I'm not exactly thrilled about the design. I do like the base, and the podium area will be nice as it faces the river. Other than that, I really don't like it.
Don't worry too much though, this is only one tower in this project. There will be two other towers also, a residential one, and an office tower. The 49-story tower shown in the rendering below is still in the works. I believe that is the residential tower.
DEVELOPMENT
Developers show revised plans for proposed Waller Creek project
Smaller apartment, hotel/museum towers now envisioned on downtown's east edge.
By Shonda Novak
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Friday, December 04, 2009
Developers on Thursday unveiled their latest plans for the art-themed 21c Museum Hotel, with the downtown project now calling for a 31-story apartment tower, along with a 13-story, 250-room hotel with a modern art museum open to the public.
So I'm not sure if they're still planning the 49-story tower condo tower that had been planned a while back. I would imagine that even if it's not being immediately planned, that it could still be. The site consists of 3 acres, easily enough land to host three towers. It would also give the project three major uses, condominiums, apartments, hotel along with the attached museum component.
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They only gave vague specifics for the first two buildings. They seem to be waiting out for a recovery to see if the market could stomach a big project instead of proposing outright a large third tower only to have it fail in the process. If that is the case, and if the recovery is a good one, we could end up with something taller than 49 stories as the third tower.
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