Nominate what you think are the 3 best midrises in the world.

These must be office, residential, hotel or commercial buildings in the 35-149m height range - any buildings outside this range will be disqualified when it comes to the final nominations. You may not choose cathedrals, churches, palaces, monuments, observation towers, government buildings, stadiums, bridges, etc. Future/proposed or under construction midrises will also be disqualified.

If you are unsure of a building's height, you can check the diagrams here: http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/ (http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/)

Please use this thread for nominating only. You may post 1 picture for each of your nominations. If you wish to discuss the topic in detail, or post larger numbers of pictures, then please use the "DISCUSS:" thread.


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General rules:
The Hall of Fame forum is where we decide about our all-time favourites from the world of skyscrapers, skylines, buildings and cities. Every week users can nominate and vote in a specific category.

The five nominations that get the most mentions will be up for the final vote the week after. The one receiving the most votes will go into the Hall of Fame.

Nominating
If you name more then three, only the first three will count. If you name the same structure or city three times, that will be counted as one. Do not use this thread for discussions.

Promoting your favorite
Discuss this week's topic in the 'DISCUSS:' thread.

Right, here are my nominations (these may change once I see other peoples' nominations) :


1. The Lloyds Building, London


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Lloyds_Building_stair_case.jpg/439px-Lloyds_Building_stair_case.jpg





2. Tribune Tower, Chicago


http://www.gommage.com/tribune.jpg




3. 99 Bishopsgate, London - I love the shiny blue cladding!


http://www.willfox.com/images/london/1/21.jpg

1.Espirito Santo,MIAMI
http://www.grupoespiritosanto.com.br/imagens/n33_miami.jpg
2.Illoyds building,london
3.lever house,New york

1. Shahyad tower tehran

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11/navidghavami1988/20040429114424Azadi_tower2.jpg

2.Saderat bank tower tehran

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11/navidghavami1988/01-07-05-0493-iran-tehran-city-comp.jpg

3.Goldis tower tehran

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11/navidghavami1988/800pxmeydoonsadeghiyeh6cf.jpg

Very good idea!

Tour EDF, Paris (148 ;))
http://www.clasohm.com/photodb/img/11603-md.jpg

DB-Tower, Berlin
http://home.arcor.de/m-g-b/Bilder/berlin/pplatz/dbtowern.jpg

Puerta Europa, Madrid
http://leonardfrank.com/Photographs/TorresKio.jpg

PGK Centrum II, Poznan, Poland, 12 floors, 52m (buidling on the left side):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v506/tresorex/pgk2/pgk2b.jpg

This "the 3 best midrises in the world" is a bit daft isn't it? There must be millions of buildings within that height range that are "office, residential, hotel or commercial buildings in the 35-149m height range", and there is no way anyone could have seen all of them. It's more like "Nominate the nicest 35-149m office, residential, hotel or commercial buildings you have seen" type of a thread.

Well, bollocks to it:

The RLB
http://jonathan.rawle.org/pg/liverpool/images/liver.jpg

Palace Hotel (Built for Refuge Insurance):
http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/img_hr/Manchester_Refuge_Assurance.jpg

CIS Tower:
http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/img_hr/manchester_cis2.jpg

Now looking like this due to solar panel reclad of the service tower:
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d7/vertigoscraper/CIS/DSCF0045.jpg

Tribune Tower, Chicago
http://www.aviewoncities.com/img/chicago/kveus1919s.jpg

Flatiron Building, New York City
http://www.budowle.pl/budowle/grafika/ameryka_polnocna/flatiron_building_2.jpg

Merchandise Mart, Chicago
http://www.snakpak.info/chicago/images/merch.jpg
^largest commercial building in the world

1. The Lloyds Building, London

2. Tribune Tower, Chicago

Torre Agbar: 144.44 metres.
:wink2:

Flatiron Building, New York City
99 Bishopsgate, London

I'll just nominate 1 for now :)

