Crews are now coating the garage on the corner of Travis and Rusk with strips of glass curtain wall similar to those seen on its much taller neighbor to the north, the Capitol Tower. While the 35-story office building got its exterior finish soon after topping out in April, the garage — built 2 years earlier — was left naked. It took over from the former Houston Club garage Skanska expanded and then demolished on the block in 2015.

Even after construction wrapped up, the new parking structure viewed below from Milam still looked mostly like this:

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Soon, the only thing left to skin will be the garage’s rooftop, announced as the site of a private garden last year that’d be accessible from the neighboring tower’s 12th floor, its lowest office level.

• Curtain wall is finally being skinned [C Money]
• Previously on Swamplot: Skanska’s Capitol Tower Will Have Its Own Garage-Top Private Park in the Sky, or Closer to It; Craning To See The First Member of Capitol Tower’s Crane Flock; Esperson, Pennzoil, 712 Main Tunnels To Reopen Next Thursday Around Stalled Sprout of Capitol Tower; Skanska Will Get Out of the Tunnels, But Won’t Budge Upward on Capitol Tower Until Economy Goes First; Revealing the Full Plan for Skanska’s Downtown Block Will Take Some Time; Twists and Shouts on the Houston Club Building’s Short Way Down; Hulking Remains of Houston Club Building Downtown Will Get Dynamited Early Sunday Morning; The Clubbing of the Houston Club Building Begins; Skanska’s New Downtown Office Tower; Houston Club Tunnel Tenants Making Their Escape; Houston Club Building To Be Demolished, Say Auctioneers; Will Skanska Knock Down the Houston Club?; Downtown Houston Club Building Will Stay Put; Skanska Goes for a Houston Office Building Hat Trick; Skanska Helping Houston Club to Early Exit; Will Skanska Knock Down the Houston Club?; At Risk on Rusk

Photos: C Money (curtain wall); Swamplot inbox (garage construction); Marc Longoria via Swamplot Flickr Pool (Capitol Tower)