Frost Bank Tower, Office building in downtown Austin, United States.
Frost Bank Tower is an office building in downtown Austin with 33 floors and a distinctive pointed crown that rises above the surrounding streetscape. The blue glass façade reflects light throughout the day and creates a recognizable silhouette against the sky.
The tower was completed in 2003 and became the first high-rise construction project in the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks. This milestone reflected a return to confidence in building tall structures in American cities.
Austin Chronicle readers voted the tower "Best New Building (of the last five years)" in 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008, and named it best architecture in 2004 and 2005. The paper wrote that its "owl face" helps keep Austin "characteristically weird". Columnist John Kelso said it looks like a giant set of hair clippers.
The building houses office space with multiple elevators and a security desk in the lobby area. Getting around the building is straightforward, and its location in the central business district makes arrival by public transportation convenient.
The blue low-e glass skin is shared with only one other building in the world, the Reuters Building in New York City, which used it first. More than 200,000 sq ft (60,960 m2) of glass covers the facade, and 45,000 sq ft (13,716 m2) went into the crown alone.
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