UrbaNerd Posted November 29, 2004 Share Posted November 29, 2004 I was bowsing around, and I ran into this: http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/589/28houston_future02.jpg What is that tower with the "bowl" on top? Ive never seen this before! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssullivan Posted November 29, 2004 Share Posted November 29, 2004 I haven't seen this before either, but given its location could it possibly be an early proposal for the Chase Tower? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbaNerd Posted November 29, 2004 Author Share Posted November 29, 2004 I was thinking it could have been one of the BOTSW proposals, or something.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted November 29, 2004 Share Posted November 29, 2004 Yeah, it was one of the runners-up in the Bank of the Southwest competition by Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill. There are a lot of photos in a book that was written about the competition. The dome thing on top would have held an observation deck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted November 29, 2004 Share Posted November 29, 2004 Other runner-up by Kohn-Pederson-Fox Competition winner by Murphy/Jahn What could have been.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heights2Bastrop Posted November 30, 2004 Share Posted November 30, 2004 Actually, that looks like it could have been an alternative plan for the Tenneco Building.OK, so I know it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbaNerd Posted November 30, 2004 Author Share Posted November 30, 2004 I like the Jahn one the best. Too bad we never got anything! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 Actually, that looks like it could have been an alternative plan for the Tenneco Building.OK, so I know it’s not called that anymore. But I can’t keep up with all the changes, so I always call buildings by their original names. The second tallest building in that picture is and will always be the Allied Bank Plaza to me.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Oh good - it's not just me.Tenneco will always be Tenneco, and Transco (I think that's what you meant) will always be Transco. Same with Allied Bank, Republic Bank, Texas Commerace Tower, and the Enron Buildings. I even kind of gag at Minute Maid Park.Does Chrysler still own the Chrysler Building? I'm guessing they don't...but the name remains the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
new major on the block Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 Clase tower was originally going to be 85 floors, but with Hobby airport and the FAA, they decided it would be better to just stop at 75. Just imagine though if it were 10 floors higher. It would register out to about 1,102 feet or so. That would have passed some of those buildings like the one in Atl. and L.A. in front of it. That would make it taller than the chrysler building in NYC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 Clase tower was originally going to be 85 floors, but with Hobby airport and the FAA, they decided it would be better to just stop at 75. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 As for the Location of the BoTSWT, it was to be built on the surface parking lot behind 1 Shell Plaza.HereActually, thats not such an exact picture, but its the surface parking lot behind 1-Shell Plaza, Its surounded by Rusk, Milam, Louisiana, and Walker Street.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>You are one block off . . . The location of the BoTSWT was to have been the block bounded by Walker, McKinney, Louisiana and Milam. The block you referred to (Rusk, Walker, Louisiana, Milam) is the location of Two Shell Plaza. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
new major on the block Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 Thanks for clearing that up Montrose1100, I did not know that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heights2Bastrop Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 In passing downtown today I noticed a building with a similar dome on top. It was around 20 floors, although I didn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbaNerd Posted December 3, 2004 Author Share Posted December 3, 2004 In passing downtown today I noticed a building with a similar dome on top. It was around 20 floors, although I didn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heights2Bastrop Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 I was merely noting the similarities in the two domes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danes75 Posted December 19, 2004 Share Posted December 19, 2004 I'm actually glad that the competition winner by Murphy/Jahn didn't win. It looks too much like Taipei 101 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce_oneal Posted January 17, 2005 Share Posted January 17, 2005 almost looks like the top of the current RELIANT tower, with the open air top. I was bowsing around, and I ran into this: What is that tower with the "bowl" on top? Ive never seen this before! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 I wish all 3 would have been built, along with Block 365 Tower! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gcbrewer2 Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 Check out this link to see a scale model of Bank of the Southwest Tower. What a beautiful building it would have been.http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/showphot...&papass=&sort=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 That dome would have been a restaurant also. There would have been an open-air observation deck under it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tw2ntyse7en Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce_oneal Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 That dome would have been a restaurant also. There would have been an open-air observation deck under it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> i hear that the winds up there (top of the reliant building) can be pretty ferocious. would that have been open-air seating? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted March 27, 2005 Share Posted March 27, 2005 Take a look at the BoTSWT + Block 265 from the newspaper...http://tinypic.com/view.html?pic=2d3lp0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbaNerd Posted March 27, 2005 Author Share Posted March 27, 2005 Yeah..I can say that i liked the KPF proposal the best..(shown in the pic above). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoustoniaNYC Posted March 27, 2005 Share Posted March 27, 2005 None of the designs for the Bank of the SW ever did anything for me. The winning design looks like the 2 tallest buildings they buily in Philly around the same time. Besides a few examples, mostly in Houston, I'm just not down with post-modernism. Houston's downtown skyline is almost perfect in several ways. I've always had a hard time imagining an addition that is taller than the current tallest 2 buildings, whatever they may be called nowadays.It'll happen, and for the cities' sake, I hope it does, but I don't like the proposals that have been submitted so far, regardless of whether they'll be built or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted March 27, 2005 Share Posted March 27, 2005 I think if they would have been built, everyone would have been use to them. And I think the Liberty Place would have been differnt, because it was basically designed after it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovernorAggie Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 Take a look at the BoTSWT + Block 265 from the newspaper...http://tinypic.com/view.html?pic=2d3lp0<{POST_SNAPBACK}>The Block 265 tower seems to fit Houston more to me than the BoTSWT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce_oneal Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 None of the designs for the Bank of the SW ever did anything for me. The winning design looks like the 2 tallest buildings they buily in Philly around the same time. Besides a few examples, mostly in Houston, I'm just not down with post-modernism. Houston's downtown skyline is almost perfect in several ways. I've always had a hard time imagining an addition that is taller than the current tallest 2 buildings, whatever they may be called nowadays.It'll happen, and for the cities' sake, I hope it does, but I don't like the proposals that have been submitted so far, regardless of whether they'll be built or not.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>you are so right. there are 2 buildings in philly with that distinctive crown. although the bank of the southwest would have been much taller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTAWACS Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 i hear that the winds up there (top of the reliant building) can be pretty ferocious. would that have been open-air seating?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Xeelee scanned that pic and posted it over at SSP back in the day. I've been up to the top of Continental Plaza before. The winds are not TOO bad... i mean it can get windy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shasta Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 Houston's downtown skyline in "Post Modern". Philip Johnson had a huge say in the look of our skyline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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