Most intimidating skyscraper?

Jesus in a Geo · #1 Posted **Oct 22, 2007, 2:25 AM**

We've done threads about the ugliest, the most impressive, the most elusive skyscrapers and designs. What do you think is the most intimidating? What conjures images of cold, heartless executives making ruthless decisions that destroy lives?

A few of my picks...

One PPG Place, Pittsburgh. It's stunning, but it scares me at the same time.

Sears Tower, Chicago. WTB. Intimdating as Hell.

TheMeltyMan · #2 Posted **Oct 22, 2007, 2:52 AM**

The Hotel Ukraine in Moscow. One of the "7 sisters". Shown here in spooky vision.

Nowhereman1280 · #3 Posted **Oct 22, 2007, 4:53 AM**

I would have to say the Sears and John Hancock both frighten me when I am near them. I just keep getting the feeling that they are communicating with each other through their antennae and plotting to eat my family...

The Sear is more intimidating though because no one lives there. I walk on the other side of the street from it after dark...

Just kidding about the other side of the street thing... Kinda...

Austinlee · #4 Posted **Oct 22, 2007, 5:02 AM**

The Sears Tower raped my mother.

BnaBreaker · #5 Posted **Oct 22, 2007, 5:04 AM**

US Steel Tower in Pittsburgh is pretty intimidating.

KevinFromTexas · #6 Posted **Oct 22, 2007, 5:54 AM**

That monster in North Korea.

Jesus in a Geo · #7 Posted **Oct 22, 2007, 5:56 AM**

Here are some more I'm thinking of...

The AT&T Long Lines Building in lower Manhattan. The first time I saw this behemoth I thought of only evil. It took a little researching to find out what it really was.

The unfinished Ryugyong Hotel is a bizarre monolith in Pyongyang, North Korea, a testament to that country's baffling leader and government. This picture almost makes it seem like some kind of egyptian landmark, with a huge stone slab positioned in what appears to be a barren landscape.

dallasbrink · #8 Posted **Oct 22, 2007, 6:48 AM**

Republic National Bank Tower

Tanster · #9 Posted **Oct 22, 2007, 6:55 AM**

WOAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that pyramid tower looks very INTIMIDATING. Looks like it was built for death. Looks as if it has dark creepy never ending rooms. And if you get draged into the building you will never come out. Thats what comes into mind when I see that building.

Rufus · #10 Posted **Oct 22, 2007, 7:28 AM**

It's more than one building, but the Ren Cen in Detroit:

Very fitting for a mega-corporation like General Motors. Cold, calculating and soulless. It breeds paranoia the way it sits detached from the rest of Detroit, however dominating.

It's pretty kickass, imo.

M.K. · #11 Posted **Oct 22, 2007, 12:47 PM**

^^^ as the guy says here above, my impressions of BMW company is also evil, soulless, arrogance, a sam of bitch company as only mad people is inside making automobile slaves. So, the headquarters of it it is the madness building in city. It is like a giant tentacles Octopus eating all around.

Everytime in my past I had to be in contact with such company, make me tumors and psicose headaches. It is really the demonion in earth.

johnnypd · #12 Posted **Oct 22, 2007, 1:08 PM**

The Bonaventure hotel is LA is a lot like that building in Detroit, a city in itself, but on a smaller scale. Built by Aliens, i think.

theWatusi · #13 Posted **Oct 22, 2007, 4:02 PM**

Bell Atlantic (Verizon) Building

http://phillyskyline.com/500/verizon_niteupplaza.jpg

Mr Roboto · #14 Posted **Oct 22, 2007, 4:25 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jesus in a Geo

The AT&T Long Lines Building in lower Manhattan.

Yes! This building scared the crap out of me when i saw it. Where are the damn windows? I was thinking, is it a prison? The color and sterility remind me of the prison on Harrison and Clark in the Chicago loop, only much bigger.

And the one in Pyongyang is the scariest skyscraper ever built IMO.

Also what about the batman building in Nashville? I guess only for criminals...

bamawester (flickr)

MolsonExport · #15 Posted **Oct 22, 2007, 4:30 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jesus in a Geo

Here are some more I'm thinking of...

The AT&T Long Lines Building in lower Manhattan. The first time I saw this behemoth I thought of only evil. It took a little researching to find out what it really was.

The unfinished Ryugyong Hotel is a bizarre monolith in Pyongyang, North Korea, a testament to that country's baffling leader and government. This picture almost makes it seem like some kind of egyptian landmark, with a huge stone slab positioned in what appears to be a barren landscape.

Yup, That would be the one.

atl2phx · #16 Posted **Oct 22, 2007, 5:02 PM**

tokyo government building:

Evergrey · #17 Posted **Oct 22, 2007, 5:48 PM**

The Drake - Philadelphia

M.K. · #18 Posted **Oct 22, 2007, 5:55 PM**

^^^ That above is a mixture of Spanish Castle & Church freightning...

Gamma-Hamster · #19 Posted **Oct 22, 2007, 7:11 PM**

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow

Canadian_Bacon · #20 Posted **Oct 22, 2007, 8:35 PM**

I remember when I first seen the Ryugyong Hotel in pictures and read about it and how it will not be finished. It kind of has a sad story behind it. But that picture reminds me of something from the movie resident evil or something where everything is abandoned. It definitely is high on the freaky buildings list.

Does anyone have pictures of what it was suppose to look like?

That AT&T Long Lines Building is also strange... looks like no windows. I actually like that tokyo government building. Looks nice.