[stormkingfan]

A couple from the city that hates it's heritage... Toronto:

Old Toronto Star Building:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NtgXlrcvXZA/R2mUIlpuDXI/AAAAAAAAJLs/NqLM6rpBDrs/s1600/POSTCARD%2B-%2BTORONTO%2B-%2BTORONTO%2BSTAR%2BBUILDING%2B-%2BNICE.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/TorontoStar3.jpg/200px-TorontoStar3.jpg

Demolished in 1972 to build First Canadian Place (still the tallest building in Canada):
http://www.gothereguide.com/Images/Canada/Toronto/First_canadian_place_toronto.jpg

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They should've found another place for 1st Cdn Pl and left Toronto Star.

[stormkingfan]

Everytime I see topics like this, I wanna kick Chicago in the balls! Granted if it had some.

I just get so damn infuriated whenever I see the jewels that Chicago demolished just because. :hell: Chicago's streetscape has been raped and there wasnt a single damned reason for it!!

I'm with ya, 773. Sure, Chicago has an impressive skyline, but imo, I think it's a little too modern. Looking a bit more like Hong Kong or Shanghai. Getting so you have to look hard for the vintage in some shots.

In my railroad calendar, last month's was a 1954 pic showing trains leaving LaSalle Station with period skyscrapers rising behind (Prudential would have been u/c then). Yeah, they were small by today's standards, but still, for that time, it was an impressive view.

I lament the fate of that domed, four-winged bldg (City Hall)?

[stormkingfan]

The metropolitan building in Minneapolis was built in 1890(218 feet), demoloshed in 1961...A terrible loss:

http://collections.mnhs.org/VisualResources/VRDbimages/pf045/pf045038.jpg


Bloody bastards!!

[stormkingfan]

EXACTLY! :D

You other guys: REPLY DAMMIT, REPLY!!!! Page 2!!!!

Neo-? How 'bout a replica of Singer Bldg?

[le_brew]

On a much less depressing note, does the demolition of the Cabrini Green (8 buildings, 15 and 16 stories each) and Robert Taylor Homes (28, 16 story buildings) complexes qualify w/re to height?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8f/Cabrini_demolition.jpg[/QUOTE]

Not sure what "qualifies," however, those demolitions left the city of Chicago with virtually "zero" neighborhood highrises off the lakefront.

Be cool if Chicago weren't so flatline off the lake.

[Dralcoffin]

I lament the fate of that domed, four-winged bldg (City Hall)?

That was the Chicago Federal Building (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Federal_Building), not the City Hall (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_City_Hall) of 1911 which is still standing.

And Chicago still has by far the most pre-World War II skyscrapers of any city in the world outside New York. It has had several hard losses because it had so many gems to start with. I still mourn what we have lost, but we still have Jewelers, the Tribune Tower, the Monadnock, the Carbide & Carbon Building, Auditorium Hall, the current Cultural Center, the LaSalle art deco towers, and so on....

[Illithid Dude]

Los Angeles's biggest loss is the Richfield Building: a black and gold art deco stunner.

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics18/00018959.jpg

And at night...

http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics27/00033424.jpg

Replaced by....

The Arco Plaza (the two black towers)

http://www.you-are-here.com/los_angeles/city_national_bank.jpg

[ThatOneGuy]

^^ I really like both buildings! Too bad the twin complex couldn't have been built elsewhere.

[Steely Dan]

Be cool if Chicago weren't so flatline off the lake.

cabrini, ABLA, robert taylor, henry horner, etc. were blackholes of unrelenting violence, poverty, hopelessness, and despair. chicago will be trillions of times better off without them in the long run.

a flat purgatory is better than a tall hell.