The Top 15 Buildings That Identify Your City:

[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

[Austin55]

you said the top 20,but only listed 15.


Bank of america
Fountin place
reunion tower
Chase tower
Trammel crow
JP morgan chase
Renniesance tower
SBC center
Thanksgiving Tower
Energy plaza
repulic center
cityplace center
Hyat regency
Mercintile
magnolia

I forgot about the W hotel
http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?c92

[sprtsluvr8]

My picks for Atlanta:

The Georgia Dome

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ucumari/481430551/


Bank of America Plaza

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10987538@N03/1024009840/


Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fermicat/1392360271/


Georgia Tech Tower

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockyhunter/238921546/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimdoeden/466617373/


The Fox Theater

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jburns00/80390911/



CNN Center

http://www.flickr.com/photos/disneymike/679050860/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/debaird/650902522/


The High Museum

http://www.flickr.com/photos/keegiespics/482713275/


One Atlantic Center (IBM Tower)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nanophotonic/56072508/


Georgia State Capitol

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fusionpanda/1497324922/


The Flatiron Building

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rodlewis/890998999/


The Big Chicken

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10413717@N08/1716142005/


191 Peachtree Tower

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fusionpanda/1496480895/


Hyatt Regency

http://www.flickr.com/photos/okaycity/313775714/


Suntrust Plaza

http://www.flickr.com/photos/88591188@N00/66947074/


Georgia World Congress Center

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryleymthompson/237700830/


Phillips Arena

http://www.flickr.com/photos/50831090@N00/305203720/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/21247770@N00/118198055/

[StethJeff]

Library Tower
Capitol Records Building
Griffith Observatory
Staples Center
City Hall
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Southwestern University (Bullock's Wilshire)
Fox Plaza
Bonaventure Hotel
One Wilshire
UCLA Royce Hall
LAX Theme Building
Hotel Roosevelt
Argyle Building
Chinese Theater

[Derek]

The Emerald Building, and probably nothing else.

[raggedy13]

For Vancouver there are probably very few, if any, that would be internationally recognized but if there were to be a top 15 they would be the following (in no particular order):

1) Harbour Centre

web.downtownvan.com/index.asp?p=11

2) Canada Place

Mine

3) Science World

www.downtownvancouver.com

4) One Wall Centre

Mine

5) Shaw Tower

www.danheller.com

6) Marine Building

Mine

7) Sun Tower

http://commons.wikimedia.org

8) Dominion Building

http://commons.wikimedia.org

9) Law Courts

www.arthurerickson.com

10) BC Place

www.vancouver.metblogs.com

11) Vancouver Public Library

www.vancouverbnb.com

12) Hotel Vancouver

www.victoriansociety.org

13) Cathedral Place
on the left...

Mine

14) Vancouver Museum/Planetarium/H.R. MacMillan Space Centre

www.eyeseavancouver.com

15) City Hall

www.japan-guide.com

There are probably some better examples that I'm completely forgetting.

[sprtsluvr8]

I have to disagree with you about the recognition of buildings in Vancouver. Granted I have spent some time Vancouver, but having one of the world's most beautiful skylines I imagine many people worldwide can recognize several of the buildings in your post. I actually recognized most of them.

[Alliance]

1. John Hancock Center
2. Sears Tower
3. Smurfit-Stone Building
4. Lake Point Tower
5. Marina City
6. Wrigley Building
7. CNA Plaza
8. Tribune Tower
9. Inland Steel Building
10. Chicago Board of Trade
11. 333 North Wacker
12. IBM Building
13. Sofitel Suites
14. Reliance Building
15. Musem of Science and Industry

do I have to stop?

[Dac150]

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No AON Center?????

[Patrick]

Originally Posted by Dac150

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No AON Center?????

Its the Aon Center, theres nothing special about it, a normal person would think its a building from New York or one of the World Trade Center Towers had they seen a picture of it.

[Aleks]

The AON Center in Chicago is awesome. I love it.

Seattle:
1.Duhh Space Needle
2.Columbia Tower (tallest building in Seattle at 937 feet)
3.Smith Tower (tallest building in the World outside of New York and Chicago when it was built)
4.1001 3rd Ave. (the first tall box tower in Seattle)
5.Safeco Field (first MLS stadium in the West coast with a retractable roof)
6.King Dome (demolished)
7. WAMU Tower (tallest skyscraper in over a decade)
8.Washington Mutual Tower (voted best skyscraper in the U.S. when built)
9.2 Union Square (voted the fanciest skyscraper in Seattle)
10. Seattle Art Museum (known for the famous hammer guy)
11.E.M.P. (a building designed but Gehry in the shape of a twisted guitar, had tallest LCD screen in the world when built)
12.Pike Place Market (longest running market in the U.S.)
13.Benaroya Hall (one of the nicest symphony halls in the Western U.S.)
14.Seahawks Stadium (home of the Seattle Seahawks, NFL)
15.Seattle Municipal Tower (Fourth tallest in Seattle and designed to resemble a tree/cabin)

I can keep going..........

