austin architecture

(photo I took back when Lance "won" his seventh Tour de France)

Austin isn't particularly known for its architecture, but like many cities, we do have our moments (for example, Austin has the only building in the United States by the Pritzker Prize winner, Alejandro Aravena). And in recent years, there's been an explosion of residential, retail, and institutional Modernism. Although there are a few architectural walking tours downtown, they are primarily focused on historic structures (that you can walk to). So my goal here is put together a list of places to visit (and perhaps even tour) in Austin, both historical and Modern, to give visiting architectural buffs an architectural itinerary.

Outside of the Aravena, we have a no-need-to-call-home building by Michael Graves as well as a fine structure by Harwell Hamilton Harris. We do have one-degree-of-separation architects such as Chester Nagel, who worked with Gropius; Robert Mather, who worked with Mies van der Rohe; and Michale Hsu, who worked for Rem Koolhaus.

This page will change as I make additions and edits to the list, including changes suggested by y'all. I hope to make a Google maps of the stops (HERE is a draft).

Explanation of terms:

gawkable: You can view from the street (in other words, this is private property)
visitable: You may be able to see parts of the interior of this public or semi-public building; fees may apply
tourable: tours are available (but not necessarily focused on architecture)
regretable: A missed opportunity...

All photos by me unless otherwise indicated.


pre-1900



Levi Rock Shelter (8000 BC)
Named after a former property owner, Malcom Levy, the earliest "Austinites" made their home here some 10,000 years ago. Levi is also one of the oldest paleolithic sites in the United States.
  • address: northern wall of Lick Creek near its confluence with the Pedernales River
  • access: Not open to the public
  • architect: Mother Nature
  • style: Rustic
  • notables:
  • photo

    Smith Rock Shelter (500 BC)
    Native Americans used this rock shelter from 500 BC until the 18th century. Gorgeous setting with Onion Creek bubbling in the front.

    French Legation (1842)
    After Texas won its independence from Mexico, France, along with the United States, quickly recognized the new country's sovereignty. In response, France sent Alphonse Dubois to establish a legation and press for French immigration. Dubois quickly set to building a residence and office. Unfortunately, he angered nearly everyone he met, even leading to an international incident now known as the Pig War. The building is quaint and, although rustic, was the nicest place in town compared to the more common log cabins of the time. Because of the Pig War and the Archive War, a political fight over where the capital should be, Dubois spent little to no time in the house. Unusual for Austin, even today, the house has a basement, something that contributed to the long construction time.

    McKinney Homestead (1852)
    The site includes the remnants of the house, two cisterns, and a mill along Onion Creek. Built in 1852, the house burned in the late 1920s or early 1930s. Thomas McKinney was one of the 300: the first Anglo settlers brought into Texas by Stephen F. Austin. McKinney and his business partner Sam Williams provided men and money out of the Galveston during the Texas revolt as well as converting their ships into the Texas Navy. They later provided the financial underpinning to the early Texas Republic (and never were fully paid back). He moved to Travis County in about 1850 and built this homestead with slave labor. The Civil War left him in financial ruin.  

    Woodlawn (aka Pease Mansion) (1853)
    Known locally as Pease Mansion, this Greek Revival designed and built by Abner Cook was owned by two governors and hosted the likes of Sam Houston, George Custer, Will Rogers, and Edith Head. The house still regally rests on a full city block, much less than its original 365 acres, but fitting for this gorgeous southern belle.

      Neill-Cochran House Museum (1855)
      Completed a year before the Governor's mansion by the same architect/builder, Abner Cook, the Neill-Cochran house looks like the twin sister of the Guv's mansion. Originally on 18 acres just outside of town, Washington Hill commissioned the construction of the house. Unfortunately, Hill ran out of money building the house and put it on the market without living in it a day. During the Civil War, the house was used as a hospital for wounded Union soldiers captured by the Confederates. Later it was used as an asylum for the blind. After exchanging hands several times, the Niells and then family friends the Cochrans owned it for about 80 years before selling the house to the Texas chapter of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America. The Dames cataloged and restored the house and turned it into the museum it is today.

