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The Beacon on Chestnut (stylized as THE BEACON on Chestnut, formerly One SBC Center, One Bell Center, One AT&T Center, and 909 Chestnut) is a 44-story building in downtown St. Louis, Missouri at 909 Chestnut Street on the Gateway Mall. It is Missouri's largest building by area with 1,400,000 square feet (130,000 m 2). [5]
The history of skyscrapers in St. Louis began with the 1850s construction of Barnum's City Hotel, a six-story building designed by architect George I. Barnett. [3] Until the 1890s, no building in St. Louis rose over eight stories, but construction in the city rose during that decade owing to the development of elevators and the use of steel frames. [4]
The Southwestern Bell Building is a 28-story, 121.0 m (397.0 ft) skyscraper constructed to be the headquarters of Southwestern Bell Telephone in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. At the time of its construction it was Missouri's tallest building. The building, which was one of the first in St. Louis to use setbacks, has 17 individual roofs. [5]
St. Louis: 5 Thomas F. Eagleton United States Courthouse: 557 ft (170 m) 29 2000: St. Louis: 6 Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center: 504 ft (154 m) 45 1980: Kansas City: Tallest hotel in Missouri: 7 One US Bank Plaza: 484 ft (148 m) 36 1976: St. Louis: 8 Kansas City Power and Light Building: 481 ft (147 m) 34 1931: Kansas City: Converting ...
Some notable post-modern commercial skyscrapers were built downtown in the 1970s and 1980s, including the One US Bank Plaza (1976), the AT&T Center (1986), and One Metropolitan Square (1989), which is the tallest building in St. Louis.
ST. LOUIS — AT&T’s office in Earth City is relocating to downtown St. Louis According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the new location will be at 1010 Pine Street, next to the former AT&T ...
One Metropolitan Square, also known as Met Square, is an office skyscraper completed in 1989, located in downtown St. Louis, Missouri.At 180.7 m (593 ft), it is the tallest building in the city and second tallest building in Missouri.
It designed New York’s One World Trade Center, Chicago’s Willis Tower, formerly known as the Sears Tower, and the world’s tallest skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which is more than ...