Wells Fargo Bank Plaza

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Wells Fargo Bank Plaza
Information
Status	Complete
Constructed	1983
Opening	1983
Roof	992 feet (302 m)
Floor count	71
Companies
Architect	Richard Keating of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, also Lloyd Jones Brewer & Associates

The Wells Fargo Bank Plaza, formerly the Allied Bank Plaza and First Interstate Bank Plaza, is located at 1000 Louisiana Street in downtown Houston, Texas (USA).

This building is the 11th Tallest Building in the United States, and the second tallest building in Texas and Houston, after Houston's JPMorgan Chase Tower.

It was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Lloyd Jones Brewer and Associates and supposedly resembles an abstracted dollar sign in plan. The shape creates extreme wind stress, twisting the building violently in storms. In 1983 the building lost a large number of windows during Hurricane Alicia.

From street level, the building is 71 stories tall, or 992 feet (302 m) tall. It extends four more stories below street level, with a subterranean (but open-air) plaza.^[1]

[edit] See also

• Tallest buildings in Texas
• Tallest buildings in the United States

[edit] References

[edit] External link

• http://houstonarchitecture.info/Building/2239/Wells_Fargo_Bank_Plaza.php

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