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Heritage Plaza Heritage Plaza is a postmodern skyscraper located in the Skyline District of downtown Houston, Texas. Standing at , the tower is the 5th-tallest building in Houston, the 8th-tallest in Texas, and the 60th-tallest in the United States. The bu ...

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Enterprise Plaza Enterprise Plaza (also known as 1100 Louisiana) is a 55-story, skyscraper at 1100 Louisiana Street in downtown Houston, Texas The headquarters of Enterprise Products is located in the Enterprise Plaza. Enterprise Plaza was completed in 1980 by ...

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CenterPoint Energy Plaza Centerpoint (alternatively spelled centrepoint) may refer to: * Centerpoint (geometry), a generalization of the median to two or more dimensions Organizations * CenterPoint Energy, an electric and natural gas utility in the U.S.A. * CenterPoint ...

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1400 Smith Street __NOTOC__ 1400 Smith Street (formerly Enron Complex) is a tall skyscraper located in Downtown Houston, downtown Houston, Texas, United States. The building has 50 floors and is the List of tallest buildings in Houston, 11th tallest building in th ...

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in Texas, is the site of 97 completed skyscrapers over , 50 of which stand taller than . The tallest building in the city is the JPMorgan Chase Tower, which rises in Downtown Houston and was completed in 1982. It also stands as the tallest building in Texas and the 29th-tallest building in the United States. The second-tallest skyscraper in the city is the Wells Fargo Plaza, which rises and was completed in 1983. The Williams Tower, completed in 1982 and rising , is the third-tallest building in Houston. Seven of the ten tallest buildings in Texas are located in Houston. The history of skyscrapers in the city began with the construction of the original Binz Building in 1895. This building, rising 6 floors, is often regarded as the first skyscraper in Houston; it was demolished in 1951 to allow for the construction of a more modern building of the same name, which was in turn replaced by another, 14-floor-tall high-rise that also kept the original name. Houston's first building standing more than was the El Paso Energy Building, completed in 1962. After the Texas real estate collapse in late 1980s, the city saw no new major office buildings until 2002, when

1500 Louisiana Street 1500 Louisiana Street, formerly Enron Center South, is a 600 ft (183m) tall skyscraper in Houston, Texas. It was completed in 2002 and has 40 floors and a total building area of 1,284,013sq.ft. It is the 17th tallest building in the city and ...

was completed. There are four buildings under construction that are planned to rise at least . Overall, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat ranks Houston's skyline (based on existing and under construction buildings over tall) 2nd in the Southern United States (after Miami) and 4th in the United States. __TOC__

Tallest buildings

, there are 52 high-rises in Houston that stand at least tall, based on standard height measurement. This height includes spires and architectural details but does not include antenna

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Tallest under construction

, there are 8 buildings under construction in Houston that are planned to rise at least .

Timeline of tallest buildings

Since 1895, the year the first high-rise in the city was constructed, the title of the tallest building in Houston has been held by eleven high-rises.

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