File:Medical Towers -- Houston, Texas.jpg
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| Description | Designed by the Houston firm Golemon & Rolfe with Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM) in 1954 and completed in 1957, Medical Towers in Houston, Texas, is a modified version of SOM’s groundbreaking 1952 Lever House in New York City. The International Style building, composed of a 14-story tower on a 4-story base, served the commercial and office needs of the expanding Texas Medical Center (TMC), south of downtown near Hermann Park and Rice University. The Medical Towers building in the TMC is the first building in Houston designed by world-renowned architectural firm SOM who went on to leave a significant imprint on the city’s built environment. The building was constructed in direct response to the need for professional office and retail support services for the growing medical campus in the decade following WWII. The design responds to the local need to incorporate parking into skyscraper construction, despite its suburban location. Medical Towers is in the National Register of Historic Places in the area of Architecture as an example of postwar modern architecture in Houston. |
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| Author | Jim Evans |
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