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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas
Yeah, the Hilton is pretty blah. It was interesting at the time seeing such a big building going up in Austin. I actually like it at night, though. I like that it doesn't have any accent lighting and only a few lights here and there on the roof. It looks like a big city skyscraper to me. The kind that you'd see in New York.
And I still gotta say I like the Bank of America Center at 6th & Congress. I know it's old, jet black and outdated, but that's why I like it. It's from a different era.
One American Center is actually limestone, at least the white part is. I'm not sure what the brown accents are. But I do know for sure that the white part is limestone. If the One American Center is made out of stucco than so are Austin's hills.
And Austin City Hall does't have bronze on its facade. There may be some in the building somewhere, but that facade is all copper.
And the Long Center recycled all of the roof panels from the dome of the building that they removed. Doing that they cut down on waste and also saved a ton of money since they didn't have to purchase new material. I will admit that I liked the original version more that made more use of the building's space, but I still do like that plaza, and the skeletal ring is a neat place at night. Go up there sometime when there's a full moon and stars. It's like walking around a space ship.
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I stand corrected on the limestone cladding One American Center. Still not a design that suits my taste.
And the "black" metal parts of the Bank of America Center is certainly a "dark bronze" color up close. I like that building as something different in the city. I kind of wish the JP Morgan Chase tower had stayed gold (That was the building that was all gold glass for years, right?).