Controversial "Points"
~ The Frost Bank Tower - Austin, TX ~
Ever since it's completion in 2004, the Frost Bank Tower has had its share of both admirers and detractors. Altho voted the best building in Austin by the readers of a local newspaper, the same paper editorialized it as looking like a huge owl looming over Austin....and claimed it added to Austin's reputation of "weirdness"...(The city's unofficial logo being, "Keep Austin Weird"). A daily columnist from yet another paper described it as "an enormous set of nose hair trimmers." (!!) Personally, I like it. When it's lit at night, the "points" and beautiful silvery blue glass facade glows softly and really adds to the already beautiful Austin skyline...just wish I could get past that description of a nose hair trimmer!! :)
Uploaded on September 28, 2009