Bank of America Center

• Subject: Bank of America Center
• Location: Downtown
• Date: January, 2008
• Photographer: Wayne Lorentz

The Bank of America Center is of Houston's best buildings.  Inspired by the canal houses of Europe, it is one of the few skyscraper designs you don't see duplicated all over the place.   This is truly a Houston original.  

I remember hearing once that the reason for the little annex building next to it (pictured here) is that it encloses a critical power junction that keeps downtown Houston juiced up.  It is so important that it can't be moved, so the architects had to design around it.   I don't know if it's true, but I've seem the same thing happen in other cities for the same reason, so it sounds plausable.