WELLS FARGO
CENTER


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WELLS FARGO CENTER
236 metres/774 feet
57 stories
Completed: 1988

Some Wells Fargo Center facts & figures:

- the building can be found in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA;
- it was built as Norwest Tower, but the tower’s name was changed to the current one
in July of 2000, after Norwest had taken over Wells Fargo in 1998, but decided to use the Wells Fargo name instead of the old one;
- designed by Cesar Pelli & Associates Architects, with Kendall/Heaton Associates Inc,
in a modernized/post modern art deco style;
- when completed it was the 2nd tallest building of Minneapolis.
It is currently the city’s third tallest,
behind IDS Tower (241m/792f; 1973), and 225 South Sixth (237m/776f, 1992);
- The building’s façade is made of glass and Kasota Stone,
a buff-colored local limestone quarried in the Minnesota River Valley, southwest of Minneapolis,
accented with white carrara marble;
- the building was built on the site that used to house the
Northwestern National Bank Building headquarters,
a 16-floor building, that was destroyed by a large fire in 1982;
- the upper setbacks of the building are brightly illuminated at night;
- construction lasted from 1986-1988;
- The Wells Fargo Center won the Urban Land Institute Award
for Excellence for Large-Scale Office Development in 1989,
BOMA Local Building of the Year Award in 1993, BOMA a Regional Office
Building of the Year Award in 1994;
- the building has 31 Elevators (passenger: 28, freight: 2, teller Elevator: 1);
- the buildings consists of a structural steel core
with concrete overlay and structural steel framing;
- The tower houses a Wells Fargo History Museum.
It’s located on the skyway level, and one of only six
Wells Fargo History Museums found in the USA;
- the building has 102,681 square metres of usable floor area
(gross floor area: 188,000 square metres);
- taking no chances after the previous building burned down
(with nearly us$100 million in damage),
the building got installed a us$1,5 million sprinkler system,
a smoke exhaust duct that runs the entire height of the building,
pressurized stairwells, dedicated recall fire fighter elevators,
and a sophisticated fire command center;



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