Fort Worth Highrises and Fort Worth Condos



Highrises in Fort Worth include:

			View from the southwest	Burnett Plaza	 11	 567 ft	 40	 skyscraper	 1983
		2	View from Main Street	D.R. Horton Tower [City Center Towers]	 4	 547 ft	 38	 skyscraper	 1984
		3	Looking up	Carter+Burgess Plaza	 3	 525 ft	 40	 skyscraper	 1983
		4	View from the southeast	The Tower	 15	 488 ft	 35	 skyscraper	 1974
		5	View from Commerce Street	Wells Fargo Tower [City Center Towers]	 1	 477 ft	 33	 skyscraper	 1982
		6	Distant view of the near complete structure from the northwest	Omni Fort Worth Hotel	 1	 447 ft	 33	 skyscraper	 2009
		7		Transmission Tower		 441 ft		 mast (wired)
		8	Looking up from Main Street	Landmark Tower [XTO Energy]	 2	 380 ft	 30	 skyscraper	 1957
		9	View from the northeast	Chesapeake Plaza	 10	 325 ft	 20	 high-rise building	 2004
		10		TXU North Main Power Plant Smoke Stack 2 [TXU North Main Power Plant]		 322 ft		 chimney	 1921
		11	Looking up	714 Main	 2	 307 ft	 24	 high-rise building	 1921
		12		Transmission Tower		 307 ft		 mast (framework)
		13	Looking up from West Seventh	Bank of America Center [500 West 7th]	 2	 300 ft	 21	 high-rise building	 1961
		14	View looking north from Lancaster Avenue	AT&T Building	 2	 295 ft	 17	 high-rise building	 1958
		15		KTCU-FM Tower		 289 ft		 mast (framework)	 1979
		16		Medical Arts Building		 280 ft	 19	 high-rise building	 1927
		17		Transmission Tower		 280 ft		 mast (framework)
		18		Transmission Tower		 274 ft		 mast (wired)
		19	Looking up from Main Street	Blackstone Hotel	 4	 268 ft	 20	 high-rise building	 1929
		20	View from Throckmorton Street	Commerce Building [Commerce/Oil and Gas]	 2	 260 ft	 19	 high-rise building	 1930


Fort Worth Highrises

Downtown Fort Worth is the central business district of Fort Worth, Texas, United States. Sundance Square - Fort Worth's downtown Sundance Square is a 35-block commercial, residential, entertainment and retail district for the city. Sundance Square features beautiful landscaping, red-bricked streets, turn-of-the-century buildings, entertainment venues, restaurants, shopping and more landscaping. Named after the famed Sundance Kid, this pedestrian-friendly downtown district has numerous things to see and do, such as: various dining options, nightclubs, boutiques, museums, live theaters, cineplex movie theaters and art galleries. The skyline of downtown Fort Worth features iconic towers such as the Wells Fargo Tower and the D.R. Horton Tower which are part of Sundance Square.

Sundance Square Plaza - 2 city blocks totaling 55,000 square feet of downtown Fort Worth turned pedestrian-friendly plaza featuring 36-foot tall Teflon umbrellas, the first of their kind in the United States. Water features, a permanent stage, surround sound audio capabilities and much more. Sundance Square Plaza is bookended by two office buildings known as The Westbrook and the Commerce Building. Businesses within the Sundance Square Plaza include: Bird Cafe, Del Frisco's Grille, Jamba Juice, Silver Leaf Cigar Bar, Starbucks and Taco Diner.

Fort Worth Water Gardens - A 4.3-acre (17,000 m2) contemporary park, designed by architect Philip Johnson, that features three unique pools of water offering a calming and cooling oasis for downtown patrons. The gardens were used in the finale of the 1976 sci-fi film Logan's Run. (In mid-2004 the Water Gardens had to be closed due to several drownings. It has reopened after preventive measures have been installed.) Fort Worth Convention Center - Includes an 11,200 seat multi-purpose arena. Bass Performance Hall - Bass Hall is the permanent home to the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Texas Ballet Theater, Fort Worth Opera, and the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and Cliburn Concerts.

Tarrant County Courthouse stands at the north end of Main Street. It has been remodeled over the years and the exterior was used frequently in Walker, Texas Ranger. The Hilton Fort Worth opened in 1921 and was the location of where John F. Kennedy last stayed before he was assassinated in Dallas. The Omni Fort Worth Hotel opened January 12, 2009 and was the first new downtown hotel construction in over 20 years. Its former estimated height was around 547 ft (167 m), but it has been down-sized by 100 feet (30 m).

 Fort Worth Highrises

The Tower, formerly the Bank One Tower, was severely damaged in the March 28, 2000 tornado. It was converted into a residential tower in 2004. Before the redevelopment, The Tower was covered in plywood and metal panels, and considered to be demolished. The Tower now has a new facade and a new top feature that makes it the fourth tallest building in the city.

City Center Development features two twin towers. One is the 38 story D.R. Horton Tower (1984), and the other is the 33 story Wells Fargo Tower (1982). From the top, they are shaped like pinwheels.

Fort Worth is home to the Kimbell Art Museum, considered to have one of the best collections in the world, and housed in what is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost works of modern architecture. Also of note are the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Amon Carter Museum, the latter of which houses one of the most extensive collections of American art in the world, in a building designed by Philip Johnson. The city is also home to Texas Christian University and Texas Wesleyan University and many multinational corporations including Bell Helicopter, Lockheed Martin, American Airlines, Radio Shack, and others.

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Fort Worth is the sixteenth most populous city in the United States of America and the fifth most populous city in the state of Texas.[8] Located in North Central Texas, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly 350 square miles (910 km2) in Tarrant, Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise counties, serving as the seat for Tarrant County. According to the 2010 Census, Fort Worth had a population of 741,206.[5][9][10] The city is the second most populous in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. The city was established in 1849 as an Army outpost on a bluff overlooking the Trinity River. Today Fort Worth still embraces its Western heritage and traditional architecture and design.[11][12] USS Fort Worth (LCS-3) is the first ship of the United States Navy named after the city.

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