khou.com
Posted on January 8, 2012 at 10:26 AM
Updated yesterday at 1:19 PM
HOUSTON?A big boom?could be heard at the Texas Medical?Center?on Sunday?as demolition crews brought down?a 20-story building that used to be home to KHOU?11 News.
It didn?t take long?mere seconds, in fact?to create a new hole in the skyline of Houston?s medical district.
Crews demolished the former Prudential Life Insurance Building, located on the corner of Holcombe and Fannin. The crews had planned initially to touch off the explosives shortly before 8 a.m. Sunday, but dense fog delayed the series of blasts until 11:15 a.m.
Prudential Insurance Co. commissioned architect Kenneth Franzheim to design a stylish regional headquarters.
The 500,000-square-foot skyscraper, on the current Texas Medical Center campus, opened in 1952. KHOU 11 News operated out of the building from?January of 1954 to 1960. New Jersey-based Prudential sold it in 1975 to the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. It was made the center?s main building in 1980 before it was vacated and closed in April 2010.
The structure was razed to make way for a new clinical building that will connect to the Duncan Building and Mays Clinic.
A $4 million ranch life mural by artist Peter Hurd, called ?The Future Belongs To Those Who Prepare for It,? was removed from the building and will be part of a public library in Artesia, N.M.
Hurd, who died in 1984, once had a studio in Artesia.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Source: http://www.khou.com/news/local/Skyscraper-in-Texas-Medical-Center-set-for-implosion-136904278.html
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