A downtown Austin condo tower featuring some of the city's most famous midcentury architecture is currently seeking historic zoning. Westgate Tower, built as a 26-story apartment building at 1122 Colorado Street in 1966 and converted for condo use in the 1980s, features a striking modernist design by New Formalist architect Edward Durell Stone that proved controversial due to its proximity to the Texas Capitol, eventually serving as one of the main inspirations for the creation of state and local Capitol View . . .
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