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The ExxonMobil Building (also known as Exxon Tower, and formerly as Humble Oil Building) at 800 Bell Street in Houston, Texas is a 45-story, 1,200,000 sq ft (110,000 m 2) skyscraper built in 1963, designed by Welton Becket & Associates. [1]
A 2008 incident involving a scaffold collapse 47 floors over Manhattan, which occurred only months after Tractel repaired the faulty equipment, resulted in the death of one of two window washers ...
a tower in RTI Lukang Branch north array, Lukang, Changhua, Taiwan: October 18, 2022: Free-standing steel lattice tower 125 Typhoon Nesat [49] KDLO-TV Towers, Florence, South Dakota, USA December 14, 2022: Guyed steel lattice mast 548.6 & 243.8 Ice 2 towers collapsed during an ice storm. [50] SBA Communications Tower, [51] Houston, Texas, USA ...
The Williams Tower, completed in 1982 and rising 901 feet (275 m), is the third-tallest building in Houston. [6] Seven of the ten tallest buildings in Texas are located in Houston. [7] The history of skyscrapers in the city began with the construction of the original Binz Building in 1895.
In Harris County, where Houston is, about 782,000 homes and businesses were without power at about 1 a.m. CT, according to poweroutage.us. At one point Thursday night, about 880,000 had been in ...
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Continental had occupied approximately 250,000 square feet (23,000 m 2) in space in the America Tower before its lease expired in July 1998. [ 12 ] In 1998 Andersen Consulting, now Accenture , announced that it would consolidate its existing Downtown Houston and suburban workforces into 153,000 square feet (14,200 m 2 ) in the America Tower ...
[21] [22] [23] A succession of skyscrapers were built throughout the 1970s, culminating with Houston's tallest, the 75-floor, 1,002-foot (305 m) tall JPMorgan Chase Tower (formerly the Texas Commerce Tower), designed by I. M. Pei and completed in 1982. As of 2010, it is the tallest man-made structure in Texas, the 12th-tallest building in the ...