Johnson and Oil!
Eva Hagberg
Oil. Noun. Any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures. Soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water.
Pennzoil Place. Philip Johnson. 1975. A pair of towers, full of prismatic slippage, edged up against each other on a 250-square-foot downtown Houston block. Built by developer Gerald Hines with financial and conceptual assistance from Pennzoil Board of Directors Chairman...
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