      Governor's Mansion (1856)
      After some out-of-state goon nearly burned the place to the ground with a late-night Molotov Cocktail in 2008, the home of Texas' first family is back better than ever, although less friendly than before (the sidewalks on three sides are gone, the road in front is closed, and machine-gun toting cowboys haunt the grounds giving the place an unfortunate [although some would say appropriate] banana-republic vibe). Nonetheless, this Greek Revival house, built by master builder Abner Cook and one of the oldest structures in town, is a beauty. None other than Sam Houston (as well as Ann Richards and George W.) graced its hallways.

      General Land Office Building (1857)
      The oldest existing state office building in town, this regal hill-topping castle now houses the Capitol visitors center. William Sidney Porter, aka O. Henry, worked and set several of his stories here. The architect, Christoph Stremme, was something of a renaissance man, earning a Ph.D. in Germany, working for William of Hanover, surveying the Mexican boundary, and dabbling with photography. 

      Carrington-Covert House (1857)
      This pre-Civil War structure was initially built as a home in 1857 by the Carringtons and remained a residence until 1881 when it served as the Texas Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital. From 1903 to 1936, the Coverts owned and lived in the house (while opening the first auto dealership in Central Texas). In 1971 the building was turned over to the Texas Historical Commission where it now serves as the Commission's headquarters. I've been told that the fight to save this building (the state wanted to tear it down) started the preservation movement in Texas.
      • address: 1511 Colorado Street
      • access: gawkable
      • architect: John Brandon
      • style: vernacular Greek Revival
      • notables:
        • National Register of Historic Places 
        • mas   y mas

          Austin State Hospital (State Lunatic Asylum) (1861)
          Built north of town back in the day, the Lunatic Asylum was a favorite place for Austinites to visit for its gardens and towering oaks. Today it still houses the Austin (Mental) State Hospital, and the original building is still there although it's been somewhat modified. There are also some non-descript streamline moderne brick buildings on the campus as well.
          • address: 4110 Guadalupe Avenue
          • access: gawkable; park on the street and walk in.
          • architect: Charles Payne, C.C. Stremme may have been involved
          • style: Italianate and Victorian Classical Revival
          • notables:
            • National Register of Historic Places
            • info   mas
              Madison Log Cabin (1863)
              Originally located at 807 East 11th Street, this one room homestead belonged to Henry Green Madison and his wife Louise where they raised eight (!!!) children. In 1886, Madison built a frame house around the cabin within which the cabin hid until it was rediscovered when the house was being torn down. The city reassembled the cabin here as a reminder of the black heritage of the city. 

              Susanna Dickinson House (1869)
              Susanna Dickinson is famous in Texas for being one of the few survivors of the Alamo. Santa Anna sent her and her daughter to Sam Houston with a letter of warning. Having lost her husband at the Alamo, she entered and exited three marriages. While living in a "house of ill repute", she married Joseph Hannig in 1857, after which they moved to Austin and built this house. The house was buried inside a bar-b-que restaurant called The Pit and wasn't discovered until the restaurant was being torn down to make way for a Hilton. The house was saved and moved to its present location. 

              O. Henry Hall (1881)
              This was originally the U.S. Post Office and Federal Building and was where William Sidney Porter, aka O. Henry, was tried and convicted of embezzlement in 1898. After the U.S. government gave the building to The University of Texas in 1971, UT changed the name to O. Henry Hall (embezzlement conviction be damned!).
              • location: 126 West 6th Street
              • access: gawkable
              • architect: James G. Hill (built by Abner Cook)
              • style: Italian High Renaissance
              • notables:
                • National Register of Historic Places
                • info
                    State Capitol Building of Texas (1888)
                    This regal building, taller than the U.S. Capitol (which is usually the first detail you'll hear from a Texan), was designed by Elijah Myers of Detroit, who also designed the state capitols for Michigan, Colorado, and Idaho. The structure consists mostly of pink granite mined from nearby Burnet, giving the building its unique pinkish hue (the dome, now aluminum, was originally galvanized iron painted to match the granite). Myers, saddled with psychosomatic illnesses and the cliched vainglorious ego of an architect, was fired before construction started. His original specifications called for local limestone and a square-based dome. The switch to granite greatly reduced the planned ornamentation (granite is harder to chisel than limestone). Texas paid for construction with a land swap for the XIT Ranch. 

