Rhode Partners builds Austin's tallest skyscraper from cantilevered glass

Texas architecture firm Rhode Partners has built a 58-storey residential skyscraper in Austin, Texas, from stacked glass blocks angled around a central core.
Called The Independent, 688-foot-tall (212 metres) tower sits between Austin's Seaholm District and Shoal Creek.
The tower resembles stacked Jenga blocks
It is several feet taller than The Austonian, a 56-storey residential tower that completed in the Texan capital in 2010.
Rhode Partners described the new apartment building as a "vertical