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Identification Name Fountain Place Alternative name First Interstate Tower, Allied Bank Tower Emporis Building ID 118408
Location
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Map and Surrounding Area
Technical Data Height (tip) * Height (architectural) 219.46 m Height (roof) * Floors (above ground) 62 Construction start * Construction end * Gross floor area * Elevators * Parking places *
Structure in General Construction type skyscraper Current status  existing [completed] Structural material steel Facade material glass Facade system curtain wall Architectural style modernism Official website
Usages Main usages  commercial office Side usages  parking  restaurant  shop(s)
Features and Amenities
One of the city's famous buildings
Facts
Half of the building site is set aside as a two-acre downtown water garden and fountain plaza, a wet and very shady destination for pedestrians in a city of automobiles. |
A twin tower named  Two Fountain Place was planned across the street during the 1980s real estate boom. It would have been offset 90° from this tower. |
Architect Henry Cobb of I.M. Pei & Partners summarized his design for this building as "geometry pursued with rigor". Based on the diagonal of a double square, it is a subtractive form, "what's left after carving into a square prism.". |
The elevators go to the 62nd floor; a stairway leads up to a 63rd floor for mechanical equipment and storage. |
The architects were recognized with an Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects in 1990. |
The plaza has 172 bubbler fountains, 225 Texas cypress trees, waterfalls, and a central court fountain with 360 computer-driven jets. |
Fountain Place is located at the end of the northwest branch of the downtown tunnel system, and connects directly to the Fairmont Hotel to the east. |
Fountain Place is the world's tallest building to be glazed with four-sided structural silicone. |
Companies involved in this building
architect:
Architectural Consulting Services, Inc.
Other companies:
Bracewell & Giuliani, LLP, Crescent Real Estate Equities Company, Fujitec America, Inc., Delta Controls, Inc., MJS Realty inc., Crescent Real Estate Equities Company, Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr PC, CBM Engineers, Cosentini Associates, Daniel Urban Kiley, Jenkens & Gilchrist PC, Flour City International, Inc., Criswell Development Company, Northstar Fire Protection, WET Enterprises, Criswell Development Company, HCB Contractors, Flour City International, Inc., Flour City International, Inc., Tractel Ltd. South Central |
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