Four Oaks Place
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Uptown Houston
The Uptown District of Houston is located 6.2 miles west of downtown and is centered along Post Oak Boulevard, Westheimer Road , and the Galleria...
Houston, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Managed by Transwestern, the complex includes the 420 ft (128m) 1330 Post Oak Boulevard (sometimes referred to as the Aon Building), the 25 story 351 ft (107m) BHP Billiton Tower (1360 Post Oak Boulevard), Wells Fargo Tower (1300 Post Oak Boulevard), and the Interfin Building (1400 Post Oak Boulevard). The buildings were designed by Cesar Pelli
César Pelli
César Pelli is an Argentine architect known for designing some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. In 1991, the American Institute of Architects listed Pelli among the ten most influential living American architects...
& Associates Architects.
History
In 1993 BHP Petroleum, the U.S. subsidiary of Broken Hill Proprietary Co., announced that its U.S. headquarters was moving from San Felipe PlazaSan Felipe Plaza
San Felipe Plaza is a 46-story tower located west of the Uptown Houston district in Houston, Texas, United States. Designed by noted architect Richard Keating, the building was constructed in 1984 and contains of leasing space. The building is the fifteenth tallest in the city and is the...
to the Cigna
CIGNA
Cigna , headquartered in Bloomfield, Connecticut, is a global health services company, owing to its expanding international footprint and the fact that it provides administrative services only to approximately 80 percent of its clients...
Tower (1360 Post Oak Blvd.). 200 clerical and professional employees moved into the building.
In the 1990s Weatherford Enterra (now Weatherford International
Weatherford International
Weatherford International Oil Field Services Ltd is one of the largest international oil and natural gas service companies. The company provides products and services for drilling, evaluation, completion, production and intervention of oil and natural gas wells, along with pipeline construction...
) had its corporate headquarters in 1360 Post Oak. By 2000 Weatherford moved to a new location in Houston.
In 1999 Cushman & Wakefield, a realty firm, moved its Houston office from the Wells Fargo Tower into the America Tower in the American General Center
American General Center
The American General Center is a complex of several office buildings in Neartown Houston, Texas located along Allen Parkway. It is owned by AIG American General....
in Neartown
Neartown Houston
Neartown is an area located in west-central Houston, Texas, United States and is one of the city's major cultural areas. Neartown is roughly bounded by U.S. Highway 59 to the south, Allen Parkway to the north, Bagby Street on the east, and Shepherd Drive to the west...
. By 2008 and as of 2009 Cushman & Wakefield's Houston office is now in the 1330 Post Oak building.
As of 2007 the owner of Four Oaks Place is considering plans to develop a fifth tower for the complex.
Tenants
The BHP Billiton Tower houses BHP BillitonBHP Billiton
BHP Billiton is a global mining, oil and gas company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia and with a major management office in London, United Kingdom...
's Houston Marketing Office.
The complex has two consulates in the Wells Fargo Tower: those of Chile and Italy. In addition the Consulate-General of Germany in Houston
Diplomatic missions of Germany
This is a list of diplomatic missions of Germany. Historically, the German state of Prussia and several smaller German states, had sent emissaries abroad prior to the establishment of the North German Confederation, the precursor to the modern State of Germany.In 1874 Germany had only four...
resides in 1330 Post Oak.