SAN ANTONIO │ Frost Bank Headquarters │ 386 FEET | 23 FLOORS │ Complete

[Spoiler]

Originally Posted by Fryguy

No. It's too small, and CVS owns it. They make a lot of money just having it as a parking lot. During the opening ceremony of the San Pedro Ceek Culture Park, this place was charging $25 just to park. I did not pay and just used the spot where I work not fair down the street. Nevertheless, people were parking there.

Too small for what?

[Restless One]

Originally Posted by sirkingwilliam

That isn’t parking for residential. That’s a parking low for the Christus medical facility.

Thanks for the correction. It really changed the point of my post.

That said, that area could be a retail bonanza except for that ugly, parking lot.

[sirkingwilliam]

Originally Posted by Restless One

Thanks for the correction. It really changed the point of my post.

That said, that area could be a retail bonanza except for that ugly, parking lot.

I wasn’t trying to change the point of your post. I was just correcting it.

[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?

[KevinFromTexas]

I'm putting a spoiler link here so we don't disrupt the Frost Bank HQ thread, but you can click it and read what I added to my post.

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?

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

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.

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.

[Fryguy]

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

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

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.

[Fryguy]

So, I drove by the frost tonight. Really cool - it's lit like a Christmas tree right now and the colors keep changing, it's not just a bunch of different colors at one time through the the night, it's a bunch of colors schemes throughout the night.

[txex06]

Originally Posted by Fryguy

So, I drove by the frost tonight. Really cool - it's lit like a Christmas tree right now and the colors keep changing, it's not just a bunch of different colors at one time through the the night, it's a bunch of colors schemes throughout the night.

Snapped a pic of the colors last night from my bedroom. Pic doesn't do much justice to how cool it looked in person.

[AwesomeSAView]

Originally Posted by txex06

Snapped a pic of the colors last night from my bedroom. Pic doesn't do much justice to how cool it looked in person.

Nice pic!!
So, I went to the top of the rooftop terrace of my building tonight to see the lit Frost Tower, and it looks AWESOME!!
With the Bank of America building lights and the Frost Tower lights nearby, the night skyline is looking FANTASTIC! Great addition!
Too cold to be up there for a long time tonight though!

[micahinsa]

Yep, Saturday night it had a nice changing color scheme. Looked like a few of the vertical lights aren’t still fully operational, though, a couple sections of the lines seemed to be missing.

[Montirob]

Originally Posted by micahinsa

Yep, Saturday night it had a nice changing color scheme. Looked like a few of the vertical lights aren’t still fully operational, though, a couple sections of the lines seemed to be missing.

I think they are still installing/ configuring - every night it seems another "spike" has lighting.
Last night, in fact, it seemed that while the lights were really uncoordinated in the color-changing function early (6:30ish), by 10:30 all but one of the spikes were changing in unison.

[Fryguy]

Originally Posted by Montirob

I think they are still installing/ configuring - every night it seems another "spike" has lighting.
Last night, in fact, it seemed that while the lights were really uncoordinated in the color-changing function early (6:30ish), by 10:30 all but one of the spikes were changing in unison.

It always seemed that way but the lights were installed with the windows. They were built into the glass.

[Spoiler]

Originally Posted by Montirob

I think they are still installing/ configuring - every night it seems another "spike" has lighting.
Last night, in fact, it seemed that while the lights were really uncoordinated in the color-changing function early (6:30ish), by 10:30 all but one of the spikes were changing in unison.

It's gradually becoming sentient!

[texboy]

If you go back and look at the webcam and go back to the overnight hours, you can see the LED's lit up. Pretty cool!

[Keep-SA-Lame]

Saw it lit up from a distance for the first time a few days ago. Sexy as hell!

[texastarkus]

It seems to me that we need to change this from U/C to Complete!!! So very nice

[UltraDanPrime]

The Frost tower is definitely the best thing going anywhere! The only problem I have with that is that it's all by its self! The only modern, glass tower here. We absolutely need more of these types of buildings here! It'll be hard to top the Frost, but hopeful, someday, someone will come close!

[JACKinBeantown]

Originally Posted by UltraDanPrime

The Frost tower is definitely the best thing going anywhere! The only problem I have with that is that it's all by its self! The only modern, glass tower here. We absolutely need more of these types of buildings here! It'll be hard to top the Frost, but hopeful, someday, someone will come close!

I respect your opinion and your right to have it.

On a related note, I too like Frost. I don't like its garage. My opinion isn't formed on the lighting as I generally don't like what is in my opinion garish displays of "look at me" lighting. Hopefully it's more subtle in person that it appears in photos.

My favorite in SA is still Tower Life by a long shot, then it's either Frost Tower or BofA. I'll know better when I see it in person next week. Tower of the Americas is in a whole different category, but is one of my favorites in the skyline.

[PDG91]

Here are some up close and personal shots of the Frost tower that I took on 12/14/18. They now have 2 out of the 4 Frost logos lit up at night.










As you can tell, the tower is on a "color changing mode" so I took a picture of most of the colors that it changes to. It also changes to yellow, purple, and white (I might of saw orange too?) for a split second. I recorded a video of the colors changing that i'll probably post on YouTube and place on here. I wish I can get a photo of the skyline at night because it looks amazing from a distance. Anyone know where there's a good, safe place to stop and take a photo of the SA skyline?

[JACKinBeantown]

Originally Posted by PDG91

Anyone know where there's a good, safe place to stop and take a photo of the SA skyline?

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=229901