[Gilbert]

Je vois ici qu'il y a beaucoup de nostalgiques des années 60 et 70.

C'est bon, c'est un goût...mais j'espère que personne ne va me dire que ça c'est beau et que c'est une merveille des années 60!:sly:

Plaza Tower, nouvelle-orleans

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/1323/362783ho8.jpg

[Gilbert]

Je crois que les gens admiraient plus le world trade center parce que c'était impressionant que pour la beauté des tours.

Une tour avec une facade faisant toute la hauteur, c'est assez impressionnant quand on est en bas. J'ai pu l'expérimenter avec la sears tower.

[Chmeee]

C'est bon, c'est un goût...mais j'espère que personne ne va me dire que ça c'est beau et que c'est une merveille des années 60!:sly:


heu... je leur donne des points pour l'originalité :haha:

[hockey rules!]

C'est quoi cette tour là!:yuck: Elle est vraiment laide bein d'après moi...

[Gilbert]

Et celle-là:

torre velasca, Milan
http://www.accademiagiusprivatistieuropei.it/torre_velasca.jpg

http://www.todaviapordeterminar.com/galeria/data/media/1/MIlano_Torre_Velasca.jpg

[Gilbert]

Et elle:

Torre Colon, Madrid
http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/8185/381785ja4.jpg

[hockey rules!]

Elles ont toutes été construites dans les années 60?

[Gilbert]

Elles ont toutes été construites dans les années 60?

Fin 50, début 60. 1969 pour la plaza tower.

[hockey rules!]

Est-ce que c'est moi mais on dirait que la tour Velasca, Milan, penche vers la droite? Elle ne m'inspire pas du tout confiance...

[Gilbert]

C'est juste la photo, faut pas s'inquièter pour nos amis les Italiens.

[hockey rules!]

Je pense vraiment que c'est une des tour les plus laide que j'ai jamais vu cette tour là!:yuck:

[MTL-514]

alors en choisissant de poster des photos de tours exceptionellement affreuses des années 50, 60, 70, c'est quoi exactement ton point?

que la Tour (proposée) Bonaventura n'est pas belle parce que certains tours laides ont été construites dans ces années là...?

je suis certain que si qq voulait il pourrait nous poster des douzaines ou des centaines de photos de tours des années 50, 60, 70 qui sont écoeurantes

et des tours des années 80, 90, et 00 qui sont horribles

[Gilbert]

Non! J'ai les ai mises comme j'aurais pu mettre en mettre plein des années 2000. On venait de parler des tours des années 60.

Il y a des tours des années 60 que j'aime aussi, je pense rapidement au john hancock de Chicago, qui est un des buildings que j'aime le plus.

[Grumpy]

@ Gilbert , I believe the picture shown of the Torre de Colon is the one with the recladded façade

[GDS]

Some time late next spring, the Watergate section of Washington, D.C., a mile and a half north of the Lincoln Memorial, will begin life anew. On a ten-acre site along the Potomac, construction gangs will start throwing up a handsomely designed $65 million building complex that will include three high-rise apartment houses, 17 villas, a hotel, a shopping mall and an office building.

Since the new Watergate project will replace an abandoned gasworks, Washingtonians might have been expected to greet it with delight. Instead, a number of architects and critics are protesting vigorously that Watergate would hog Washington's skyline and dwarf nearby federal buildings. Watergate's architects pacified some of these critics with modest design changes, but are still fighting off an outfit called Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which sees dark meanings in the fact that Watergate is to be built by Italy's Societa Generale Immobiliare, in which the Vatican holds an estimated 20% stock interest.

Even Football Fields. All but unknown in the U.S. until recently, Immobiliare, with assets of $100 million, is the largest Italian real estate and construction company. Founded in Turin in 1862, Immobiliare moved to Rome with the unification of Italy in 1870, and laid the foundations of its present prosperity by buying up pasture land around the Eternal City. Since then, Rome's population has swollen from 215,000 to more than 2,000,000, and as Rome has grown so has Immobiliare. In 1961 the company's after-tax profits hit a record $4,000,000.

Immobiliare no longer likes to be a landlord. Instead, it builds and sells whole suburbs of apartments and homes, and throws in all the amenities from roads and utilities to churches and football fields. Even its apartments it sells on a "condominium" basis: the customer buys the apartment and thereafter can sell, rent or mortgage it on his own. In Italy, Immobiliare's prices for houses and apartments range from $7,000 to a top of $35,000, but in Washington's Watergate some of the posher pleasure domes will go for $100,000.

Management by Computer. Though the Fiat automobile company and other lay investors now hold substantial interests in Immobiliare, the Vatican is the company's largest single stockholder, and three members of Rome's "Black" nobility, including a nephew of Pope Pius XII, sit on Immobiliare's board. The man who runs things at Immobiliare is Aldo Samaritani, 58, the company's shrewd, publicity-shunning general manager.

Samaritani is described by some of his colleagues as "a human computer." An ex-banker who joined Immobiliare in 1933, he has been the man primarily responsible for converting the company from a land investment firm into the construction titan it now is. Washington's Watergate project is part of his latest drive to diversify Immobiliare by moving abroad. Besides Watergate, Immobiliare is now building apartment houses in Paris and Montreal, and is negotiating to build three 45-story office buildings in Montreal's Victoria Square, the heart of the city's financial district.
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Article from 1963

[Lyle]

That would have been the Tour de la Bourse, built in 1964. The original project consisted of three identical towers. The Delta Montreal Hotel now occupies the land planned for the second tower.

Another interesting coincidence is that Luigi Moretti was the architect for both Watergate and our Tour de la Bourse.

^Fascinating find, btw. I didn't clue in to the age until I read abou the $7,000-$35,000 prices for houses, with the "posh" ones going for 100K!

[Lyle]

Luigi Moretti (1907-73), a brilliant and controversial Italian architect and urbanist. Moretti began his career as a Fascist prodigy, conceiving audacious spaces and structures for Mussolini's regime. After World War II, he developed a powerful sculptural style influenced by Baroque architecture. Some of his postwar urban planning is thought to have disfigured Roman neighborhoods.

His monumental works include the urban plan of the Foro Italico, the Piazza Imperiale, and Palazzo Civilta Italiana, all in Rome, and his renowned entry for the E.U.R. competition of 1937. His post-World War II works include Casa Girasole in Rome, the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., and, with Pier Luigi Nervi, the Stock Exchange Tower in Montreal. In addition to his buildings, Moretti created an important body of theoretical works, published primarily in the journal Spazio, which he cofounded in 1950. Much adored by architects, Moretti's works have been largely overlooked by architectural historians.

[ÉricdeMtl]

Wow

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/729/twotowersposterbigiz1.jpg_http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/3834/torrevelascaot2.jpg
Les citoyens de Milan se trouvent en grand danger, ^cette tour renferme le mal. :hell:

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http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/53/381785ja4ru8.jpg
^Celle-ci, ajoutez des néons autours de l'édifice, et elle ressemble au genre d'hôtel/casino que l'on retrouvait sur le "strip" de Las Vegas dans les années "70.

[iamthewalrus]

ouch, ça fait mal de voir que des tours comme ça poussent à Madrid, ma ville natale....à vouloir trop être original et artiste on fini par créer des choses comme ça.

[iamthewalrus]

heureusement on se rachète un peu avec des tours en construction présentment comme les tours: Repsol Tower, Torre de Cristal, Torre Sacyr Vallehermoso et Torre Espacio

des belles ptites tour de plus d'environ 230 en moyenne et qui vont cacher un peu la tour colon.