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First City Tower

Houston, Italy

First City Tower

1001 Fannin (Formerly known as First City Tower), located at 1001 Fannin, is a skyscraper in downtown Houston, Texas. The building rises 662 feet (202 m) in height. Completed in 1981, it contains 49 floors. First City Tower currently stands as the 14th-tallest building in the city. The architectural

firm who designed the building was Morris-Aubry, and was built by W. S. Bellows Construction Corporation. The structure is an example of late-modernist architecture. The tower, which formerly housed the headquarters of the now-defunct First City National Bank, former global headquarters of Waste Management, Inc, and the previous headquarters of Vinson & Elkins. Currently, it serves as the global headquarters for its primary tenant, Chord Energy. It also houses the U.S. headquarters of Campus Living Villages. The building, with Class A office space, has 1,278,867 square feet (118,810.6 m2) of office space. The building is noted for its distinctive "notches" on the north and south facades, and is composed mostly of aluminum and green-tinted glass. These designs were designed to represent the letter "F" for the building's developer and first major tenant, First City Bank, which was itself...

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