US studio Gensler has announced progress on the construction of a skyscraper consisting of "three buildings stacked on top of one another" in Austin, Texas.
The 845-foot-tall (247 metres) Sixth and Guadalupe skyscraper is located in downtown Austin. It will host a mixed-used program of residential, office and retail spaces throughout three stacked volumes that decrease in width as it rises, including two glazed volumes and an opaque podium.
Gensler is nearing completion on a skyscraper made of stacked volumes in Austin
"Form follows function, with what is essentially three buildings stacked on top of one another visually threaded together with a single column of glass from grade to crown," said Gensler in a statement.
Greenspaces will sit in the space between each volume. It will host residential and office spaces stacked on top of a parking garage and ground-floor retail
"The beauty of Sixth and Guadalupe is not its height, but its existence alone. Its complexity stems from the audacity of stacking two high-rise towers on top of each other to assemble a super-high rise," said Gensler designer director George Blume.
According to the team, the Texas Capitol View Corridors legislation largely shaped the building's design, which is a series of legal restrictions aimed at protecting unobstructed views of the Texas State Capitol building in Austin.
Terraces will contain greenspaces and a pool
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