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Jones Plaza Site Analysis

Jones Plaza Site Analysis. Jones Plaza Site Analysis. Street Circulation. Lancaster Hotel 1926 Italian immigrant and real estate investor Michele DeGeorge built his hotel directly across from the Municipal Auditorium (now Jesse H. Jones Hall)

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Jones Plaza Site Analysis

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  1. Jones Plaza Site Analysis

  2. Jones Plaza Site Analysis

  3. Street Circulation

  4. Lancaster Hotel 1926 Italian immigrant and real estate investor Michele DeGeorge built his hotel directly across from the Municipal Auditorium (now Jesse H. Jones Hall) He chose his friend, Houston architect Joseph Finger, to design the twelve-story building with two-hundred-rooms By the 1970s, the hotel had begun to show its age. After an extensive, multimillion-dollar renovation in the early 1980s, it reopened as Houston’s first small luxury hotel. The hotel’s ninety-three rooms and suites are decorated with plaids and floral-patterned English fabrics. Much of the furniture is antique reproduction. The private baths feature wraparound mirrors, brass fixtures, and white Italian marble tile floors, walls, and vanities. Historic Hotels of Texas By Liz Carmack page 59-61

  5. Alley Theatre 1969 Designed by: Ulrich Franzen and Associates with MacKie and Kamrath Provides audiences with the highest quality theatre, offering a wide variety of work including new plays, classics, the re-discovered and the rarely-performed, and new musical theatre, with an emphasis on new American works 75,000 square foot facility consists of two stages – the 824 seat Hubbard Stage and the 310 seat NeuhausStage Alley Theatre Renovations - Atop a fourteen- story parking garage abutting the theatre in downtown Houston, the five-story Alley Theatre Center for Theatre Production includes massive rooms for creating sets (56-foot ceiling), costumes and props, alongside three new rehearsal spaces. The Center also houses the Alley's artistic, production and administrative offices as well as a boardroom, staff cantina, script library and archive room. Client: Alley TheatreLocation: Houston, TexasSize: 75,000 sfDate: 2003Architect: Ziegler Cooper Architects/Morris Architects

  6. Jesse H. Jones Hall 1966 Designed by the Houston-based architectural firm Caudill Rowlett Scott, the hall, which takes up an entire city block, features a white Italian marble exterior with eight-story tall columns. The interior includes a basement and a sub-basement which houses a rehearsal room. The lobby is dominated by a 60-foot (18 m) high ceiling featuring a massive hanging bronze sculpture by Richard Lippold entitled "Gemini II". The inside of the concert hall itself is unique in that the ceiling is comprised of 800 hexagonal segments which can be raised or lowered to change the acoustics of the hall. The segments can actually be lowered enough to close the upper balcony, so the seating capacity therefore fluctuates from about 2,300 with the balcony covered to 2,911 with the balcony open. The building won the 1967 American Institute of Architects' Honor Award, which is bestowed on only one building annually. http://www.houstontx.gov/joneshall/index.htm

  7. Pennzoil Place • 1975 • Two36-story trapezoidal towers at 495 f (150.8 m) Designed by Philip Johnson • placed ten feet apart and sheathed in dark bronze glass and aluminum. The buildings are mirror images of each other. The entire street-level plaza joining the two structures is enclosed in a 115-foot (35 m) glass pyramid-shaped atrium. Deliberately designed as an optical illusion, Pennzoil Place's appearance will vary depending on the different locations from where it is viewed. • Pennzoil Place is Houston's most award-winning skyscraper and is widely known for its innovative design. • Architect Philip Johnson was awarded the 1978 AIA Gold Medal and became the first laureate of the Pritzker Prize in Architecture in 1979 for his work on Pennzoil Place. Pennzoil Place was named "Building of the Decade" in 1975 by New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable because of the dramatic silhouette it added to the Houston skyline http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennzoil_Place

  8. Bank of America Center • 1984 • 56 stories high • 51st tallest building in the United States and is the seventh tallest building in Texas. • One of the first significant examples of postmodern architecture • Designed by Philip Johnson and partner John Burgee • It is a reminiscent of the Dutch Gothic architecture of canal houses in The Netherlands. The tower was developed by and is owned by Hines Interests. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_America_Center_(Houston)

  9. Bayou Place Expansion, Phase II • Developer: The Cordish Company (international commercial real-estate development company) • Bayou Place is a large multilevel building that is home to full service restaurants, pubs, live music, billiards, multiple theatres and art house films.The Houston Verizon Wireless Theater stages a variety of live concerts and the eight-screen Angelika Theater presents the latest in art, foreign and independent films. http://www.houstondowntown.com/Home/GeneralInfo/About/Development/

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