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Google Sailboat Building downtown Austin

What’s arguably the most architecturally intriguing, most forward-looking office tower in downtown Austin is now on track to open two years from now.

Google announced March 18 that it plans to occupy the entire 37-story tower under construction at 601 W. Second St. sometime in 2023. The high-rise was previously set for completion in May 2022.

What sets this gleaming glass-and-steel office tower apart from its downtown neighbors is the sail-like shape of the building’s east and west sides. The high-rise has yet to be named, but it could be aptly called the “Sailboat Building.”

The tower’s architects — Pelli Clarke Pelli and STG — envision it being “a new icon for Austin.” The high-rise sits close to Lady Bird Lake and next to Austin’s Central Library.

On the West Cesar Chavez Street side, the building will gradually taper from wider at the bottom to narrower at the top, creating the appearance of a sail from the Nueces Street and Shoal Creek ends. The sail design pays homage to the neighboring lake and creek.

Google already leases more than 550,000 square feet at three locations in and around downtown Austin: 100 Congress Ave., 901 E. Fifth St., and 500 W. Second St. The tech giant currently employs about 1,100 people in Austin.

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Google’s New Home at Block 185 is Downtown Austin’s Next Signature Tower

James Rambin March 26, 2019 Comment

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Image: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects / STG Design / Trammell Crow Company

Block 185 is an all-star tower. This 35-floor office building by national developer Trammell Crow Company, which broke ground last month in downtown Austin, is already leased in full by tech juggernaut Google,  and features a striking sail-like design courtesy of “starchitecture” outfit  Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects.

For such a stacked project, it’s kind of surprising how few renderings we’ve seen of the tower so far — although I guess it makes sense that you wouldn’t need to worry all that much about marketing when you’ve already landed Google as a tenant. Still, we’ve impatiently awaited a better view of the structure for ages, and thanks to a presentation by its architects to the city’s Design Commission last night, the time is now for our deepest look yet at this iconic addition to Austin’s burgeoning skyline.

There’s a lot to get through, so let’s start with the wide shots:

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If you’re even a casual architecture fan, this is already enough to have you mopping your brow — César Pelli,  founder of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, is behind some of the world’s most respected skyscrapers, including the instantly-recognizable twin Petronas Towers in Malaysia. Austin’s own STG Design  and Campbell Landscape Architecture are also working on the project.

“We view this building as being a gateway to downtown.” — Bill Butler, Principal, Pelli Clarke Pelli

Austin’s received more than its fair share of compelling towers in the last few years — mostly office buildings, although the Independent condos  certainly raised the bar for residential projects — but this might be the single most impressive skyscraper design we’ve seen in the city since the debut of the Frost Bank Tower.  

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Though the pyramidal shape of the 589-foot building just looks cool to the casual observer, it’s also an elegant solution to a pair of challenging development constraints on the property — the look is mandated, at least to some extent, by the two angled setback requirements imposed on the property due to its proximity to Shoal Creek to the west and Lady Bird Lake to the south across Cesar Chavez Street.

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Architectural elevations of the Block 185 tower from the west (left) and south (right), with the respective setbacks imposed by the building’s proximity to Lady Bird Lake and Shoal Creek shown with red dotted lines. Image: Civilitude Engineers

On the tower’s western elevation, this setback is expressed by a curved, sail-shaped glass wall, while the southern elevation accommodates the requirement with a series of terraces that recede as the building rises — the paths of both setbacks and the outline of the structure carefully following them are visible in the illustration above, with additional detail on display in the image below:

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The architects illustrated the location’s unique zoning limitations during their presentation to the commission with an image highlighting the envelope, seen here in red, that a building on this site can occupy:

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Here are some of the closer-up views shown off at yesterday’s meeting, which also include a better look at the building’s landscape design and ground-floor interaction with surrounding streets, plus its engagement with the adjacent Shoal Creek:

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Remember, this tower’s site is bound by  Cesar Chavez Street to the south, Nueces Street to the east, Second Street to the north, and Shoal Creek to the west. The plot represents the final piece of  redevelopment  for Austin’s former Thomas C. Green Water Treatment Plant, and perhaps the trickiest of the bunch to build on, due to a variety of constraints — there’s probably a reason Block 185 is the last major project to break ground in this new district.

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Along with accommodating Shoal Creek itself, its location means the new building must play nice with the plaza and trail space at the Central Library site on the opposite bank, along with the district’s eye-catching Butterfly Bridge. Also found nearby are the Austin Proper and Third + Shoal developments, with the Independent only a bit further away. It’s easy to forget what this area looked like only a decade ago!

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To improve the building’s ground-floor engagement with Shoal Creek, the northwest corner includes a retail space with an outdoor plaza overlooking the creekbed — likely to be occupied by a restaurant. This side also enables connectivity between Cesar Chavez and Second Streets for cyclists and pedestrians:

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The tower’s northeast corner will also include ground-floor retail space facing the corner of Second and Nueces Streets — pretty much inevitably another restaurant, since it would be a real bummer to waste that patio:

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Greenwater Block 185 is the final phase of the Greenwater Redevelopment project and will house a 35 story office building (including 10 levels of above grade parking), 6 levels of below ground parking, and ground floor restaurant/retail. We broke ground on the project in February 2019 to start the diaphragm wall which will take 3 months to complete before excavation can start on the site. — Block 185 Design Commission Presentation Documents, March 25

The building includes 793,883 total rentable square feet of office space, all of which is apparently going to be occupied by Google. Here’s how the floors are laid out, along with some information about its above and below-grade parking:

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The developers were not at last night’s meeting to seek a density bonus recommendation from the Design Commission — this project’s under the jurisdiction of the master development agreement established between Trammell Crow and the city for the redevelopment of the former water treatment plant, meaning the Downtown Density Bonus Program’s gatekeeper requirements don’t apply here. Instead, their presentation was simply a “courtesy briefing” that allowed commissioners to provide comments on the project.

