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Pennzoil Place is a set of two 36-story towers in downtown Houston, Texas, United States.[1] Designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee and built in 1975, Pennzoil Place is Houston’s most award-winning skyscraper and is widely known for its innovative design,More info:wiki
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#10 Pennzoil Place, Houston, Texas,More info:flickr
Pennzoil Place is a set of two 36-story towers in downtown Houston, Texas, United States. Designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee and built in 1975, Pennzoil Place is Houston’s most award-winning skyscraper and is widely known for its innovative design.
Pennzoil Place, developed and managed by Gerald D. Hines Interests, consists of two 495 ft (151 m) trapezoidal towers placed ten feet apart and sheathed in dark bronze glass and aluminum. The buildings are mirror images of each other. The entire street-level plaza joining the two structures is enclosed in a 115-foot (35 m) glass pyramid-shaped atrium. Deliberately designed as an optical illusion, Pennzoil Place’s appearance will vary depending on the different locations from where it is viewed. Pennzoil Place is considered significant in architectural circles for breaking the modernist glass box design made popular by followers of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and for introducing the era of postmodernism. The buildings combined contain 1,400,000 square feet (130,000 m2) of leasable space.
#9 Gensler to relocate from Pennzoil Place,More info:chron
The Houston office of international architecture firm Gensler is moving across downtown to Houston Center, the company announced Monday.
Gensler will move all of its 288 Houston employees from Pennzoil Place to 2 Houston Center at 909 Fannin later this year.
“Downtown Houston is and has always been our home,” Stephanie Burritt, co-managing director, said in the announcement. “Our employees have enjoyed being surrounded and inspired by Houston’s unique urban fabric, and we want to continue that energy by bringing it into our new space.”
Gensler, which has had a downtown presence for 46 years, will occupy two floors in the building, according to landlord Brookfield Properties.
#8 “Timeless” CUBE Live Art for Transwestern @ Pennzoil Place in Downtown Houston,More info:jmuzacz
#7 Houston, TX Pennzoil Place,More info:flickr
#6 Pennzoil Place,More info:download.transwestern
#5 Pennzoil Place (8/15/2007 – Credits: Craig Busch),More info:locationshub
#4 Pennzoil Place Houston S5,More info:flickr
#3 Customer Spotlight: Pennzoil Place,More info:Zones, LLC
#2 will probably be overlooked in the obits, but george h.w. bush, through his company zapata oil, was one of the two principal clients of pennzoil place, and that explains its twinned form,More info:twitter
#1 Real estate transactions: Pennzoil Place to add coworking; Bay Area Fuddruckers changes hands,More info:chron
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