Menara Mesiniaga in Subang Jaya, Malaysia (63 m)

http://homepage2.nifty.com/tskigawa/architecturalmap/KYKL/KYKL3.jpg

http://www.uia-architectes.org/image/JPEG/Yeang2.jpg

http://www.akdn.org/graphics/akaa/39_3017.jpg

DB Tower, Berlin
http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/3999/dscn239711zp.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Flatiron Building, NY
http://www.blue-print.net/newyork2003/files/flatiron-building.jpg

Torre Agbar, Barcelona
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7c/Torre_agbar.JPG/190px-Torre_agbar.JPG

Jongro Tower:

http://www.alexandervandergraaf.nl/Welkom/Landen/Zuid-Korea/Seoul/Zuid-Korea%20-%20Seoul%20Jongro%20Tower%202%20web%20groot.jpg

http://www.alexandervandergraaf.nl/Welkom/Landen/Zuid-Korea/Seoul/Zuid-Korea%20-%20Seoul%20Jongro%20Tower%201%20web%20groot.jpg

Dongbu Finance Building: (Edit: Nvm. its 2 m too tall :()

http://www.archidose.org/Sep03/kpf1.jpg

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/659/1600dongbu0.jpg

I like the dongbu Finance building...very nice

I like Espirito Santo in Miami and Dongbu in S.Korea. :okay:

I would like to nominate Guthrie Pavillion 40m (1998) by Dr. Ken Yeang in Shah Alam, Malaysia.

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/5237/iaa85344vc.jpg

35 -149 meters? isn't it to wide? I mean 35 meters can be 6-7 storey building, and 149 is already a high skyscraper in Europe.

333 wacker drive, chicago, 149m ;)
http://www.kpf.com/images/Projects/wacker/n0220_5007z.jpg
http://www.anthemion.com/chicago/333wackerdrive.jpg

Holloway Circus Tower, Birmingham (122m)

http://static.flickr.com/35/68058091_35b9bb6936.jpg?v=0

http://static.flickr.com/24/68058099_6068eff83e.jpg?v=0

http://static.flickr.com/20/68058094_8b0cf0c7af.jpg?v=0

1. La Bolsa Mexicana de Valores - Mexico City

http://img424.imageshack.us/img424/6879/52r0ea.jpg[/QUOTE]

2. L.A. City Hall

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b43/samceb/lacityhall2.jpghttp://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b43/samceb/lacityhall.jpghttp://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b43/samceb/lacityhall3.jpg

3. L.A. Westin Bonaventure

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b43/samceb/westinbonaventure.jpg

149m is too tall for Mid-Rise IMO.

I'll go with The LA City Hall, it's a city landmark! Also, the Bonaventure :D

Wrigley Building
http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/2797/330303083d93438d8eb0cr.jpg
http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/8109/wrigleybuilding6ar.jpg
Lloyds
Tour EDF

I agree with the Flatiron building in New York.

#2--> Wachovia Plaza, Boca Raton
http://www.emporis.com/files/transfer/6/2005/05/361318.jpg

#3--> Westwood Center, Los Angeles
http://www.emporis.com/files/transfer/sixwm/2004/03/256158.jpg

Guaranty Building - Built 1896 (architect Louis Sulliven)
http://ah.bfn.org/a/church/28/image/02.jpg
http://ah.bfn.org/a/church/28/image/04.jpg
http://ah.bfn.org/a/church/28/image/09.jpg

More Photos...
http://ah.bfn.org/a/church/28/index.html

No government buildings... No no LA or Buffalo City hall allowed

McCallum hill centre in Regina Saskatchewan, Canada

http://img358.imageshack.us/img358/5251/mccallumhillcentre28bi.jpg

La grande arche?

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/anthony.atkielski/GrandeArcheLarge.jpg

http://www.clasohm.com/photodb/img/7326-sm.jpg

http://www.naturepixel.com/grande_arche_la_defense_illuminee_1.jpg

Flatiron Building for sure. This is one of my favorite buildings of all time.

