AKA: Two Houston Center, Downtown, Houston, TX

Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - office buildings

Designers: Pereira, William L. and Associates Planning and Architecture (firm); Frank Dimster (architect); William Leonard Pereira (architect)

Dates: constructed 1974

909 Fannin Street
Houston, TX 77010-1001

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William L. Pereira Associates undertook the masterplan for a 75-acre redevelopment project for the Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation; (the company had started to assemble 33 blocks of property in Houston in 1970); to cover the site, Pereira and his lead designer, Frank Dimster, designed a huge parking garage with four levels able to hold 40,000 cars. On top of the garage, landscaping and other buildings were to have been perched; this 44-story building was the only one that the Pereira firm designed for Texas Eastern;

PCAD id: 2182