Water Features - A Photo Thread

[bilbao58]

I will never understand the pedimented wall with three arches in front of that fountain. Then again, I will never understand the "crenelated" pointy parking garage behind the tower that looks like a leftover plan for the PPG Building in Pittsburgh with the glass removed. Nor will I ever understand the giant granite arch tacked onto the front of the tower. In hindsight, so much of Philip Johnson's work is a mess. He never knew how to make a tower that met the ground in a satisfactory way. AT&T in New York may have been about as close as he got. Pennzoil is definitely the closest he ever got in Houston... and it's now pretty much understood that he stole credit for that building's design from someone in his firm. The rest of his Houston towers were always best seen from a nearby freeway. That said, the beacon on "Transco" may be the best thing he ever gave Houston... that is, after they aimed it away from the windows of a couple of high rise apartment buildings in nearby Greenway Plaza.