2024-12-21T22:53:08-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150438249/handel-s-58-story-atx-tower-tops-out-in-austin Josh Niland 2024-07-22T18:39:00-04:00 >2024-07-23T14:58:41-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e4/e45eec013772a70bc9e819e73c03f05f.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The forthcoming ATX Tower project in Austin from <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/2249/handel-architects-llp" target="_blank">Handel Architects</a> in partnership with <a href="https://archinect.com/Page" target="_blank">Page</a> celebrated its topping-out ceremony last week. The mixed-use, 425,000-square-foot design includes 369 high-end apartments and over 100,000 square feet of workspaces in a distinctive 58-story silhouette that captures the scale and material character of its adjoining neighbors near Republic Square.</p> <p>The building will open its doors to occupants by early February 2025. The interiors for ATX Tower were created by New York-based <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/113105653/inc-architecture-design" target="_blank">INC Architecture &amp; Design</a>.</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c2/c28c785350ecee9b2fa644080e397ad9.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c2/c28c785350ecee9b2fa644080e397ad9.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image courtesy Ryan Companies</figcaption></figure><p>It will be followed by another mixed-use project &mdash; <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/4398903/hks-inc" target="_blank">HKS</a>'s (scaled-back) <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150348035/hks-bid-for-texas-tallest-skyscraper-gets-cut-down" target="_blank">Wilson Tower</a> &mdash; and the 74-story The Waterline high-rise from <a href="https://archinect.com/kohnpedersenfox" target="_blank">KPF</a>, which is on track to becoming the <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150431548/updating-kpf-s-quest-to-deliver-texas-new-tallest-skyscraper" target="_blank">state's tallest</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p>Both Austin's downtown residential and office real estate markets have experienced downturns in the last year-plus, posing a <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150336325/will-austin-s-tall-buildings-boom-survive-the-skyscraper-effect-and-looming-tech-recession" target="_blank">considerable threat</a> to the formerly breakneck pace of development that has transpired with the <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-20/elon-musk-s-relocation-of-x-hq-to-texas-revives-austin-s-tech-hub-ambitions?embedded-checkout=true" target="_blank">continued inc...</a></p>