Results tagged “pennzoilplace”

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor pixeltopia.

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.

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...

Photo: Flickr user Houston Filmmaker