’s lighting design won Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design Inc. the 2004 IALD Award of Merit.
It was the first high-rise building to be constructed in the U.S. after the 9/11 attacks.
designed by Duda/Paine Architects, LLP and HKS, Inc.
It has the title for tallest logo above ground in the city.
During construction, the building was derided by some locals for having a garish design. However the building was also voted the best new building by Austin Chronicle readers in 2004.
record-setting deal for more than $354 per square foot, a total of $188 million, signed Thursday.
The Frost Bank Tower will be acquired by the Chicago-based Equity Office Properties Trust, the nation’s largest publicly owned office building manager
In 2006 The Frost Bank Tower was sold for at the time a record price of $354 per sq. ft. to the Chicago-based Equity Office Properties Trust, the nation’s largest publicly owned office building manager for a total price of $188 million.
Tenants include Jenkins & Gilchrist, Winstead, Sechrest & Minick, and Constructors and Associates.
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Other firms: Thomas Properties Group, LLC, Cousins Properties Inc., Constructors & Associates Inc., C. Young & Company, Brockette Davis Drake, Inc., Michael E. James & Associates, Inc., Susman Tisdale Gayle Architects, Inc., Turner Collie & Braden, Inc., Cline Bettridge Berstein Lighting Design, Spectrum Lighting Inc., Cousins Properties Inc., Security Management Consulting, Texas Crane Services, Capform Inc., Myrex Industries, Bludau Fabrication, Inc., Haley-Greer, Inc., Morgan Stanley, Constructors & Associates Inc., Dewey Ballantine LLP, Graves Dougherty Hearon and Moody PC, Jenkens & Gilchrist PC, Winstead Sechrest & Minick PC, Frost National Bank, University of Texas Investment Management Co, Heritage Title Co. |
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Posted on Nov 24, 2008 under Steel Structures |
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (CBBT) is a 23 mile long bridge and tunnel system that connects southeastern Virginia with Delmarva Peninsula in the United States. The bridge connects the following independent cities Virginia Beach, and Norfolk, Virginia to Cape Charles in Northampton County along the eastern shore of Virginia.
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel uses a combo of tunnels and bridges over two separated shipping channels using four artificial islands built in the bay as portals.
The bridge-tunnel was opened on April 15th, 1964, in August 1987 it was officially named the Lucius J. Kellam Jr. Bridge-Tunnel after one of the civic leaders who worked for its development. However, it still is best known as Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.
The bridge part of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel as far as I can know is 15.6 Miles long which is why this bridge is placed at number at the worlds 9th longest bridge and 7th longest over water and 4th longest bridge in the USA and 8th longest that is used by autos.
The above water part of the bridge was upgraded in 1995-1999 from 2 lanes to a 4 lanes at a cost of $200 million
After the bridge-tunnel opened in 1964, it was selected as One of the Seven Engineering Wonders of the Modern World by American Society of Civil Engineers, however it has been replaced on this list since with more recent engineering wonders.
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Posted on Nov 22, 2008 under Steel Structures |
The 7th bridge on our list is the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge all though I do not have much information about this bridge nor do I know how much steel was used on this bridge.
If anyone has information to add please comment so we can add information. This is what we do know as of this posting Atchafalaya Basin Bridge is the 7th longest bridge in the world and the 6th longest over water. The bridge is located in Louisiana, USA and carries interstate 10 over the Atchafalaya Basin the bridge has a total length of 96,095 feet or 18.2 miles long.
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Posted on Nov 18, 2008 under Steel Structures |
The Third bridge in this series, also the Third longest bridge in the world, and the second longest bridge over water. The briidge is located in Louisiana, USA, with a length of 23 Miles it comes in right behind Lake Pontchatrain Causeway at (23.87 mi) and Bang Na Expressway (33.51 mi). we do not have much info about this bridge and I don’t know how much steel was used in it’s construction but if we get this information I will post it here, feel free to comment if you have these numbers.
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Posted on Nov 17, 2008 under Steel Structures |
The Lake Pontchatrain Causeway
also known as the Causeway is the worlds second longest bridge at 23.87 miles behind the Bang Na Expressway (33.51 mi) , the Causeway is the longest bridge in the world over water as of this posting.
The Lake Pontchatrain Causeway crosses over Lake Pontchartrain in southern Louisiana, USA. The bridge connects Metairie, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans and Mandeville, Louisiana.
Although I don’t have the numbers on the amount of steel used in the building of this bridge I do know there are over 9000 concrete pillings supporting the bridge.
The The Lake Pontchatrain Causeway first opened in 1956 and was at that time a a two-lane span of 1/100th of a mile. bridges was expanded on and re opened on May 10th, 1969. This bridge is a toll bridge and always has been.
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