Hess Tower

{{Short description|Office skyscraper in downtown Houston Texas}}

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox building

| name = Hess Tower

| image = HessTowerinHouston.jpg

| image_size = 200px

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| location = 1501 McKinney St, Houston, Texas

| coordinates = {{coord|29.7544|-95.3602|region:US-TX|display=inline,title}}

| start_date = March 2008

| completion_date =

| opening =

| building_type = Office

| antenna_spire =

| roof =

| top_floor =

| floor_count = 29

| floor_area = {{convert|844763|ft2|abbr=on}}{{cite web | url=https://www.hr-reit.com/project/hess-tower/ | title=Hess Tower | H&R Reit | access-date=2022-12-10 | archive-date=2022-12-10 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221210143632/https://www.hr-reit.com/project/hess-tower/ | url-status=live }}

| architect = Gensler {{cite news|newspaper=Houston Business Journal|title=Marshall Strabala Gives New Meaning to Supertall|access-date=June 9, 2011|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2010/09/27/newscolumn2.html|archive-date=January 27, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110127053913/http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2010/09/27/newscolumn2.html|url-status=live}}

| owner = H&R REIT

| developer = Trammell Crow

| main_contractor = Gilbane Building Company

}}

Hess Tower is a 29-story building located adjacent to Discovery Green park in downtown Houston, Texas.{{cite news|work=Houston Chronicle| url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/realestate/6219953.html | author=Sarnoff, Nancy | title=Hess will lease entire downtown tower|date=January 19, 2009| access-date=2011-06-08}} 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.{{cite news|work=Houston Business Journal|date=October 20, 2008|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2008/10/20/story1.html?b=1224475200%5E1717803|title=Hess Explores Discovery Tower|author=Dawson, Jennifer|access-date=2011-06-08|archive-date=2011-11-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111107171519/http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2008/10/20/story1.html?b=1224475200%5E1717803|url-status=live}}

The building was originally designed to house a number of wind turbines, but the turbines were removed in December 2010.{{cite web|url=http://swamplot.com/pieces-of-wind-turbine-fall-onto-street-from-top-of-hess-tower-downtown-blades-on-lockdown/2011-01-13/|title=Pieces of Wind Turbine Fall Onto Street from Top of Hess Tower Downtown; Blades on "Lockdown" - Swamplot|date=13 January 2011|access-date=2012-01-17|archive-date=2011-12-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111205120608/http://swamplot.com/pieces-of-wind-turbine-fall-onto-street-from-top-of-hess-tower-downtown-blades-on-lockdown/2011-01-13/|url-status=live}}