1100 Louisiana Building
Houston, USA

HEIGHT: 228m/748m
FLOORS: 55 floors
COMPLETION: 1980
ARCHITECT: Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP

An architectural oak hidden in a forest of giants, 1100 Louisiana is one of those buildings that makes a significant contribution to Houston's skyline, but is overlooked because of its flashy neighbors. If the building looks familiar, it should. It was designed by the same company that came up with San Francisco's Bank of America building, which also features cutaways that reveal triangle bays like a giant Lego project. During the day, its pink granite adds an element of contrast to its green neighbor, Wells Fargo Plaza. On one side of the building is on open plaza which has been given a focal point with Even Jean Dubuffet's "Monument au Fantóme" featured elsewhere on this site.

http://www.photohome.com/pictures/texas-pictures/houston/1100-louisiana-3a.jpg

http://img43.photobucket.com/albums/v133/RafflesCity/ROT/1100l2.jpg

http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/Images/Buildings/Downtown/1100Louisiana-003.jpg

http://www.photohome.com/pictures/texas-pictures/houston/1100-louisiana-1a.jpg

http://img43.photobucket.com/albums/v133/RafflesCity/ROT/1100l.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v427/rotpics03/houston25.jpg

wow, I saw this building in a thread somewhere else.

I like it.

7/10

7.5/10

This building looks nice only from 1 angle. It also looks very much like the 3 First National plaza in Chicago. Not surprisingly both were designed by SOM. Bleah.

I love it.

i think i've seen this building in another thread..
one side of the facade looks good, the other doesnt look so good.. 7.5

8.5/10. I really like the design of the building!

It also looks a lot like the Southeast Financial Center (I think that's the name anyways) in Miami, and the Scotia Center in Toronto. It's definately a design that they could get rich by imitating. In the early '90's anyway.

7.0

timeless building :okay:

7/10

7/10 - the facade dances with the light from some angles, and the vertical indentations running up one side make it livlier.

But - outside of that, it's rather monotonous, especially when the sun isn't dancing with the curtain walls. Then it turns into a bland mass of endless windows.

If it hadn't been for that facade, I would have given it a 5 or so...

that one side with the bay windows also resembles SF's Bank of America tower . . . 7.5/10:D

It kinda reminds me of that Donald Trump Tower in Ny.
I really like the glass facade.Only on the last pic the tower looks too wide but on the other pics it doensn't look that bad.
8.0/10

7 Pretty good

7/10

I cant stand the brownish looking facade! Give me a break! :bash:

7/10

nice one. 7/10

Quite ok...although kinda too massive on some sides. 7.5/10.

this ones beautiful, 10

Nothing special, 7/10

6/10 thats all to say about it

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8/10

Hard to judge the true color from the pics, but I like the salmon color. These buildings that have a "cut off" angle effect (usually at the top) really start to bore me : it's such a cheap way to guide the eye....

6/10

facade: a bit boring, but ok
form: back's nice
points: 7,5

Love the look and the color.

I like it so much
9/10

7/10 it's something diffrent

Well design !!
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I like it.

8/10

7.5/10

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I don't like triangle cutaway bays myself, but the building is a great design for the late 70's. Still looks impressive in these pics, which is rare for buildings completed in the early 80's.

looks ok, not too interesting though.

7

Simple, and elegant. 9/10.

5.0 stupid curved façade.

9/10

7/10

not bad at all, its like 3 first national, but the facade isnt as great
[img]http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/Images/Buildings/Downtown/1100Louisiana-003.jpg[/img

the front looks like it ruins it

i like it: 7.5/10

8/10. Resembles BofA SF a little bit on the side.

7.5

It's quite classy and has aged fairly well.

The smooth brownish facade seems to produce a variety of nice bronze/gold colours, depending on the angle and intensity of sunlight.

I like it.

6/10

Interesting colour. Reminds me in a way of the BankWest Tower here in Perth, with the sawtooth serrations. 7/10.

9.0

i like the folds. maybe the other side should have them as well

7.5/10

7/10

A very nice building that fits Houston well. I give it an 8.5/10. :)

8/10

6/10

Seems to be too out of proportion from some angles.

9/10

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I like it- 8.5

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6.5/10.

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I like this type of buildings - it reminds me Wachovia FC in Miami. 8/10

7/10

6.5/10

some how it looks like S in Toronto

6/10

7/10

Original shape and original color, the height impression is not quite there and it doesn't look nice from every point of view but mostly, it achieves to be distinctive in a good way.
6.5

7.5/10

From really close it looks great, but from afar it's not the same thing. 8/10

Not bad and it's tall...7/10

6/10 is quite enough.

7/10

its ok. 7/10

8/10 :)

clean and tall. 9

3,5/10

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6/10

beautiful tower, 8.5/10

7.5/10

nice building

8/10

8/10

5/10 averege

7/10

8. nice.

Weird but still pretty nice 8.5/10

7.5 / 10

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Yeah I think I like this one. A 7 out of 10.

8.5/10

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7/10:)

8/10

cool building 9/10

6.5/10

could be better, could be worse. 6

8/10

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interesting 8/10

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http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/5359/hou1og5.jpg

Pretty good

7,5/10

6 boring

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way to fat for me 6/10

me 2. 6,5/10

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9.

7/10

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7/10

Not my taste... it can be looking good at night but in the day :/
7/10

5,5/a0

*5,5/10

7/10

Pretty nice and elegant...

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7/10

I don't like the color

8. Good building. Regards.

8/10

7/10

Another clone of those granite clad banalities with eroded facades. 6

http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/5359/hou1og5.jpg

i like it 9/10

it's OK. 7/10

7.5/10

6.5

voted 8.5/10

7.0/10

I like this building.:)
9/10

7/10

Same design as the Wachovia Tower in Miami, but it's a good design.

You've rated this tower 7.53 on average. Go to http://gbuscraper.blogspot.com/2010/07/1100-louisiana-building-houston-75310.html to read more.

On this blog, the score of a 'good' building and a 'bad' building from the Rate our Talls section will be revealed every day.

7-10

8/10

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Another great postmodernist tower in the United States. 9/10

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4.5/10
mediocre

8/10 :)

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8/10 :okay:

7/10 nice one