What are the Top 10 most iconic sturctures ever made?
1. Pyramids of Giza
2. Eiffle Tower
3. Big Ben
4. Leaning Tower of Pisa
5. Empire State Building
6. St. Basil's Cathedral
7. Tahj Mahal (spelling is probably wrong)
8. Sydney Opera House
9. The Roman Colessium
10. The Brooklyn Bridge
What do you think are the top ten iconic structures ever made?
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Ones that just missed the cut (IMO): (in no order)
-Hoover Dam
-Sydney Harbor Bridge
-Chrysler Building
-Former WTC
-John Hancock Building
-Seattle Space Needle
-CN Tower
-Golden Gate Bridge
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1. Pyramids of Giza
2. Eiffel Tower
3. Big Ben
4. Leaning Tower of Pisa
5. Empire State Building
6. St. Basil's Cathedral
7. Tahj Mahal (spelling is probably wrong)
8. Sydney Opera House
9. The Roman Colessium
10. The Brooklyn Bridge
What do you think are the top ten iconic structures ever made?
As repeated ad nauseum by every Londoner for the last 100 odd years.
Big Ben is the bell that chimes the hour, the clock tower which houses it is called The Clock Tower or St Stephen's Tower.
The Parthenon
The Roman Colosseum
Pyramids of Giza
Notre Dame Cathedral
Golden Gate Bridge
Taj Mahal
Statue of Liberty
US Capitol
The Roman Pantheon
John Hancock Center ()
Empire State Building
Golden Gate Bridge
Statue of Liberty
Pyramids of Giza
Sydney Opera House
Great Wall of China
Taj Mahal
Eiffel Tower
Houses of Parliament
Christ the Redeemer
Other possibilities:
World Trade Center
the Colosseum
CN Tower
the Pathenon
Notre Dame
Machu Picchu
Chrysler Building
Moais, Easter Island
The list really is endless
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Not really. To me iconic is not something that you'd necessarilythrow on a postcard, but something that is extensively emulated and has lasting meaning for global culture.
/\ if that is your def., then there is no way John Hancock fits on your list...
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1. Pyramids of Giza
2. Eiffel Tower
3. Great Wall
4. Statue of Liberty
5. Taj Mahal
6. Mecca Mosque (over a billion people pray to it 5x a day)
7. Big Ben clocktower
8. Kremlin
9. Forbidden City
10. Coliseum
Ones that just missed the cut (IMO): (in no order)
-Hoover Dam
-Sydney Harbor Bridge
-Chrysler Building
-Former WTC
-John Hancock Building
-Seattle Space Needle
-CN Tower
-Golden Gate Bridge
Hagia Sophia
Mont St. Michel
at least one structure from the Aztec Empire
something in Washington D.C. - U.S. Capitol, Jefferson Memorial, etc.
Biltmore Estate
Angkor Wat
Dome of the Rock
About 50 icons, what you could show to most people in any given country and they would know what it was:
Some a little less known by photo, but everyone knows their importance (like, say, the Suez Canal, you may not know it quickly by looks, but you know it is iconic and important)
Man Made top 50-ish
Eiffel Tower
Pyramids at Giza
Hollywood Sign
Golden Gate Bridge
Sydney Opera House
Brasilia
Great Wall of China
St. Basils
Panama Canal
Houses of Parliament
Temple of the Golden Pavillion (Kyoto)
Taj Mahal
Angkor Wat Temple
The Louvre/Pyramid
Teotihuacan
Empire State Building
Mecca
Brooklyn Bridge
Christ the Redeemer
Mt. Rushmore
Petronas Towers
Coliseum
Parthenon
Great Sphynx
St. Peter's Basilica
Brandenberg Gate
CP Hotel Banff (the one in all the postcards of Banff)
Times Square
Suez Canal
Easter Island
Hoover Dam
Potala Palace (Lhasa, Tibet's famous hillside temple)
Haghia Sophia
Three Gorges Dam
U.S. Capital Building
Machu Piccu
Oriental Pearl Tower
Central Park
The Kremlin
Auschwitz (or Dachau)
Taipei 101
Oxford University Campus
Tiananmen Square
Transamerica Pyramid
Itsukushima Shrine (Japanese temple gate in the water)
Piccadilly Circus
10 future and up-and-coming icons:
Burj Dubai
Millau Viaduct
Freedom Tower, WTC 2,3,4
SWFC
Bird's Nest Stadium
CCTV Tower
The Shard
Moscow Tower
Chicago Spire
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Brooklyn and Golden Gate are really equally iconic (IMO) being that they were the first example of suspension bridges. It can go either way, but the fact that Brooklyn was built first (the first suspension bridge) and I'm a New Yorker, I opt for it.
Then you have the height for the Golden Gate........It can really go back and forth. Both are highly iconic.
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additional possibilities:
at least one structure from the Aztec Empire
I think the main tower (temple 4 or 5) at Tikal might work better, that was Mayan. The Temple of the Sun at Teotihuacan is another amazing one, and that predates the Aztecs. Both of them are certainly deserving.
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1.taj mahal
2.golden gate bridge
3.eiffel tower
4.coliseum
5.big ben clock tower
6.Statue of liberty (not sure it counts but hey its iconic)
7.Great Pyramid of Giza
8.sydney opera house
9.white house
10.hollywood sign
i have seen 7 of my 10 in person, just waiting on numbers 1, 7 and 8
Last edited by lfc4life; Oct 11, 2007 at 11:35 AM.
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true, it would be hard to limit the list to 50. narrowing it down to 10 would be downright impossible (at least for me)
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