                    Driskill Hotel (1886)
                    Built by Colonel Jesse Driskill, a successful cattleman, this hotel is the oldest operating hotel in Austin. The capping elements at the top of each street facade are busts of Driskill and his two sons, Bud and Tobe. The hotel features an open rotunda at its center that extends the full height of its four stories. The non-descript 1930 addition to the north is by Henry Trost of El Paso, who also designed the Gage Hotel in Marathon and the Paisano in Marfa (among many other railroad hotels). Trost lived in Chicago for a number of years and was influenced by the Chicago Style, even building a Prairie Style home for himself in El Paso that Frank Lloyd Wright mistook for one of his own. 
                    • address: 604 Brazos Street
                    • access: visitable
                    • architect: Jasper N. Preston and Son (with a 13-story addition by Henry Trost in 1930)
                    • style: Richardsonian Romanesque Revival
                    • notables:
                      • National Register of Historic Places
                      • Addition in 1930 by Trost and Trost
                      • info   mas

                        Colonel Monroe M. Shipe House (1892)
                        Colonel Shipe, father of the quaint surrounding neighborhood, Hyde Park, built this house for himself in quite an eclectic style: Stick, Swiss Chalet, Eastlake, and Queen Anne. The house originally sported a flat, concrete roof--highly unusual for the time. I've never seen anything like it anywhere, let alone Austin. Shipe created the City's streetcar system and erected the first Moonlight Tower in the development. 

                        Elizabeth Ney Museum (1893)
                        Elizabeth Ney was an accomplished sculptor who built this studio, called Formosa (Portuguese for beautiful), on the then-outskirts of Austin in 1893. Born and trained in Germany (she went on a hunger strike to convince her parents to allow her to go to sculpting school), she had an accomplished sculpting career in Europe. After the start of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, Ney put her sculpting career on hold, moving with her family to Georgia and then Texas. In 1891, Ney decided to get back into sculpture and built her studio on the north side of Austin’s Hyde Park, later sculpting busts of Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin for the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The studio, built and added to over several years, is eclectic with classical and gothic elements of local materials. A naturalist, she left the grounds in its natural state, much as it is today.


                        Littlefield House (1893)
                        Designed by native Austinite James Wahrenberger, the first degreed architect working in Texas (he finished second place in the competition to design the state capital), this Victorian beauty was built for George Littlefield for $50,000. Littlefield imported a Deodar Cedar from the Himalayas as well as Himalayan soil and planted it in the yard (the tree is still there, on the left side of the photo above).

                        Moonlight Towers (1894)
                        After Austin built a dam with power generators on the Colorado River, the city purchased 31 used light towers from Detroit to install about the city. Manufactured in Indiana by the Fort Wayne Electric Company, cities installed the 165-foot towers to provide nighttime light. Installed in several cities back in the day (San Jose, Detroit, New Orleans), these light towers in Austin are the only ones known to still exist in the world. Seventeen of the original towers remain with six still in their original location. We attended the 100th-anniversary street party for the towers in 1994.
                        • address: various, but this is our fave: W. 41st Street and Speedway, which is purportedly the first one installed
                        • access: visitable
                        • architect: Fort Wayne Electric Company
                        • style: utilitarian
                        • notables:
                          • National Register of Historic Places
                          • info

                            Frank and Annie Covert House (1898)
                            Frank Covert founded the Covert Automobile Company (Covert Ford still exists) and donated the Mount Bonnell overlook to the city. This beautiful turn-of-the-century-from-more-than -a-century-ago house still maintains its full original lot, so you can enjoy its grandeur as it was meant to be. At one point the house held the House of the Holy Infancy, a home for unwed mothers.
                            • address: 3912 Avenue G
                            • access: gawkable from street; private home
                            • architect: unknown
                            • style: Queen Anne with Romanesque and Classical Revival details
                            • notables:
                              • National Register of Historic Places 
                              • info

                                post-1900


                                Saengerrunde Halle and Scholz Garten (1901)
                                Scholz Beer Garden is the oldest operating business in Texas, operating continuously since 1866. Started by the German immigrant August Scholz, the property was owned and operated by the Lemp Brewery Company (Falstaff Beer) 1893-1908, before being purchased by the Austin Saengerrunde (a German singing club). The Saengerrunde still owns the Garten. During prohibition, the Garten developed and served a non-alcoholic beer called Bone Dry Beer. Given its proximity to the state capitol and the university, clientele from both frequent the drinking and bar-b-cue spot.

