Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commemorative plate on a rail above the table, someone on television is announcing the worst year for car sales since 1961. Lee lacocca, the chairman of Chrysler, insists he is excited about next year. No one listens. The people in the house are talking about neighbors who went to Houston or Tulsa looking for work, and came back to report, "They don't seem to like Northern people. They want to keep the jobs for themselves...
...million to $400 million Texas-size office tower in the best premodern skyscraper tradition is proposed for Houston. It does not challenge the record height of Chicago's 1,450-ft. Sears Tower. But even as a scale model, it appears taller and prouder. Like the Chicago Tribune Tower and New York City's Chrysler Building, both more than a half-century old, it seems rooted in the ground and soars to heaven in a powerful rhythm, an evocative symbol of growth and success...
Including its 130-ft. pinnacle, the steel, granite and glass building will be 1,360 ft. high, rising far above the dense forest of downtown Houston's corporate towers. Its 82 stories will contain 2 million sq. ft. of rentable space. The developers, Southwest Bancshares Inc. and Century Development Corp., picked as their architect Helmut Jahn, 42, president of Chicago's Murphy/Jahn...
...competition for the Houston tower proved to be Jahn's opportunity to test this insight. The president of Century Development, Richard Everett, who is also an architect, laid down precise criteria: a building that would give Houston's skyline an identity and its downtown center a focal point. Says Everett: "We wanted a landmark, and we wanted a building that would be open to people and give them a civic space with a lot of public...
When Fereed Mangalji '84 decided to transfer to Harvard from Rice University in Houston last spring, he knew he would not be spending his junior year, in a dorm. Transfer students, the University informed him, were required to live off-campus initially, but could gradually work their way up the priority list and eventually transfer into a House...