Thoughts and Comments?

[Jasonhouse]

Greetings forumers!

This forum is our next phase of the Rate Our Talls World's Tallest series, where we are systematically representing the World's tallest skyscrapers. Just like the Top 100 forum, this one will steadily grow until all buildings between 101- and 200 are showcased for you to vote on...


If you have any thoughts, comments or suggestion on how we could improve this area, this is the place to do it...

[RafflesCity]

Once again, I'll repeat myself at the risk of sounding like a broken record.

It is recommended you give a rating to every building and not just some. This helps reflect a more accurate opinion poll and improves credibility.

Do not feel inhibited in expressing that you gave a very low score for a building. In fact, everyone here would be interested in your opinions as this IS the place to express it..and you ARE entitled to your opinion:)

Have fun!!:cheers:

[Jasonhouse]

And remember, if you make some sort of reply when you vote, that thread will then have a black dot on its icon, and you will know which buildings you have already seen.

from this:http://skyscrapercity.com/images/folder.gif

to this: http://skyscrapercity.com/images/dot_folder.gif

[D-Mac]

Just a little tip, if you want to see all the threads in order, press the http://img.ranchoweb.com/images/dmac2/thread.jpg button at the top of the page to sort them numerically.

Enjoy! :)

[Sunflower]

ah, more towers for me to rate, thanks guys :okay: :)

[Bobdreamz]

great tips Jason & Dmac but I found the THREAD button at the bottom of the list not the top...you have to pick thread title & in ascending order to get them listed from top to bottom....anyways I just found out I got about another 20 more buildings to rate at ROT100!!...great work guys!

[Jasonhouse]

Originally posted by Bobdreamz
great tips Jason & Dmac but I found the THREAD button at the bottom of the list not the top...you have to pick thread title & in ascending order to get them listed from top to bottom....anyways I just found out I got about another 20 more buildings to rate at ROT100!!...great work guys!




The word "Thread" appears in the dark gray bar which serves as the title bar for the forum (it is the last thing on the screen before the actual list of threads begins). If you click on the word "thread", it sorts the forum in ascending order, and places an "up arrow" icon next to the word thread. if you click that arrow icon, you can then re-sort to descending order. It's much quicker and easier than manipulating the sort functions at the bottom of the page...

[Bobdreamz]

ok duh!!...how did I miss that?...LOL...thanks for pointing that out.

[X-seed 4000]

I love the idea! Theirs so many great buildings I didn't know about!

[SUNNI]

Originally posted by RafflesCity
Once again, I'll repeat myself at the risk of sounding like a broken record.

It is recommended you give a rating to every building and not just some. This helps reflect a more accurate opinion poll and improves credibility.

Do not feel inhibited in expressing that you gave a very low score for a building. In fact, everyone here would be interested in your opinions as this IS the place to express it..and you ARE entitled to your opinion:)

Have fun!!:cheers: thats what i always do.. and now look at my post counts..:D

[Caledon1981]

awesome!!! maybe later on we could be able to rate the world's top 1000??? that would be sweet. . but for now, thanks DMac and Raffles. . you guys rock!! i love learning about EVERY building and each stat it has!! excellent work, we all really appreciate it!! cheers to both of ya:cheers: :cheers:

[SUNNI]

1000?i think that would be abit hard... may be...top 500?:D

[Liz L]

Something I noticed on the ROT top 100 poll - folks applied the number ratings in different ways, according to some of their comments. It might be nice to have one or two words by a few of the numbers, phrases like "awesome","very impressive", "sort of impressive", "average", "not too impressive," etc., so folks would be on the same page...?

BTW, thanks again for all the great work!

[Sunflower]

top 1000 would be impossible to update...

[SteelCity32]

Liz L, yeah that would be a good idea.

I try to do that on most of my ratings.

[RafflesCity]

I have an announcement to make :speech:

Some of you may have been wondering why the no. of threads created here have been going at slower than a snail's pace : I really do apologise for this, especially to those eager beavers who turn up looking for more, only to be disappointed:bash:

At the moment I have exams coming up in January (right after the hols!:rant: ) so I will ease off until maybe the end of the 2nd week..when construction of rot101-200 will continue. I believe DMac is in the same predicament. But great thanks for those who have taken the initiative to create new threads in the interim - enzo, sydneydude, westin peachtree !

Happy New Year ROTers!!:cheers1: :cheers:

[renell]

@Raffles, as a frequent ROT-er.. i wonder why the new threads are stickies?

