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The Williams Tower (originally named the Transco Tower) is a 64-story, 1.4 million square feet (130,000 m 2) class A postmodern office tower located in the Uptown District of Houston, Texas. The building was designed by New York–based John Burgee Architects with Philip Johnson in association with Houston-based Morris-Aubry Architects (now ...
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places in downtown Houston, Texas. It is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the Downtown Houston neighborhood, defined as the area enclosed by Interstate 10 , Interstate 45 , and Interstate 69 .
The sky lobby observation deck is located on the 60th floor. The sky lobby acts as a transfer point for persons traveling to the upper (61–75) floors, but also as an observation deck for the building tenants. The sky lobby is now permanently closed to the public and is only accessible by tenants. [7]
2. Central Park Tower, New York. Height: 1,550 feet Also known as Nordstrom Tower, this is the tallest residential building in the world and the tallest building outside of Asia by roof height alone.
JPMorgan Chase Tower in Houston, Texas is the tallest composite building in the world. Houston's building boom of the 1970s and 1980s ceased in the mid-1980s, due to the 1980s oil glut. Building of skyscrapers resumed by 2003, but the new buildings were more modest and not as tall.
Empire State Building, New York City, United States 1931 369 m (1,211 ft) [8] A second observation deck is located on the 86th floor at 320 metres above ground. 1973 1974 World Trade Center, New York City, United States 1973 399.4 m (1,310 ft) Measured from sea level, street level was 10 feet above sea level. Indoor observation deck on the ...
The American General Center is a complex of several office buildings in Neartown Houston, Texas located along Allen Parkway. [1] [2] It is the global headquarters for Corebridge Financial, formerly American General. The America Tower is a 590 ft (180m) tall skyscraper. It was completed in 1983 and has 43 floors. It is the 21st tallest building ...
The Empire State Building remained the tallest building in New York until the new One World Trade Center reached a greater height in April 2012. [ 310 ] [ 330 ] [ 331 ] As of 2022 [update] , it is the seventh-tallest building in New York City and the tenth-tallest in the United States . [ 358 ]