One of the country’s largest architecture and design companies, the St. Louis-based HOK Group Inc., announced plans for a new Austin-based office earlier this week — and as part of that news, this new branch of the studio also gave us a look at its latest local project, the second phase of the Capitol Complex project by the…
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Pay Your Final Respects to Downtown Austin’s Long-Suffering Hobby Building
It’s a remarkable work of 1980s postmodern architecture, and it’s also full of rats. Cobble those two truths together and you’ve got a nearly complete understanding of the William P. Hobby, Jr. State Office Building at 333 Guadalupe Street, a downtown structure of great ambition and eclectic design widely disliked by its tenants anyway —…
Meta or Not, the Sixth and Guadalupe Tower Is Officially Topped Out
Five long and difficult years after its first announcement, the Sixth and Guadalupe tower has finally “topped out” — reaching the structure’s maximum height of 865 feet, for now holding the title of tallest building in the city. Developed by a partnership of Kairoi Residential, Lincoln Property Company, and DivcoWest, the tower now finds itself in a remarkably different world from when it broke…
Inside Victory Plaza, a Modernist Office for the Modern Austin on Burnet Road
Passing through some of the city’s most treasured neighborhoods, Burnet Road represents a major axis of growth through Central Austin — and while we’re fond of almost any effort to add density on this corridor, there’s one project we find particularly inspiring as a model for downright graceful development in the region. Victory Plaza, an office building…
Bringing East Austin’s Saltillo District a New Pedestrian Paradise at Centro
There’s a lot of office development rising throughout East Austin at the moment, and we’d forgive you for struggling to keep track of all the cranes and construction fences scattered around the district — but the Centro office project at 1401 East Sixth Street, the latest addition to the transit-adjacent Saltillo District by local developers Riverside Resources, deserves a second…
This ‘Eclectic’ Office and Apartment Project Finds a Good Fit in Govalle
An oddly-shaped collection of properties in the Govalle neighborhood of East Austin could soon see a mixed-use development raising offices and hundreds of apartments at the confluence of East Fifth and East Seventh Street, the latest project by local real estate firm CSW Development. Known as the Eclectic at Fifth Street, the project will contain two structures atop…