Burnett Plaza, Brutalist skyscraper in Fort Worth, United States
Burnett Plaza is a 40-storey, 567-foot (173 m) office tower at 801 Cherry Street in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, designed by Preston M. Geren & Associates with Sikes, Jennings & Kelly in a postmodern style of the early 1980s. It occupies a full city block, with the office building on the west side and Burnett Park, a paved, planted space, on the rest. Slightly recessed elevator shafts break the window rows of the west facade, each at a different height and serving a different number of floors.
The tower was completed in 1983, replacing the Medical Arts Building, an 18-story structure that previously stood on the same site. Its construction was part of a broader effort to redevelop downtown Fort Worth during the 1980s.
The 50-foot (15-metre) aluminium sculpture Man With a Briefcase by American artist Jonathan Borofsky stands in Burnett Park, the paved, planted space that fills the rest of the block beside the tower. The building is the headquarters of the Burnett Oil Company.
The tower is easy to spot from anywhere in downtown Fort Worth and can be reached on foot from most nearby streets. Entrances at street level give access to the building, and elevators connect all floors including the basement.
TV stations KDFW-TV and WFAA-TV have cameras mounted on the roof that capture live footage of Fort Worth for daily news broadcasts. This makes the tower a largely invisible but regular part of how local viewers see their city on screen.
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