The Top 15 Buildings That Identify Your City: - Page 3

aluminum · #41 Posted **Oct 12, 2007, 3:53 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by munda

1) Sears Tower
2) John Hancock Center
3) Lake Point Tower
4) Wrigley Building/ Wrigley Field
5) Reliance Building
6) Marina City
7) Chicago Board of Trade
8) CNA Plaza
9) Tribune Tower
10) Two Prudential Plaza
11) Thompson Center
12) Merchandise Mart
13) Carbide & Carbon Building
14) Water Tower Place
15) Millennium Park
16) 311 South Wacker Drive

How can you forget the huge-ass Aon right in the middle of the skyline ?

Jonny722 · #42 Posted **Oct 12, 2007, 4:40 PM**

Everytime I come back to Montreal, I go to Julep straight from Dorval! Sooo good!

Orange Julep

Wooster · #43 Posted **Oct 12, 2007, 5:16 PM**

For Calgary these would be my choices:

1. Calgary Tower

2. Bow (U/C if that counts)

2. Petro Canada Centre

3. Saddledome

6. Elveden Centre

7. Bay Building

8. Bankers Hall

9. Palliser Hotel

10: Ski Jumps - I bet nothing like this in any other top 15!!

11. Nexen
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12. Calgary Science Centre

13. McDougall Centre (or any sandstone school for that matter)

14: Lancaster Building

15. Lindsay Park

lawsond · #44 Posted **Oct 12, 2007, 10:48 PM**

hmmm toronto in order of what i would assume people MIGHT recognize:

1) CN tower
2) skydome/rogers centre
3) new city hall (revell)
4) ROM crystal (liebskind)
5) TD centre (mies)
6) OCAD floating thingie (alsop)
7) union station (angus macfartle)
.....holy crap i'm running out....uhhh
8) BCE Place & atrium (calatrava)
9) Eaton Centre (jack-slap-it-up diamond)
10) Casa Loma (some crazy rich dude)
11) FCP i guess since it's the tallest (joe average)
12) Trump Tower...now under construction and Donald said just today it will be one of the most beautiful buildings in the WOOOORLD and he would never exaggerate.
13) Bata shoe museum because it is the tiny perfect building
....oh dear...two more...shit.
14) ehn...myeh...scotiabank place because it's tall
15) Commerce court because (IM Pei) designed it...and it's relatively tallish.

LivingIn622 · #45 Posted **Oct 13, 2007, 12:36 AM**

my top 15 for Detroit.
1. Renassiance center
2. Penboscot building
3. Fisher Building Guardian building
4. Guardian building
5. Comerica tower
6. Madden building
7. David Scott building
8. Wayne County Building
9. Book-Cadillac
10. Book tower
11. Woodward ave.
12. Ambassador bridge
13. Fox theatre
14. Cadillac tower
15. Comerica park

goblin king · #46 Posted **Oct 13, 2007, 4:19 AM**

For Mexico City

1.Catedral Metropolitana

2.Bellas Artes

3.Torre Latinoamericana

4.Bolsa Mexicana de Valores

5.Torre Mayor

6.Residencial del Bosque

7.Castillo de Chapultepec

8.WTC México

9.Torre de Pemex

10.Palacio de los deportes

11.Estadio Azteca

12.Ciudad Universitaria

13.La Basílica de Guadalupe

14.Banobras

15.Arcos Bosques

J.Dskyhigh · #47 Posted **Oct 16, 2007, 7:49 PM**

San Antonio:
1.The Alamo
2.Tower of the Americas
3.Mariott Rivercenter
4.Weston Centre
5.The New Grand Hyatt
6.Tower of life
7.Bank of America
8.Tower at Park Lane
9.Crowne Plaza
10.Frost Tower
11Milam Building
12.Drury Plaza Riverwalk
13.Southwestern Bell Building
14.And the new coming up Vidorra 1
15.Vidorra 2

About Half of those Buildings r un heard of in San Antonio but those r the tallest seen in the skyline

krudmonk · #48 Posted **Oct 17, 2007, 6:42 AM**

Estadio Azteca ranks only 11th in DF???

TransitEngr · #49 Posted **Oct 20, 2007, 11:43 PM**

Well.... my beloved NYC and Chicago have been done to death...

So let me do Jo'burg (including the Johannesburg CBD, Hillbrow, Marshalltown, Braamfontein, and Sandton)

1. Hillbrow Tower (the actual symbol of the city)
2. Pointe City Apartments
3. Carlton Center Office Tower
4. Standard Bank Centre (fuck'n cool building... the floors litterally hang from support columns... my Dad used to work in this tower.)
5. Jo'burg General Hospital (had plenty of visits there as a kid to get stiched up...

