yet another overrated building from Australia.

I'm giving it "3 or less" to cancel out a couple of inflated ratings. The towers deserve no more than 6.0

yet another overrated building from Australia.

I'm giving it "3 or less" to cancel out a couple of inflated ratings. The towers deserve no more than 6.0

I concur.

3 / 10

Two boring square columns of different heights topped with the same ducky cap. The glass cladding saved them.

3 / 10

yet another overrated building from Australia.

I'm giving it "3 or less" to cancel out a couple of inflated ratings. The towers deserve no more than 6.0

You don't rate like that. You rate what you think and don't lower your score because other people like the building. If everyone rates what they think buildings will get fair scores. If you vote less than you think then there is no point in rating the building.

You don't rate like that. You rate what you think and don't lower your score because other people like the building. If everyone rates what they think buildings will get fair scores. If you vote less than you think then there is no point in rating the building.

Sorry to bug in but you Aussies don't seem to have followed the same rule. You guys rate buildings 10/10 or 9/10 if they are in Australia, regardless of their merits. Fraudulent scoring!

Or would you rather chalk it off as bad taste?

Sorry to bug in but you Aussies don't seem to have followed the same rule. You guys rate buildings 10/10 or 9/10 if they are in Australia, regardless of their merits. Fraudulent scoring!

Or would you rather chalk it off as bad taste?

Great rebuttal. I think it's obvious to even the most casual observer that these two towers, along with Eureka and Q1, have been outlandishly overrated.

I'm not going to deny that people are sometimes biased toward the buildings in their cities. But it's unfair to rate a building a lower score based on others opinions. It should be how you feel about the building itself, not others views on it, and what it does for you personally. If you really dislike the Rialto for what it is and gave it a low score; then no problem, everyone has different tastes. But to say it's been overrated by the locals and to try to level the scoring by giving it low marks is naive.

For the record, I gave the Rialto a perfect 10, but the Eureka didn't score so well with me, never been fond of it, and I've given a lot of overseas buildings 9's and 10's. It's all in fairness and just being honest; no matter where a building is located in the world.

Multiple accounts = automatic permanent ban

Plus also, I've deleted all the downvoting. You're wasting your time if you think you can manipulate the poll...

Multiple accounts = automatic permanent ban

Plus also, I've deleted all the downvoting. You're wasting your time if you think you can manipulate the poll...

Except that there is no such thing as a permanent ban...

This building gets 9 from me btw.

Multiple accounts = automatic permanent ban

Plus also, I've deleted all the downvoting. You're wasting your time if you think you can manipulate the poll...

Theres still one troll nic that hasnt been banned in the #58 - 120 Collins Street, Melbourne thread.

8 :)

Multiple accounts = automatic permanent ban

Plus also, I've deleted all the downvoting. You're wasting your time if you think you can manipulate the poll...

Thanks dude....those trolls are just waste of spaces

i think they were in Eureka thread as wel...

Multiple accounts = automatic permanent ban

Plus also, I've deleted all the downvoting. You're wasting your time if you think you can manipulate the poll...

Good action moderator: this guy is registering is so many names and unleashing these mad rants all over the threads. The last couple here show he's right out of his tree - but it is messing up any decent comment and discussion - a pollution of the whole site.

its ok... 8/10

great towers i love em, go up then every now and then.

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/5019/pic8ur1.jpg (http://img150.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pic8ur1.jpg)

Only place I ever got to talk directly to the Government ... except when I spoke to the Premier.

7/10

http://web.aanet.com.au/nmharrison/15-4-2007/rialto%20forum.jpg

http://web.aanet.com.au/nmharrison/15-4-2007/rialto%20sun%20forum.jpg

6/10

ok .. nice cladding 7.0/10

Ah I saw these towers before, I like them very much. A 8,5 out of 10.:D

I wish I could change my vote.

10/10

I love this building. It looks incredible, so unique, elegant, classy and such an icon for Melbourne.

so so...

The Rialto is over twenty years old but looking at her yesterday, I still love her ! http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/5076/6thmay07003mediumoh1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

8.5/10.

7/10

8/10

It looks like typical squarish skyscraper but its elegantly tall and slim.

Cool buildings 9/10 :okay:

5/10

8/10

8.5 - okay.

