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Originally Posted by Samwill89
I'd agree
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The lighting in that photo is unusual in that it makes the buildings appear to be roughly the same shade. However, in real life they aren't nearly so perfectly matched. And not all of the buildings going up are the same blue, either. Granted, it is a lot of blue. However, much of our older stock was brown, gold, and black, so it isn't like we have a monotone skyline.
Here's everything finished in the last ten years:
Austonian is dark blue.
The W is black and very deep blue.
360 is silver and very light off gold.
Ashton is ... brown.
Frost is silver.
Spring is teal and a kind of beige color.
JW Marriott is brown and blue blue.
Four Seasons is a bunch of colors.
Bowie is blue blue and beige.
Seven is mostly white and silver.
Monarch is beige.
Legacy is white.
Shore is brown and red.
Skyhouse is light blue.
Colorado Tower is blue blue.
Here's everything under construction and proposed that I can think of off the top of my head:
Seaholm is white.
Northshore is black.
Independent is white, we think.
Austin proper is white-ish.
500 w. 6th is blue blue.
5th and West is black and blue.
Fairmont is blue, yes, and beige.
Hotel Van Zandt is brown.
Westin is... a lot of crap colors.
e.g. the colors are not as monolithically identical as are often made out to be.