Eastbound Offices

Eastbound Offices
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Eastbound Offices

West of West

ARCHITECTS
West of West

PROJECT TEAM
Jai Kumaran, AIA, Justin Cua, Jen Endozo, Keely O'Brien, Tom Adamson

OWNER
The KOR Group / Lincoln Property Company

GENERAL CONTRACTOR
Harvey Cleary

MANUFACTURERS
Accoya, Detla Millwork, Solarban Acuity

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Architectural Engineers Collaborative

PHOTOGRAPHS
Chase Daniel

INTERIOR DESIGN
West of West

CIVIL ENGINEER
Civilitude

MECHANICAL, ELECTRICAL & PLUMBING ENGINEER
Integral Group

CONCRETE SUBCONTRACTOR
Redondo

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
TBG

ART CONSULTANT
Met /Gal

PRINCIPAL IN CHARGE
Clayton Taylor, AIA, NCARB, IIDA

MURALIST
Emily Eisenhart

PHOTOGRAPHS
Chase Daniel

AREA
230000 ft²

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Austin, United States

CATEGORY
Office Buildings

Eastbound is a 230,000-square-foot creative office campus in East Austin that seamlessly integrates flexible workspaces, community amenities, public art, and public greenspaces to create a richly layered experience for office workers.

Eastbound Offices
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Eastbound Offices
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Inspired by the visual language of warehouses and industrial structures in the dynamic East Austin neighborhood, the two-building complex’s large, punched openings and linear massing reinterpret the character of nearby buildings without replicating them.

An expansive courtyard stretches between the two buildings, knitting together the ground-level public amenities including a restaurant, lounge, gym, and office lobbies.

Eastbound Offices
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Eastbound Offices
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A colonnade of forest-like concrete columns emerges from the landscape to create a sheltered outdoor public space. Overhead the ceiling is clad in wood, creating a visual continuity that unifies these public spaces.

Floor-to-ceiling storefront windows allow natural light deep into the ground level and mark the transitions from rough concrete paths outside to highly polished concrete floors inside.

Collaborations with local designers include murals by artist Emily Eisenhart and large-scale custom steel light fixtures at each entrance created by local lighting studio Warbach.

Eastbound Offices
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Eastbound Offices
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Eastbound Offices
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Upper floors have high ceilings and large window openings that allow natural light into the building and frame expansive views out to the neighborhood.

Large interior spaces can be easily adapted to suit the needs of tenants and flexibly reconfigured for future office workers.

Each office floor has an outdoor covered deck that sets back from the main façade.

Eastbound Offices
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Eastbound Offices
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Eastbound Offices
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Larger open-air rooftop terraces are accessible from the uppermost floors.

Clad in custom precast and colored concrete panels, the façade system was developed in close collaboration with the fabricator Redondo Manufacturing.

Eastbound Offices
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Eastbound Offices
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Multiple aggregate mixes were designed and tested with the goal of softening the visual qualities of the concrete.

A “salt-and-pepper” exposed aggregate finish creates a rich and tactile finish to the panels that contrast with the smooth finish of the concrete columns and the exposed floors for the building’s interiors.

Eastbound Offices
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Eastbound Offices
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This fabrication method allowed the team to calibrate and maintain tight manufacturing and installation tolerances while accelerating the construction timeline.


Eastbound Offices
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Eastbound Offices
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Eastbound Offices
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Eastbound Offices
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Eastbound Offices
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Eastbound Offices
Floor Plan
Eastbound Offices
Floor Plan