DALLAS | Museum Tower | 560 FT/171 M | 42 FLOORS

DFW · #1 Posted **Jun 15, 2007, 4:26 AM**

Here is the design for Museum Tower 42-stories!!!!!

http://www.museumtowerdallas.com/#

TexasBoi · #2 Posted **Jun 15, 2007, 4:28 AM**

Simply wow. How tall will that be?

DFW · #3 Posted **Jun 15, 2007, 4:35 AM**

Looks to me more like a 50-story tower than a 42-story about 685-ft to 690, it kinda looks taller than nearby Trammell Crow Center which is 50-stories 686-ft.

Zerton · #4 Posted **Jun 15, 2007, 4:37 AM**

wow. very very very very nice. who's the architect? Johnson? Never heard of him but he clearly has talent.

KevinFromTexas · #5 Posted **Jun 15, 2007, 4:39 AM**

Wow. Looks to be almost 700 feet tall. That's awesome.

By the way, number of floors doesn't have much to do with height. It's 42 floors and looks to be about the same height or even slightly taller than The Austonian in Austin which will have 55 floors.

mthd · #6 Posted **Jun 15, 2007, 4:47 AM**

nice! very nice!

it's unlikely that a 42 story residential building would be much over 500 feet tall - they specifically mention 'more than 10 feet' for exterior glazing, but even at 11 foot floor to floor (unusually high) it would be 500 feet plus another 20 or 30 for a tall lobby, mechanical at top, etc.

whatever height it is, it's a beautiful building.

LMich · #7 Posted **Jun 15, 2007, 4:48 AM**

Very nice! I especially like the base.

Out of curiosity, it says 'right in the heart of the Arts District', but from the photo it looks like a rather empty part of the central city. What lies on the site, currently, and what exactly surrounds it? It looks so lonely, but that should really accentuate the height of the tower and turn it into a landmark.

KevinFromTexas · #8 Posted **Jun 15, 2007, 5:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by mthd

nice! very nice!

it's unlikely that a 42 story residential building would be much over 500 feet tall - they specifically mention 'more than 10 feet' for exterior glazing, but even at 11 foot floor to floor (unusually high) it would be 500 feet plus another 20 or 30 for a tall lobby, mechanical at top, etc.

whatever height it is, it's a beautiful building.

Actually, residential buildings with as few as 42 floors could reach that height. While actual heights usually are close to the floor number with residential buildings, it's not always the case. As mentioned above Austin is in the running for a 55-story residential tower that will be 683 feet tall according to the vice president of the development company.

http://theaustonian.com/

Anyway, back to this Dallas tower. I'm excited about it. With this tower and the Mandarin Oriental Dallas & Residences, (650 feet and 43 floors), these two will make an impact on the skyline. Especially since both aren't buried in the center of the skyline.

KevinFromTexas · #9 Posted **Jun 15, 2007, 5:12 AM**

By the way, what streets surround this new tower? There's a 20-story Museum Tower listed for Dallas at Emporis. Here's the location of that building, which is listed as proposed: Block bounded by North Olive & North Pearl Streets, from Flora Street to the Woodall Rogers Expressway

Are these the same building, or different? I'd like to update it if need be. Currently, there's no listing for a 42-story Museum Tower in Dallas. This beauty should be listed.

http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=...-dallas-tx-usa

atl2phx · #10 Posted **Jun 15, 2007, 5:30 AM**

dallas scores a hot one!

TexasBoi · #11 Posted **Jun 15, 2007, 5:47 AM**

This is from Rob on DallasMetropolis.

DFW · #12 Posted **Jun 15, 2007, 5:52 AM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

By the way, what streets surround this new tower? There's a 20-story Museum Tower listed for Dallas at Emporis. Here's the location of that building, which is listed as proposed: Block bounded by North Olive & North Pearl Streets, from Flora Street to the Woodall Rogers Expressway

Are these the same building, or different? I'd like to update it if need be. Currently, there's no listing for a 42-story Museum Tower in Dallas. This beauty should be listed.

http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=...-dallas-tx-usa

Kevin yes it is, it was first proposed as a 20-story then it was redesigned.

Owlhorn · #13 Posted **Jun 15, 2007, 5:57 AM**

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Originally Posted by LMich

Very nice! I especially like the base.

Out of curiosity, it says 'right in the heart of the Arts District', but from the photo it looks like a rather empty part of the central city. What lies on the site, currently, and what exactly surrounds it? It looks so lonely, but that should really accentuate the height of the tower and turn it into a landmark.

It would be next door to the Nasher Sculpture Center and surrounded by various performing Arts and art museum type venues. A lot of the area to the east of it is under construction right now. A real booming area. 7-11 is building its headquarters tower there. And two World Class performing Arts are under construction two blocks from the tower as well. Dallas' famous Booker T. Washington High School of the Performing Arts is building a new campus here as well as the city building its own performing arts center as well. There are cranes all over this place. This is also where the Woodall Rogers deck park will go. This is also right across the freeway from the most booming area of Uptown. Now this area has the Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, Crowe Asian Arts Collection and Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center.

Several towers have been proposed and even started construction since this diagram. You can see the sight labelled as Museum Tower. This was the previous design which was about 20 stories tall.

here's a good thread showing the area as it is now:

http://forum.dallasmetropolis.com/showthread.php?t=6946

toddguy · #14 Posted **Jun 15, 2007, 2:19 PM**

Beautiful Tower. It looks good set apart abit from the rest.

Owlhorn · #15 Posted **Jun 15, 2007, 3:11 PM**

well, if we're lucky another one just as tall will go up a couple of blocks away.

plinko · #16 Posted **Jun 15, 2007, 3:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by Zerton

wow. very very very very nice. who's the architect? Johnson? Never heard of him but he clearly has talent.

Scott Johnson (if it's the same one) was the architect of Fox Plaza, SunAmerica, and the MGM Tower in Century City in LA. Mega-talent...

CTroyMathis · #17 Posted **Jun 15, 2007, 3:55 PM**

Yes, I agree plinko. He has serious talent.

For those who dig lots of eye-candy, http://greengrassstudios.com will have some further renderings of this building in the near future.

Supposedly ~560'.

Source: http://forum.dallasmetropolis.com/showthread.php?t=6955 + MT website:

Chad · #18 Posted **Jun 15, 2007, 4:46 PM**

Pure beauty....

Coldrsx · #19 Posted **Jun 15, 2007, 5:54 PM**

an intimate 1450sqft pied a terre....HAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHA you know you are in TEXAS WHEN.

SkyWatcher · #20 Posted **Jun 16, 2007, 12:21 AM**

I just posted about this tower thinking I hadn't seen a thread yet. Sorry I missed this one. The tower is 560 feet tall according to the article in the DMN this morning.

Very cool design. What's the other tall one a couple of blocks away we might get? I know about the 650 foot tower in Victory, but that's further away.