)
6. Tambo Johannesburg International Airport
7. Michelangelo Tower
8. Johannesburg Stock Exchange (the old one downtown.... not the new one)
9. Egoli Hotel
10. Carlton Hotel (think this is mothballed now??)
11. City Hall
12. Mandela Bridge
13. Gold Mine Hoists (generic)
14. Sandton City Shopping Mall
15. The Oriental Market (I have great memories of it as a kid)

goblin king · #50 Posted **Oct 22, 2007, 12:22 AM**

krudmonk, sorry I forgot to say that list is in no particular order

rsbear · #51 Posted **Oct 22, 2007, 2:51 AM**

For Portland my picks are (in no specific order):

U.S. Bancorp Tower (1983)
Oregon Convention Center (1990)
Portland Building (1982)
KOIN Center (1984)
Pioneer Courthouse (1869)
Portland International Airport (2001 expansion / remodel)
Union Station (1895)
Pittock Mansion (1909)
Fox Tower (2000)
Portland Center for the Performing Arts (1927 & 1984)
Portland Art Museum (1932)
Commonwealth Building (1948)
Standard Plaza (1962)
Wells Fargo Center (1973)
Park Avenue West (2010)

If any friendly Portland forum users see this post and want to add photos - go for it!

Zblackerby · #52 Posted **Oct 26, 2007, 1:05 AM**

Detroit (in no order)
1. Renaissance Center
2. Guardian
3. Wayne County
4. Penobscot
5. Fisher
6. Comerica Tower
7. David Stott
8. Book-Cadillac
9. Broderick Tower
10. Book Tower
11. Fox Theatre
12. Cadillac Tower
13. GM
14. Dime
15. David Whitney

GregBear24 · #53 Posted **Nov 12, 2007, 7:26 PM**

Chi-town (including near future in bold)
I tried to make this list from a non-chicagoan's perspective in no particular order.

Big John
SPIRE
Sears
Trib Tower
Wrigley
Smurfit-Stone
Cna
Aon
Marina City
TRUMP
Prudential Plaza bldgs
Merchandise Mart
Water Tower (does that count?)
RR Donelly bldg
Board of Trade
-Many others that could be on this list

STERNyc · #54 Posted **Nov 12, 2007, 8:19 PM**

My New York City List:

1. Empire State Building/ WTC former and future
2. Chrysler Building
3. Rockefeller Center
4. United Nations
5. Flatiron Building
6. Grand Central Terminal
7. The Signage Covered 1 Times Square
8. Citicorp Center
9. Met Life Building
10. New York Library
11. Plaza Hotel
12. Woolworth Building
13. Sony Building
14. Trump Tower
15. Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Museum of Natural History

Fabb · #55 Posted **Nov 12, 2007, 8:42 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dac150

What buildings in your city are ones that people look at and automatically know where they are? Name the top 15.

New York
1. Empire State Building and former WTC
2. Chrysler Building
3. 1 Times Square
4. Rockafeller Center
5. United Nations
6. Citigroup Center
7. Metlife Building
8. 40 Wall Street
9. Woolworth Building
10. 1 Worldwide Plaza
11. 1 Astor Plaza
12. Conde Nast Building
13. World Financial Center
14. Solow Building
15. 70 Pine Street

I don't really agree with that list. Too many skyscrapers, not enough prominent/iconic buildings.

The Guggenheim museum, the San Remo / Eldorado apartments, the Ansonia, the Sherry Netherland and the New Yorker hotel... should be in that list.

Dac150 · #56 Posted **Nov 12, 2007, 9:48 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fabb

I don't really agree with that list. Too many skyscrapers, not enough prominent/iconic buildings.

The Guggenheim museum, the San Remo / Eldorado apartments, the Ansonia, the Sherry Netherland and the New Yorker hotel... should be in that list.

No, I agree with you. I really meant this thread to only be for skyscrapers. I should have clarified that better in the title, but oh well.

Tom Servo · #57 Posted **Nov 13, 2007, 2:29 AM**

this is a list of buildings that identify chicago... not to be confused with a list of the greatest buildings in chicago. that is, this list is not indicative of any amount of quality, rather it is reflective only of popularity or symbolic status.

1. sears and john hancock.

*mine

2. tribune and wrigley. the famous duo...

*http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikemac29/

3. the chicago theater

*http://chicago.urban-history.org/sit...rs/chicago.htm

4. the marina city twins

*mine

*public domain

5. that black and white edifice that is everything 80's. smurfit-stone building

*http://enatflow.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html

6. wrigley field

*public domain

7. water tower

*http://www.artline.com/galleries/aar.../catalog9.html

8. the trio of 333 n michigan, 360 n michigan, mather tower

*photo, http://www.mychicagotravelguide.com/...ts/1/ig?page=7

*mine

9. 35 e wacker

*mine

10. the trio of AON, 1pru, and 2pru

*http://home.xnet.com/~jkelley/Virtua....fldr/Aon.html

i can't think of anything else that is truly representative of the city. that is, instantly recognized as chicago by anyone around the world. sure, there are LOTS of other well-known, popular, great, etc buildings in chicago... but in my opinion, these are what i see as symbolic and instantly identify chicago.