Fairmont Austin

Fairmont Austin
Fairmont Austin
	Fairmont Austin in February 2019.
Alternative names	Fairmont ATX
General information
Status	Complete
Type	Hospitality
Location	Austin, Texas
Address	101 Red River Street
Construction started	2013
Height	595 ft (181 m)
Technical details
Floor count	37
Floor area	1,400,000 sq ft (130,000 m2)
Lifts/elevators	10
Design and construction
Architecture firm	Gensler Austin
Developer	Manchester Texas Financial Group
Other designers	Warren Sheets Design, Inc.
Other information
Number of units	1048
References

The Fairmont Austin is a 37-story hotel located on 101 Red River St, in Downtown Austin, Texas. Groundbreaking for the project began on November 3, 2014. The hotel, at 1,400,000 square feet (130,000 m²), is the largest of the Fairmont hotel chain. The hotel tops out at 595 feet (181 m) tall, surpassing Austin's previous tallest hotel, the Hilton Austin Hotel. The Fairmont Austin also features a skyway connection to the Austin Convention Center.

The Fairmont Austin also features two restaurants: Revue, an American Buffet, and Good Things, a coffee shop and café, which anchor the Fairmont's glass-paned lobby area.

History[]

The groundbreaking for the Fairmont Austin was held on November 3, 2014. The hotel was expected to reach completion in late January to early February 2018 but was delayed until March 2018. The hotel opened on March 5th, 2018, in time for South by Southwest.

Architecture[]

Room lighting arranged to form a heart in February 2020

The Fairmont Austin was designed by architecture firm Gensler,^[2] with interiors furnished by San Francisco-based interior designer Warren Sheets.^[3] The hotel features a $6 million 33-foot aerial skyway connecting to the Austin Convention Center, designed by Thomas Phifer.^[4]

The building is topped with a 170-foot lighted spire, the maximum height allowed by the Federal Aviation Administration.^[5] The building's crown features a band of color-changing LED lighting, which is often changed for holidays and special events. During periods of low occupancy, the hotel blocks off rooms on the southern side of the building and replaces the lighting in select rooms with color-changing LED bulbs to create images on the building's facade, including the Texas Longhorns logo during University of Texas games,^[6] a giant jack-o'-lantern for Halloween,^[7] and a wrapped present during Christmas.