Energy Centre, Commercial skyscraper in New Orleans Central Business District, United States.
The Energy Centre is a commercial office tower in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, recognized by its parallelogram-shaped footprint and the rows of tiered bay windows that run up its facade. These windows stack in a repeating pattern from the lower floors all the way to the top, giving the building a layered, angular appearance.
The Energy Centre was completed in 1984, during a period when New Orleans was seeing strong investment in its downtown core. It was part of a broader wave of commercial construction that reshaped the Central Business District over the course of that decade.
The Energy Centre sits in the Central Business District of New Orleans, a neighborhood shaped by rapid commercial growth in the 1980s. Walking along the surrounding streets, you pass a mix of towers from that same era, which together give this part of the city its particular look today.
The building sits in the heart of the Central Business District and is easy to reach on foot from most parts of downtown New Orleans. The facade is best seen from the sidewalks and street corners nearby, where you can step back far enough to take in the full height.
The uppermost windows of the building do not open into office space but conceal a large mechanical system hidden behind the facade. From street level they look identical to the windows below, so most people walking past never notice the difference.
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