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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 ...
Fortune 500 companies based in Houston [1]: Rank Company name 12: ExxonMobil: 48: Phillips 66: 60: Sysco: 105: Enterprise Products Partners: 106: Hewlett Packard Enterprise: 127: Plains GP Holdings
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.
The Williams Tower was the product of a unique era in Houston: energy companies were highly profitable entities and they sought impressive, monumental structures to broadcast their power. [ citation needed ] The Williams Waterwall is a multi-story sculptural fountain which sits at the south end of Williams Tower in Uptown.
Heritage Plaza is a postmodern skyscraper located in the Skyline District of downtown Houston, Texas. Standing at 762 feet (232 m), [1] the tower is the 5th-tallest building in Houston, the 8th-tallest in Texas, and the 60th-tallest in the United States. The building, designed by Houston-based M. Nasr & Partners P.C., was completed in 1987, and ...
The downtown skyline of Houston The tallest skyscrapers in Texas. This list of tallest buildings in Texas ranks skyscrapers in the U.S. state of Texas by height. The tallest structure in the state, excluding radio towers, is the JP Morgan Chase Tower, in Houston, which contains 75 floors and is 1,002 ft (305 m) tall.
The third-most profitable Trump business in Florida is the Trump International Golf Club, which is worth between $25 million and $50 million. It earns more than $12.6 million annually. Trump’s ...
In the late 1990s Uptown Houston saw construction of many mid- and high-rise residential buildings of the tallest being about 30 stories. [40] The tallest structure in Uptown Houston is the 901-foot (275 m) tall, Philip Johnson-designed, landmark Williams Tower (formerly "Transco Tower"), which was constructed in 1983. [41]