Evolution of the Downtown Austin Skyline

Watch the rise of the Downtown Austin skyline, starting with the great 1888 Capitol building.
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Check out the building trivia below:
1. Texas State Capitol
Year built: 1888
Opened as the seventh largest building in the world, and still rising 14 feet higher than the National Capitol in Washington D.C.
2. Westgate Tower
Year built: 1967
Construction of Austin’s first high-rise faced resounding opposition because it would block views of the precious state Capitol from the West.
3. Chase Bank Tower
Year built: 1974
The tower, nicknamed "Golden Mirror," was originally covered in 3,600 inch-thick insulated reflective glass panes, which contained a small amount of gold alloy.
4. Bank of America Center
Year built: 1975
The shorter and stockier sibling of Houston’s Pennzoil Place: designed and built by the same team, sheathed in the same curtain wall glass--left over from Pennzoil Place construction.
5. Moody Bank Tower
Year built: 1981
The conference room is entered through the bank’s original vault door, built in 1875 in Pennsylvania and weighing more than 40,000 pounds, and houses a 12-foot-long table made from a 211-year-old fallen pecan tree.
6. Austin Center
Year built: 1986
The land on which the tower was built once held the home of Mirabeau B. Lamar, the second President of the Republic of Texas.
7. Frost Bank Tower
Year built: 2004
Reportedly one of only two buildings in the world with blue low-e glass skin, the other being the Reuters Building in New York City, which opened in 2001.
8. The Austonian
Year built: 2010
Austin's tallest building for eight years, surpassed by the still-in-construction "Jenga Tower" in May 2018
9. Colorado Tower
Year built: 2015
Upon completion, it was downtown Austin's first Class A office high-rise to be built in nearly a decade, after the Frost Bank Tower.
10. Westin Hotel
Year built: 2015
Home to the sweetest venue in Texas-a life-size gingerbread dining room that is built each December and rented to dining parties for a noble cause, with partial proceeds going towards combatting homelessness.
11. 500 West Second Street
Year built: 2017
Tenant build-out for Google cost an estimated $30M. Amenities include a stationary food truck that was hoisted up to the 28th floor, and a dog park on the 29th floor. Google's several cafeterias serve tacos DAILY.
12. Aloft Austin Downtown
Year built: 2017
The dog-friendly hotel offers quirky perks such as cowboy boot rental, and is the first in the world to have Chive TV, for the latest in viral videos.

[@citiesskyscrapers4561]

The most impressive skyline transformation in the US in recent years.

[@clarks5193]

Cities & Skyscrapers I watch all your videos.

[@californiamade5608]

Cities & Skyscrapers San Francisco transformed a better skyline than Austin..

[@paulwall2891]

Shut up

[@citiesskyscrapers4561]

Clark S, I appreciate it!

[@fredflintlocks9445]

Also seattle and even tho it was already known for it NY is building far and away the most and the tallest

[@zords5717]

I just moved a few years ago from philippines to round rock(a place near Austin) I just saw the Texas state capitol and it was huge.

[@bigandlittlecane]

Go back, we don't want you here

[@jeremyjirasek4658]

Welcome!

[@i-35vagabond56]

I can't keep track of all the names of the buildings that were built after the Frost Bank Tower was built complete in 2004-2005. It was the 1st high-rise built in the United States after 9/11. Frost Tower was the beginning of the current Downtown Austin building boom and it's still going on today. I like the way the Austin skyline has developed. I think my personal favorite is the Jenga Building. I'm really looking forward to see the shyline once all the high rises that are currently under construction Downtown Austin and UT-Austin, and both sides of I-35 are complete. There's probably at least 20 cranes in that area right now. There's a building proposed that will be over 800 feet tall. But I don't know if construction has already started or not.

[@dariusbrock2351]

Don't forget about the Red River tower that's supposed to be over 1,100 ft and 74 stories.

[@anonymousq7202]

Yo do the Houston skyline next please Great video btw

[@lukea.laconi601]

Chicago!!! The city known for its architecture! Great content!

[@historybuff1017]

It’s crazy to think there were no skyscrapers here until the 1970s

[@Drakrau_TheDerg]

Do a evolution on the skyline of Phoenix, AZ, I'd love to see that as I'm 45 minutes away from Phoenix and I love that city.

[@thebabbler8867]

They don't have any skyscrapers.

[@Drakrau_TheDerg]

@@thebabbler8867 Not to be rude, but Phoenix has numerous buildings taller then 20 stories. A building that's higher then 20 stories is considered a skyscrapers.

