Energy Plaza is a skyscraper

Skyscraper

A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building of many stories, often designed for office and commercial use. There is no official definition or height above which a building may be classified as a skyscraper...

 in the City Center District

City Center District, Dallas

The City Center District is an area in north-central downtown Dallas, Texas . It lies south of the Arts District, north of the Main Street District, northwest of Deep Ellum, southwest of Bryan Place and east of the West End Historic District. The district contains a large concentration of downtown...

 of downtown Dallas

Downtown Dallas

Downtown Dallas is the Central Business District in Dallas, Texas USA, located in the geographic center of the city. The area termed "Downtown" has traditionally been defined as bounded by the downtown freeway loop: bounded on the east by I-345 Downtown Dallas is the Central Business District...

, Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

, north of Thanks-Giving Square

Thanks-Giving Square

Thanks-Giving Square is a public-private complex in the City Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas . Originally planned as the first of several traffic-relieving complexes in downtown Dallas, it was dedicated in 1976; at the time it was the first public-private partnership of its kind in Dallas...

 at 1601 Bryan Street. Designed by I.M. Pei and Partners, the building is 192 m (629.9 ft) and 49 stories, making it the ninth tallest building in Dallas.

The building itself is based on a design using three triangles. The communications tower at the top of the building is modeled after the Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower is a puddle iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. Built in 1889, it has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world...

, Paris

Paris

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, which is actually a small version of the Star Tower

Star Tower

Star Tower is a digital television and FM radio transmitting tower on Winton Road in the College Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. The three-legged lattice tower stands high. It was built for WSTR-TV, known as "Star64"...

 broadcast tower line from Landmark Tower.

Construction on the building began in May 1980 and the building opened in August 1983 for the Atlantic Richfield Company

ARCO

Atlantic Richfield Company is an oil company with operations in the United States as well as in Indonesia, the North Sea, and the South China Sea. It has more than 1,300 gas stations in the western part of the United States. ARCO was originally formed by the merger of East Coast-based Atlantic...

 to be used as their regional headquarters. The structure's original name was the ARCO Tower. Oncor Electric Delivery

Oncor Electric Delivery

Oncor Electric Delivery is Texas's largest regulated electric delivery business and the sixth largest in the U.S. It supplies electricity to approximately 7.5 million consumers in a service area of over 400 communities in east, west and north-central Texas, including Dallas, Fort Worth, Midland,...

, FuelcoLLC.com, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

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 (FDIC), are the primary tenants. The building is connected to the Dallas Pedestrian Network

Dallas Pedestrian Network

The Dallas Pedestrian Network is a system of grade-separated walkways covering thirty-six city blocks of downtown Dallas, Texas, USA. The system connects buildings, garages and parks through underground tunnels and above-ground skybridges...

 and the Bullington Truck Terminal.

External links

• Dallas Skyscrapers: Energy Plaza