Jian Yin Tower
Wuhan, China

HEIGHT: 208m/682 feet
FLOORS: 50 floors
COMPLETION: 1997
ARCHITECT: ?

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6.5/10

This building has too many things going on at the same time. The base looks interesting but totally unrelated to the tower, which is decent but mediocre. It just doesnt go together.

This is the real Culture Shocked!!!.......6/10

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I don't care for it. 6/10

that base is damn ugly. doesn't fit with the buildings at all. anyways the talls, it's a bit weird they are considered a duo, i have to give a 7/10 for its weird-ness

Umm... The B tower- 8.5/10 I like the crown and glass.
The A tower- 6.5/10... it could be better.


Overall= 7.5/10

Not so great. I like the B tower slightly more, but again the base doesn't fit the building. 5/10

7/10

6/10

Seems like architecture in Wuhan is a mish-mash of different styles in the same building. The towers themselves look really nice, but the base really doesn't belong with the rest of the buiding.

I don't like cheap knock-oof architecture like this at all. Obviously the guy who designed this was using various US towers as his inspiration. Namely 191 Peachtree in Atlanta, and the Federal Courthouse in Cleveland.


6.0/10 only because it looks pretty good compared to alot of the crap getting built in the secondary Chinese cities.

6.5/10 These 2 just don't fit each other in a weird way..

Originally posted by The Messiah

6.5/10 These 2 just don't fit each other in a weird way..

4.5/10 agree completely.

<3 not very original

This building belongs in Vegas. 5.5

A cheap rip-off of a postmodern classic:

http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/pics/1879.jpg

And the other one is a copy of this:

http://home.t-online.de/home/highrises/indbonet.jpg

China has potential, but there's too many of these cheap reproductions of other skyscrapers. C'mon China! You have such a unique style, you should use it to create unique buildings!

7, odd looking

Obviously the guy who designed this was using various US towers as his inspiration. Namely 191 Peachtree in Atlanta, and the Federal Courthouse in Cleveland.


LOL You got to be kiddin' Jian Yin Building was completed in 1998, one year before Cleveland's Federal Courthouse Tower's construction started. The Cleveland building was completed in 2002, four years after the Wuhan tower.

Haha Those Americans. Most of your East Coast cities are lame copies of European cities. everytime I see Washington's Capitol on TV I have to laugh and tell my girlfriend: Look! it's the St. Paul's Cathedral. LOL

8/10

Irritating mish-mash; 4.5

funny! surprising! chaotic! interesting!

but stupid.

4.0

ShangHigh, most architectural critics would point out that, although the Capital was obviously influenced by St. Pauls, it is far from a replica. Only the domes are similar, and they are only similar, not copies. Plus, there's no need to be defensive anyway. You're right that many buildings in the US are basically replicas of ones in the old world. China has a lot of buildings that are cheap rip-offs, but it also has a lot of very unique and original buildings. I'm only stating my disapproval of this particular building. If someone in Chicago built a replica of Jin Mao or Petronas I would call it a cheap rip-off too.

Nice, but really nothing new. 7/10

China has a lot of buildings that are cheap rip-offs


Don't get me wrong, I agree with you. I just don't think Jian Yin Building is one of them.

Okay, we'll just have to agree to disagree. I feel that each tower in the the Jian Yin Tower looks like a model of a famous skyscraper that someone would make in high school. They look like the towers I posted, except they don't have the detailing of those buildings, and theres something flimsy about them that just screams "rip-off." But hey, if you like them, thats fine. The building is still better than some of the boring modernist blocks, and it does show that China has the potential to build some of the greatest skyscrapers, and indeed, they've already built some.

8.0

love it
9/10

the base sucks.

4.0

nothing fits. 2/10

Still don't like it

5

Overdone

3/10

strange

6.5/10


not bad

Not bad
7/10

7/10

7/10. They could be separated towers!

Originally posted by ShangHigh

LOL You got to be kiddin' Jian Yin Building was completed in 1998, one year before Cleveland's Federal Courthouse Tower's construction started. The Cleveland building was completed in 2002, four years after the Wuhan tower.

Haha Those Americans. Most of your East Coast cities are lame copies of European cities. everytime I see Washington's Capitol on TV I have to laugh and tell my girlfriend: Look! it's the St. Paul's Cathedral. LOL

Don't get too excited because he's right about 191 Peachtree. :sleepy: The 191 Peachtree was completed a whole 8 years before the Jian Yin Tower.

