W Austin Hotel and Residences (Block 21)
Austin, Texas

We provided structural design for the 37-story, 1-million-sf hotel and residential building, which opened recently. The new building occupies an entire city block next to the Austin City Hall, and is the fourth tallest building in the city. It contains 250 guest rooms, 159 residential condominiums, office space, retail and below-grade parking. The hotel and condominium portions of the building are post-tensioned concrete slab. The tower’s concrete podium houses a steel-framed performance venue. The state-of-the-art Moody Theater in the podium can accommodate 2,750 people and will host the “Austin City Limits” PBS concert series program—the longest-running music series in American television history. The project is LEED Silver certified. The architect of record was BOKA Powell.