                                Battle Hall (1911)
                                Home of the University's library at the time, many a UT student has fond memories of studying here. Designed by the New York architect Cass Gilbert, it's a revivalist building (as most buildings were at that time) that influenced Paul Cret in his campus design. Gilbert later designed the Woolworth Buildling in New York (1913) and the U.S. Supreme Court building (1935). 

                                Huston-Tillotson Administration Building (1914)
                                Huston-Tillotson is an historically black college with roots back to 1875. According to the National Register, the building is Prairie Style (although it doesn't look prairie style to me...). Lovely structure nonetheless. (photo from Wikipedia)

                                Laguna Gloria (1916)
                                Stephen F. Austin originally owned this property along the Colorado River with a nearby spring and intended to build a home here. By 1914, the editor of the Austin American, Hal Sevier, and his wife, Clara Driscoll, bought the property and built this Italianate mansion. In 1943, Driscoll donated the property to the city to be used as a museum, which it is still today (a part of The Contemporary). 
                                • address: 3809 West 35th Street
                                • access: tourable
                                • architect: Jack Johnson
                                • style: Italianate
                                • notables:
                                  • National Register of Historic Places
                                • info

                                  Rudder State Office Building (1918)
                                  Built before before air conditioning, this Classical Revival building features 18-foot tall ceilings and terrazzo and marble floors. Still a state office building, it currently houses the Secretary of State.

                                  Community Center (1925)
                                  Perhaps the closest structure we have to an Irving Gill-inspired Mission Revival structure in Austin, this building sports clean lines with a Mission arch. Up until recently the building was a community center; it is now a private residence (note the tile infill on the third and fourth windows from the street; this is where the owners created a courtyard).

                                  Norwood Tower (1929)
                                  The third office tower in Austin (behind the Scarborough in 1910 and the Littlefield in 1912), the Norwood Tower was the first in Austin to be fully air-conditioned and have rooftop gardens. The property is currently owned by LBJ's daughter, Luci Baines Johnson, who lives in the penthouse suite. 
                                  • address: 114 West 7th Street
                                  • access: gawkable from street
                                  • architect: Giesecke and Harris
                                  • style: Gothic Revival
                                  • notables:
                                    • Texas Historic Landmark
                                  • info

                                    Travis County Courthouse (1931)
                                    One of the best examples of Art Deco in Austin, the Travis County Courthouse continues to house the court despite several attempts to build a new facility. Originally symmetric, the county made significant additions in 1958 and 1962.

                                    State Highway Building (1932)
                                    Built on the heels of the Travis County Courthouse, the Dewitt C. Greer State Highway Building similarly dips deeply into Art Deco for massing and ornamentation.

                                    Goldsmith Hall and Courtyard (1933)
                                    The University of Texas hired Paul Cret in 1931 to develop a master plan for the university, and he went on to collaborate on some 20 campus buildings including the Tower and Goldsmith Hall. The famous Modernist Louis Khan is rumored to have either designed or drawn the courtyard. Cret was Khan's studio critic when Khan was a student at the University of Pennsylvania, and Khan later worked for Cret's firm from 1929 to 1930. After that Khan went to work for Zantzinger, Borie, and Medary, who collaborated with Cret on various projects. I would say that the jury's out on Khan's involvement with Goldsmith Hall. Nonetheless, if Khan worked on the project, it was well before he became a denizen of Modernism.   
                                    • address: 399 West 22nd Street
                                    • access: gawkable; visitable; the building is on campus; so you'll need to find parking, which can be a challenge 
                                    • architect: Paul Cret (with rumors of Louis Khan in the courtyard) 
                                    • style: revivalist

                                    Old Federal Courthouse (1936)
                                    This Depression-era Moderne courthouse used to prominently perch at its location when it was first built. Recently vacated for a stunning new courthouse deeper in downtown (see later in this list), the U.S. Government is currently shopping for new uses for the space.
                                    • address: 200 West 8th Street
                                    • access: gawkable from street
                                    • architect: Charles H. Page and Kenneth Franzheim
                                    • style: Depression-era Moderne
                                    • notables:
                                      • National Register of Historic Places 
                                    • info  info

                                      Deep Eddy Bathhouse (1936)
                                      The first Works Progress Administration (WPA) project in Austin, the Deep Eddy Bathhouse is built at the site of a popular well-fed swimming pool (the pool was built in 1916). The building is rustic yet Modernist with simple detailing and a flat Pagoda-like roof over the main entrance. Dressing rooms and showers are open air behind the limestone walls. WPA projects required that 90 percent of the workforce on projects be unskilled; this required simple designs and construction techniques, reinforced concrete, and local materials (to save costs). The National Park Service also required the buildings it funded to "appear to belong to and be part of their settings". Recently restored to its former glory, the bathhouse is a worthy visit. The architects also designed the bathhouse at Barton Springs.

                                      UT Tower (1937)
                                      This 30-floor tower is part of the Main Building at The University of Texas at Austin which was built to replace the glorious Victorian-Gothic Old Main Building. Originally planned to be a library, it now houses administrative offices. Charles Whitman infamously killed 14 Austinites using a deer rifle from his perch at the top of the tower.

                                      Austin Central Fire Station #1 (1938)
                                      Still an active fire station (and Austin's busiest one at that), this is a gorgeous Streamline Moderne building embracing its downtown corner. When it opened, it was featured in Fire Engineering magazine as one of the most modern fire stations in the United States.
                                      • address: 401 East Fifth Street
                                      • access: gawkable; Austin Fire Museum in part of the station
                                      • architect: Edwin C. Kreisle and Max Brooks
                                      • style: Moderne
                                      • notables:
                                        • National Register of Historic Places

                                        Bohn House (1938)
                                        • address: 1170 West 29th Street
                                        • access: gawkable; private residence
                                        • architect: Roy L. Thomas
                                        • style: Streamline (Art) Moderne
                                        • info

                                          Brown Building (1938)
                                          A 9th story was added in 1949 and a 10th story added in 1952. Housed offices of Brown and Root  and U.S. Congressman LBJ.
                                          • address: 708 Colorado Street
                                          • architect: C.H. Page and Son
                                          • style: Art Moderne
                                          • notables:
                                            • National Register of Historic Places 
                                            • Texas Historic Landmark

                                            Tribune Building (1941)
                                            • address: 920 Colorado Street
                                            • architect: Shirley Simons and others
                                            • style: Moderne
                                            • notables:
                                              • National Register of Historic Places 

                                              The Chester and Lorine Nagel House (1941)

                                              Granger House (1952) and The Perch (1945)

                                              Arthur Fehr House (1949)
                                              • architect: Arthur Fehr

                                                Herbert C. Crume House (~the 1950s)

                                                Southwind (The Seymour Fogel House)

                                                Seaholm Power Plant (1955)

                                                Delta Kappa Gamma Society International Headquarters Building

                                                Cranfill-Beacham Apartments (1958)

                                                St Martin's Church (1960)
                                                • address: 606 West 15th Street
                                                • architect: Robert Mather

                                                  Mueller airport control tower (1961)
                                                  Yep, this used to be the old airport, now a monument to (to a hyperly successful example of) New Urbanism. The City thought enough of the former control tower to keep it, and it is quite glorious, designed by a couple of the town's early Modernists.
                                                  • address: Berkman Drive
                                                  • access: gawkable; park in the hood and walk to it; behind a fence
                                                  • architect: Fehr and Granger
                                                  • style: Mid-Century Modern

                                                    
                                                  Phillips House (1964)
                                                  John S. Chase designed this rather progressive mid-century modern house. Chase is a remarkable individual who graduated from The University of Texas at Austin, was the first African-American to enroll at a major university in the south, and was the first African-American licensed to practice architecture in Texas. 

