Opinion: Adaptively Reusing, Rather Than Demolishing, a 1920s Building Can Send a Message to Chevron’s Customers
A message to Chevron from architect Charles Renfro, a partner at New York–based Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
When I grew up in Baytown in the ‘70s, I sensed that there was something happening here. Even to a kid who knew nothing, I could feel the embrace of the possible, of the new. There was a pride, shared by thousands of first-generation college graduates (maybe grown out of a fear that they had made a mistake to come to Houston instead of Chicago or Cleveland) that this was the place. They staked their claim here. Not to get rich. Not to become famous. But to be part of a new society, of shared values and ambition. This flat, ill-tempered swamp, devoid of any geographic features or history had become the ideal place to hatch a vision of the future.
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