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471:(2018), p.372: "As Attia would have it, he and not Johnson — and certainly not Burgee — had been responsible for the firm's aesthetic vision during his ten years at the firm. More than a decade after his departure, this became a matter of contention when Attia claimed credit for a series of the firm's designs, among them Pennzoil Place. Johnson responded with an open letter claiming that while Attia was an 'important member' of the design team, his claim of credit was, 'to put it mildly a gross exaggeration.' Attia complained and Johnson recanted, writing a second letter, composed in consultation with Attia, stating that 'the buildings he lists in his brochure are his main achievements' and that his decade-long tenure was 'wonderful.'" 326: 314: 338: 302: 26: 360: 374: 230:
towers placed ten feet apart and sheathed in dark bronze glass and aluminum. The buildings are mirror images of each other. The entire street-level plaza joining the two structures is enclosed in a 115-foot (35 m) glass pyramid-shaped atrium. Deliberately designed as an
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Architects from a concept by Eli Attia, a staff architect with the firm. Completed in 1976, it is Houston's most award-winning skyscraper and is widely known for its innovative design.
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in 1979 for his work on Pennzoil Place. Pennzoil Place was named "Building of the Decade" in 1975 by
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investment group bought a 90 percent interest in the Pennzoil Place building for $ 100 million.
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Halliburton headquarters moving here / 5 Houston Center lease brings firm from Dallas
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was vacating about 300,000 square feet (28,000 m) of space in Pennzoil Place.
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Architects (concept and design by Eli Attia, an architect with the firm)
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Interests, consists of two 495 ft (151 m)
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Downtown
Houston
United States
Coordinates
29°45′37″N 95°21′57″W / 29.7603°N 95.3657°W / 29.7603; -95.3657
Philip Johnson
John Burgee
Downtown Houston
United States
Philip Johnson
John Burgee
Deutsche Bank
West German
Arthur Andersen
Gerald D. Hines
trapezoidal
optical illusion
modernist
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
postmodernism
M. Arthur Gensler Jr. & Associates
Philip Johnson
AIA Gold Medal
laureate
Pritzker Prize in Architecture
The New York Times
Ada Louise Huxtable
silhouette
Tower gap, outside view.

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