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Evolution of the Downtown Austin Skyline

Watch the rise of the Downtown Austin skyline, starting with the great 1888 Capitol building. Read more: https://www.commercialcafe.com/blog/d... Check out the building trivia below: 1. Texas State Capitol Year built: 1888 Opened as the seventh largest building in the world, and still rising 14 feet higher than the National Capitol in Washington D.C. 2. Westgate Tower Year built: 1967 Construction of Austin’s first high-rise faced resounding opposition because it would block views of the precious state Capitol from the West. 3. Chase Bank Tower Year built: 1974 The tower, nicknamed "Golden Mirror," was originally covered in 3,600 inch-thick insulated reflective glass panes, which contained a small amount of gold alloy. 4. Bank of America Center Year built: 1975 The shorter and stockier sibling of Houston’s Pennzoil Place: designed and built by the same team, sheathed in the same curtain wall glass--left over from Pennzoil Place construction. 5. Moody Bank Tower Year built: 1981 The conference room is entered through the bank’s original vault door, built in 1875 in Pennsylvania and weighing more than 40,000 pounds, and houses a 12-foot-long table made from a 211-year-old fallen pecan tree. 6. Austin Center Year built: 1986 The land on which the tower was built once held the home of Mirabeau B. Lamar, the second President of the Republic of Texas. 7. Frost Bank Tower Year built: 2004 Reportedly one of only two buildings in the world with blue low-e glass skin, the other being the Reuters Building in New York City, which opened in 2001. 8. The Austonian Year built: 2010 Austin's tallest building for eight years, surpassed by the still-in-construction "Jenga Tower" in May 2018 9. Colorado Tower Year built: 2015 Upon completion, it was downtown Austin's first Class A office high-rise to be built in nearly a decade, after the Frost Bank Tower. 10. Westin Hotel Year built: 2015 Home to the sweetest venue in Texas—a life-size gingerbread dining room that is built each December and rented to dining parties for a noble cause, with partial proceeds going towards combatting homelessness. 11. 500 West Second Street Year built: 2017 Tenant build-out for Google cost an estimated $30M. Amenities include a stationary food truck that was hoisted up to the 28th floor, and a dog park on the 29th floor. Google's several cafeterias serve tacos DAILY. 12. Aloft Austin Downtown Year built: 2017 The dog-friendly hotel offers quirky perks such as cowboy boot rental, and is the first in the world to have Chive TV, for the latest in viral videos.