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The Centennial Tower (Briercroft Building)

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1979, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. 200 N. Loraine St.

Designed by SOM’s Houston office, this fifteen-story office building with a triangular footprint and round corners is faced in alternating bands of mirrored glass windows and buff brick spandrels. Vertical reveals between the curved ends and the flat sides create a visual effect of monumental pilasters at the corners. The siting of the building and its rectangular concrete parking garage create a small, triangular, paved courtyard.

North of the Briercroft Building are the horizontally elongated, two-story Honolulu Oil Corporation Building (1949, John Ekin Dinwiddie and Richard Maxwell; 204 W. Illinois Avenue) and the five-story, curtain wall-clad Midland Municipal Administration Building (1960, Martin and Lemmon; 119 W. Illinois).

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Petroleum Building and Yucca Theater
Bank of America Building (First National Bank of Midland)
Wilco Building
United Place (Forest Oil Company)
Fasken Center (Midland National Bank Buildings)

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "The Centennial Tower (Briercroft Building)", [Midland, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-MT2.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 455-455.

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