This thread is self explanatory......................
It would seem that Charlotte would be the leader in this choice...but you may be surprised! Someone may just like the towers of the other NC cities, some may not, and some may be in between or confused...let's see what you like!!!!


Charlotte's superscrapers are shiny and new
Raleigh's collection is uniformed and unique
Greensboro's highrises sets a serious tone.
Winston Salem's towers follows Charlotte's lead
Durham's buildings are nice but spread out!
Fayettville's SyStel Tower is the only one in town but deserves to be mentioned!
Let me know....... your favorite may be the the tallest in Goldsboro (Wayne Bank Building) or the Reynolds Tower in Winston-Salem. It doesn't necessarily have to be the tallest building that's your favorite it could be a short scraper (By NC terms, 10 stories and above)

For me I like........

Charlotte (The tallest isn't even my favorite)
I like the tall Box building (One Wachovia...I believe)
The Westin...because its weird flat- looking!
The BB&T Tower
The Heirst Tower

Raleigh
Progress Energy .......(Looks like a shorter version of Blake Carrington's Office Tower on the nite soap, Dynasty)
http://www.whvo.com/ncphotos/images/centura_6359_550_dpwm.jpg

One Exchange Plaza...just 10 stories but I like it.....
http://www.raleighrenaissance.com/gallery/fsm/exchange.jpg

333 Corporate Plaza
http://www.raleighrenaissance.com/gallery/fsm/333.jpg

Wake County Office Building
http://www.raleighrenaissance.com/gallery/fsm/wake.jpg

and the weird looking Archdale Building.......
http://www.raleighrenaissance.com/gallery/fsm/archdale.jpg

Greensboro................
The only one I really like is the old Wachovia Tower.........

Winston-Salem...............
Winston Tower


Durham ..........................
CCB Tower
http://www.pbase.com/raleighmsa/image/25343078.jpg
Wachovia Tower at Erwin Square
http://www.pbase.com/raleighmsa/image/25343321.jpg

This one should be easy for me... BOA Charlotte! Although NC has plenty of other great buildings to admire.

Good thread! Here are my favorites:

Charlotte:
1. Hearst Tower (by far)
http://web.mawebcenters.com/protint/images/HearstTowerMed.jpg

2. Bank of America
http://www.aiglincoln.es/organiza/images/bank%20of%20america%20charlotte.jpg

Raleigh:
1. Two Progress Plaza
http://www.raleighnc.gov/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_306_203_0_43/http%3B/pt03/DIG_Web_Content/project/public/livable_streets/Images/progress-energy1.gifhttp://www.siteselection.com/issues/2004/sep/p599/images/p599b.gif

2. Wake County Office Building (not a very good picture, looks a lot better from the front)
http://www.consultwebs.com/ncphotos/images/raleigh_6431_550_dpwm.jpg

3. Wachovia Center
http://www.consultwebs.com/ncphotos/images/1stunioncombob_550_dropwm.jpg

Winston-Salem:
Wachovia Tower
http://www.richmangalleries.com/images/WachoviaCenter.jpg

Greensboro:
Jefferson-Pilot
http://www.consultwebs.com/ncphotos/images/greensboro/jeff_pilot_6145_550_dpwm.jpg

Durham:
Former CCB
http://www.preservationdurham.org/Neighborhoods/photoCCB.jpg

I would have to say BoA tower followed by Hearst tower in Charlotte.

I have to go with BofA, in Charlotte. To me, that is the definition of skyscraper. Other high-rise candidates include Jefferson-Pilot (Greensboro), RJ Reynolds (Winston-Salem) and the former CCB tower (Durham). I am afraid to admit that I have no real favorite from Raleigh, due to lack of great-looking towers (in my opinion), but if I am hard-pressed to decide, it will be One Progress Plaza.

Durham: the under appreciated University tower
http://www.consultwebs.com/ncphotos/images/univ_towers_43_550_dropwm.jpg

Raleigh-NC I'm surprised at you , however you are entitled to your opinion and I do not try to force people to like what I like.......but if I could make one last attempt to do so, I thought you would at least like The BB&T Tower and Wachovia Captol Center....a lot of outsiders say that they are the only true skyscrapers Raleigh has despite the fact that we have One Progress Energy and other 20+ story builings that fir the skyscraper catagory......!