Though the reception was definitely positive, there were a few critiques, mostly related to the tower’s ground-level frontages along Shoal Creek and Cesar Chavez Street. Since the building doesn’t really have a “back of house” — it faces active streets on three sides and a protected creek on the fourth, with nary an alley in sight — there’s nowhere ideal to place its transformer vaults, which in the current configuration face Cesar Chavez Street and give the structure’s ground level on its southern-facing side an appearance that commissioners didn’t find particularly friendly or well-suited for the pedestrian environment.

The commission raised the “not unheard-of” possibility that Austin Energy might allow the developer to bury these vaults underground, a design previously permitted for the JW Marriott tower. This same question came up during the density bonus application for Block 71, so maybe it’s time to figure it out for good?

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You can see the effect of the transformer vaults in the image above, which looks at the southeast corner of the building from Cesar Chavez and Nueces Streets — there’s an art installation space facing Cesar Chavez Street to offset the monolithic effect of the vaults, but it would be nice if the architects didn’t have to design around them at all.

The other concern involved the ground-level design of the tower facing Shoal Creek, which commissioners found a little cramped-looking for pedestrian and bicycle traffic and not landscaped densely enough to either provide shade or match the lush appearance of the Central Library’s outdoor space just across the creek. The site’s preserved heritage live oak tree, which was moved by the city to the bank of the creek from the edge of Cesar Chavez Street back in 2017, does look a little lonely — you can see it standing tall in the center of the image below:

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It’s unclear whether these comments will result in alterations to the project’s design, but they certainly don’t seem like insurmountable problems — we’ll be excited to follow the progress of this tower either way. Per the presentation, Block 185 is currently scheduled to set sail by early May 2022.

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New Curved Office Tower Leased by Google Sails Into Austin’s Skyline

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By Marissa Luck CoStar News

With less than six months to go before a Google-leased office tower in downtown Austin, Texas, is completed, the curved 35-story building has already transformed the skyline over Lady Bird Lake.

Google’s tower at 601 W. Second St., formerly known as Block 185, is on track for its core and shell to be finished in May, said Aaron Thielhorn, managing director for developer Trammell Crow Co., in an email to CoStar News. Trammell Crow and partner MSD Capital LP broke ground on the 814,081-square-foot office building in January 2019. Rising 590 feet, the tower is expected to be the tallest in Austin that is only office space, according to Trammell Crow. 

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However, Google’s new tower is distinctive not just for its size but for the design that resembles a sail rising over Lady Bird Lake. The tower will offer 180-degree views of the lake with outdoor terraces on every floor of the building, according to Trammell Crow. The tower’s curved facade designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects and STG Design is becoming a downtown landmark rivaling other well-known towers such as The Independent, which has been nicknamed the “Jenga” or “Tetris” tower for its blocky facade that is 694 feet tall.

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Search engine provider Google first planted roots in Texas when it established its original Austin office in 2007. The company also leases space in the 500,000-square-foot office building at 500 W. Second St., directly across the street from the new tower, and in East Austin at Plaza Saltillo where it started moving employees into the 150,000-square-foot building at the beginning of 2020.

Google’s partial interior build-out of its new space is expected to start in March and cost $55 million, according to a state permit. Austin-based Cushing Terrell is the interior design firm for the build-out that is expected to be completed in January 2023, according to the permit.

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Brown Elementary School damaged after teacher drives car into building, officials say

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A teacher drove into the front of T.A. Brown Elementary School in northern Austin early Thursday, the Austin school district announced at a news conference.

The front of the school, 7801 Guadalupe St., will need significant repairs, but the campus is structurally sound and will remain open for students, according to the district.

Authorities received an alarm call at 1:17 a.m., and police had arrived at the scene by 1:19 a.m., Austin school district Police Chief Wayne Sneed said at the news conference. Police found that a driver had crashed a vehicle into the front doors of the elementary school, and the car was inside the school.

The driver, identified as a teacher, suffered minor injuries and was cooperative when taken into custody, Sneed said. Police did not know as of Thursday morning whether the crash was intentional and did not disclose any personal details about the teacher, nor the grade level the person teaches. Officers at the scene did not perform any sobriety tests.

Police did not specify whether the teacher would face any charges.

The teacher was treated for their injuries at a local hospital and released back into law enforcement custody.

Superintendent Matias Segura said construction crews were mobilized to make repairs to the front door, and that children arriving for school on buses were rerouted through the cafeteria.

He expects the day to run as normal, and staff are currently working through the details for dismissal and pick-up.

"At this point, everything inside is functioning and doing well," he said. "We want to make sure (the teacher) is supported to the best of our abilities, and we're going to be really sensitive to it ... with the utmost care."

Brown Elementary serves about 490 students from pre-K through fifth grade.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

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