[RafflesCity]

@renell, It is a measure to ensure that new threads get the maximum replies and votes they need. With the number of posters posting here, new threads can get quickly pushed out of sight.

I generally unstick the threads when they reach around 10 replies. Of course, this should not matter if you are a regular poster, for by then you would have cast your vote for every building. What I am trying to discourage is people here responding to certain buildings only.

As a frequent ROT-er you can do your bit by replying to threads which have the least replies so that they move up again.

What do you think?

[renell]

As a frequent ROT-er you can do your bit by replying to threads which have the least replies so that they move up again.


yes, i have tried to do that several times already, and i think some of the other forumers do that too:)

[SUNNI]

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</table>with team work, nothing is impossible;)

[The Messiah]

Well the thing is.I don't know wich i rated and wich i didn't.So can't you make a option so that you can see wich towers you rated and wich towers you did not yet rated?

[Liz L]

Is it just my imagination(or subjective opinion), or are the 'scrapers in this list, on the whole, not as impressive as those on the top 100 list? I've seen some fairly nice buildings, but nothing has really caught my eye...And I don't think it's just height, either...

Comments, anyone?

[RafflesCity]

I think you are partially correct, but then again I think its mainly because the buildings in the top100 (particularly the top50) were designed as iconic landmarks for their cities, and may have been designed to really go all the way and be larger than life. It may also because you have an affinity for art deco?

The scrapers in this section are decent nevertheless, and some are pretty good, like Fountain Place in Dallas. Its just that they are underrated and never have been given the publicity, hence they feature less in the imaginations of people.

Or maybe its just that the Ryugyong is one of the stars of the top100?:D

Anyway I enjoy reading your analyses of scrapers, so keep it up and dont discriminate!:cheers:

[Liz L]

Hi RafflesCity, and thanks for the good words! :)

You've got a point, I think, about iconic landmarks - if you're designing a 'scraper that's going to be surrounded by towers that are taller/grander, whatever, it might seem futile to try for icon status. And publicity is also very important.

Plus which, there's also the bottom line - "form follows finance," as Carol Willis would say. And this might be even more prevalent in the absence of really determined, visionary clients, like walter Chrysler, for instance - the sort who's determined to spare no expense to see a dream take shape in stone, steel, and glass...

I also admit my prejudice towards Art Deco :D - but on the other hand, I've not seen anything yet that's caught my eye like the Bank of China, Lever House, or 1 & 2 Liberty Place in Philadelphia...Maybe I'm a bit spoiled after all those great towers on the first list :D...

[New Jack City]

Yea, I've noticed too that the building's aren't as great as the Top 100. I think the Top 300 list has better buildings as well.

[RafflesCity]

Originally posted by savethewtc

Yea, I've noticed too that the building's aren't as great as the Top 100. I think the Top 300 list has better buildings as well.

I felt the same way!..which is weird...but I love scrapers anyway:D

[AtlanticaC5]

Time Warner Center in NYC is now officially completed! :guns1:
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/cx/?id=100025

[malec]

Could someone please add the Al Fattan Marine Towers in Dubai? They're 245m each and were completed (ie, handed over, not just completion of exterior) a few days ago.

Here's the thread in the UAE section:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=7414423#post7414423

http://tinypic.com/jsf6gg.jpg

[malec]

For some reason I'm not allowed to create a thread. I would otherwise

[liluchi]

nice

[virarch]

Highrises are going up so fast these days that by the time a list has been compiled, it's probably already outdated. I suspect most of the buildings in the current list of 101-200 highrises actually belong in the 201-300 or 301-400 category now.

[Skyman]

beautiful

[redbaron_012]

XXXX

[cong san muon nam]

Very beautiful

[Astralis]

These towers in Dubai are so beautiful :okay: :okay:

[RON-E]

those towers are beautiful, 9/10 in my book! good looking towers dont come easy in dubai, no offense

[henry hill]

Towers are beautiful, but very shortly, will be newer, more beautiful and bigger. As far as fear what will be happening, when it is everything will end to build.:)

I am greeting.

[SeeMacau]

Can you add this building to the list?

Grand Lisboa - 258m - 52 floors - building completion: 2008

[ZZ-II]

today i made an update, added 300 north la salle ( chicago ).

just minute ago i saw i forgot the Grand Lisboa, think i'll add it in the next update in spring :)