[@andrewfleduple453]

@@Drakrau_TheDerg PHX has a skyline but no skyscrapers

[@gillynova]

even 2019-2021 was a HUGE change in the skyline

[@DuncSTL]

Moving to Atx in 23 days, because you've made it an amazing City. See you soon, Austin!

[@texazsolo3143]

Plz dont want traffic sucks enough

[@jimmyayala5703]

Stay away please Enough ppl is moving here

[@fefefilmprod8688]

DONT!!! Austin is a shell of its former self. And it’s more expensive than what it’s worth in my opinion. Austin is no longer WEIRD

[@yamahasuperbike2202]

Please don't.

[@Jonathan-uc7do]

Crime is terrible. And the renters will run you blind. People die here all the time.

[@4evrtrenchbaby]

Just vibing to the background music

[@jacobbernard1393]

Great to see Austin better-resembling what the Capital of the second-largest State in the third-largest country should look like. There's a long way to go toward building Austin up to its potential, but it's very encouraging to see how much of this transformation has occurred just recently.

[@ChronoGamerOne]

Amazing job! It would have been cool to see the skin on the Dobie change from brick to glass in 1990.

[@citiesskyscrapers4561]

Great video!

[@Marlon.Oficial99]

Chicago next 😎😎

[@henrywalkertuck8384]

Can you do Chicago or Hong Kong

[@eugenegardnerjr1815]

Sad! All the folk that lost out!!! Use to be a great city!!!!

[@danielruiz910]

Great videos. You should do one for my hometown, Atlanta

[@Laredo215]

Love this channel

[@ecopequeno]

Outstanding job, COMMERCIAL Café!

[@punkq1n]

yo do the dallas skyline pls

[@metorphoric]

Moved to Austin 3 years ago from Madison, WI. Best move ever made

[@bigandlittlecane]

Go back

[@charmays6675]

Beautiful..We have a great State Rep Dist 126 Sam Harless..please vote ..Keep Houston and our State..Texas great.

[@Dingusdoofus]

Do an evolution of downtown Chicago

[@Jan-jg4yg]

plz next video warsaw poland im not polish but that place has transformed a looooooooooot!!!!

[@amysylvester7289]

Tallest Building in Austin (1888 - 2019): 1888 - 1974: Texas State Capitol (95 m - 311 ft) 1974 - 1975: Chase Bank Tower (98 m - 322 ft) 1975 - 1984: Bank of America Center (102 m - 336 ft) 1984 - 2004: One American Center (122 m - 401 ft) 2004 - 2008: Frost Bank Tower (157 m - 515 ft) 2008 - 2010: 360 Condominiums (177 m - 581 ft) 2010 - 2018: The Austonian (208 m - 683 ft) 2018 - 2019: The Independent (210 m - 690 ft)

[@jeremyjirasek4658]

Still need a super tall

[@tommoore2012]

I think there’s one being built right now that will be nearly 850ft tall and one being planned that will be over 1100ft tall.

[@crispyorsmthnidk5314]

Atlanta sometime?

[@garyyang64]

How about Chicago next? The city that invented skyscrapers!

[@Marlon.Oficial99]

Chicago??

[@Marlon.Oficial99]

Chicago please 🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏻‍♂️

[@AnonymousTranquility]

Amazing music

[@matthewsantos9095]

Great work! Maybe Miami and Chicago next?

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[@historybuff1017]

Can you do Pittsburgh?

[@MoonLiteNite]

Do a 2022 update, the video will be twice as long haha

[@henrywalkertuck8384]

Do Boston

[@razor3106]

He already has Boston.

[@henrywalkertuck8384]

Only a part of Boston

[@gopnikataru]

Do San Antonio next.

[@noitallmanaz]

this is barely a skyline. I live in PHX and we surpass this, and we have no skyline...

[@Jonathan-uc7do]

Awesome transformation! Now show us how the downtown grounds have transformed with the homeless problem and poop and dirty alleyways!

[@Distress.]

So Austin is really committed to being the San Francisco of texas?

[@Jonathan-uc7do]

@@Distress. yeah the Californians transplants are bringing their ideology which ruined their state and now trying to run ours. I had to move

[@ImWinks]

Can you do atlanta please

[@jargo8785]

Do chicago

[@jonwop]

Today on so you tried to squeeze a metropolis between two shitty freeways.

[@Wildwoodenthusiast]

Dallas Dallas Dallas dallas

[@rjcottrill7048]

Can you do cbus ohio

[@joelhoward9842]

Just sad.

[@ProfessionalDefenestrater]

This video is already rather outdated...

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