Pennzoil Place, Houston, TX
Posted by: JimmyEv
N 29° 45.589 W 095° 21.921
15R E 271286 N 3294515
Philip Johnson and John Burgee designed these two, 36-story, off-set buildings connected by a glass atrium in 1976 specifically to not look like One Shell Plaza.
Waymark Code: WMZR3
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/26/2006
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The chairman of Pennzoil instructed Johnson and Burgee to design a building that did not look like the towering, plain
One Shell Plaza. What they came up with were two off-set buildings, connected by a glass atrium at the bottom. The design took into account the building’s environment – both the atrium roof and the narrow, vertical slit between the two structures frame other buildings in the city, most notably the cupola of the
Esperson Building and the
Bank of America Center across the street.
In the tunnel level of the building is a Pennzoil store, selling all kinds of things with the Pennzoil logo emblazoned on them. One of the building’s more notorious tenants was the Houston office of Arthur Anderson, accountants to Enron Corporation.
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