I like the clean lines of the One Progress Energy Tower...its simple and I like the way it flairs out at the base of the Tower.some nites during the summer or even winter holidays, they lite up each colunm in the facade of the tower (blue, pink, green etc...)
INthe early 90's Raleigh used to light the whole skyline for christmas. All of the taller buildings would be outlines in lights and the BB&T Tower setback lights would bered and green , giving it a giagantic christmas tree look.

Going back to the One Prgress Energy Tower it also resembles the tower I like in Charlotte....One Wachovia (I hope i'm saying rite!). It just looks important..corporate nothing fancy..its letting you know "we mean business".

1. Hearst
2. BoA Charlotte
3. Wachovia (Raleigh) (Its starting to grow on me)

I think it would probably be the Wachovia one with the roundish window on the top...I dont know why I like that so much.

My top five are

5 – ASHEVILLE CITY HALL
http://img206.echo.cx/img206/4455/ashevillecityhall10aa.th.jpg (http://img206.echo.cx/my.php?image=ashevillecityhall10aa.jpg)


4 – INTERSTATE TOWER
http://img206.echo.cx/img206/4750/interstatetower13fv.th.jpg (http://img206.echo.cx/my.php?image=interstatetower13fv.jpg)


3 – WACHOVIA TOWER WINSTON-SALEM
http://img206.echo.cx/img206/6159/wachoviatowerwinston2fm.th.jpg (http://img206.echo.cx/my.php?image=wachoviatowerwinston2fm.jpg)


2 – BANK OF AMERICAN CORPORATE CENTER
http://img206.echo.cx/img206/9217/bofacenter16yb.th.jpg (http://img206.echo.cx/my.php?image=bofacenter16yb.jpg)


1 – HEARST TOWER
http://img206.echo.cx/img206/6521/hearsttower22zu.th.jpg (http://img206.echo.cx/my.php?image=hearsttower22zu.jpg)


As you can see, I’m a big fan of Charlotte architecture.

BOA followed very closely by Hearst for me. Also, I really like W-S's Wachovia and Durham's University Tower.

1. Bank of America
2. Wachovia Center
3. Hearst Tower
4. Wachovia Tower
5. Jefferson-Pilot

Wow, this is tough. I'll try not to be biased, but it's not gonna work...
(I'll throw in some photos for Charlotte towers not yet shown in other responses)

1-Hearst
2-BofA
3-Wachovia W/S
4-Wachovia Charlotte
http://www.angelfire.com/nc3/experience-charlotte/images/1wachovia.jpg

5-Interstate Tower
6-Wachovia Raleigh
7-Jefferson Pilot
8-Carillon
http://www.angelfire.com/nc3/experience-charlotte/images/carillon.jpg

9-IJL
http://www.angelfire.com/nc3/experience-charlotte/images/ijl3.jpg

10-The Westin Charlotte
http://www.angelfire.com/nc3/experience-charlotte/images/westinatnight.jpg

1. One Wachovia
2. BoA
3. Wachovia - Winston Salem
4. Carillon
5. Hearst

ejohnson, I must have let you down, but this is true for me: Raleigh lacks an impressive-looking tower that can be seen as a symbol of our skyline. I am not suggesting that Raleigh's towers are butt-ugly, but when compared to other towers around the state, I would like to be a bit down-to-earth and face reality (again, from my view point). My biggest hope comes from the proposed Reynolds tower, regardless of its final height. If they do it right, then I will change my mind, but until then it will be (list of Raleigh favorites):

1. One Progress Plaza
2. Wachovia Center
3. Two Hannover Square
4. Wake County Offices
5. Two Progress Plaza
6. 333 Corporate Center

You know how much I love and appreciate DT Raleigh, which is why I need to be more "harsh" sometimes.

