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Chrysler Building
ESB
Bank of America, SF

empire state building, chrysler building, sears tower, williams tower:

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The best skyscraper in the country, maybe the world. If you are ever in Chicago--its observatory is better than the Sears Tower, cheaper I believe.

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Second best, but not far behind. An American Classic.

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Empire States Building..
http://www.marcle.co.uk/644%20Empire%20State%20Building%20small.jpg

Chrysler Building
I can't see any competition against it. Even the Empire State Building hasn't got a look in.

Again, the Chrysler Building it's just so beautiful but there's still something gorgeous about the Empire State Building, too.

Transamerica Pyramid and Library Tower (the one in Los Angeles).

The best skyscraper in the country, maybe the world. If you are ever in Chicago--its observatory is better than the Sears Tower, cheaper I believe.

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/3590/zassshn9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Second best, but not far behind. An American Classic.

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Funnily enough, these are my two favourite US towers too!

Funnily enough, these are my two favourite US towers too!

Mine too! Chrysler for sheer elegance, style and beauty, and Sears for ambition and design (and the speed of the lifts!)

Woolworth Building (NYC)
Chrysler Building (NYC)
Empire State (NYC)
Manhattan Municipal Building (NYC)
Bank of America Corporate Center (Charlotte)

New York:
Old World Trade Center, Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, GE Building, Trump World Tower, Trump Tower, New York Times Tower, Bank of America Tower, Woolworth Tower, American International Building, Citigroup Tower, Bear Sterns Tower, Times Square Tower, Sony Plaza, Skyhouse, 17 State Street, Mondrian Tower.

Chicago:
Waterview Tower, AON, Chase Tower, Lake Point Tower, Marina City towers, Tribune Tower, Wrigley Building, Hancock Tower (though it's hugely overrated), and all the Mies van der Rohe black boxes in Chicago - there are loads!

1) hancock tower, chicago
2) chrysler building, new york city
3) first national tower, omaha, nebraska (mainly for sentimental reasons, but still not a bad effort for a centrepiece tower in a city with a population comparable to leicester, coventry, hull or bradford):

http://www.buildex.com/gifs/First%20Nat'l%20Bank.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/89/Omaha2.jpeg

empire state building, chrysler building, sears tower, williams tower:

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its this a real building??

Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, One Liberty Place (Philadelphia), Columbia Center (Seattle), Two Prudential Plaza (Chicago) and The Hancock Center in Boston only because I went up to the top when I was 8 yrs old and it felt huge back then.

its this a real building??

yes. in the galleria area here in houston. i'm looking out the window at it right now.

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Well,, i love space needle, its my favourite ......

and the birth city of fantastic musicians :nuts:

Chrysler Tower in NY - no doubt

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http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SOH/SOH026.htm

Flatiron Building:

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Hearst Tower

http://www.*************/architects/foster/hearst/1hearst.jpg

http://keetsa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/hearst-tower.jpg

The Chrysler building (my company has a small office in this building, but haven't found a reason to go there (yet))

Sears Tower to open glass-bottom Skydeck in June

May 1, 2009
BY DAVID ROEDER

Sears Tower -- and it's still called that for the time being -- will invite its Skydeck visitors to enjoy a view usually reserved for window-washers and superheroes.

It'll be a walk on the high side as visitors on the observation deck step into glass enclosures that extend 4.3 feet beyond the building. Beneath their feet in dizzyness-inducing splendor will be the city itself, 103 stories below, with an inch and a half of glass between person and pavement.

Link: http://www.suntimes.com/business/1553404%2CCST-NWS-sears01.article


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wells fargo center, minneapolis:

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Seagram Building, New York City

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Boston's Finest

http://berlinoir.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/boston-john-hancock-tower.jpg

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Washington Mutual, Seattle
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Boston's Finest

http://berlinoir.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/boston-john-hancock-tower.jpg


Surreal shot!

^^ Yeah its only 240 ish metres but looks a lot bigger there! Im just annoyed I never got to go up it thanks to 9/11, they shut the viewing gallery shortly after. The second shot is my own taken from the neighbouring Prudential tower which at a similar height still has its viewing gallery

I've growing fond of the recently completed Aqua Tower, Chicago. From some angles it looks like a naff thing from the Costa Del Sol but from others... :drool:

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Aqua Tower is gorgeous. I am loving Frank Gehry's Beekman Place that is going up in NY as well. The cladding looks beautiful.

Here's a render:
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/news_images/2369_3_Beekman4big.jpg

Chysler building-NY
Hancock tower-Chicago
Seagram building-NY
Bank of America Corparate Centre-Charlotte NC

Chicago's Sears Tower is renamed

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The Sears Tower in Chicago - one of the most famous skyscrapers in the world - is being renamed.

The 110-storey structure, which opened in 1973, is being rechristened the Willis Tower on Thursday.

London-based insurance brokerage Willis Group Holdings has secured the naming rights as part of an agreement to lease space.

But the name change has angered some protesters, who have launched a website called www.itsthesearstower.com.

Chicago teacher Marianne Turk, 46, told the Associated Press news agency that she was firmly against the change, as she waited to go up.

"It's always going to be the Sears Tower. It's part of Chicago and I won't call it Willis Tower. In Chicago we hold fast," she said.

The Willis Tower will be introduced to Chicago by the city's mayor, Richard Daley, during a public renaming ceremony hosted by Willis Group Holdings.

The company is hopeful that the name change will catch on.

"Everybody knows that tower," chief executive Joe Plumeri said ahead of the ceremony.

"If we're good corporate citizens and do what we should, hopefully Willis and the tower and Chicago will all become synonymous."

The glass cube that juts out from the viewing gallery on the 103rd floor
Other well-known buildings have undergone name changes - New York City's Pan Am Building became the MetLife Building, and Chicago's Standard Oil Building is now the Aon Center.

But people have not always taken to them.

Public relations experts said it could take decades for the new name of the Chicago skyscraper to take its place in the public consciousness.

"The Sears Tower is not just a Chicago landmark, it's a national landmark that's known around the world," Aaron Perlut, a managing partner at St Louis-based PR agency Elasticity, told Reuters news agency.

"We see it on our TVs, in movies and magazines, so it is part of pop culture."

"Gaining public acceptance of renaming the Sears Tower will be extremely challenging. Even with a very long, integrated marketing campaign we could be looking at a 20-to-30-year period," he said.

The building's original tenant, Sears Roebuck and Co, moved out in 1992 but its sign stayed on.

A real estate investment group, American Landmark Properties of Skokie, Illinois, now owns the building.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8154331.stm

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City Spire Manhattan

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Time Warner Manhattan

After the Chrysler Building its the US Bank Tower

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/skyscraperrot/usbankla01.jpg

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I LOVE YOU US BANK TOWER

My vote is for the Chrysler Building for its sheer elegance.

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Surreal shot!

If you like that then you may also like the newly built Legacy At Millennium Park in Chicago. The two remind me a lot of each even though the Legacy is residential....

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That one in Charlotte everyone keeps mentioning. Thats nice. The Chrysler Building, obviously. And the John Hancock tower too. Thats cool.

Manhattan, 1931


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Manhattan_1931.jpg

^ One year later and that view would have included Downtown's finest, the American International Building:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/AIB-NYC-gp.jpg