                                                  LBJ Presidential Library (1971)
                                                  This monumental library was designed by the same dude who, along with Natalie de Blois, a former Austinite, designed the iconic Lever House in New York. Clad in unadorned travertine, the interior sports a great hall as well as a reproduction of the oval office at 75 percent scale. According to an architect who worked on the project, Lady Bird Johnson was the real client having taken the lead in finding a site, researching options, and visiting architects. 

                                                  Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems (1975-present)
                                                  • address: 8604 FM 969
                                                  • http://www.cmpbs.org
                                                  • Working with the City of Austin, helped create the first green building program in the country.
                                                      • architect: Gail Vittori and Pliny Fisk III
                                                      • style: eclectic
                                                      • periodically have open houses


                                                    Employee Retirement System building (1979)
                                                    I might be the only one in town who would list this building, but having admired it for many years (I used to work nearby), I'm putting it on my damn list. This building is a great example of regionalism I call "Pink Brutalism" due to the use of pink granite and gravel common in state office buildings near the pink granite capitol. Several Brutalist buildings grace the capital complex, and most of them are competent yawners, but on this one the architects clearly had fun. Ribbon window turndowns, cantilevered balconies, heroic massing... It's simply gorgeous and beautifully abstract.

                                                    Pennybacker Bridge (1982)

                                                    Charles Moore House and Foundation  (~1984)

                                                    The Jones Center (The Contemporary) (1998)
                                                    • architect: Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis
                                                      post-2000


                                                      Frost Bank Tower (2003)
                                                      Originally disliked by many Austinites when it first opened, this tower has now become an iconic addition to the Austin skyline. We loved its nod to Expressionism from the get-go, a closed lotus flower at the top provocatively lit at night as if inviting the aliens for an invasion. 

                                                      Austin City Hall (2004)

                                                      Trail Restroom (2008)


                                                      Blanton Museum of Art (2008)
                                                      I'm not a big fan of this rather basic and boring building, but I list it because it's the site of Austin's greatest missed architectural opportunity. In 1998, the Board of Regents for The University of Texas hired Herzog and de Meuron to design a new home for the Blanton Museum of Art. The Regents rejected H de M's design: two limestone buildings connected by an undulating green roof. After a few iterations with the Regents, the architects walked away, leaving us with the comparatively dull design we see today. Architecture students draped their building in black, and the then-dean of the architecture school, Larry Speck, resigned. 
                                                      St. Edwards Residence and Dining Hall (2008)
                                                      Inspired architecture from a Pritzker-winning architect, Alejandro Aravena, this dormitory is the only Aravena project in the United States. After first rejecting his initial design, he returned with a brilliantly scaled project that's symbolically conservative on the outside but wildly creative on the inside courtyard. I jokingly refer to it as brisketecture: brown and crispy on the outside, red and tasty on the inside. 

                                                      LIVESTRONG Foundation (2009)
                                                      The San Antonio firm Lake | Flato (pronounced Flay-toe [ouch!]) are somewhat legendary in Texas and world famous, practicing contemporary regionalism with vim and vigor. This project is a gorgeous adaptive reuse project that took an existing art deco warehouse and gave it new facade with a charming courtyard.

                                                      Four Seasons Residences (2010)
                                                      One of the few starchitect-designed buildings in town, this one captures Michael Graves at the peak of his yawn-inducing Hampton Inn phase. Nonetheless, I have to give him props for a major nod to functionalism over aesthetics by adorning this building with the city's most ample high-rise patios. 
                                                      • address: 98 San Jacinto Blvd
                                                      • access: gawkable
                                                      • architect: Michale Graves Architecture and Design
                                                      • style: Contemporary
                                                      • info

                                                        Uchiko (2010)
                                                        Michael Hsu has made his name in town with his restaurant designs, and Uchiko is a fine example. In fact, this entire building re-development is Hsu's design. Having worked under Rem Koolhaus for a bit, Hsu brings today's version of sophisticated International Style to Austin. 

                                                        Federal Courthouse (2012)

                                                         
                                                        Riverview Gardens (aka the Star Wars houses) (2012)
                                                        Bercy Chen does some rather inspired work and is, imho, the most innovative firm in town. They do what I call Big A Architecture: architecture that moves the ball forward. These houses are a great example: super spacey, super cool, and super appropriate for their site. 

