Top 10 Buildings in New York City

[Skyscraper Sebastian]

What are your top 10 buildings in New York City?

Mine are:
1 - Empire State Building - 1250 ft.
2 - American International Building - 952 ft.
3 - Chrysler Building - 1046 ft.
4 - Woolworth Building - 792 ft.
5 - Bank of America Tower - 1200 ft.
6 - 40 Wall Street - 927 ft.
7 - Citigroup Center - 915 ft.
8 - Hearst Magazine Tower - 596 ft.
9 - Seven World Trade Center - 750 ft.
10 - GE Building - 850 ft.

With everybody putting their top 10 list, I will update a list of the top 10 buildings that everybody likes. I will do it on a point system:

1 1st place = 100 pts.
1 2nd place = 50 pts.
1 3rd place = 25 pts.
1 4th place = 15 pts.
1 5th place = 10 pts.
1 6th place = 8 pts.
1 7th place = 7 pts.
1 8th place = 6 pts.
1 9th place = 5 pts.
1 10th place = 4 pts.

Updated December 17, 2010
1 - Empire State Building - 100 pts.
2 - American International Building - 50 pts.
3 - Chrysler Building - 25 pts.
4 - Woolworth Building - 15 pts.
5 - Bank of America Tower - 10 pts.
6 - 40 Wall Street - 8 pts.
7 - Citigroup Center - 7 pts.
8 - Hearst Magazine Tower - 6 pts.
9 - Seven World Trade Center - 5 pts.
10 - GE Building - 4 pts.

The buildings have to:
-Be in New York City
-Be on Skyscraperpage.com diagrams
-Be over 200 ft. tall or 14 floors (if diagrams doesn't show how tall the building is)
-Be built

May the best building win!

[wrab]

Ten of my favorites, in chronological order; there are others as well and I'd probably give you a different list tomorrow:


Flatiron Building (Daniel Burnham, 1902)

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Ansonia (Paul E. Duboy, 1904)

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American Radiator Building (Raymond Hood, 1924)

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General Electric Building (Cross & Cross, 1931)

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GE Building (Raymond Hood, 1931)

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Chrysler Building (William Van Alen, 1930)

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Lever House (Gordon Bunshaft, 1952)

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Seagram Building (Mies van der Rohe, 1958)

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Hearst Magazine Building (Norman Foster, 2004)

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Standard Hotel (Todd Schliemann/Polshek Partnership Architects, 2009)

th.omas @ Flickr


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[pj3000]

^Great picks, wrabbit

[pico44]

That list rocks wrabbit. I'll add my own when I have a bit of time.