Chase Tower Dome with Fountain Place and Cathedral Santuario de Guadalupe

CHASE TOWER DOME Chase Tower was designed by world-renowned Richard Keating, one of the greatest architects of our time, while at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Completed in 1987, the building quickly became and remains Dallas' signature skyline building. The skyscraper was designed by SOM and is 738 feet tall with 55 stories, making it the 4th tallest building in Dallas. The underused domed building sitting in front of the high-rise has been converted to a fitness center. Two floors inside the rotunda have been used for exercise equipment, and a lower level houses locker and shower areas and another large workout room. FOUNTAIN PLACE Fountain Place is a 60-story late-modernist skyscraper in downtown. Standing at a structural height of 720 ft., it is the fifth-tallest in Dallas, and the 15th-tallest in Texas. Original plans for the project called for twin towers, with the second tower rotated 90 degrees from the original, to be built on an adjacent block, but with the collapse of the Texas oil, banking and real estate industry and the savings and loan scandal of in the 1980s, the project was never completed. The building was designed by the award winning architects I.M. Pei and Partners and was completed in 1986. The landscape and namesake fountains were designed by Dan Kiley. The building is known for its unique architecture—it was designed as a large, multi-faceted prism. Its various slanted sides cause the building to have a completely different profile from all directions. The building gets its name from the array of 172 dancing fountains in the plaza at its base. CATHEDRAL SANTUARIO DE GUADALUPE The Cathedral Santuario de Guadalupe (Cathedral Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe) is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas, Texas. The structure dates from the late 19th century and is located in the Arts District of downtown. The church oversees the second largest Catholic church membership in the United States. Its average Sunday attendance is 11,200. On October 26, 1902, the Cathedral was formally dedicated as the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart by Bishop Edward Dunne. Although the booklet from the 1902 dedication credited Bishop Dunne as the Cathedral's designer, the 1989 discovery of original drawings in a Galveston library showed Nicholas J. Clayton to be the architect. Clayton is regarded as the premier architect of 19th century Texas.

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