[TheMeltyMan]

Notre Dame Basilica



Hotel De Ville



St. Joseph's Oratory



Farine Five Roses



Place Ville-Marie



Orange Julep



1000 de La Gauchetière



Olympic Stadium



Université de Montréal

img]http://www.adpfm.ca/contentImages/CC41B24B-161E-4A68-981CC8B5EED8BF32.jpeg[/img]

Biosphere



Bonsecours Market



Aldred Building (i remember this shot being taken by someone here)



Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral



Habitat 67



Windsor Station



Sun Life Building



Tour de la Bourse

[Alliance]

Originally Posted by Dac150

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No AON Center?????

I like it, but it is the bastard child of Chicago Supertalls. It has a wonderful presence, but as far as "defining" Chicago architecture, I had a hard time placing it before any of those 15.

[Nowhereman1280]

Originally Posted by Alliance

I like it, but it is the bastard child of Chicago Supertalls. It has a wonderful presence, but as far as "defining" Chicago architecture, I had a hard time placing it before any of those 15.

I agree with you list Alliance, but I would put Aon on there before IBM because the list is by what buildings would make people automatically know where they are. IBM is the generic black box style and, though dramatically different looking from our perspective as skyscraper geeks, most people couldn't tell apart IBM, the ones in Illinois Center, and the courthouse, let alone the countless copies in other cities.

Five years ago I would say Aon shouldn't be on this list, but since the completion of Millennium park and the bean, countless pictures of the Randolf Street wall are now being used to represent Chicago. It's fame has certainly gone up since then. I think 2 pru might even deserve to be on that list if you do it by buildings that people identify with your city because of this same MP effect.

[Dac150]

Originally Posted by Alliance

I like it, but it is the bastard child of Chicago Supertalls. It has a wonderful presence, but as far as "defining" Chicago architecture, I had a hard time placing it before any of those 15.

I thought it would make the cut based off it's distinct presence. I personally like that architecture, but many people do not.

[Buckeye Native 001]

Cincinnati (in no particular order):

01. Carew Tower
02. PNC Tower
03. Scripps Center
04. P&G Headquarters
05. CG&E/Cinergy/Duke Energy Building
06. Music Hall
07. City Hall
08. Union Terminal
09. Cincinnati Gardens
10. Isaac M. Wise Temple
11. St. Xavier Church
12. Taft Museum
13. Aronoff Center
14. Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center
15. 800 Broadway

[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

[Patrick]

Originally Posted by Nowhereman1280

I agree with you list Alliance, but I would put Aon on there before IBM because the list is by what buildings would make people automatically know where they are. IBM is the generic black box style and, though dramatically different looking from our perspective as skyscraper geeks, most people couldn't tell apart IBM, the ones in Illinois Center, and the courthouse, let alone the countless copies in other cities.

Five years ago I would say Aon shouldn't be on this list, but since the completion of Millennium park and the bean, countless pictures of the Randolf Street wall are now being used to represent Chicago. It's fame has certainly gone up since then. I think 2 pru might even deserve to be on that list if you do it by buildings that people identify with your city because of this same MP effect.

I agree, I dont think the IBM building should have made it on there.

I also agree, with the countless new tourist photos of the Bean and the rest of Millenium Park, 1Pru, 2Pru and Aon Center cluster should easily be reconizible now. I take back my word on the Aon Center.

I dont live in Chicago, but here are the buildings that come into my head when I think CHICAGO

JUST SKYSCRAPERS

1. Sears Tower
2. John Hancock Center
3. Smurfit-Stone Building
4. Marina City
5. Aon Center
6. One & Two Prudential Center
7. Lake Point Tower
8. Tribune Tower
9. Wrigley Building
10. 900 North Michigan
11. R.R. Donnelley Building
12. Chicago Board of Trade Building
13. NBC Tower
14. Civic Opera Building
15. Onterie Center

LANDMARKS INCLUDED

1. Sears Tower
2. Millennium Park
3. John Hancock Center
4. Smurfit-Stone Building
5. Marina City
6. Navy Pier
7. Aon Center
8. One & Two Prudential Center
9. Buckingham Fountain
10. Lake Point Tower
11. Tribune Tower
12. Wrigley Building
13. Field Museum
14. Chicago Board of Trade Building
15. Solder Field

[BTinSF]

San Francisco

1. That pyramid thing
2. Coit Tower
3. Ferry Building
4. Mt. Davidson TV Tower
5. Embarcadero Center
6. Bank of America
7. City Hall
8. Mission Dolores
9. That orangey bridge
10. California Center
11. One Rincon Hill
12. DeYoung Museum
13. CA Palace of the Legion of Honor
14. The "Painted Ladies" on Steiner St.
15. The Fairmont Hotel

[M.K.]

15 is too much, even in Sao Paulo billion of bldgs has, maybe just 7, not really in this order, identifies really the city, as uncommon abroad, that not mix as beeing in another city:

--------------------1-Masp museum
---------------2-Fiesp bldg
--3-Conjunto Nacional
------------------4-Prédio da Dacon
--------------------5-TV Globo Antenna ontop of Gazeta Bldg
--------6-Copan
----------------------7-Ed. & Terraco Itália


In Munich is easier to identify some, but also not 15:

----------------------------------------------------1-BMW Hochhaus
2-Olympiapark Stadium
----------------------3-Allianz Arena Stadium
----------------------------------------------4-Frauenkirche

In future maybe BMW Welt as 5th Place