Wow. 2013-2016 was intense in terms of how much of the downtown area was filled with mid to high rise buildings. Good luck with the traffic- like California, I’m sure they didn’t grow infrastructure commensurately with explosive metropolitan area growth.
Austin is starting and currently building super-talls so… if it doesn’t feel like it to some it’s definitely gonna look like it in the near future. I think they’re building like 2-3 super talls. One is already in construction.
I see and the tallest is building as of fast , but I did heard they tried not too get austin too have more of supertalls and one of the skyline they had too lower too make agreement if they wanted by above 600 feet or so . I'm from Atlanta so too me I think Atlanta needs more of supertalls and not more of high-rise between 600 feet taller or less. @@tyreek.6815
Houston has an unground tunnel system that links a lot of the skyscrapers for foot traffic. Austin should be doing this with the Boring Company. It could remove a lot of traffic on the surface street’s downtown. And help with safety.
@@gottawatch1932 oooooh I like that idea my friend! Interesting. I live in Houston those tunnels are cool. Personally I always thought an underground subway line running Lamar across the city would be amazing. Austin refuses to budge.
There was opportunity for a light rail to be built back when Austin had half the population it does now. But the 50/50 vote in 2000 set the city back decades.
@@WakandaleezaRazz lol your skyline is short, boxy and small. I can think of a few cities with better, more aesthetically pleasing skylines than Houston and that’s not even counting the big boys. Both Austin and Dallas are going to be better than Houston. Dallas is already there, not by height but by architecture. Be proud of the space station or something else but skylines is not it. Isn’t your tallest building only a couple of feet above 1,000? 😂😂
@@cjthompson420 yes every Houston booster says the same thing…”we have 6 skylines blah blah blah”…even if you combine all of your skylines which are a bunch of shorter, mid rise buildings at best, Houston would have a unimpressive skyline. I’m not from Austin. Not even from Texas. I have no horse in this race or any bias for one city over the other and that’s why I can conclude what many others already have. Austin will surpass Houston as far as skyline ranking pretty soon.
Incredible growth!!! Not in quantity but also height. I wonder how will it look in another few years. I live in Miami and we have had a similar boom in growth in the amount of high rises. Since 2005 that I moved to Miami to today the skyline is unrecognizable. Austin's skyline is sexy and varied. I like it!!!
The only way that will happen is if both Houston and Dallas stand still for the next 20 years and that’s not going to happen. Both Dallas and Houston have been adding a lot of infill in recent years, but haven’t put up anything super tall for a long time. This happens through a cities lifetime. Austin during that time caught it’s growth spurt downtown, but as Houston and Dallas already know, those things don’t last forever. The two much larger cities will go through another building boom of there own soon and it won’t be even close! It’s still not close now. Last but not least, Dallas and Ft worth have two skylines and a third and 4th is developing in Addison ad Frisco/Plano. Austin is cute, but it won’t be catching up in our lifetime!
@@Aggie4life77 Most definitely alot of infill going on in Dallas. This RU-vid video show a lot of the infill in Uptown, making the skyline longer. Hopefully, once the NorthEnd (Goldman Sachs) development gets going, it’ll add some much needed height to Uptown. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DdhGh4CoEqw.html
That's a stunning shot! Just imagine what it'll look like in a few years when all of the current buildings under construction especially the new tallest towers are completed!
@@prod.loverboicurly8105no the hell it ain’t. Lmfaoo. Look at the two cities. Completely different architectures. Not to mention layouts. Austin looks more prettier. It’s like a Dallas mix with Miami look.
It is from the scenic overlook at Barton Creek Mall, I originally took video from there to test new cameras from public access TV and I just kept the footage…then around 2016 I figured I would put them together in a compilation.
This is right when the "dot commers" fcuked up San Fran and the entire bay area! They over played real estate which drove up housing cost! The sf natives couldn't afford to buy a house in their own city. Now sf is a commie bastard democrat plaintation siht hole.
