As you might imagine, tower news is a little harder to come by these days. Still, a lot of previously-announced buildings in downtown Austin — condos, apartments, offices, and so forth — are making progress here and there. Case in point: 300 Colorado, the 32-story office project by Cousins Properties and local firms Riverside Resources and Ironwood Real Estate located at 300 Colorado Street (Wow!) is finally topped out and largely complete on the exterior, with its crane coming down late last month:
There’s plenty of interior work left to do for its expected occupancy in the first quarter of 2021 by oil and gas outfit Parsley Energy, which signed a lease for 100 percent (358,000 square feet) of the building’s office space back in 2018 — Parsley, for what it’s worth, appears to be weathering the oil market’s recent jitters well enough to still need that lease, though the company has done some recent shuffling around of its office space in Colorado Tower directly across the street from the new building. Don’t forget, there’s also 10,000 square feet of ground-floor retail in this project, its whole claim already staked (don’t say it) by Del Frisco’s Grille. I could use an $8 wedge salad.
Though the building isn’t finished per se, we’re now free to get acquainted with its mostly-finished design by New Haven, Connecticut-based architecture firm Pickard Chilton. This is obviously a simple tower — the critique we often hear for buildings like this in our Facebook comments is “another glass box” — but its exterior materials, namely the enigmatic mirror-like finish of its glass curtain walls and the factory-style dark steel frames around that highly reflective grayish-blue glass, elevate its appearance beyond the simplicity of its massing into something we feel comfortable describing as “striking.”
Take a minute to compare the new structure to Colorado Tower, which stands directly across the street and is almost the same height. You’ll notice the difference — it’s definitely subtle, but to us 300 Colorado has more of a presence. It’s buildings like these that give Austin’s ever-growing skyline muscle, even if they’re not quite as noticeable as the taller projects. As tower fans, we’ll take all of that you got.
Grabbed a daytime long exposure of those picture-perfect clouds moving across the sky yesterday from r/Austin
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