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Originally Posted by Thundertubs
I certainly recognize that Chicago wins on most criteria, but in terms of large skyscrapers the top-5 from Detroit simply capture my imagination more than the top-5 from Chicago.
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that's fine, but the question in this thread wasn't "which city's top 5 pre-war buildings capture your imagination most?", it was "who's got the best
collection?" when art museums are rated, they aren't rated by the 5 best works in the museum, they're rated by the entire body of their
collection, and in that vein, there's just no way that detroit's "museum" can hang with chicago's. there are simply far too many absolutely critical and vital examples of some of the most important prewar skyscraper architecture in chicago for detroit to come in ahead of it. chicago is one of only two cities on the planet where the entire skyscraper building form was birthed into existence. i just don't see any legitimate way to argue that new york and chicago aren't #1 & #2 when it comes to their overall pre-war skyscraper collections. they are the two cities that taught the whole world how to build vertical cities.
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Originally Posted by Thundertubs
We having nothing quite like the Penobscot, Guardian, Book, Cadillac, Broderick, or Stott towers.
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and those are all wonderful buildings, but it's also important to remember that detroit has nothing quite like CBoT, civic opera, chicago temple, palmolive, pittsfield, lasalle-wacker, 1 north lasalle, jeweler's, mather tower, carbide & carbon, metropolitan tower, american furniture mart, hotel intercontintal, randolph tower, tribune tower, wrigley building, 333 N michigan, the allerton, the merchanidise mart, etc. chicago has got pre-war skyscraper quality every bit as good as detroit's best, and then just overwhelms it with numbers. and that's not even getting into all of the shorter chicago school buildings - reliance, auditorium, carson pierre scott, fisher, chicago building, brooks, etc.