As for the building, 5.5/10. It looks cheap and I don't like the top.

wow, two completely different designs in a proyect......i prefer the shorter one........7

can't decide yet if I quite like it or really not. :wallbash: 5/10..

eww! :tongue:i dont normally say negative things bouts scrapers, but it seems someone tried and failed miserably in merging styles.. u never know, the architect may be proud of her/himself, as this type of building isnt too common in the city i presume? scraper "exoticm".. like what they do in towns building their first ever scraper... :tongue: a building that has just slapped togetha all possible styles in the worst way possible.. 5/10!

Not to mention that it seems to have been influenced by the DG Bank in Frankfurt, by KPF.

messy to me
But i do like the roof feature on the lower tower
5/10

5,5 Ugly Tower.

5/10

I am so sick of the eye-brow top

awful attempt to imitate classic scrapers

whats with the base, looks like a bad trump casino entrance

worst episode ever - lowest rating ever by me too

1/10

5.5

Obviously the base is appalling but the towers themselves are attractive.

8/10

6/10. Nothing special.

The base could integrate better with the tower, but overall its okay. Nice patterns on the facade.

7/10

I don't know I just can't get into it much because it's design and colour both suck to me. 5.5/10

7.5 - there's a good contrast between glass and stone, the long strips of glass running up the towers adds to their height, and I appreciate the set backs...

BUT...well, maybe I was a bit too generous, because the two towers don't seem like they belong on the same building at all, I'm not that sure about either off the tops, and *WHAT*IN*THE*WORLD are those poor little corinthian columns and pediment doing on the entrance? THey look like they just wandered over there one day and decided to hang around, because they were so desperate to find a home- they have no relation to the rest of the building at all!

6/10

6/10 Looks distinguished

what a strange building, don't know how to rate it :tongue3:

7/10

it's just ok

6.5/10

Nothing special, good or bad. I give it a 7/10. :sleepy:

Very unusual at the base, 7.5

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8/10.

Strange couple, 7.5/10

6.5.

I'm increasing my post count

7/10 they're ok:)

7/10

Quite messy design. 6/10

the taller tower looks pretty nice. although it obviously used the designs of some u.s. buildings, it blended those designs well together to give a decent tower that's not overran by unnecessary details.

the shorter tower and the base really diminish its merits though.

8

Strange imbalance. 7/10.

8 out of 10

6/10

innovative facade 7/10

5,5/10

The base is weird... 4/10

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5/10 me no like.

4/10 What a mismatched pair. On their own I would like each one better like if the taller one was in atlanta and the shorter in san diego but paired up, no good. they aren't bad on their own though.

7/10

not my type 5/10

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not bad, 8.5/10

3/10

a moronic blend of totally different styles clearly indicates the architect's complete lack of basic understanding of the elements of fine architecture.

3/10 Semi circle thing and box. For some reason i hate most of the facades on Chinese skyscrapers, they look so flimsy and made of cheap material just like this one. And what is up with those roman columns on the base of the building? it is like the desingers just decided to add those on to the bottom to make them look like they were really important or something, please...

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9. great.

8/10 Looks pretty cool

3 / 10

yet another lame copycat work from a Chinese architect with a mean case of multiple personality disorder.

again the devil is in the details.

piecemeal plagiarization doesn't work unless the plagiarizer is well-trained in identifying and blending compatible styles. But that would require a reasonably well-developed sense of good taste - something the Chinese don't have.

too bad.

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not really appealing

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twice

Hmmm......6.5

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i like the complex 7.5/10

Hmm the two towers are obviously in different styles, but I don't find them mismatched. Think of them as two separate buildings, then they work quite well. Construction quality seems to be there too, which is more than many other similar buildings can claim. The one big mismatch, not so much in style than in cladding, is the podium. Why not all white and blue??

7/10.

chaotic! interesting!

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7/10:)

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6.5/10

This building has too many things going on at the same time. The base looks interesting but totally unrelated to the tower, which is decent but mediocre. It just doesnt go together.

ifel toewer.... this is the one of the most building in our world.

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8. Good building. Regards.

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i don´t like it!

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8.5 :)

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