initially registered<\/a> with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation in November 2023, with construction costs estimated at $110 million.<\/p>\nAndres Construction was hired as the general contractor for the project, while the lead architect is Houston-based Kirksey. Austin\u2019s own Michael Hsu Office of Architecture is responsible for the interior design of the development, including ground-floor retail spaces, amenities and residential interiors, while another Austin firm, Nudge, was tapped to execute the building\u2019s landscape design.<\/p>\n
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Michael Hsu Office of Architecture is responsible for the design of amenity spaces, ground-floor retail and restaurant spaces, as well as residential interiors, as shown in this rendering of a penthouse kitchen.<\/p>\n
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According to representatives for Michael Hsu, midcentury modern design elements will complement natural lighting and plants to make each room feel in sync with the surrounding environment. The third-floor amenity space will offer a \u201cgreenhouse\u201d atmosphere, and a skylight in the great room will invite more sun inside. The space is meant to \u201ccapture the spirit of South Congress\u201d and embody the neighborhood\u2019s \u201ccreative, artful, social, yet comfortable attitude,\u201d according to the firm.<\/p>\n
While Hsu has designed amenity spaces for projects like this before\u00a0\u2014 including the 44 East Avenue high-rise condominium complex in downtown Austin\u00a0\u2014 he rarely touches the residential finishes, giving this complex a unique flow from the public areas into the private sphere.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe project is less a multifamily building than a mixed-use block, where a cohesive character is made up of many individual experiences,\u201d Hsu said. \u201cThis made the translation between the public amenities and residential finishes a critical piece, with the goal being something that feels urban but not over-fabricated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rendering of the proposed Leland South Congress development at the south end of South Congress Avenue, one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-463389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}