1600 Pacific Tower, Office skyscraper in downtown Dallas, US
1600 Pacific Tower is an office skyscraper in downtown Dallas, Texas, rising 33 floors to about 132 meters (433 feet) above street level. Its exterior is covered in dark glass panels divided by aluminum framing, giving the whole structure a uniform and angular appearance.
The building was completed in 1964 under the name National Bank of Commerce Building, at the time among the five tallest structures in Dallas. Over the following decades it changed names several times, reflecting the shifting ownership and economic cycles that shaped the city's downtown.
The tower takes its name directly from its street address, a common naming practice for office buildings in American downtowns. Visitors walking through central Dallas can spot it easily by its dark glass facade, which stands out against the lighter buildings nearby.
The tower stands next to Thanks-Giving Square and was for a time linked to the Dallas Pedestrian Network, an indoor walkway system. Two parking levels sit below the structure, and the ground floor once held a marble and granite pedestrian mall open around the clock between Elm Street and Pacific Avenue.
In the 1960s, the building ran a service called Teller-Vision that let customers complete banking transactions from their cars using closed-circuit television cameras. It was one of the earliest known uses of video technology for everyday banking, years before such systems became common.
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