5 favorite buildings?

[R@ptor]

Chrysler Building, NYC
Bank of China, Hong Kong
Jin Mao Tower, Shanghai
Woolworth Building, NYC
Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur

[skylife]

Chrysler Building, NYC

Taj Mahal, Agra

Hungarian Parliament, Budapest

Swiss Re Tower, London

La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona

[M.K.]

I they are too much, but I will make some category:

1- Building: Bank of China Hong Kong, but Burj Al Arab I will include equally.
2- TV Tower: Berlin Fernsehturm, here also a little bit of TV Globo new in SP.
3- Church: Duomo Milan
4- Museum: Bilbao, MAC Niterói
5- Bridge: Milau Viaduct, but all Calatravas and so on.

and so on

6- Tower & Monument: Tour Eiffel, I edited including Eiffel Tower as it was the first supertall in world for years... if a sixth category would exist here.

[WonderlandPark]

Since this is BUILDINGS and not just skyscrapers:

1-Millau Viaduct (structure)
2-Alianz Arena (stadium)
3-Fallingwater (house)
4-Hong Kong Bank (skyscraper)
5-Angkor Wat (building)
bonus-Eiffel Tower (tower)

[andi204]

Here are my fav buildings in the world... in so specific order.

Sony Center & Deutsche Bahn Tower
Berlin, Berlin, Germany


Westendstraße 1
Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany


1 Canada Square
London, England, United Kingdom


Notre Dame
Paris, Île de France, France


Dome of the Rock
Jerusalem, Israel

[Tom In Chicago]

Tom's 5 Favorite Skyscrapers
-Burj al-Arab (Dubai)
-Inland Steel Building (Chicago)
-Deutsche Bank (Frankfurt)
-Loyd's RE-Insurance Building (London)
-HSBC (Hong Kong)

Tom's 5 Favorite Chicago Mies-ian Skyscrapers
-Sears Tower
-John Hancock Center
-IBM Building
-Federal Center
-Lake Point Tower

Tom's 5 Favorite New York City Art-Deco Skyscrapers
-Empire State Building
-Chrysler Building
-Rockafeller Center
-Radiator Building
-McGraw Hill Building

Tom's 5 Favorite Contextual/Revival Skyscrapers
-Petronas Towers (Kuala Lumpur)
-Jin Mao (Shanghai)
-Taipei 101 (Taipei)
-Transco Tower (Houston)
-333 Wacker (Chicago)

[lukeit]

with good personality:

empire state building
petronas tower
hancock center
bank of china (HK)
burj kalifa


without personality:

aon building (chicago)
us bank tower (los angeles)
wells fargo plaza (houston)
jp morgan (houston)
trump int. (chicago)

[hunser]

in NYC:

- chrysler building
- empire state building
- woolworth building
- american international building
- met life tower

in the future: beekman tower and maybe 2WTC & shanghai tower

in the world:

- chrysler building
- empire state building
- bank of china, HK
- 2 IFC, HK
- woolworth building

honorable mention:

SWFC, ICC, jin mao tower, burj khalifa, sears tower, john hancock center, trump tower (chicago), rockefeller center, petronas towers.

[TXLove]

This is hard!

Foutain Place (Dallas)
Bank of America (Charlotte)
Sovereign 3344 (Atlanta)
Williams Tower (Houston)
PPG Place (Pittsburgh)

[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

For NY
1)Empire State Building
2)Chrysler Building
3)Bank of America Tower
4) GE building/NY Times Tower
5)Citicorp Center/Metlife Building/Time Warner Center(ya i know a 3 way tie)

Elsewhere
1)Shanghai World Financial Center
2)2 International Finance Center
3)Sears Tower
4)Trump Tower Chicago
5)John Hancock Center

[Aleks]

i agree with txlove! i dont think i can pick, im too much of a lover, i just love too many buildings everywhere, from paris, london, chicago, new york, seattle, shanghai, ukraine, and yeahh... basically in every continent except antartica.

[jctender]

1 - Comcast Center (Philadelphia)
2 - Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles)
3 - Empire State Building (New York)
4 - Mellon Bank Center (Philadelphia)
5 - City Hall (Philadelphia)

[mrnyc]

so hows about your favorite "meshy" buildings?

nyc nytimes
nyc new museum
nyc metal shutter house
rio petrobas
berlin velodrome

[Gresto]

Originally Posted by aluminum

These are my favorite 5 :

1. Aon Center (Chicago)
2. FCP (Toronto)
3. JPMorgan Chase Tower (Houston)
4. Cheung Kong Center ( Hong Kong )
5. One Chase Manhattan Plaza (New York)

^ All are boxes without setbacks.

We share the same taste, but are probably pretty alone in that.

[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

Originally Posted by Gresto

We share the same taste, but are probably pretty alone in that.

no your not i love box building,infact i think there should be more boxes,when done right boxes can be amazing

[wwmiv]

I'm going to limit myself to recent architecture. Buildings like Empire (which are classics) cannot be compared with buildings like Buckingham Palace. These, in turn, cannot be compared with buildings like the Pyramids. Different eras deserve different lists.

Foreign:

1. 2 International Finance Centre (Hong Kong)
2. 30 St. Mary Axe (London)
3. Dentsu Headquarters (Tokyo)
4. Torre Agbar (Barcelona)
5. London Shard (obviously tentative)

Domestic:

1. 2 World Trade Center (obviously tentative)
2. Frost Bank (Austin)
3. Bank of America (New York City)
4. Bank of America (Charlotte)
5. Chesapeake Plaza (Fort Worth)

Non-Skyscrapers:

1. London City Hall
2. Sydney Opera House
3. Scottish Parliament Complex
4. Fallingwater (the oldest building on my list... by far)
5. Stata Center (MIT)

[jodelli]

1. ESB
2. Big John
3. Chrysler Bldg
4. Tribune Tower
5. Guardian Bldg

Residential lowrise:
1. Fallingwater
2. Chemosphere, Encino (or thereabout)
3. Habitat, Montreal
4. Dymaxion House, Dearborn, MI.
5. Biltmore

[OneWorldTradeCenter]

1.) One World Trade Center, NYC (541m)
2.) Empire State Building, NYC (381m)
3.) Pentominium, Dubai (516m)
4.) Bank of America Tower (366m)
5.) Willis Tower, Chicago (442m)

[lukeit]

3.) Pentominium, Dubai (516m)

you're sure will finished same the project?. it's early for like