Looking Back on the Twists and Turns of the Rainey Street District’s New Residential Tower

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Late last Friday afternoon, the Austin American-Statesman dropped a story covering the 33-story residential tower planned at 48 East Avenue, a .41-acre site currently occupied by a law office. The Austin Business Journal picked it up soon afterward.

TOWERS has been covering 48 East Avenue in detail for several years at this point, complete with a few generations of renderings. Of course, I’m always glad to have another excuse to talk about this tower and its lengthy design process, which has included some revisions I have mixed feelings about.

That top image is the original look for the tower shopped around by Levy Architects back in 2013, while the two elevations on the bottom left are from the interesting angled design shown off by STG Design in 2015. The two elevations on the bottom right originate from the revised version of the tower we saw at the beginning of this year, also by STG Design.