Fountain Place is a late-modernist office skyscraper at 1445 Ross Avenue in downtown Dallas, Texas. Construction began in 1984 and finished in 1986, at a cost of about $300 million. It rises 720 feet to the roof and has about 1,200,000 square feet of space. It is the fifth-tallest building in Dallas.
The design is a large, multi-faceted prism with slanted sides, so its profile differs from each direction. The architects were Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, with Henry N. Cobb, Harry Weese Associates and WZMH Architects.
The plaza at the base has 172 dancing fountains with a fully automated water show. Dan Kiley and Peter Ker Walker were the landscape architects. It was the first fountain to use the water company WET's patented open-jointed paving, with jets rising through openings in the plaza surface.
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