Fountain Place (originally Allied Bank Tower)

Dallas

An eventful garden is the heart of Fountain Place, giving the complex both its name and unique identity as an office development that transcends the bounds of the workplace.

  • Headquarters & Office
  • Tall Buildings
  • Urban Districts & Public Spaces

The 60-story office tower, with its surrounding water garden, is part of a mixed-use development on the edge of Dallas’s central business district. The design takes the form of a glazed prism informed by a rigorous and precise geometrical procedure employing the diagonal of a double square in both plan and section. At the tower’s base, half the building volume is carved away up to a height of sixty feet, allowing the water garden, with its forest of bald cypress trees, to flow through beneath. The result is an iconic profile on the skyline and inviting public presence at street level.

Stats

  • Site

    5.5 acres, a full city block, on the northern edge of the Dallas central business district

  • Components

    1,880,000 ft2 / 175,000 m2 gross area; offices, lobby, executive penthouse, boardroom, dining, water gardens, underground parking

  • Client

    Criswell Development Company Ltd., Dallas

  • PCF Services

    Master planning, architecture, exterior envelope, interior design of public spaces

  • Sustainability

    LEED Silver

The project was originally designed as a pair of towers.

Occupying a site that was once at the fringes of the city, Fountain Place has served as an anchor for the area’s ongoing revitalization, winning wide recognition for the successful achievement of civic goals within a private development.

Tower plans
Tower section

Extending into the arcade, the water garden occupies most of the plaza, offering a cooling respite from the Texas heat.

Awards

  • National Honor Award
    American Institute of Architects, 1990
  • 25 Year Award
    Texas Society of Architects, 2011
  • 25 Year Award
    American Institute of Architects, Dallas Chapter, 2011
  • Landmark Award
    The Dallas Architecture Forum, 2023
  • Dallas Urban Design Award
    The City of Dallas, 1990

Project Credits

  • Associate Architect

    Architectural Consulting Services Inc., Dallas

  • Landscape

    Office of Dan Kiley, Charlotte, VT

  • Structural

    CBM Engineers, Houston

  • Mechanical

    Cosentini Associates, New York

  • Images

    PCF Architects, Richard Payne, Norman McGrath, Wes Thompson Photography, Thomas Hoepker/Magnum

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