Man Look at UPTOWN DALLAS.

[SanJac]

You two are funny.

Have you ever been to NYC? Once you've gone you won't ever talk about skylines again! It makes Houston and Dallas look like Mickey Mouse!

[dallasboi]

Originally Posted by SanJac

You two are funny.

Have you ever been to NYC? Once you've gone you won't ever talk about skylines again! It makes Houston and Dallas look like Mickey Mouse!

Oh..Calm down and just go un-friend Sauce Walka....That's who you're mad at.

[LocalPlanner]

After the Pennzoil buildings got overshadowed by taller buildings, Houston's skyline became less distinctive, though it still has some interesting towers. Dallas will always have Reunion Tower, so you can't mistake it.

[LocalPlanner]

Originally Posted by dallasboi

The new ones and the "ERON Towers"....My Favorite in Texas.


It's one residential building that Houston kinda recently built that I thought would be my favorite Residential building in Texas also.....But It didn't turn out to look so good when it was finished.

Don't know the name of it or where it's located but it's the building with all the different-sized wavy patios that weave in and out making a sculpture-like exterior of patios.......Help me Houstonians.

That's over in the River Oaks / Highland Village area, not downtown. Can't remember the name offhand.

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Originally Posted by LocalPlanner

After the Pennzoil buildings got overshadowed by taller buildings, Houston's skyline became less distinctive, though it still has some interesting towers. Dallas will always have Reunion Tower, so you can't mistake it.

TC Energy (formerly BofA), Counterpoint Plaza and Heritage Plaza are pretty recognizable trio imo. These just opened, but also the Texas Tower and 609 Main

[LocalPlanner]

Originally Posted by ParaguaneroSwag

TC Energy (formerly BofA), Counterpoint Plaza and Heritage Plaza are pretty recognizable trio imo. These just opened, but also the Texas Tower and 609 Main

I agree those are distinctive, as are the newest Hines buildings (Skanska's not so much but I guess let's see what happens with the new one), but they lack the punch that Pennzoil had initially. Pennzoil was an extremely dramatic departure from the kinds of towers you saw go up around the nation in the 1950s - 1970s, so it made Houston's skyline instantly recognizable when it was more prominent. That only lasted a few years.

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Idk man. Here’s a creative customs 3.0 licensed photo that shows both. That effect you’re describing is how I felt for BofA/TC Energy. I’m sure the era we grew up in will register it differently for us. Just like newer Houstonians May one day feel that more from the Texas Tower.

[LocalPlanner]

Originally Posted by ParaguaneroSwag

Idk man. Here’s a creative customs 3.0 licensed photo that shows both. That effect you’re describing is how I felt for BofA/TC Energy. I’m sure the era we grew up in will register it differently for us. Just like newer Houstonians May one day feel that more from the Texas Tower.

TC Energy has long been my favorite of the downtown towers (though the new Hines tower is also cool). But TC Energy went up during an era when "post-modernism" was rampant, so unusual building crowns had come back in fashion around the country; plus a number of other towers of similar height went up in Downtown Houston (and Dallas), so TC Energy just didn't get a chance to make the same impact nationally as what Pennzoil did for a few years in the mid 1970s.

Also, while I'm not an architectural historian, I believe Pennzoil was Philip Johnson's most famous tower(s) to that point and really had office developers and architects abuzz globally. So in addition to how visible it was on the physical skyline, it also made a unique impact culturally. It was really about how unique it was and its timing in history more than anything - again, for a brief time.