Most beautiful building in your city

[Terminus]

Originally Posted by Mr Roboto

I dont know if this is a boring choice or what, but to me its the Tribune building easily. This and the wrigley make the best old school combo in the country IMO.

Absolutely!

[Grosso]

Kingdom Center , Riyadh , Saudi Arabia .

[svs]

So many beautiful buildings in Chicago and Steely picks that ugly rust heap known as the Daley center? Shows something about judgement.

For my money, the most beautiful building in the Chicago area is the Bahai temple in Willmette,


Some other choices include

Robey house


Wrigley Building


Adler planetarium


Carson Pirie Scott building


Lake Point Tower


Rookery


And if you have to have international school
860 Lake Shore Drive

[Kroy Wen]

^isn't 860/880 LSD modern- as opposed to pomo? It is Mies circa 1950, afterall

[LostInTheZone]

hey Evergrey: what about the Heinz Chapel? That's probably my favorite out of the buildings on the Oakland Acropolis. It has such unusual massing and it's pretty tall for such a little church:

[svs]

Originally Posted by Kroy Wen

^isn't 860/880 LSD modern- as opposed to pomo? It is Mies circa 1950, afterall

Thank you, I have corrected error. I was sleepy when I posted.

[svs]

I notice that LA is still unrepresented in this discussion.

For me, the most beautiful building in the LA area is the Wayfarers Chapel in Palos Verdes by Lloyd Wright (Frank's Son).


others might prefer Gehry's Disney Hall


or IM Pei's UCB building


or Richard Meir's Getty center


or Pierre Koenig's case study house #22


or Phillip Johnson's crystal cathedral


and then there's........

[nobody]

We've got some seriously gnarly buildings in Boise (though we've got some great ones in the pipeline), anyway the Idanha building has been around forever, recently renovated into apartments:





Forgive the terrible pictures, I can't find anything decent on the interwebs, need to run downtown one of these days and take some pics of it.

[Dac150]

For New York City:
The Chrysler Building (Arguably the most attractive hi-rise in the world).



And my other favorite: Trump World Tower


Call it what you want, but I say it's bold and powerful.

[Joser Calvi]

my favorite building in Monterrey city, México.

[rockyi]

Originally Posted by john_mclark

i would love to put a picture up but i can't, so i will just tell you about it. i'm from Abilene,TX and we have a church called Heavenly Rest. it is white marbel with 2 steep gothic spires rising about 160ft tall.

Is this the church you're speaking of?

[joviev]

in argentinian is
repsol tower:

the congress:

[STERNyc]

NYC.

American Radiator Building:



Runners up.

The Original GE Building:



Hearst Tower:

[nygirl1]

No municiple?

[STERNyc]

Originally Posted by nygirl1

No municiple?

Another runner-up, another gem. That said, I don't think anything beats the American Radiator Building.

[vgmLiquid]

It really isn't the most significant building by any means in Minneapolis in terms of architecture but I am a fan of it. While it really isn't my favorite, it definately gets overshadowed

[Exodus]

Originally Posted by Mr Roboto

I dont know if this is a boring choice or what, but to me its the Tribune building easily. This and the wrigley make the best old school combo in the country IMO.





(pics ganked from the web, sydneyarchitecture.com of all places)

So true, very hard to beat combo there. I think Detroits Cadillac Sq. has a pretty nice collection of buildings also. Too bad the Real estate Exchange Bldg. burnt, and the original Pontchartrain Hotel was razed.

[M.K.]

In Munich are the new buildings in Airport
the Uptown

The BMW Welt

The Old ones Marienkirche und Rathaus

Diese im mittlerring and A9

and others.

[Wheelingman04]

I also think the Tribune Tower is the most beautiful in Chicago.

[salvius]

I'm not sure if this is actually my favourite, but I do think it is quite a nice building. The Royal York in Toronto: