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Old Posted Jun 28, 2008, 5:54 AM
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Originally Posted by HOUSTONIAN57 View Post
Does anyone have a rendering on this one? Its called the "Houston Tower" it would have been the tallest building ever built, but its height [1.3 miles high and the oil bust] is most likely the causes of this one not being built.

It would have covered nine downtown city blocks(causing them to demolish some existing buildings).The design of the building would have used 16 bundle triangular tubes.

Can someone PLEASE find a rendering and give more info on this one....
The reason it wasn't built was just due to the fact that it was a hypothetical structure, introduced to discuss the principles of a certain type of tube construction. A type that was actually included on a much smaller level in the construction of One Shell Plaza.

The 500 Floor version was discussed in a 1986 edition of "The Futurist" magazine. Again, purely hypothetical and discussed by the same players.

I have a Houston Post article from the early 80's that should better explain it...

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