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Project 03 — Recreation
Austin, Texas, USA
1.5 : 1 scale — Compbuild Textures

The Live Music Capital, rebuilt block by block.

Austin

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Downtown Austin — Compbuild recreation, street level
Downtown Austin — street level Fig. 01
01 — The real Austin

In the warm heart of Texas — in the southern United States — sits Austin: a riverside city of live music on every corner, a fast-rising tech scene, and a laid-back, do-your-own-thing spirit the locals sum up in three words — Keep Austin Weird.

Where in the world?

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Scroll to fly from the whole planet down to the streets of downtown Austin — and watch the skyline rise.

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Texas State Capitol

Completed in 1888 and taller than the U.S. Capitol, its dome anchors the north end of Congress Avenue.

Civic core

The Capitol & Congress Avenue

Every U.S. state has a capitol building; Texas built one of the grandest. Austin’s pink-granite dome — finished in 1888 — even stands taller than the national Capitol in Washington, and crowns Congress Avenue, the city’s monumental main street.

Skyline

Downtown & the towers

A skyline of glass and stone that has shot upward over the last decade — including some of the tallest towers anywhere in the southern United States, recreated here block by block.

River & green

Lady Bird Lake & Zilker

Right through downtown, the Colorado River widens into Lady Bird Lake — ringed by a leafy hike-and-bike trail, the green expanse of Zilker Park, and Barton Springs, a natural spring-fed pool that stays cool all year.

The neighborhoods

Real districts, recreated block by block
Downtown  ·  Sixth Street  ·  Rainey Street  ·  South Congress  ·  The Drag  ·  
East Austin  ·  Hyde Park  ·  Travis Heights  ·  West Campus  ·  Clarksville  ·  Mueller  ·  
Zilker  ·  Barton Springs  ·  Lady Bird Lake  ·  The Domain  ·  UT Campus  ·  
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About the city

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Capital city
The capital of Texas.

Texas is one of the 50 United States — and Austin is its capital, the city where the whole state is governed, a role it has held since 1839.

02 — How it's built

Built at
1.5 : 1 scale.

Austin is rebuilt at one-and-a-half Minecraft blocks to the meter — big enough to capture real proportion, ornament, and street rhythm, while still being buildable by hand. Every surface uses Compbuild’s own free, architecture-first Compbuild Textures pack.

Build scale1.5 : 1
Texture packCompbuild Textures
MethodReference-driven recreation
SubjectAustin, Texas

Austin is Compbuild's learning ground for architectural fundamentals — scale, proportion, and discipline.

Austin through time

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1839 Founded as the capital

The riverside village of Waterloo is chosen as the new capital of the Republic of Texas and renamed for Stephen F. Austin.

1888 The Capitol & the University

The pink-granite State Capitol is completed; UT Austin, opened in 1883, begins to define the city's north side.

1990s Silicon Hills rises

A booming tech sector turns Austin into one of America's fastest-growing cities — and a magnet for music and film.

Today A supertall skyline

Downtown is reshaped by a new generation of towers — the skyline Compbuild recreates block-by-block at 1.5× scale.

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#4
Largest in Texas