Pennzoil Place - Houston, Texas

Pennzoil Place - Houston, Texas.

The Texas Online Handbook describes Penzoil Place as "a pair of office buildings completed in 1976 in downtown Houston, was one of the most architecturally influential buildings constructed in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s. Its combination of unusual design, high style, and shrewd entrepreneurship made Pennzoil Place a model for the generation of tall office buildings designed during the last quarter of the twentieth century. It propelled its chief designer, the New York architect Philip Johnson (b. 1906), into a new and highly productive phase in his long career.
"Pennzoil Place was dubbed the Building of the Decade in 1975 by famed New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable due to its dramatic sculptural silhouette." (See Hines Property Management Website as listed below).
The two towers:are 495 feet highcontain 1.8 million gross sq ft of floor spaceare separated by 10 feethave parking for 550 carswere built for 50 million dollars