Large clock tower buildings in your city
You know what I mean. Your city's Big Bens. Let's see them. To qualify, a tower must contain a large clock face.
In Washington we have the Old Post Office: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4148/...f1c8113a_b.jpg ... And Georgetown University's Healy Hall: https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3240/...d54_z.jpg?zz=1 from ken lund on flickr Up the road in Baltimore they've got the Bromo Seltzer Tower: https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8257/...70ba53d4_c.jpg from austin kirk on flickr Out west in Denver, where I once lived, they've got the Daniels & Fisher Tower: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4128/...65f4664d_z.jpg from jimmy emerson on flickr |
Nashville has several satisfactory entries, I think:
Nashville Customs House: https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3689/...3a79356a_b.jpg Customs House, Nashville TN by The Photography of Ken Lane, on Flickr Nashville Union Station (now a hotel): https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7019/...8bce37b5_b.jpg Union Station by bpe.gadgets, on Flickr Kirkland Hall at Vanderbilt University: https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6056/...b33470ae_b.jpg Kirkland Hall - Vanderbilt University by Chase Montgomery, on Flickr |
I dont know if these Los Angeles ones all qualify, as they are more like tall buildings with large clocks on them:
Eastern Columbia: http://www.you-are-here.com/broadway...n_columbia.jpg you-are-here.com USC Mudd Hall: http://www.mattconstruction.com/imag...medium/usc.jpg And just for sadness, LA lost its best clock tower: http://www.badgehistory.com/images/old_cou1lrg.jpg badgehistory.com |
Eastern Columbia Tower in LA is one of my favorite buildings anywhere...and...holy sweet shit on a stick...is that a residential unit in that Brooklyn Clock Tower?!?!?
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http://www.nydailynews.com/life-styl...icle-1.1202994 JASON SHEFTELL / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS NOVEMBER 15, 2012 |
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...gBenAtDusk.jpg
Source: Wikipedia Lesser known... Shell-Mex House (between the Strand and Embankment): http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images...House_pic1.jpg |
chicago's most famous clock tower is undoubtedly the one atop the wrigley building.
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/20114049.jpg source: http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/20114049.jpg there are some other notable ones around town as well. the old dearborn station. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._from_west.jpg source: wikipedia reid murdoch building http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ing_060415.jpg source: wikipedia and i've always enjoyed this modernist clocktower on northwestern university's evanston campus. http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/45690057.jpg source: http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/45690057.jpg |
Sorry, but this is Miami's entry. It's actually pretty iconic for South Beach simply because it's so visible. It also shows temperature, so I'm sure it's the subject of many a vacationers winter scrapbook
http://the305.com/blog/wp-content/up...beach-1950.jpg src: the very good the305 |
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Montreal
511 Place d'Armes ( built in 1887) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ontreal_06.jpg source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ed...ontreal_06.jpg |
I'm going to cheat, too, and put up the "clock tower" I saw from my window every morning and night growing up.
Boji Tower, Lansing, MI http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7037/6...aebbdb2b_z.jpg Clock Tower Haze by joshames, on Flickr Within the skyline: https://s2.yimg.com/sl/4050/4254535291_013f963afc_b.jpg Downtown Lansing Panorama by Photo Jimbo, on Flickr People go crazy when the clock is broken. |
A couple more in Denver:
East High School: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7033/6...4eac142f_b.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7033/6...4eac142f_b.jpg (photo courtesy of CPVLIVE) South High School: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7017/6...846ed6f0_b.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7017/6...846ed6f0_b.jpg(photo courtesy of CPVLIVE) University of Denver's Sturm College of Law: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ege_of_Law.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ege_of_Law.jpg |
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Abraj al-Bait in Mecca wins! For sheer ugliness. So gaudy, huge, and terrible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraj_Al_Bait http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ait-Towers.JPG |
I was just about to post that one as well. Gaudy, but pretty epic
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...2011Makkah.JPG src: wikipedia |
I can't readily think of any current Detroit landmarks that have large clock faces on them. However, there were the usual landmarks that did have them in the past. All of these buildings were demolished at some point.
The old city hall. http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/i/imag...y=1;view=image http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/i/imag...art=;resnum=36 US Post Office. http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/...308_full_0.jpg “U.S. Post Office; 1913.” http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dpa1ic/x...80/dpa1880.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. And the Union Depot Station. http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/...827_full_0.jpg “Union Depot; 1895.” http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dpa1ic/x...76/dpa5076.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. |
Tokyo:
Wako Building in Ginza: http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2108/2...48a91c48_z.jpg Tokyo University: http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3186/2...e24ed4f7_z.jpg NTT Docomo Yoyogi Building: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...09_cropped.jpg Source |
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