CenterPoint Energy Plaza
Template:Short description Template:Use American English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". CenterPoint Energy Tower (formerly Houston Industries Plaza) is a Script error: No such module "convert". tall building in downtown Houston. The original building, finished in 1974, stood at Script error: No such module "convert"., but a Script error: No such module "convert". extension was added as part of a 1996 renovation. Designed by Richard Keating, this renovation dramatically changed the building, the Houston Skyline and the downtown. Keating was also the designer of the nearby Wells Fargo Tower.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". It has the headquarters of CenterPoint Energy.[1][2]
Historically the building housed the headquarters of Houston Industries (HI) and subsidiary Houston Lighting & Power (HL&P).[3] In 1999 Houston Industries changed its name to Reliant Energy.[4] When Reliant Energy moved out of the building and moved into the new Reliant Energy Plaza in 2003, the company left over Script error: No such module "convert". of space vacant.[5]
Around 1995 the building owners added a circle-shaped canopy that is five stories tall, due to a business competitor down the street having a building taller than theirs. Clifford Pugh of the Houston Chronicle wrote that "It was meant to resemble a lantern, but at night the lit open space looks more like a hovering spaceship."[6]
Gallery
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Entrance to CenterPoint Energy Tower
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Damage to windows from Hurricane Ike in 2008
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Damage to windows from the 2024 Houston derecho
See also
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- List of tallest buildings in Houston
- List of tallest buildings in Texas
- List of tallest buildings in the United States
References
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- ↑ "Contact Information." CenterPoint Energy. Retrieved on January 14, 2009.
- ↑ "CenterPoint Energy Tower Template:Webarchive." Berger Iron Works. Retrieved on January 14, 2009.
- ↑ "0000950129-97-001088.txt : 19970320" (Archive). Securities and Exchange Commission. Retrieved on April 14, 2014. "Houston Industries Incorporated and Houston Lighting & Power Company Houston Industries Plaza 1111 Louisiana, 47th Floor Houston, TX 77002-5231"
- ↑ "Houston Industries takes new name." Houston Business Journal. February 2, 1999. Retrieved on April 14, 2014.
- ↑ Bivins, Ralph. "SURVIVAL OF THE NEWEST / OCCUPANCY DOWNTOWN TUMBLING, BUT THREE TOWERS DEFY TREND." Houston Chronicle. Sunday July 27, 2003. Business 1. Retrieved on November 11, 2009.
- ↑ Pugh, Clifford. "Unique tops give skyscrapers an aesthetic boost." Houston Chronicle. June 6, 2005. Retrieved on April 14, 2014. "Sometimes, a building's owner remakes a top to attract more attention. Ten years ago, owners of the Houston Industries building added a five-story canopy resting on four pillars to the top of the aging 47-story skyscraper. The addition created a dramatic circle that floats atop the building. It was meant to resemble a lantern, but at night the lit open space looks more like a hovering spaceship."
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External links
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- DMJM H&N Architects website
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