Kinder Morgan Building

 office building, energy, 1963_construction

The Kinder Morgan Building is a 502-foot tall office building located at 1001 Louisiana Street in downtown Houston, Texas. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and completed in 1963 as the Tenneco Building, it is the 28th tallest building in Houston. Because of downtown Houston's diagonal street grid, all four sides of the building are exposed to the sun; the windows are recessed from the frame to minimize heat and glare. When the El Paso Corporation purchased Tenneco in 1996, the distinctive T-E-N-N-E-C-O letters along the top of the building on each of the four sides were removed. Kinder Morgan purchased the building with its acquisition of El Paso Corporation in 2012, and moved its headquarters there.