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Originally Posted by Fryguy
There is a building (never seen before) at 315 E. 1st. in Austin (behind the Four Seasons) that has a beautiful parking garage. I had to really look to make sure it was a parking stucture. I couldn't tell at first. The only reason I like looked further wa the very fact that it's a building in downtown Austin. It's a great example of a great parking stucture. Anyone know the name of building?
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Do you mean this building? That's the Four Seasons Residences, a condo tower, though, I've never thought of its garage as beautiful.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/31...!4d-97.7415377
https://www.google.com/maps/place/31...!4d-97.7415377
https://www.google.com/maps/place/31...!4d-97.7415377
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Originally Posted by Fryguy
When a parking garage doesn't look like a parking garage, I call it beautiful.
I had no idea the four seasons was a whole complex. I thought it was just one building where it was hotel and residence.
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Edited to add: The Four Seasons Residences, the condo tower, was built in 2010. It's 401 feet with 32 floors. There are actually three buildings on that property. The 9-story Four Seasons Hotel sits at the back of the lot facing the river and was built in 1987. There's also the San Jacinto Center, a 21-story office tower that was built in 1987. It's the white and black tower with the pyramidal top. The office tower and the hotel were designed, developed, and built by the same companies as a single development. The San Jacinto Center was supposed to have a twin tower facing it where the Four Seasons Residences condo tower is, but the office market in Texas went belly up around that time, and they scrapped the 2nd tower. Ultimately, the lot where the office tower would have been built remained part of the property and they set on it until 2000 when they proposed a 28-story condo tower. That was around the time of the "dot.com" bust, though, and that proposal didn't happen either. It was several more years before they came up with the current proposal that finally was built in 2010.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/31...!4d-97.7415377
Four Seasons Residences proposal from 2000. This tower would have been 328 feet with 28 floors. I actually liked this tower. I thought it would have looked nice, and it faced the office tower instead of the street.
Four Seasons Residences ~2007 proposal, built in 2010. It's 402 feet with 32 floors. The residential tower has concierge service from the hotel.
This is what the development was supposed to look like originally, with twin office towers. Only the office tower on the left was built, along with the hotel. The tower on the right is where the condo tower ended up going.
