Avenue Lofts , located at 410 East Fifth Street in downtown Austin, might be the city’s most architecturally underrated residential property. This 1940s state office building, adapted for condo use by local real estate development firm the Sutton Company in 1999, retains the original Art Moderne stylings common for many institutional buildings of the era — in…
Google’s New Home at Block 185 is Downtown Austin’s Next Signature Tower
Block 185 is an all-star tower. This 35-floor office building by national developer Trammell Crow Company, which broke ground last month in downtown Austin, is already leased in full by tech juggernaut Google, and features a striking sail-like design courtesy of “starchitecture” outfit Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. For such a stacked project, it’s kind of surprising how few renderings…
Here’s What We’re Calling Downtown Austin’s Unnamed Northwest District
What should we call the northwest corner of downtown? That’s the latest burnin’ question we asked our readers earlier this month, in an effort to define the identity of a growing neighborhood that we’ve seen called Uptown, North Side, Museum District, and so forth. We ended up with 75 responses — and counting — from Austinites willing to humor us…
Mueller’s First Boutique Hotel Takes Shape in the Aldrich Street District
Recently-launched hospitality brand Origin Hotel Collection plans to develop a five-story hotel with design from celebrated local architects Lake Flato atop an empty lot in the Aldrich Street District of Austin’s master-planned Mueller community, according to city filings from earlier this year. Called Origin Hotel Mueller in these documents, the project is situated on a 0.4-acre site at 1825 McBee Street, directly north of the…
Video: Austin’s Hooters Hoots No More
We’ve been waiting a little longer than we thought, but the deed is finally done: Stream Realty Partners has kicked off demolition at the former Hooters restaurant located at 401 South First Street, making way for the upcoming construction of its 15-story office and retail project RiverSouth. At a “ceremonial demolition” and groundbreaking held at the site earlier today,…
Residential Project to Replace Bingo Hall in East Riverside’s Growing Corridor
UPDATE: Thanks to a tip from an intrepid reader, we’ve now got our hands on a selection of the 1919 East Riverside Drive project’s site plan, submitted to the city via engineering firm Stantec. Take a gander for yourself: Though this image doesn’t give us as much information as a rendering, it shows that the proposed…