Morning_MetroBusRide_PenzoilPl062508 by xphaqtor We love sliver of sky and it's reflection as well as the angles and geometric post-modern design of Pennzoil Place at 711 Louisiana in downtown Houston. Completed in 1975 with dual 36 story structures, this building stands out in our gorgeous skyline as well as our Houstonist logo. ________________________________________________________________ Every day, Houstonist features an outstanding photo from our flickr pool. If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining......

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor pixeltopia. This great shot of the Bank of America Building and The Pennzoil Place was taken from Sesquicentennial Park along Buffalo Bayou in downtown. This is a great combination of water, skyscrapers and trees. If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining over 345 of Houston's best photographers in the Houstonist Flickr Photo Group. If Houstonist uses your......

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor paper by design. It's a vertigo inducing shot of downtown with The Pennzoil Place and Jones Hall in view. We love the details in this shot. If you have a passion for Houston and photography, consider joining over 250 of Houston's best photographers in the Houstonist Flickr Photo Group. If Houstonist uses your photo for Photo Of The Day, submit it......

Good morning, Houston. We're happy to report that we've found out the AIA and Google have combined two of our favorite things: architecture and Google Earth. Now there's a Google Earth layer featuring 3-D models of some of the structures on the AIA's list of America's favorite architecture, which brings desktop tourism to a whole new level. Among the buildings on the AIA layer: Pennzoil Place, the Astrodome and the Williams Tower, the three......

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor slipshod snapshots. As the photographer's title suggests this is the often photographed pennzoil building, actual name, Pennzoil Place. According to HAIF, the building was completed in 1976 while the rest of the U.S. was in a recession and office space was not a hot commodity. But apparently this place was a hot commodity because the architects had to add two more......

Via Austinist, the American Institute of Architects celebrated its 150th birthday last month by surveying 1,800 randomly chosen Americans on what their favorite U.S. works of architecture were. An AIA panel then narrowed those choices down to come up with America's Favorite Architecture, a list of the 150 most popular structures in the country. As you'd expect, at the top of the list are a bunch of national icons: the Empire State Building, the......

S.I. Morris, 91, leaves a legacy of renowned architecture and civic involvement. A 1935 Rice University graduate, Morris helped create the architectual firm Wilson, Morris, Crain, and Anderson, which is now known as Morris Architects. The firm was involved in the designing of the Astrodome, Wortham Center, and Pennzoil Place, among others. Morris spent the last decade as an advisor for Jackson & Ryan Architects. He was also involved with the Award for Design Excellence......