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Originally Posted by resansom
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Not particularly ambitious, but also not too ugly. Other than trying to replicate the design/architecture of the original building, I'm not sure that they could have done much more with this one...
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It was a pretty hard and thankless job they were given - design a building for a mid-level chain hotel (ie. don't spend our money) while somehow accommodating one of the ugliest and most useless historic buildings in all of Central Texas. Oh and by the way, you have to somehow activate the original awkwardly placed entrance that the prior inhabitants of the building didn't use either. That entrance used to just be a place to wait for the bus before the bus shelter was added in recent years.
As someone who used to work next door to this place for a few years I have pretty good knowledge of just how ugly and useless this building is. Half of it was just a shell for employee parking and a folding table and chairs. That said, I'm glad that the area will see a new injection of human activity.