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Pennzoil Place, the Glossary

Table of Contents

  1. 27 relations: Ada Louise Huxtable, AIA Gold Medal, Architecture of Houston, Arthur Andersen, Deutsche Bank, Downtown Houston, Gensler, Gerald D. Hines, Google Books, Houston, Houston Chronicle, John Burgee, Laureate, List of tallest buildings in Houston, List of tallest buildings in Texas, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Modernism, Optical illusion, Philip Johnson, Postmodernism, Pritzker Architecture Prize, Silhouette, The New York Times, The Palm Beach Post, Trapezoid, United States, West Germany.

  2. 1975 establishments in Texas
  3. John Burgee buildings
  4. Office buildings completed in 1975
  5. Shell plc buildings and structures

Ada Louise Huxtable

Ada Louise Huxtable (née Landman; March 14, 1921 – January 7, 2013) was an American architecture critic and writer on architecture.

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AIA Gold Medal

The AIA Gold Medal is awarded by the American Institute of Architects conferred "by the national AIA Board of Directors in recognition of a significant body of work of lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture." It is the Institute's highest award.

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Architecture of Houston

The architecture of Houston includes a wide variety of award-winning and historic examples located in various areas of the city of Houston, Texas. Pennzoil Place and architecture of Houston are buildings and structures in Houston.

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Arthur Andersen

Arthur Andersen LLP was an American accounting firm based in Chicago that provided auditing, tax advising, consulting and other professional services to large corporations.

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Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank AG is a German multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and dual-listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.

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Downtown Houston

Downtown is the largest central business district in the city of Houston and the largest in the state of Texas, located near the geographic center of the metropolitan area at the confluence of Interstate 10, Interstate 45, and Interstate 69.

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Gensler

Gensler is a global design and architecture firm headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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Gerald D. Hines

Gerald Douglas Hines (August 15, 1925August 23, 2020) was an American real estate developer based in Houston.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.

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Houston Chronicle

The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States.

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John Burgee

John Burgee (born August 28, 1933) is an American architect noted for his contributions to Postmodern architecture.

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Laureate

In English, the word laureate has come to signify eminence or association with literary awards or military glory.

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List of tallest buildings in Houston

Houston, the largest city in Texas, is the site of 97 completed skyscrapers over, 50 of which stand taller than.

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List of tallest buildings in Texas

This list of tallest buildings in Texas ranks skyscrapers in the U.S. state of Texas by height.

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect, academic, and interior designer.

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Modernism

Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience.

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Optical illusion

In visual perception, an optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is an illusion caused by the visual system and characterized by a visual percept that arguably appears to differ from reality.

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Philip Johnson

Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect who designed modern and postmodern architecture.

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Postmodernism

Postmodernism is a term used to refer to a variety of artistic, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break with modernism.

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Pritzker Architecture Prize

The Pritzker Architecture Prize is an international architecture award presented annually "to honor a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.” Founded in 1979 by Jay A.

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Silhouette

A silhouette is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Palm Beach Post

The Palm Beach Post is an American daily newspaper serving Palm Beach County in South Florida, and parts of the Treasure Coast.

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Trapezoid

In geometry, a trapezoid in North American English, or trapezium in British English, is a quadrilateral that has one pair of parallel sides.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until the reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. The Cold War-era country is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic (Bonner Republik) after its capital city of Bonn. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc.

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See also

1975 establishments in Texas

John Burgee buildings

Office buildings completed in 1975

Shell plc buildings and structures

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennzoil_Place

Also known as Pennzoil Plaza.