top 10 building, structure, monument, or anything man-made that defines your country!
Yes, it is extremely hard to narrow it down to just 10. but lets give it a shot
in the good old US of A:
no particular order.
1) Statue of Liberty
2) Empire State Building
3) Mount Rushmore
4) Sears Tower
5) Golden Gate Bridge
6) U.S. Capitol Building
6) Gateway Arch
7) Chrysler Building
8) Hoover Dam
9) The White House
10) Brooklyn Bridge
there you go...
it was very hard and difficult, but thats what i came out with.
Now it is your turn to showcase your country's most famous!!!!
Oh my, another one of these, well I'll participate this time:
(No order)
Empire State Building & Chrysler Building, New York City
Even people who live in America get the two confused, many see the Chrysler Building as the Empire State Building, so its reasonable to include them as one symbol.
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
Space Needle, Seattle
Gateway Arch, St. Louis
Mount Rushmore, North Dakota
The Mall, Washington D.C.
People still get the White House and Capitol House mixed up, so its reasonable to count Washington D.C.'s landmarks as a whole.
Statue of Liberty, New York City
Hollywood Sign, Los Angeles
Las Vegas Casinos, Las Vegas
Not one hotel could symbolize a country, but an entire city of them could.
dude! Mt. rushmore is in South Dakota (my home state)
1. Statue of liberty
2. Mt. Rushmore
3. the arch
4. the golden gate bridge
5. Empire State Building
6. twin towers of the WTC (even more so after they came down. Gone but never forgotten!)
7. hollywood sign
8. washington monument DC
9. US capital
10. the White House (and the criminals who inhabit it...past or present)
Canada (images taken from Google Images & Wikipedia):
1. CN Tower, Toronto
2. Chateau Frontenac, Quebec City
3. Vancouver Skyline, Vancouver
4. Parliament Buildings, Ottawa
5. Old Montreal, Montreal
6. Confederation Bridge, PEI-New Brunswick
7. Banff Springs Hotel, Banff National Park, Alberta
8. Dawson City, Yukon
9. Hibernia Platform, Newfoundland
10. Saskatchewan Legislature and Wascana Lake, Saskatchewan
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I'll refrain from listing for Canada, as any building in Canada has a much stronger association to the city than country for me, even the Parliament Buildings. Put it up to rampant regionalism or something like that. I've always felt that Canada has adopted natural features as the preeminent symbols of our country anyway.
For the US:
Statue of Liberty
White House
US Capital
Gateway Arch
Kennedy Space Centre
Mount Rushmore
Possibly Empire State Building, though I think of it more as a symbol of New York than the US.
Another thread like that... but here we are. My entries Brazil & Germany
Brazil
01- Cristo Redentor, Rio de Janeiro -RJ 02- Pao de Acucar (Sugar Loaf), Rio de Janeiro -RJ
I mean here of course the Transportation vehicle, not the Mountains. 03- Ed. Italia & Copan, Sao Paulo - SP 04- Paulista Avenue and its buildings & TV Antennas, Sao Paulo - SP 05- Itaipú Dam 06- Brasília Catedral, Brasília -DF 07- Congresso Nacional, Brasília -DF 08- Manaus Theater, Manaus -AM 09- Elevador Lacerda, Salvador -BA 10- Maracana, Rio de Janeiro - RJ
I inserted this as unfortunatly Brazil is Known for its Soccer,
but I personnaly do not make the same relation.
Germany
01- Brandenburg Tor, Berlin 02- Reichstag Parlament, Berlin 03- Fernsehenturm, Berlin 04- Berlin Mauer, Berlin
I included this even the Wall does not exist anymore. 05- Commerzbank, Frankfurt 06- Neuschwanstein Castle, Fussen 07- Frauenkirche & Rathaus, München 08- Olympiaturm & Olympiastadion, München 09- BMW Hochhaus, München 10- Frankfurt Airport, Frankfurt
01. Parliament buildings, Ottawa
02. CN Tower, Toronto
03. Chateau Frontenac, Quebec City
04. Banff Springs Hotel, Banff
05. Olympic Stadium, Montreal
06. Lions Gate Bridge, Vancouver
07. Crucifix on Mont Royal, Montreal
08. Supreme Court, Ottawa
09. Rideau Canal, Ottawa
10. Bluenose schooner, Lunenburg
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World's First Documented Baseball Game: Beachville, Ontario, June 4th, 1838.
World's First Documented Gridiron Game: University College, Toronto, November 9th, 1861.
Hamilton Tiger-Cats since 1869 & Toronto Argonauts since 1873: North America's 2 oldest pro football teams
I'm doing France since America has been done a lot already and Haiti barely has anything, but I'll still post a few. Half are in Paris and the rest is around the country
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And Haiti
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My list for Canada:
1. Parliament Buildings, Ottawa
2. CN Tower, Toronto
3. Saskatchewan Grain Elevators
4. Chateau Frontenac, Quebec City
5. Banff Springs Hotel
6. Vancouver Cruise Terminal
7. Peggy's Cove Lighthouse, Nova Scotia
8. The Bow, Calgary
9. Niagara Falls Skyline
10. Olympic Stadium, Montreal
1) Statue of Liberty
2) Empire State Building
3) Mount Rushmore
4) Grand Canyon
5) Golden Gate Bridge
6) U.S. Capitol Building
6) Grand Central Station NYC
7) Chrysler Building
8) Liberty Bell
9) The White House
10) Brooklyn Bridge
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1. 9 DeKalb Ave - Brooklyn, NYC - SHoP Architects - Photo
2. American Radiator Building - New York City - Hood, Godley, and Fouilhoux - Photo
3. One Chicago Square - Chicago - HPA and Goettsch Partners - Photo
4. Chicago Board of Trade - Chicago - Holabird & Root - Photo
5. Cathedral of Learning - Pittsburgh - Charles Klauder - Photo
Ah no, I think theyre only famous or definitive in forums like ours really. Many peeps outside the city itself don't even know they exist, let alone find them iconic . Give it another few centuries of exposure and people might just come round to the idea of modern architecture, that isn't the local Tesco. Possibly.
The only one that's managed to buck the trend is the London Eye, thanks to the fact they hold the main New Year's Eve fireworks off it. The other emblematic piece that everyone in the country knows about is the Millennium Dome/ North Greenwich Arena, but only for the PR disaster that hounded it. I might also add the Olympic Stadium pretty much stamped on everyone's forehead this year, but the logistical problem see, is that it's shit. So I won't.
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. Give it another few centuries of exposure and people might just come round to the idea of modern architecture, that isn't the local Tesco. Possibly.
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