Hess Tower is a 29-story building located adjacent to
Discovery Green park in
downtown
''Downtown'' is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's sometimes commercial, cultural and often the historical, political and geographic heart. It is often synonymous with its central business distric ...
Houston,
Texas.
It was formerly called Discovery Tower until
Hess Corporation leased the entire tower in January 2009.
The global architectural firm
Gensler designed the building.
The building was a project of Trammell Crow Company, a
real estate development and investment firm.
The building was originally designed to house a number of wind turbines, but the turbines were removed in December 2010.
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Skyscraper office buildings in Houston
Office buildings completed in 2010
Buildings and structures in Houston
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