post pics of your favorites, the best your city has to offer, or overlooked gems:
A few of my picks out of what I consider the best architectural style for skyscrapers:
Carbide & Carbon Building, Michigan Ave, Chicago. Green brick and 24k gold on the crown. According to legend the architects got the idea from a champagne bottle:
Eastern Columbia Building, Broadway, Los Angeles: blue terra cotta!
American International Building (70 Pine Street), NYC Financial District:
The Deco is in the Details: model of the building carved into the limestone entrance facade, and lamps, in aluminum:
can you spot the now-closed obervation deck? Imagine the penthouses you could get, with those terraces, if this building was converted to residential. It's 952 feet to the tip of the flagpole:
Cushman liked it, back when it was the tallest building downtown:
The Hotel Carlyle, Madison Avenue, Upper East Side NYC; google wasn't returning a lot of pics, but it really does stand out at night, seen from Central Park:
The GE Building (570 Lexington Avenue): behind St. Bart's, across the street from the Waldorf=Astoria:
might have the most interesting crown of any skyscraper- gothic tracery reinterpreted as radio waves:
this building drips with detail:
