Tall & Urban News

Natiivo, the high-rise condo-hotel building under construction in the Rainey Street district of Austin, has released new interior renderings in conjunction with the opening of its sales gallery at Fourth and Lavaca Streets.

The 33-story tower, located at 48 East Avenue, will have 249 residential units including studio apartments as well as one- and two-bedroom units, with sales prices starting around US$500,000.

All those units will come with full amenities, furniture, and hotel licensing and can be offered as short-term rentals, with building management providing hotel-like services and amenities. The NGD Homesharing chain, which Natiivo belongs to, announced the Austin groundbreaking in June 2019, and construction began the following August.

Austin-based STG Design is the architect on the project, and New York-based INC Architecture and Design is responsible for the interiors. The sales gallery showcases a three-dimensional physical model of the building, which features a rippling metal art wall, a dynamic window pattern, inset wood veneer, and a waterfall-like trellis capping the building, all “abstractions of natural forms engaging an orthogonal ‘city grid,’” according to a press release.

Fitting within that grid was “one of the more interesting aspects of the project,” said STG Design principal Jim Stephenson, noting the “architectural challenge associated with designing a hotel this complex on such a small infill site.” Site constraints “led to an innovative massing concept that more equitably distributed green space, recreational amenities and social gathering areas throughout the building,” he added. “Our design philosophy explored the interplay between Austin’s urban environment and its natural surroundings.”

While the building is under construction, the sales gallery displays some of the hand-selected fixtures, interiors, and locally-sourced pieces that will characterize the building’s interior spaces when it’s planned to open in 2021.

For more on this story, go to Curbed Austin.