Chevron announced this week that they will construct a 50-story office tower to hold their expanding workforce. The new skyscraper will be located at 1600 Louisiana, which is adjacent to the other two buildings that Chevron owns. Groundbreaking will take place sometime next year with occupancy occurring in late 2016 or 2017. Here is a picture of the new skyscraper (building on the left): Not the most eye pleasing building of you ask me. I suppose they wanted to go with a boxy look to contrast the roundness of the other two skyscrapers. I hope it adds to the great look of the skyline.
As long as commercial buildings are being balanced out by residential, I'm all for expanding our skyline.
Building in the Central Business District makes no sense to me. By definition it requires more commuter time since there is less housing and more traffic. I know they already own the adjacent buildings but how much physical interaction is there between people in other buildings that you couldn't do electronically. I'd have built it on the vacant 6 acres at Westheimer and Beltway 8, surrounded by executive and service housing, easily linked to 59 and 10.
You can't figure out why something called the Central Business District is an attractive location for businesses???
this is exactly why Houston's CBD is so small, for it being the 4th largest city in the US and the energy capital of America. Houston's skyline should really be on at least somewhat comparable to the Chicago skyline. In truth, Chicago's skyline is what, 3x bigger than ours? Houston needed to have zoning in place. Oh well, I suppose it's never too late to implement it.
Depends on definition of biggest, Miami has more 500+ buildings, but they have none over 800 ft, and only 2 over 679
pure rankings without any context? smh bro also this is what I said, don't cut off an important portion of my sentence just to mislead people.
In 20 years, I really expect the city of Houston to start with many more taller buildings...our city needs it... The Metro area of Houston is so expansive, and the city skyline just doesnt appear full. This hopefully changes with Chevron making a move. I do hope others follow suit. Houston is continuously growing, and would be nice to have more businesses expand vertically... And yes...we need more high rise residential spots in the city...
