Join the Waller Creek Conservancy on Sunday, September 17th, in celebrating Austin Museum Day at Ai Weiwei’s Forever Bicycles! Popsicles, arts & crafts, snow cones, empanadas, and more! Is there any better way to spend a Sunday!? Spend part of your Austin Museum Day by visiting Waller Creek with the Waller Creek Conservancy! Enjoy FREE […]
Thank you all for joining us last month at Stubb’s Austin for the sold out Third Annual Waller Creek Benefit Concert, featuring headliner Fitz and the Tantrums and Austin native Max Frost! The numbers are in: the 2014 benefit raised over seven fold what it did last year for the Waller Creek Conservancy and we […]
June 20, 2013 will be remembered as a great day for Waller Creek. Yesterday, in a unanimous vote, Austin City Council approved MVVA’s extraordinary design plan that envisions 5 parks, 2 trails, and restored creek space. Council also authorized the negotiation and execution of the joint development agreement, solidifying an historic public-private partnership between the […]
This week we were thrilled, but not surprised, to hear dwg. (Daniel Woodroffe Group) founder Daniel Woodroffe named the winner in Architecture, Engineering and Design at the 15th annual “Austin Under 40” awards. When MVVA submitted their Stage II qualifications, they wrote of dwg., “based in Austin and licensed to practice in Texas, dwg. is […]
Thanks to you, 2012 has been a remarkable year for the Waller Creek Conservancy. We are so grateful to the many Austinites who have donated, attended events, followed the design competition, submitted feedback, volunteered, and advocated for us this year. To name some highlights: Design Waller Creek: A Competition is complete; City Council unanimously affirmed […]
While you can “like” a facebook post or re-tweet from the comfort of your home or office, it is another thing to brave traffic, parking, and sometimes the weather to come out in support of the conservancy. We have been inspired by all of the Austinites who have attended our design competition events this year. […]
Life has been busy at the Waller Creek Conservancy this fall. To sum up: we unveiled the four final design concepts, displayed their design boards around the city for two weeks, witnessed presentations by the design teams to the jury at City Hall, hosted our inaugural benefit concert featuring Gary Clark Jr. at Stubb’s, […]
The Waller Creek Conservancy is excited to be hosting its inaugural benefit concert featuring Gary Clark Jr. and special guest Wheeler Brothers at Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater on Wednesday, October 10, 2012 (doors open at 7:00 pm). This is an exciting time for the Waller Creek Conservancy. The concert will closely precede the announcement of […]
The four final teams presented their work to a packed house at in the Blanon Museum of Art Auditorium on Tuesday, May 15th as part of the third stage of Design Waller Creek: A Competition. All teams gave wonderful presentations highlighting their past projects and design philosophies relevant to their upcoming work on Waller Creek. […]
The Waller Creek Conservancy is excited to host Meet Your Designers Night at the Blanton Auditorium on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 from 5:00-7:30pm (doors open at 5:00pm — presentation starts at 5:30pm). We look forward to welcoming the four finalists from Design Waller Creek: A Competition to Austin, viewing their work, and hearing their design […]