Burnett Plaza
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Burnett Plaza is a building located in Fort Worth, Texas
. At 567 feet (173 meters), it is the tallest building in Fort Worth, and the tallest building in Texas outside Houston, Dallas and Austin, as well as being the tallest building between Dallas and Los Angeles.
The building has 40 floors. It was completed in 1983. Its addresses are Cherry Street, West 10th Street, and West 7th Street. It stands on the former site of the Medical Arts Building, which was demolished to make way for this building. A cluster of elevator shafts is exposed on the west facade, each shaft stopping at a different height. The building stands at the western end of a block-size plaza with extensive landscaping arranged in a dense pattern criss-crossed by diagonals.
The north side of the plaza features the 50-foot "Man With a Briefcase" sculpture by Jonathan Borofsky, an aluminum slab with the outline of a giant businessman cut out of the center. The building is also Fort Worth's largest office tower.
In March 1997 Haynes and Boone
moved its headquarters and 1,000 employees out of Burnett Plaza.
Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...
. At 567 feet (173 meters), it is the tallest building in Fort Worth, and the tallest building in Texas outside Houston, Dallas and Austin, as well as being the tallest building between Dallas and Los Angeles.
The building has 40 floors. It was completed in 1983. Its addresses are Cherry Street, West 10th Street, and West 7th Street. It stands on the former site of the Medical Arts Building, which was demolished to make way for this building. A cluster of elevator shafts is exposed on the west facade, each shaft stopping at a different height. The building stands at the western end of a block-size plaza with extensive landscaping arranged in a dense pattern criss-crossed by diagonals.
The north side of the plaza features the 50-foot "Man With a Briefcase" sculpture by Jonathan Borofsky, an aluminum slab with the outline of a giant businessman cut out of the center. The building is also Fort Worth's largest office tower.
In March 1997 Haynes and Boone
Haynes and Boone
Haynes and Boone, LLP is an international corporate law firm with offices in Texas, New York, California, Washington, D.C., Mexico City and Moscow. Haynes and Boone is ranked the 76th largest law firm in the nation by the National Law Journal...
moved its headquarters and 1,000 employees out of Burnett Plaza.