Why Reunion
The tower takes its name from the Reunion district, named after La Réunion, a colony in the Dallas area. Developers chose the name over an earlier proposal, Esplanade.
Shafts and a sphere
Welton Becket & Associates designed the tower with three circular floors on top of four concrete shafts. The top floors sit inside a geodesic dome of aluminium struts, lit at each of its 259 intersections.
A tower that changes
The tower opened in 1978 beside the Hyatt Regency Dallas and was joined to the hotel complex in 1998. The observation deck reopened as the GeO-Deck in 2013, and since 2015 the tower has been the focus of the city’s New Year’s Eve celebration.