8/10

8/10

9/10 especially for a building that is over twenty years old.

it goes very well with melbourne, and very impressive aswell

9/10

She's aged very well, a timeless production indeed. To the eighties what the ESB and Chrysler are to the thirties - 7.5/10.

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looks nice but nothing special 7/10

7/10 - dull

7/10 - dull

maybe compared to other sheer glass towers today, but this thing was designed in the late 1970s, and set the bar for many other post modern office towers of the late 80s and into the 90s

8.5/10

considering its year of completion its an 8

The Rialto Towers are so mode. 10/10

How could anyone call this "dull"? :ohno:

Gleaming! Pic by Fabian:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/Fabian/Melbourne/Rialtogleaming.jpg

When I'm in Melbourne all I do is stare at this building. Just like Eureka, its a great addition to Melbourne's skyline. Its not dull at all. 9/10

7.5/10

i like the cladding. Looks really nice with the blue sky.
8.5/10

7,5/10

5/10

4.5/10

http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/1250/rt4et9.jpg
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/2401/rt1pl7.jpg

It's the quintissential Melbourne skyscraper - big, classy, yet understated. 8/10.

Great lattice.. 8/10

8/10

Simple and nice. 8.5/10

For what is essentially a late 1970's design (I think it was first unveiled in 1978?) it sent a benchmark for postmodernist skyscrapers around the World - whether people know that or not.
9/10.

ok,nothin great.

7/10

when i heard from them for the first time i thought they're two towers.....:)

8/10

when i heard from them for the first time i thought they're two towers.....:)

They are. Two corners meet, but in essence they both operate as two separate towers, twinned into the one complex.

9/10 Nice glass!

love the little brother big brother look. 8.5

Nothing special.

8/10

8/10

8/10

7,5/10

awesome 9/10

10/10

9.5 A 70s design built in the early 80s that was never toped in Australia:):):)

4.5/10

too blue...
6.5/10

8/10

8/10

8/

http://web.aanet.com.au/nmharrison/02-10-2008/rialto.jpg

^ luvs it

8/10

too simple

8/10

8/10

http://www.globalphotos.org/melbourne/20080605/IMG_9740.jpg

http://www.globalphotos.org/melbourne/20080605/IMG_9973.jpg

http://www.globalphotos.org/melbourne/20080503/IMG_3897.jpg

http://www.globalphotos.org/melbourne/20080603/IMG_8854.jpg

http://www.globalphotos.org/melbourne/20080603/IMG_8880.jpg

6.5/10

7/10

A great icon ! Elegant and huge in Melbourne´s skyline !

8.5/10

^^
Soooo true....;-)

8.0

10. Excellent building. Regards.

8.5/10

8/10

Is not something creative or innovative.

6/10

Ordinary claptrap with an inexplicable roofline. 5.5

It has been copping alot of criticism on this thread. Personaly I think it is an extremely nice and elegant building and realy suits the Melbourne skyline and I believe nearly everyone who has seen it in person would agree. And yes it may not look all that exciting and innovative but it was built in the mid 80's and has aged much better than most from it's era.
9/10

10/9

voted 7/10

BLUE, i love!:lol:
love this one!:) 10/10

10/10

8.0

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/henrybal/IMG_5170resized.jpg
originally posted by Grollo, Skyscrapercity

At night. It's the blue one.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4049/4389726454_a1d450d1ec_b.jpg
seanphotography, flickr

8,5/10

http://i334.photobucket.com/albums/m401/pouinetoksenodohio/IMG_4981.jpg?t=1274622611
taken by me

7.5/10

7/10

Love this in Melbourne's skyline and up close. Also really love the way it changes color during the day. 9.5/10

Pretty straight (8/10)

8/10

Reminds me a bit of the TDS Tower in Minneapolis.

Pretty nice. 7/10

7.5/10

9/10

8/10 for the building, 1 for the beautiful view from the top.9/10 total.

8.0

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/295242587_ec24ef2329.jpg

http://cache.virtualtourist.com/1794253-Rialto_Tower_at_Sunset-Melbourne.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com.au/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/RialtoTowers2.jpg

8/10

It's an elegant building and you realy can't tell it was built in the mid 80's.

I have visitted this tower once and indeed its nice!

8/10

8/10

8/10

7/10

10/10

8/10

9/10

8/10

7,5/10

7.5/10

Cant see the tower.

6/10

7/10

7,5/10

7.5/10.

6.5