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SXSW Headquarters in Austin
Office Building Complex in Texas, USA ? design by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects
Nov 22, 2017
SXSW Headquarters
Design: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
SXSW Headquarters

Construction is under way on SXSW Center, the new headquarters of South by Southwest, the Austin-based company that produces the annual SXSW music, film, and interactive festival. Designed by the architectural firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, the 13-story, 280,000-square-foot complex will consolidate the company?s various campuses and promote creative collaboration between SXSW and its partner organizations.
 

The new building?s distinctive serpentine form will frame an iconic view of Austin?s Capitol dome while embracing and preserving a grove of heritage live oaks. Curving away from the street, the glass-clad facade will shape a generous public plaza at the corner of Lavaca and 14th Streets, with rain gardens, seating, and pedestrian pathways. This open and inviting landscape will serve as an approach to the building entry and lobby, featuring a spacious café and flexible, informal coworking space. Other amenities include a green roof with covered patio, retail and dining on the ground floor, and a parking garage for 300 cars.

 

Lead designer Yvonne Szeto, a partner of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, call...