making it the tallest building in Houston and the tallest in the United States west of the Mississippi River when it opened in the early 1980s. After work began on the tower, Pei learned the ...

Currently, the tallest building in the city ... Completed projects it has worked on include the Icon Hotel in Houston and the Saphire Tower skyscraper in San Diego. "We've been called crazy ...

New York City's Singer Tower, for example, was once the tallest building in the world, but was knocked down in 1968 to make room for an even taller skyscraper. The Astrodome in Houston ...