I got this emailed to me by AustinFit magazine...and actually found it pretty fascinating. The picture above is a generated image of what the Austin skyline will look like sometime around 2010, based off of the plans for the twelve new buildings under construction.
For comparison, the picture below seems to be a fairly recent shot of the current skyline (albeit taken from the west side of the Lamar & Congress Avenue bridges rather than the east).


What's really incredible is how the Frost Tower (the big white diamond-shaped one, to the non-Austinites reading this) dominates the skyline right now. I still haven't gotten used to the Frost Tower's appearance on the Austin scene and it seems like it's been well over five years since it was lit up. The future skyline dwarfs the Frost Tower, and makes the electric blue building look like tiny! Onwards and upwards, I suppose, since the days of Babylon

Most of the new additions to the Austin skyline will be condos and lofts, which I know every twentysomething like myself is hoping will saturate our market with downtown condos when they all open in 2009/10 and suddenly they'll be incredibly cheap. But for as many people as I see moving here, I don't know if that's how it will actually happen.

Anyway, I spent a long time poking around on the website for the Future Austin Skyline, which has an interactive javascript version of the skyline where you can click on the buildings to learn more about each one and when it will be open. You can even order a Future Austin Skyline poster (seems a bit premature to have framed on your office wall, don't you think?). Weirdos from Austin might want to check it out by going here.