On Wednesday, 5 October 2022, the University of Texas-Austin’s Board of Regents announced plans to provide a USD$26 million lead investment that will go toward a major renovation of the 307-foot UT Tower building façade and surrounding grounds.
Originally completed in 1937, it was first used as the central library for the university. On the outside of the building, symbolic images were carved into the Tower’s limestone blocks. There are gold letters and hieroglyphics from languages on the north side that had led to the development of the English language, and used to be more pronounced. Restoring the letters will be one focus of the new renovations along with modernizing the observation deck.
The renovations are part of a recent, overall push to make the university campus a central place that the entire community is drawn to.
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