Austin | 416 Congress Hotel | 332 FT | 26 FLOORS | Cancelled
This would be located across Congress from the Frost Bank Tower.
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http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/3...utiquehote.jpg Dick Clark Architecture A preliminary rendering of the project shows a metal and glass tower of rooms rising behind the vintage facade. |
That is just plain weird. Would it really just keep the facade? And really, opening in 2012 when they are still just considering it. They would really have to get moving then.
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I hope there's an American Bandstand location on the ground floor. Har.
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I love it. Wish it were taller, but I love it.
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"A world-class hip hotel is what it's going to be," Clark said. "People have been crying out for a boutique hotel in Austin for years."
Wherever and whenever they actually live, some people think it is 2004 and that they are in South Beach: everyone is fabulous; debt is free. Fascinating. |
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One thing is for sure, if this gets built, it'll probably be our smallest and skinniest skyscraper. According to GoogleEarth, the space it would occupy would probably be no more than 40x100 feet. Basically the tower's width would be that of the length of a city bus. The article says 15-stories, but it looks like there's 12 actual floors, including 3 in the original old building. That 15-story number is probably referring to the height of somewhere around 150 feet.
They might not be off on that opening date. This building would probably take a very short time to build. They would only have to build 9 actual floors. At a floor a week, that would be 9 weeks just to do the shell. It could be topped out in 2 months from the time they actually start to do the framing. |
Could be cool. I hope they keep more that just the facade. Granted there is not much of the original detail left in that building. There was an "attack of the 80s" in that lobby space. The floors that have been used for clubs are like that parish if you have been in there. Cool open old space... but that really it. Part of the article sounds like they will keep more because it mentions "... a slender glass tower that would be supported by steel structure added within the existing building". That's how they build "6" on top of the building the Spaghetti Warehouse is in.
I think if that is the case, it could be a really interesting project. |
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This has become a popular way of adding space in urban areas of larger cities, I know it has been done some in Boston. As long as the new portion is not right on the faced of the existing space and has some step back it looks pretty nice. We added a floor to the JDM Place building in OKC's Bricktown area, it was a cast-in-place concrete structure built in 1930 and all we could add was one floor, the owner wanted two floors. As far as building a tower on it, more than likely they will gut the back portion and build it out all new. |
Never mind.
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Hotel Zaza is looking in Austin along with a few other cities. Their Houston location is fabulous.
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LOVE the ZaZa, hope they make it into Austin, it would be a great fit!
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26 Stories!
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Wonder where they'll put parking for this place?
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^It's funny they haven't mentioned that. I would imagine the parking lot facing 3rd Street between Congress & Colorado would be their best option for some form of parking. Still though, that parking lot will some day have a tower on it, too, and the western half of it will probably be for parking for that tower.
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Judging by the rendering and model provided in comparison to the surrounding buildings, I would estimate the height is about 285 feet tall. This would be Austin's tallest "all hotel" building. The W and Hilton are are each 200 and 100 feet taller, but they both have condominiums included within.
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Once construction starts and they start framing it, it'll go up quick. I had estimated the building's footprint to be about 50 by 100 feet. This article says it is "about 46 feet wide". That is insanely skinny! It's not much wider than the length of a city bus.
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Someone I spoke with in-the-know said don't count on it till 2014... :( Too many variables right now. Where did you find that rendering?
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