Austin Centre, Office building in downtown Austin, United States
Austin Centre is a 16-story mixed-use high-rise in Downtown Austin, Texas, designed by Victor A. Lundy and HKS, Inc. It consists of two towers connected by a 200-foot glass atrium covering one acre. The exterior is clad in 150,000 square feet of red granite from Adoni, India, cut in Italy and shipped through Houston, contrasting with bands of light-grey glass. The north face has a full-height space frame and glass wall framing the Texas State Capitol.
The building was completed in 1986 and marked a turning point in commercial development for the Texas capital. This project was part of a broader reshaping of the business district that transformed the downtown skyline.
The Austin Centre is home to Capital Factory, a startup incubator, and its lobby hosts events such as the South by Southwest Startup Crawl. The complex also holds the Omni Austin Hotel Downtown, whose top five floors were once condominiums for executives and lobbyists during legislative sessions.
The building sits near several public transit stops and is easy to reach from different parts of the city. Accessible entrances and nearby cafes make it a straightforward place to visit or pass through.
The lobby and glass elevators appeared in the 2001 film Spy Kids. The north face's full-height glass wall frames a view of the Texas State Capitol from inside the building.
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