Guaranty Building - Built 1896 (architect Louis Sulliven)
http://ah.bfn.org/a/church/28/image/02.jpg
http://ah.bfn.org/a/church/28/image/04.jpg
http://ah.bfn.org/a/church/28/image/09.jpg

More Photos...
http://ah.bfn.org/a/church/28/index.html

Where is this building? That detail is amazing!

More nominations PLEASE... this forum is so dead we might have to shut it down

Where is this building? That detail is amazing!

Buffalo- and I agree, that building has tremendous detail.

1 - Lloyds of London
2 - Flatiron
3 - Royal Liver Building

Lloyds
Centre Georges Pompidou
Guggenheim Museum

Lloyds
Centre Georges Pompidou
Guggenheim Museum

Guess I should have read the rules before posting 3 nominations 2 of which are ineligible! :bash:

Without a doubt Richard Rogers' Lloyds of London comes first for nominations! Its just brilliant. The sheer magnitude of the immense structure and as an architectural centrepiece itself in the City of London is just a great asset. In my personal opinion its Richard Rogers' best piece of work. Not only because its in London and I live there too because thats not the case. See it in real life and it's just beyond imagination.

But anyway:

1 - Lloyds of London, London by Richard Rogers:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Lloyds_Building.jpg

2 - The Louvre Museum, Paris by Ieoh Ming Pei
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Louvre_at_night_centered.jpg

3 - La Grande Arche, Paris by Johann Otto von Spreckelsen
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/La_grande_Arche.jpg

1) Lloyd's of London! Richard Rogers!

1. Plaza Hotel, NYC
http://www.brorson.com/M4Bus/ParkPlazaHotel3.jpg

2. Bank of America Building, Baltimore
http://www.beyonddc.com/images/photos/baltimore_area/baltimore/buildings/bankofamerica02.jpg

3. Prédio Martinelli, Sao Paulo
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y138/TheSmooshie/268123.jpg

No cathedrals allowed. Sorry. Please edit your choices.

- Flatiron Building, New York

http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~rwunderl/rewind.cx/images/photos/Flatiron_Building_New_York.jpg

- La Grande Arche, Paris

http://fromparis.com/modules/imagebank_display_thb_pict.php?number=000084_01

- Lever House, New York:

http://www.arch.tu-dresden.de/ibad/Baugeschichte/bilder/new%20york/lever%20bdg%20ansicht.jpg

The first European skyscraper!
KBC-tower, Antwerp, Belgium
A nice classic from 1929-1932
98 m.

http://www.pbase.com/carfentanyl/image/45571848.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/carfentanyl/image/45571856.jpg

http://www.abc2004.be/login/fileUpload/img/boerentorenkathedraalABClowres340.jpg http://www.jahsonic.com/Boerentoren.jpg

http://www.windscreen.tv/wsimages/boerentoren.jpg

333 Wacker, Chicago:
http://www.nd.edu/~pschram1/333chi.jpg

Tour EDF, paris
Flatiron, NYC

royal york hotel <toronto>

http://www.urbandb.com/canada/ontario/toronto/royal_york_hotel_1.jpg

Flatiron building
Edificio Martinelli
Grand Arche

Also:
Lloyds, London
Pirelli, Milano

And from my country the beautiful Tour Metropol in Lausanne
http://www.picswiss.ch/04-VD/f-VD-04/VD-46-22.jpg

And what about this one?!
http://www.abc.se/~m10354/pic/mus/pisa-tor.jpg

1. Flatiron Bldg., New York http://www.membres.lycos.fr/jbreger/167%2019-04-03%20Flatiron%20Building.jpg
2. Tribune Tower, Chicago
http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P02221.jpg
3. Chase Tower, Phoenix
http://www.world-guides.com/images/phoenix/phoenix_bank_one_tower.jpg

Genex 115m
http://www.limbicnutrition.com/blog/archives/images/genex_novi_beograd.jpg

Thanks for everyone's nominations.