Sixth and Guadalupe

For a city that grew up and out at the same time, Austin’s tallest building is fittingly a hybrid. Sixth and Guadalupe rises 865 feet and 66 stories downtown, and it does two jobs at once: 349 apartments stacked above roughly 589,000 square feet of office space, with retail at the base.

Project Scope. Designed by Gensler and developed by a team of Lincoln Property Company, Kairoi Residential and investor DivcoWest, the tower opened to the public in the fall of 2023. Its trapezoidal form and terraced setbacks let the architects fit two very different uses into one structure, with the office floors and residential levels each getting their own identity and amenities. The vertical split, workplace below and homes above, is harder to engineer than a single-use tower because the floor plates, elevators and mechanical systems have to serve two programs.

Why It Matters. Sixth and Guadalupe captured a specific moment in Austin’s growth, when the city’s tech-fueled expansion was pushing both office demand and downtown housing at once. Rather than choose, the project did both, and claimed the skyline’s top spot from earlier towers. It’s a marker of how far Austin’s core densified in a short span, and a template for the mixed-use high-rise development reshaping fast-growing Sun Belt downtowns, much like the trophy-office wave behind Miami’s 830 Brickell.

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