Pennzoil Place

Pennzoil Place

Pennzoil Place is a set of two 36-story towers in downtown Houston, Texas, United States. [Cite web
title = Architecture of Pennzoil Place - Houston, Texas, United States of America
accessdate = 2008-04-06
url = http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/US/TX/HoustonPennzoilPlace.html] Designed by Philip Johnson and built in 1975, Pennzoil Place is Houston's most award-winning skyscraper and is widely known for its innovative design.cite web | title = Pennzoil Place | work = www.greatbuildings.com | url = http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Pennzoil_Place.html | accessdate = 2007-05-04]

Pennzoil Place, developed and managed by Gerald D. Hines Interests, consists of two 495 f (150.8 m) trapezoidal towers placed ten feet apart and sheathed in dark bronze glass and aluminum. The buildings are mirror images of each other. [Cite web
title = Pennzoil Place - Johnson/Burgee - Great Buildings Online
accessdate = 2008-04-05
url = http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Pennzoil_Place.html] The entire street-level plaza joining the two structures is enclosed in a convert|115|ft|m|sing=on glass pyramid-shaped atrium. [Cite web
title = Architecture of Pennzoil Place - Houston, Texas, United States of America
accessdate = 2008-04-06
url = http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/US/TX/HoustonPennzoilPlace.html] 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. [Cite web
title = Pennzoil Place, Houston, TX : Hines Interests
accessdate = 2008-04-05
url = http://www.hines.com/property/detail.aspx?id=269] The buildings combined contain convert|1400000|sqft|m2 of leasable space. [Cite web
title = Pennzoil Place - Johnson/Burgee - Great Buildings Online
accessdate = 2008-04-05
url = http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Pennzoil_Place.html]

Architect Philip Johnson was awarded the 1978 AIA Gold Medal and became the first laureate of the Pritzker Prize in Architecture in 1979 for his work on Pennzoil Place. [Cite web
title = Pennzoil Place, Houston
accessdate = 2008-04-06
url = http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/cx/?id=pennzoilplace-houston] Pennzoil Place was named "Building of the Decade" in 1975 by New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable because of the dramatic silhouette it added to the Houston skyline. [Cite web
title = Pennzoil Place : ENERGY STAR
accessdate = 2008-04-06
url = http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=labeled_buildings.showProfile&profile_id=1003548] [Cite web
title = Pennzoil Place, Houston, TX : Hines Interests
accessdate = 2008-04-05
url = http://www.hines.com/property/detail.aspx?id=269]

See also

* List of tallest buildings in Houston
* Architecture of Houston
* List of tallest buildings in Texas

References

External links

* [http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=93e58e19f0a547a63e6e118ca123e43c Pennzoil Place at Google's 3D Warehouse]
* [http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/texas/houston/pennzoil/pennzoil.html Images of Pennzoil Place]


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