One Shell Plaza, now called 910 Louisiana, is an office tower in downtown Houston, Texas. Skidmore, Owings and Merrill designed it, with Wilson, Morris, Crain and Anderson as associate architects, and Hines was the developer. It was completed in 1971 in the Modernist style and was then the tallest building in Houston.
The tower has 50 floors and rises 715 feet (218 meters) to the roof, or 1,000 feet (304.8 meters) with its antenna. It has 22 elevators and about 1.2 million square feet of floor area. A rooftop mast of about 170 feet once carried television and FM radio signals. The tower was renovated in 1994 at a cost of 80 million dollars.
Shell Oil was headquartered here until 2016. Baker Botts has been a tenant since 1971, and the Houston Club occupies the 49th floor. The building appeared as the fictional World Building in the soap opera Another World.
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