McKinney Olive Tower
The 21-story McKinney Olive Tower is a luxury office and retail space located in the premier business and residential district of Dallas. It is the tallest building in Uptown proper.
Job name McKinney Olive Tower
Location Dallas, TX
General Contractor Beck
Architect Pelli Clarke Pelli
In addition to the elegant, glass-wrapped 20-story office tower, this multi-purpose development includes a two-level retail podium and a new parking structure with an elevated green space.
Alliance Glazing was responsible for the installation of a SSG unitized curtain wall on the building’s towers structure. The 192,500 sq ft curtain wall was was installed using Alliance’s custom system. A 26,000 sq ft SSG cassette curtain wall was also installed around the retail section of the building (north wall leaning out 2’-0″ per floor), along with a further 2,900 sq ft of SSG cassette curtain wall on the garage and a wing wall (fly-by wall) that spanned the entire tower. Features include all-glass walls (piazza), curtain wall around the garage and elevator lobbies, sunshades on the tower curtain wall, 2,000 sq ft of J-mold mirrors, and a revolving door in the building’s lobby.