Hot air balloon passing in front of Williams Energy Tower (aka TRANSCO Tower) in Houston, Texas. Photo by Bill Jacobus‹›
Williams Tower

Philip Johnson

Aerial · Houston, United States · 1982

Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Billjacobus1 assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 2003×1480

Hot air balloon passing in front of Williams Energy Tower (aka TRANSCO Tower) in Houston, Texas. Photo by Bill Jacobus

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