                                                        thinkery (2013)
                                                        The thinkery is an excellent, colorful, blocky building that houses Austin's children's museum (so if you have any tykes or slobbering drunks with you, this may be the perfect place to drop them off). Also of interest is the locale: This used to be an airport! It's now Austin's ragingly successful foray into new urbanism. 

                                                        ACC Highland Campus (2014)
                                                        Interesting project in that this site used to be a mall and is now one of the campuses for Austin Community College. By my eye, it's a nice design, and I especially like the large rainwater harvesting tanks prominent in the facade.

                                                        future architecture


                                                        • Ellsworth Kelly
                                                        • Jenga tower
                                                        • Central Library by Lake | Flato


                                                        the bin
                                                        • MJ Neal Avenue in South Austin
                                                          • Architect: MJ Neal
                                                          • Includes The Ramp House, the Wolfe House, and a couple of others

                                                        • Agave
                                                        • Sol
                                                          • KRDB development on East Side
                                                        • Cathedral of Junk
                                                        • Natalie de Blois's house
                                                        • Castle Hill
                                                        • Picnic table
                                                        • Boardwalk
                                                        • Circular Holiday Inn
                                                        • Ann Richards Bridge
                                                        • O'Henry House




                                                        • W
                                                        • East Windsor House (2009)
                                                          • address: 2206 East Windsor
                                                          • access: gawkable, private residence
                                                          • architect: AlterStudio
                                                          • style: Contemporary
                                                        • The Bremond Block
                                                          • Austin Convention Center by Larry Speck with PageSoutherlandPage
                                                          • Austin Bergstrom Airport by Larry Speck of PageSoutherlandPage and others

                                                          •  UT Alumni Center

                                                          • Bass Concert Hall
                                                          • Texas Memorial Museum
                                                          • Canoes!












                                                          • Gethsemane Church (1883)







                                                          other tours/lists

                                                          http://www.archdaily.com/118183/architecture-city-guide-austin

                                                          http://architizer.com/blog/this-list-goes-to-11-awesome-austin-architecture/

                                                          https://www.aiaaustin.org/content/homes-tour

                                                          http://www.austintexas.org/visit/plan-your-trip/historic-walking-tours/

                                                          http://modernhometouraustin.com

                                                          http://www.frommers.com/destinations/austin/675199

                                                          https://www.preservationaustin.org/programs/historic-austin-tour-app/

                                                          https://www.preservationaustin.org/programs/historic-homes-tour/

                                                          http://www.utexas.edu/cola/germanic/_files/pdf/community/10Kwalk.pdf


                                                          other info:

                                                          https://www.preservationaustin.org/blog/mid-century-modern-architecture

                                                          http://www.midtexmod.org/resources


                                                          modern sleeps

                                                          Kimber Modern (baldrige architects)

                                                          The W Hotel (Andersson-Wise Architects)

                                                          Heywood Hotel (KRDB; 2012)

                                                          Hotel San Jose (Lake | Flato; 2000)

                                                          aloft (LKArchitecture)

                                                          Valencia's Lone Star Court (Rottet Studio; mas)

                                                          The Poolside Bungalows at Saint Cecilia

                                                          South Congress Hotel (Dick Clark + Associates and Michael Hsu Office of Architecture)

                                                          Hotel Eleven

                                                          modern eats

                                                          uchiko (Michael Hsu)
                                                          P Terrys (Michael Hsu)
                                                          Torchy's Tacos South Congress (Chioco Design)
                                                          La Condessa (Michael Hsu)
                                                          Shake Shack (Michael Hsu)
                                                          Olivia (Michael Hsu)
                                                          bullfight (Michael Hsu)
                                                          Lucy's Fried Chicken (Michael Hsu)
                                                          Hat Creek Burgers (Reach Architects)
                                                          Gardner Restaurant (Baldridge Architects)
                                                          qui (a parallel architecture)
                                                          lavaca teppan (Chioco Design)
                                                          Torchy's Tacos at Mueller (Chioco Design)
                                                          Galaxy Cafe at the Triangle (Chioco Design)



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