Skyscraper Twins
 

Do you know of any buildings that have cousins in another city?

Pair 1

Hong Kong - 2 IFC

http://www.globalphotos.org/hongkong...04-S01-046.jpg

Jersey City - 30 Hudson Street

http://www.globalphotos.org/newyork/...5/RIMG9055.jpg

Pair 2

Hong Kong - Bank of China Tower

http://www.globalphotos.org/hongkong...04-S02-018.jpg

Wuxi - Bank of China

http://www.globalphotos.org/wuxi/200...03-S03-098.jpg

Pair 3

Pittsburgh - 1 PPG Place

http://www.globalphotos.org/pittsburgh/DSCN7319.jpg

Seoul - a church

http://www.globalphotos.org/southkor...03-S01-047.jpg

Petro Canada Centre in Calgary:
http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/da...etrocan1_2.jpg

And Wells Fargo Center in Denver:
http://denverskyscrapers.com/urbanco...wellsfargo.jpg

They are perhaps not so much "twins" as they are illegitimate children!

:crazy:

Key Tower, Cleveland and Bank of America Center, Charlotte (fraternal twins):

http://www.clevelandskyscrapers.com/...and/keysun.jpg

Image of BofA taken by his royal awesomeness, Flash - from metroscenes.com:
http://www.metroscenes.com/charlotte/images/clt52.jpg

id say an pelli building is pretty similar to another one of his works.
peachtree hilton in atlanta
and the ren cen in detroit

Two liberty place (in philadelphia) has a twin somewhere over in asia, can't remmeber what city.

Embarcadero Center - San Francisco, CA
http://www.portmanholdings.com/image...ird_to_bay.jpg

Peachtree Center - Atlanta, GA
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...reecenter7.jpg

3 World Financial Center (New York)
http://www.wirednewyork.com/wfc/imag...ina_21sept.jpg

One Canada Square (London)
http://www.rash.demon.co.uk/images/a...anarywharf.jpg

Both were designed by Cesar Pelli.

Montreal's 1250 Rene Levesque
http://archiguide.free.fr/PH/CAN/Mon...evesqueKPF.jpg
Frankfurt's Westendstraße 1
http://www.kpf.com/images/Projects/d...579_5005az.jpg

RenCen, Detriot
http://static.flickr.com/1/3089483_631fbf01a4_m.jpg

Westin Peachtree, Atlanta
http://www.hotelus.com/hotel-image-f...080-105321.jpg

And the porgenitor or IFC and Goldman Sachs: 181 Madison, Chicago
http://www.cdc-usa.com/w3/projects/i...estmadison.jpg

This one reminds me of 225 South Sixth in Minneapolis
http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/7134/225bldg5au.jpg
http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/3093/usbank41pu.jpg

Two Prudential Plaza in Chicago
and
Two Liberty Place in Philadelphia

Bellsouth Tower, Nashville Tennessee
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/lexyky/jj.jpg

Melbourne Central, Melbourne Australia
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...melcentral.jpg

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...s/Chicago9.jpg

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...adelphia14.jpg

Bingo!


And the similarity between 1PPG and the Seoul church is crazy.

That's because 225 South Sixth in Minneapolis was designed by Steven Freed from I.M. Pei's office. One of the architects working for him left the firm during the design development to join Kohn Pedersen Fox and became the major designer of the Frankfurt tower. The Minneapolis tower pre-dates the Frankfurt tower by about a year. So these two towers really are cousins, though I think the Minneapolis tower is far more elegant.

Can't find pix, but both London and Barcelona have large penile looking glass buildings...

The Philly twins...

http://www.aecinfo.com/1/resourcefil.../19/elf08a.JPG

1.
Sears Tower, Chicago IL
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/...yscraper_1.jpg
?, Tokyo
http://skyscraperphotos.com/cit/dja01/d/izja175.jpg
2.
Chrysler Building, New York, NY
http://www.adamandlyn.co.uk/images/chrysler.jpg
1 and 2 Liberty Place, Philly, PA
http://www.thecityreview.com/skyter10.jpg
Zhongtian International Mansion, Urumqi, China
http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/da...3zhongtian.jpg
?, Santiago, Chile
http://www.enjoy-chile.org/chile-pic...o-santiago.jpg



With the instances of complete and inexecusable plaigerism such as the Liberty Place/Chinese copy and 1 PPG/S. Korean church I think there really should be some legal consequences.

Oh, and by the way, all of Cesar Pelli's buildings look the same, anyway.

Sony Tower, New York, NY
http://www.thecityreview.com/sonyatt10.gif

Edificio Simon Bolivar, Santiago, Chile
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/7248/ghj9ds.jpg