I understand.....you didn't have to do that list for me. I just thought you were gonna put something down for Raleigh....ha! I'm Spoiled!
NC just has some beautiful skyscrapers (old school and new school!) Its hard to pinpoint them, if you are gonna be reasonalby objective and try to keep from being bias. It just seems that Charlotte woiuld be everyones choice,even mine but I had to learn to appreciate the whole state becaiuase Charlotte is not the whole state even though it represents us being the known nationally!

I love NC................we are the world, we are the children...........
Another picture review:
Charlotte
http://wwww.netsmartinc.com/ncphotos/images/char/304/charlotte_8322_550wm.jpg
Raleigh
http://wwww.netsmartinc.com/ncphotos/images/raleigh_skyle_3823_795_dpwm.jpg
Greensboro looks like a small slice of Charlotte in this photo!
http://www.consultwebs.com/ncphotos/images/gnsb_street147_550_dropwm.jpg
Winston-Salem
http://www.consultwebs.com/ncphotos/images/winston-salem/550/w-s_1280.jpg
Durham
http://www.consultwebs.com/ncphotos/images/durham/904/2/skyline_durham_2548.jpg
Asheville
http://www.consultwebs.com/ncphotos/images/asheville/asheville_1978_550wm.jpg
Fayetteville
http://www.consultwebs.com/ncphotos/images/fayetteville/downtown_71_550_dropwm.jpg
Wilmington
http://www.consultwebs.com/ncphotos/images/dwntn_wilm60_550_dropwm.jpg

Ejohnson, I am afraid you got Asheville and Fayetteville backwards :)

For me:
1. BofA Corporate Center
2. Hearst Tower
3. One Wachovia
4. Wachovia - WS
5. Three Wachovia

1. Hearst - Blows them all away
2. Wachovia - Winston
3. Jos. Koury - Sheraton - Greensboro - Overwhelming presence
4. Grandover - Greensboro
5. BofA

ESB's older, shorter brother.

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ESB's older, shorter brother.

The Rand Building in Buffalo makes that exact same claim.

Ejohnson, I am afraid you got Asheville and Fayetteville backwards :)

I don't think so, at least his Asheville is definitely Asheville.

I did have the names mixed and then I went back and edited the post and put the correct names with the correct cities.

1. BofA Corp.Center, Charlotte
2. Interstate Tower, Charlotte
3. Hearst Tower, Charlotte
4. Wachovia, Winston Salem
5. The Carillon, Charlotte

1. BofA Corporate Center (Charlotte)
2. Hearst Tower (Charlotte)
3. Interstate Tower (Charlotte
4. One Wachovia Center (Charlotte)
5. Wachovia (Winston-Salem)

The Wachovia building in WS is really the only one outside of Charotte that's in the top 10, even.

Hearst really looks great-- It's a modern twist on historic design, and I like that a lot.

I also like the tall building in the right side of this picture:
http://wwww.netsmartinc.com/ncphotos/images/raleigh_skyle_3823_795_dpwm.jpg

And of course, the BOA in Charlotte.

ESB's older, shorter brother.

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Which building is that?

1. Hearst Tower
2. BofA
3. Jefferson-Pilot
4. Wachovia (Raleigh)
5. Westin / Interstate Building

I don't know how many of you have actually been in the new Bobcats Arena but the scoreboard is one of their "wow" factors, plus it's got a mini Charlotte skyline going around it. :yes:

http://charlotte.homestead.com/files/scoreboard__2_.jpg

http://charlotte.homestead.com/files/scoreboardcu__2_.jpg

I think someone said this is the biggest scorebord in the NBA. I believe them.

ESB's older, shorter brother.
Which building is that?

