With an intriguing form and striking street presence, the recently opened ARRIVE hotel in Austin, Texas, challenges its neighbors in a rapidly developing area of the city to step out of their comfort zone—much as the architects and their clients did for this $25 million project, which represents a jump in scale and budget for both parties.
Behind a dark gray ironspot-brick facade, banded by tilting horizontal ribbons of concrete, ARRIVE contains 83 guest rooms and two restaurants, in addition to a bar, coffee shop, and a small retail space. “It’s more like a mixed-use building that happens to have hotel rooms above,” says design architect Burton Baldridge, founder of the 2015 Record Vanguard firm Baldridge Architects in Austin. Since its founding in 2006, the office has taken on projects ranging from single-family residences to the adaptive reuse of buildings for a restaurant and for a university.
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