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TexasTowelie

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Sat Mar 25, 2017, 02:41 AM Mar 2017

Round skyscraper by famed architect would remake Dallas' skyline

Dallas' skyline could be in for big changes, thanks to one of the world's top architects.

Sir Norman Foster, the legendary British architect whose firm has designed some of the world's most compelling skyscrapers, is working on a tower for downtown Dallas.

Developer H. Ross Perot Jr.'s Hillwood real estate firm has hired London-based Foster + Partners to create concept plans for an almost 70-story tower on the northern edge of downtown.

The soaring glass-and-steel high-rise would be across Woodall Rodgers Freeway from the Perot Museum of Nature and Science.

Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2017/03/24/round-skyscraper-famed-architect-remake-dallas-skyline

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