It's the 25-storey ReynoldsAmerican Tower in Winston-Salem. It's called "the Father of the Empire State Building" and was North Carolina's tallest building from 1929-1965. The glass 1960's tower beside it (Winston Tower) took the state's tallest title in 1965 and held it until the 1970's). In 1927 ReynoldsAmerican hired Shreve Lamb and Harmon to design a new headquarters tower. The design won the AIA National Design of the Year Award for 1929 (building was completed in April 1929). This made Shreve Lamb and Harmon the most talked about architectural firm at that time. An exec. with General Motors hired Shreve Lamb and Harmon to design a taller building based on the ReynoldsAmerican design for New York City. That building became the Empire State Building, NYC's tallest and the most well known building in the world. A museum at the ReynoldsAmerican Tower tells the history and features a birthday card sent from the Empire State Buliding in 1979 that says Happy 50th Birthday Dad. :D

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/3219/161184thstreet301.jpg

If you look closely, the base has a lot of detailed stone carvings featuring art deco design. The entrance has a beautiful metalwork surrounding that lights-up from behind at night. The inside has gold and silver ceilings, art deco murals, etched glass and marble walls on every floor. :eek: Now that is one expensive and classy skyscraper.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v683/twincity/wtry1w4.jpg
From forum member TwinCity at SSP

Preservation NC lists it as the top historic skyscraper in North Carolina based on design.

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/729/161dayskyline.jpg

According to the architects and postings on these forums, The ReynoldsAmerican Tower is also the father of the Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, the Wachovia Center in Winston-Salem, the BB&T 2 Hannover Square tower in Raleigh, Wake County Office Building in Raleigh, SunTrust Tower in Durham, United Arts Building in Lynchburg and Key Tower in Cleveland. Cesar Pelli fell in love with it when he saw it years ago. It influenced other towers by Pelli as well. It is an amazing tower to see in person. Pictures never capture the beauty and design of the tower. Not one of these photos shows the art deco stone carvings on the outside or the patterns in the spandrels. It is one you have to see in person due to the fine detail. I doubt it could be rebuilt today, due to the craftsmen involved and the expensive materials used. Picture green art deco Vermont Marble bathrooms on every floor and the art deco metal work on the ceilings. They don't build them like the use to. :eek:

My favorites: (I like the older stuff)
1. ReynoldsAmerican Tower (Winston-Salem) 1929
2. City Hall (Asheville) 1928
3. Hearst Tower (Charlotte) 2002
4. Jackson Building (Asheville) 1925
5. Wachovia Center (Winston-Salem) 1995
6. SunTrust (Durham) 1937
7. Lincoln National (G-boro) 1923
8. Nissen Apartments (Winston-Salem) 1927 (I liked this 20-storey tower after creating a model of it)
9. Stevens Center (Winston-Salem) 1928
10. Wake County Office Bldg. (Raleigh) 1942

My list for the South is also mostly historic buildings or bulidings designed to look older.

I love Charlotte (my hometown) My favorite buildings in N.C.:

1. BofA Corporate Center, Charlotte
2. Hearst Tower, Charlotte
3. Interstate Tower, Charlotte
4. Wachovia, Winston-Salem
5. Carillon Building, Charlotte

6. Hilton Hotel and Towers, Charlotte
7. IJL Tower, Charlotte
8. Wachovia 3, Charlotte
9. Dunhill Hotel, Charlotte
10. Odell Building, Charlotte

My favorite skyscraper in NC is the future RBC Tower. I think its design is groundbreaking and futuristic. Raleigh is so lucky to have such a great architectural masterpiece.

Oh, whoops...it says "favorite"....well that would be the Interstate Tower in Charlotte.

My favorite skyscraper in NC is the future RBC Tower. I think its design is groundbreaking and futuristic. Raleigh is so lucky to have such a great architectural masterpiece.Very funny... For a minute I thought I will fall on the floor from laughing. :no:

hehe :)

My favorite skyscraper in NC is the future RBC Tower. I think its design is groundbreaking and futuristic. Raleigh is so lucky to have such a great architectural masterpiece.

My Future Favorite will be the Westin at Crabtree

^^
Now we are talking!!! If it gets delivered as envisioned, it will be my favorite residential/hotel tower in NC, unless Reynolds & Reynolds surprise us ;)

Thanks for sharing the terrific pics, all you nice people:)

I must say, the more I see Winston Salem's skyline the more I like it!

great scoreboard