Williams Tower
The Williams Tower is a 64-story, 1.4 million square feet class A postmodern office tower located in the Uptown District of Houston, Texas. The building was designed by New York–based John Burgee Architects with Philip Johnson in association with Houston-based Morris-Aubry Architects.- Type: Building
- Description: skyscraper in Houston, Texas
- Also known as: “Transco Tower”
- Address: Houston, TX
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include The Galleria and Berachah Church.
The Galleria
Shopping center
Photo: زرشک, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Galleria is an upscale mixed-use urban development and shopping mall located in the Uptown District of Houston, Texas, United States. The development consists of a retail complex, the Galleria Office Towers complex, two Westin hotels, and a private health club. The Galleria is situated 800 feet west of Williams Tower.
Berachah Church
Church
Berachah Church is a Bible church founded in 1935 in Houston, Texas. It is part of the Christian Evangelistic Mission. Berachah Church is situated 1,500 feet west of Williams Tower.
Mandarin Immersion Magnet School
School
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Mandarin Immersion Magnet School, formerly Mandarin Chinese Language Immersion Magnet School, is a magnet school in Houston, Texas, United States. It was established in 2012 and is part of the Houston Independent School District. Mandarin Immersion Magnet School is situated 3,400 feet west of Williams Tower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Uptown Houston and Highland Village.
Uptown Houston
Photo: Agsftw, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Uptown is in Houston, though nobody in Houston has used that term since about 1970 - it's generally referred to as "The Galleria", or to motorists at I-610 and U.S. 59 as the highway to avoid.
Highland Village
Neighborhood
Highland Village is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas, United States. Highland Village is located inside the 610 Loop in the triangle formed by Greenway Plaza, Uptown, and River Oaks.
Tanglewood
Neighborhood
Tanglewood is an affluent neighborhood in western Houston, Texas, located off San Felipe Road. Tanglewood is located just outside the 610 Loop and inside Beltway 8 in the Uptown Houston area. Tanglewood is situated 2 miles northwest of Williams Tower.
Williams Tower
- Category: skyscraper
- Location: Harris County, Texas, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.73727° or 29° 44′ 14″ northLongitude
-95.46143° or 95° 27′ 41″ westLevels
64Height
902 feet (275 metres)Open location code
76X6PGPQ+WCOpenStreetMap ID
way 48486714OpenStreetMap feature
building=towerWikidata ID
Q1357650
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Vietnamese—“Williams Tower” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Williams Tower”
- Basque: “Williams Tower”
- Bengali: “উইলিয়ামস টাওয়ার”
- Chinese: “威廉斯大廈”
- Czech: “Williams Tower”
- Dutch: “Williams Tower”
- Egyptian Arabic: “برج ويليامز”
- Finnish: “Williams Tower”
- French: “Williams Tower”
- German: “Williams Tower”
- Italian: “Williams Tower”
- Japanese: “ウイリアムズ・タワー”
- Japanese: “ウィリアムズタワー”
- Nepali: “विलियम्स टावर”
- Persian: “برج ویلیامز”
- Polish: “Williams Tower”
- Portuguese: “Williams Tower”
- Russian: “Williams Tower”
- Russian: “Уильямс-Тауэр”
- Sindhi: “وليمس ٽاور”
- Slovak: “Williams Tower”
- Spanish: “Williams Tower”
- Turkish: “Williams Tower”
- Ukrainian: “Вільямс Тауер”
- Ukrainian: “Вільямс-тауер”
- Vietnamese: “Williams Tower”
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