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An Apollonaut travel guide
The place behind the detail.
A 1970s tower, a lit sphere and a deck 470 feet up offer several ways into the story of Reunion Tower.
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A tower of the 1970s
Reunion Tower was built with the Hyatt Regency Dallas and completed in February 1978. Its designers, Welton Becket & Associates, set three circular floors on four concrete shafts, 561 feet tall in all.
The tower stands on the west side of downtown, about 1,000 feet from Dealey Plaza.
The sphere
The geodesic dome of aluminium struts that encloses the top floors is lit at each of its 259 intersections. LED fixtures replaced the original lights in 2011, so the sphere can change colour for shows and celebrations.
The observation level reopened as the GeO-Deck in 2013, and the restaurant level is now home to Crown Block.
A landmark of the skyline
Since 2015 the tower has been the focus of the city’s New Year’s Eve celebration, with light shows on the sphere.
This history belongs to the place and the people who shaped it. The History page offers a longer introduction, and the timeline gives a short route through selected milestones.
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