Your position: World / North America / U.S.A. / Minneapolis MN / Wells Fargo Center
Minneapolis (start page)
Minneapolis

Wells Fargo Center
 

[Enlarge] [Purchase]
View to the west along 7th Street, rising above the Park Building beyond Thrivent Financial - 2004-6-20 (275584)
(c) James Peacock
 
[Enlarge] [Purchase]
View to the northwest from the 800 block of 3rd Avenue South - 2004-6-20 (462853)
(c) James Peacock
 
[Enlarge] [Purchase]
Full view from Foshay Tower - 2004-6-20 (493303)
(c) Paul Toczynski
 
[Enlarge] [Purchase]
The romance of Art Deco lights up the sky - 2004-6-20 (314418)
(c) Rick Bronson
 
[Enlarge] [Purchase]
View to the north along Marquette Avenue from 13th Street South, framed by the IDS and AT&T Towers - 2004-6-20 (309615)
(c) James Peacock
 
Photo Compilation
Click here to see more files.
   You are using Emporis.com and all data marked with * and additional tools are accessible through content/tools offered by Emporis.

With Emporis Research you get a lot more content. Click here for more details.

 
Do you have an update for the content on this page?
[Write to Emporis.com] [How to enter information]

Identification
Official name Wells Fargo Center
Alternative names *
Emporis Building Number 122729
 
Location
Address *
Bordering street #1 6th Street South
Bordering street #2 7th Street South
Bordering street #3 Marquette Avenue
Postcode *
Exact Latitude *
Exact Longitude *
Location Map (POI) *
Neighborhood Downtown West
Community Central
City Minneapolis
State Minnesota
Country U.S.A.
 
Technical Data
Height (struct.) 236 m 775 ft
Height (roof) *
Height (main roof) *
Length (max) *
Width (max) *
Floors (OG) 56
Construction end 1989
UFA *
Height Floor-to-floor *
Elevators *
Escalators *
 
Building in General
Type of construction skyscraper
Architectural style *
Status completed

Facts
- Wells Fargo Center (originally Norwest Tower) was commissioned by Norwest Bank after one of the worst high-rise fires in US history destroyed the Northwestern National Bank Building on Thanksgiving Day 1982.
- The second design presented by Cesar Pelli is the one that was built. The first design presented looked very similar to the Pelli-designed Key Tower which was built 3 years later in Cleveland.
- The building's facade is of Kasota Stone, a buff-colored limestone quarried southwest of the Twin Cities in the Minnesota River Valley.
- This is the tallest building completed in Minneapolis during the 1980s.
- In addition to connecting to City Center through the south block of the Gaviidae Common shopping center, the building is connected to Northstar West by a skyway bridging Marquette Avenue.
- The building's architecture takes cues from art-deco design, as seen in the nearby Foshay Tower, Rand Tower, and Qwest Building.
- The upper setbacks are illuminated at night and can easily be seen for miles.
- The building received the Urban Land Institute's Award for Excellence in Large Scale Office Development in 1989.
- The 6th Street entrance is a 4-story extension of the main tower, and is topped by a large glass rotunda.
- Until completion of the Minneapolis Central Library in 2006, this was the only building designed by Cesar Pelli in Minneapolis.
- The pedestrian bridge over Marquette Avenue was designed by Iranian-born artist Siah Armajani. He also designed a bridge connecting Loring Park with the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden next to the Walker Art Center.

Companies involved in this Building*
Architect: Cesar Pelli & Associates Architects , Kendall/Heaton Associates Inc.

Other companies: Hines Interests LP, Hines Interests LP, Hines Interests LP, M.A. Mortenson Company, Schal Associates, Inc. [Bovis Lend Lease LMB Inc.], Sowles Company, CBM Engineers, Schal Associates, Inc. [Bovis Lend Lease LMB Inc.], I.A. Naman + Associates, Inc., BRW Inc. [URS Corporation], Hunt Electric Corporation, Olympic Wall Systems, Metropolitan Mechanical Contractors, Inc., Hayes Contractors Inc., Curran V. Nielsen Company, Inc., Hines Interests LP, Metropolitan Mechanical Contractors, Inc., Northstar Fire Protection, AVR, Inc., Vetter Stone Company, LeJeune Steel Company, KPMG, Wells Fargo Bank.