VOTE: Best "Box" Skyscraper

Here are the buildings which received the most nominations.

Vote for your favourite!



Aon Center, Chicago


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HSBC Global Headquarters (8 Canada Square), London


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Trump World Tower, NYC


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Seagram Building, NYC


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Cheung Kong Center, Hong Kong


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HSBC London! Great tower, indeed.

Cheung Kong.

I'll go with the homecourt :D

Cheung Kong

HSBC is really nice, easily second if not the best.

But home has its advantage, since HSBC and CK is tied, I go for Mr. Li's tower.

In first I wanted vote for Cheung Kong Center or Aon Center but in the end I somehow voted for Trump World Tower.

Aon Center for me, with HSBC a very close 2nd.

Seagram, with Aon (my office building) a close second.

You work in the Aon Center?? Cool...

You work in the Aon Center?? Cool...

54th floor--superb views. We also have offices in Swiss Re.

Aon Center, Chicago

HSBC Global Headquarters

Cheung Kong Centre.

Aon Center! :cheer:

Voted for the Trump Tower due to its sleekness/height and the effectiveness of its presence, a well proportioned building which isn't too domineering. Simple form yet quite attractive to the eye which should age quite well.

Seagram would be second place, an NYC icon classic.

Cheung Kong gets my vote though HSBC is nice as well. The other three arent good looking buildings.

its gotta be AON!

AON CENTER chicago

Seagram - a revolutionary idea at the time it was built.

I vote for the Trump World Tower.

Seagram a classical example of a well done skyscrpaper

But why does it have only 8 votes. I think it deserves 2nd or 3rd place.

8 Canada Square

WTC in NY was the best... unfortunately... was... :(

Aon Center, as it reminds me on the WTC...

^^Yes, me too, as if it were painted white.

I liked the sleek design of the Trump tower, but the Seagram and HSBC towers were nice as well.

Aon isn't even the best box in Chicago. I'll take the IBM Building over the Aon.

HSBC Global Headquarters look quit nice on the picture but i see it every day and i don't very like it . My favorite one must be Cheung Kong Center.

I'm for Cheung Kong Center, Hong Kong!

Seagram. By miles.

i voted the cheung kong centre...
because its design is so beautiful and unique...

Aon Center becouse I like white design

Aon

TD Centre, Toronto. It's a Mies van der Rohe masterpiece. It's a better example than the Seagram's Building because it is part of a series of 5 structures.




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Seagram Building, NYC

hsbc, box but pretty

My vote goes to HSBC building - London

HSBC Global Headquarters all the way!

Seagram.

I went for Aon - beautiful. Seagram almost had it for me too - absolute classic lines - incredibly elegant. HSBC is good and the others didn't move me :)

I voted for Cheung Kong Center, HK :okay: :master: :bow:. BTW HSBC tower is also smashing :okay:.

AON Center for me.

Difficult choice but HSBC for it's rounded edges.

Aon Center, Chicago. :)

HSBC is the best :banana:

I go to Aon Center, Chicago

Trump

Aon Center for me, with HSBC a very close 2nd.

same here

Definitely Aon Center, Chicago!

Aon Center.
It sucks so bad, that it becomes interesting again.

Trump NYC :)

Seagram, it's old but never outdated. Yet has timeless elegance. Fits to be placed anywhere else beside New York and at any particular era -except pre-modern and perhaps far in the future when we live in floating capsules/virtual world :D

Mies Van der Rohe's Toronto Dominion Centre or I.M. Pei's Place Ville Marie.

1.aon
2.hsbc

HSBC

AON is fantastical. HSBC - standard and boring glass.

seagram - its the mother of all boxy skyscrapers

Seagram

I don't see anything in the HSBC from that photo

1. Trump
2. Seagram
3. AON
4. Cheung Kong Center

Trump !

Seagram - it defines the style.

Seagram - a revolutionary idea at the time it was built.

Yes, definitely Seagram

Cheung Kong!

Aon Center, Chicago!!! I love the narrow vertical lines, and it has great proportions!!!

It has to be said - it's not exactly Cheung Kong's most flattering picture is it?

The Seagram Building by Mies van der Rohe is the only revolutionary building in this list. The others are nice, but imo they are just copies of this boxconcept. Unbelievable that Seagram has such a low position in a poll on a skyscraperforum.

Are you saying only revolutionary buildings should be top? That imitations, despite 'imitation being the greatest form of flattery', cannot outdo the original with its own added twists?

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Seagram

Seagram Building

Beautiful indeed!

HSBC

Cheung Kong Center. Aon is my runner-up because it has sheer height, but Cheung Kong just has a certain design to it. The slightly rounded corners, the pale blue glass that reflects so well.

HSBC,London looks GREAT!

The Seagram Building by Mies van der Rohe is the only revolutionary building in this list. The others are nice, but imo they are just copies of this boxconcept. Unbelievable that Seagram has such a low position in a poll on a skyscraperforum.

Totally agreed!!! I am amazed that so many people chose something other than the Seagram... looks like a lot of people need to crack open some arch. history books! :nuts::ohno::bash:

Without the Seagram, all the others on this list would not exist!:)

Totally agreed!!! I am amazed that so many people chose something other than the Seagram... looks like a lot of people need to crack open some arch. history books! :nuts::ohno::bash:

Without the Seagram, all the others on this list would not exist!:)

Originality has nothing to do with being the best.

THe Original is still the best, Seagram baby!

I like the La's version of the AON better.
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The Trump tower is the best IMO... though I dont really like any of those buildings

HKs Cheung Kong.

It has to be Seagram, the greatest building in the world. Its the QE2 of skyscrapers :):)

HSBC Global HQ, London :thumbs:

Platinum Tower, Beirut Lebanon

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I vote for Trump World!

1. Aon
2. Seagram
3. Trump
4. HSBC
5.Cheung Kong

The Aon is a box but it reminds me of graceful classical buildings!

Seagram Building, NYC

Delftse Poort Rotterdam :D

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^^Thats my favorite highrise from Rotterdam, i love the glass. Its not has boxy as others.

Here is a boxy scraper.

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The spanish version of the aon center. In my opinion it has better coronation and corners. Not has tall of course but very nice and elegant. Torre Picasso

Not to be pretentious, but, anybody who knows anything about the history of architecture is going to say the Seagrams Building. It is probably the most important building in skyscraper history. How many (albeit, bad) copies of good ol' Mies' building have there been?

Good ol' Mies and good ol' Modernism.

Why does the oldest have to be the best?

I much prefer the Cheung Kong and London's HSBC Tower to the Seagram.

54th floor--superb views. We also have offices in Swiss Re.

Nice!

Anywho my vote goes to Trump NYC.