sttombiz Posted February 20, 2005 Share Posted February 20, 2005 Enron Tower At 1200 Smith St. And 1400 Louisiana St. No matter what the company did, those 2 buildings are the best! I think its 1200 Smith, the older one, is a 50 story high-rise with all mirrored glass, then 1500 Louisiana is a 46-48 high-rise. They have an all glass sky walk connecting the two. Its awesome! http://www.photohome.com/pictures/texas-pictures/houston/enron-center-5a.jpg http://www.photohome.com/pictures/texas-pictures/houston/enron-center-14a.jpg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YakuzaIce Posted February 20, 2005 Share Posted February 20, 2005 1400 Smith (the old one): 50 floors691 ft.built in 1983Designed by Lloyd Jones Brewer & Associateshttp://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=1176491500 Louisiana (the new one): 40 floors600 ft.built in 2002Designed by Cesar Pellihttp://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=100445Personally I like the new one better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 I agree these buildings are very cool. I to think the second one is the better of the two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasboy Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 I love these two also. Here are more pics. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 I love these two also. Here are more pics. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Texas Boy, Man those night pics are awesome. Who took the shots? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted February 21, 2005 Share Posted February 21, 2005 Looks like they were taken from the Petroleum Club, in the Exxon Building. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 I love these two also. Here are more pics. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Awesome Pix. Texasboy! Looks almost "Blade Runner" -like.........especially the first one. Where did you get these? Are there more? m. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YakuzaIce Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 Judging by the link I would think they were taken by John Huff. I remember them being posted on SSC a long time ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbaNerd Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 Didn't ChevronTexaco buy the newer tower? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 Didn't ChevronTexaco buy the newer tower?Yup. They're moving in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 When the first Enron building was constructed, I jokingly called it the "Bic Building", because it resembled the disposable lighter of that name. I used to draw cartoons of the Houston skyline and show a butane flame on one end of it.The great thing about the Pelli adjunct is that it makes the original look like an afterthought. Even better, when you're on Smith Street, the 'fins' on the 1963 Exxon Building match up so neatly with the new Enron building. In itself it's a lovely building; that it compliments its setting, and respects its elders, is genius. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 I also heard it referred to as "Tupperware Tower" because of the shape. I agree on the second Enron building. It echoes the original without exactly copying it, and it works well with the Exxon building also. I like the way the tower section is set at the same angle as the original building, while the bottom section (trading floors) is aligned with the downtown street grid. To me it is one of the best buildings downtown. Interestingly, they solicited ideas from a lot of firms on the design, although I don't know if it was a formal competition. They had an exhibit of the proposals in the lobby once. Compared to the proposals by other architects, the Pelli one really seeemed the best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesternGulf Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 (edited) You can't see a full view but you can only imagine how beautiful this view is at dusk to see all of west Houston. This photo is courtesy of john huff by the way. Edited February 17, 2006 by WesternGulf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Hizzy! Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Gorgeous shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houstonmacbro Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 Gorgeous shot.amazing what stocks inflated with hype can buy. but i'll agree ... the view is simply stunning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 I've been up there before. You'd think that it'd be amazing standing along the open balcony, thirty stories high, but I was a little disappointed. That photo is great, but it was all about timing the shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesternGulf Posted February 3, 2006 Share Posted February 3, 2006 I've been up there before. You'd think that it'd be amazing standing along the open balcony, thirty stories high, but I was a little disappointed. That photo is great, but it was all about timing the shot.So is there a ceratin way that one can get up there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 Nice shot, but it must be an old one. There are lights on in Enron 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 So is there a ceratin way that one can get up there?Always, if you know the right people. In my case, the building's brokers were hosting an event to allow commercial real estate developers, brokers, architects, service providers, politicians, and reporters to take a close look at the structure.I'll bet most folks don't realize that Ken Lay had a party shower in his 7th floor office...a big one too. Now, what could he possibly have used that for? Hmm, I wonder... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westguy Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 I don't think I want to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAM@ICON Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 hi im new posting in this site, and i would like to find out how to post my immages thanks. btw nice shot man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesternGulf Posted February 4, 2006 Share Posted February 4, 2006 hi im new posting in this site, and i would like to find out how to post my immages thanks. btw nice shot man. post your image's url in img brackets. Ex: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talbot Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 Excellent shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 really is too bad we cant see the image anymore. tell flickr to kiss your ass and get imageshack or something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houston19514 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Really cool shot.Niche, this building is 40 stories high, not 30.And Subdude, I don't think that's Enron I in the background. The building in the background appears to have corners, and appears to be about the same height as Enron II. (Enron I is significantly taller than Enron II.) Which raises the question: is this really a view of west Houston? I think not. I think the shot is taken looking east and the building in the background is ExxonMobil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesternGulf Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Really cool shot.Niche, this building is 40 stories high, not 30. And Subdude, I don't think that's Enron I in the background. The building in the background appears to have corners, and appears to be about the same height as Enron II. (Enron I is significantly taller than Enron II.) Which raises the question: is this really a view of west Houston? I think not. I think the shot is taken looking east and the building in the background is ExxonMobil. Ahh you're right. I think I see the Maxwell house in the background and I was trying to find out what freeway that was. Makes sense now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted May 19, 2014 Share Posted May 19, 2014 I think of it as office-park brutalism. Â Most of the "classic" modernism was years before these. Â The plain concrete-facade office building seemed to have its heyday from around the mid 1960s to late 1970s, when architects got sick of it and moved into post-modernism. Â My guess is that a large part of the rationale for these designs wasn't as much the theoretical tenets of minimalism as much as economics. Â It must have been relatively cheap to stamp out hundreds of standardized concrete facade units that could be plugged into place. Â Â Re: One and Two Allen Center, the exteriors are rather banal but I think the interiors are rather nice, considering. Â 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhouston11 Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 Enron, what a black eye the Lay's and their band of merry money makers were on our city.......... I still can't believe they were allowed to post what they forecasted their profits would be on all of their big "energy deals and cutting edge ideas" Is it just me or did the SEC and all the banks involved seem to have been in on the real truth which was drive the worthless stock up and sell off the paper you had on the company before the truth hit the fan? They call it day trading, I call it a simple ponzi, junk stock pyramid scheme where the people on top got away with simple fraud......people that included the Weingarten married to Fastow, the Martin lady who is an attorney and had the nerve to praise Ken as a CEO who she painted as smart and innovative.......question, for all who were interviewed for their documentary, are all of you who cashed out that stupid to think any of what Enron did was ethical, innovative or even providing a service that was needed in the market, since the pipelines and electric companies went on without any help from their former parent company Enron...........buying companies and adding on your companies "mother may I costs" well in East Texas we call that fraud, not helping the market adjust by selling energy futures and over estimated hopeful profits...........  Enron taught us we all need to ask more questions of our government and also we need more people in government desk jobs keeping eyes on these and all public interest industry to assure the public's best interests are number one, especially since energy is being taken from public owned assets like hydro-electric dams, oil from under our public lands and also many other assets we own as citizens........so there is no reason gas should be 3 dollars or electric running short anywhere............you paid for the majority of the structures and technology with your tax dollars, so it is time to stand up and ask What The heck? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naviguessor Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 What the Heck?   This is a forum about skyscrapers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryDierker Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 I don't care what evils companies do, as long as they keep building purty buildings for me to ogle. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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