As we slide into month five of the pandemic, it’s easy to feel like time no longer exists — especially if you’re working from home and keeping your adequate social distance. But time has not stopped in the least for the men and women working on construction sites all over Austin, with new buildings rising all over town despite current events. Let’s take a look at what’s going on east of I-35 — if you haven’t spent much time over there lately, some of the progress seen here might surprise you.

302 apartments, 68K square feet of office planned for The Block Yard

Amid a continuing tight labor market, the corporate campus at 3100 Alvin Devane Blvd. recently sold after a hold period of seven years which included extensive upgrades.

Seafood-focused Round Rock restaurant Salt Traders Coastal Cooking announced the opening of a second location in South Austin’s Barton Oaks Plaza. “We’ve had so much fun over the last two years in Round Rock, and we’re fortunate to now open a second Salt Traders south of the river,” says Salt Traders Chef Jack Gilmore.

Salt Traders Coastal Cooking is coming to Barton Hills.

When Biby Dykema entered the architecture industry in 1979, she stood out in boardroom meetings in more ways than one. The first female architect in Corpus Christi and one of only two women who earned an architecture degree in her class at the University of Texas at Austin, she made waves in a male-dominated industry.

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.

For the crowd gathered in gorgeous gowns and suits and tuxedos Nov. 10 at the Congressman Solomon P. Ortiz International Center, the Art Museum of South Texas’ annual gala was a smashing success.

Stephen Levy has caught a design wave and he's sitting on top of the world. The Austin architect recently was named to the team that's creating the NLand Surf Park— a potentially world-class tourist designation east of Austin — while he has also recently finished a couple of high-profile creative office spaces.