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Volume I, No. 9
July 1980
Four-Leaf Towers
CDD telpBog byBld city’s largest condominium pr©jeet Commercial Drywall will soon be starting its portion of the largest condominium project ever built in Houston. The Four-Leaf Towers, 40-story twin high-rises, will stand on a 9.5 acre garden-park site just west of Loop 610. The two structures, being built on the corner of San Felipe and South Post Oak Lane, will be the tallest buildings outside of the downtown area. CDI activity on the project will commence in August and will consist of drywall partitions and ceilings, painting, plus all of the wall decor in the common corridors. Unlike previous projects involving twin buildings, such as the Greenway
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Condominiums, the Four-Leaf Towers will rise simultaneously at a rate of one floor per week.
composed of multiple colors and shapes accented by the octagonal glass design of a solarium.
CDI's involvement in the project is expected to last into early 1982. Supervising the entire project for CDI will be Daryl Hammons, who now is running the 50-story Three Allen project downtown.
Only two of the 9.5 acres of the development will be used for the condominium towers with the remainder going toward landscaped garden areas, swimming pools, and tennis and health facilities. Included in the towers will be other recreational facilities including gymnasiums, exercise rooms, lounges, Jacuzzis, and saunas. A parking area will be provided for 700 cars on a single underground level.
The buildings will each stand 440 feet in height and house a total of 400 residences. They will include over one million square feet of floor space and will cost approximately $100 million to complete. Their exterior will be an architectural glass wall system
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The Four-Leaf Towers will look much like this model when completed in 1982. The twin 40-story high-rises, with ceilings and partitions by CDI, make up the largest condominium project ever built in the city of Houston.
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Residences in each of the towers will range in size from 1,000 squarefoot one bedroom units priced from $150,000 to two-level penthouse suites of 5,000 square feet and prices to $1.2 million. Sales of the condominiums will begin in the summer of 1981 with occupancy expected in the spring of 1982. Four-Leaf Towers is a project of Interfin Corporation, a Houston-based development company headed by Giorgia Borlenghi, a structural engineer responsible for several major projects in Europe. Hubor Construction Company, headed by its president Joe Hutchinson, is serving as construction manager for the project and handles design and cost control. The general contractor is the Henry C. Beck Company with Paul Lawson serving as senior project manager. The project’s architect is Cesar Pelli of New Haven, Conn., who has designed numerous buildings throughout the world from the United States Embassy in Tokyo to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Pelli is also the Dean of the School of Architecture at Yale University.