 The building is known for the granite Mayan temple design on the top, which was inspired by the architect's visit to the Mexican Yucatán.Recently renovated at the cost of $6 million, the building was the last major office building completed in downtown Houston prior to the collapse of the Texas real estate, banking, and oil industries in the 1980s.Houston's building boom of the 1970s and 1980s ceased in the mid-1980s, due to the 1980s oil glut.