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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 tallest building in the city is the 40-story Burnett Plaza, which rises 567 feet (173 m) in Downtown Fort Worth and was completed in 1983. [2] The second-tallest skyscraper in the city is the Bank of America Tower (known until 2017 as the D.R. Horton Tower), which rises 547 feet (167 m).
Waterline is a supertall skyscraper under construction in Austin, Texas, United States. Planned to be 1,021 feet (311.2 meters) tall, it will be a mixed-use building with residential, office, and hotel space. [2] Upon completion in 2026, it is expected to become the tallest building in Austin and the tallest building in Texas.
The eight-story Scarbrough Building and the nine-story Littlefield Building, built between 1910 and 1912, were Austin's first high-rise buildings; the Littlefield Building was the tallest commercial building in the U.S. west of New Orleans and east of San Francisco upon its completion. [9]
[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 ...
The tubular systems are fundamental to tall building design. Most buildings over 40-stories constructed since the 1960s now use a tube design derived from Khan's structural engineering principles, [ 2 ] [ 8 ] examples including the construction of the World Trade Center, Aon Center , Petronas Towers , Jin Mao Building , and most other supertall ...
Texas is also home to some of the tallest skyscrapers in the United States. The Houston skyline has been ranked fourth-most impressive in the United States when ranked by breadth and height, [ 3 ] being the country's third-tallest skyline and one of the top 10 in the world; [ 4 ] [ 5 ] however, because it is spread over a few miles, most ...
302 ft (92 m) 21 1971 Was the tallest building in El Paso for approximately 50 years, originally the State National Bank Plaza. [7] Tallest building constructed in El Paso in the 1970s. [1] Previously known as the Norwest Plaza prior to the merger of Norwest Corporation and Wells Fargo. 3 One San Jacinto Plaza: 280 ft (85 m) 20 1962