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DISCUSS: Best 70's Skyscraper

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#1 ·
Discuss this week's topic here.
 
#2 ·
Buildings from the Top 200 list that are from the 70's:

4 - Sears Tower, Chicago
14 - Aon Center, Chicago
32 - First Canadian Place, Toronto
50 - Citigroup Center, New York City
55 - Renaissance Tower, Dallas
68 - Water Tower Place, Chicago
69 - Aon Center, Los Angeles
72 - Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco
81 - U.S. Steel Tower, Pittsburgh
118 - IDS Tower, Minneapolis
121 - John Hancock Tower, Boston
128 - Sunshine 60 Building, Tokyo
131 - Commerce Court West, Toronto
162 - 1251 Avenue of the Americas, New York City
163 - One Penn Plaza, New York City
170 - MLC Centre, Sydney
175 - One Astor Plaza, New York City
180 - One Liberty Plaza, New York City
184 - Centerpoint Energy Plaza, Houston
192 - Shinjuku Mitsui Building, Tokyo
195 - ARCO Center, Los Angeles
198 - Shinjuku Center Building, Tokyo
200 - Carlton Center Office Tower, Johannesburg

Some pretty good buildings from this era, including #4, #14, #32, #50, #55, #72, #118, and #170.
 
#5 ·
I nominate the WTC, Sears Tower and OCBC Centre in Singapore.

I feel these have innovative and unique structural systems.

For the OCBC Centre (200m) by IM Pei, it consists of 2 cores, with the floor spaces supported in the middle, like rungs on a ladder.

Some construction pics from the 70s:







and today:

 
#22 ·
Westin Peachtree Plaza, ATLANTA

Built: 1976
Height: 220m
Floors: 73

It was the tallest hotel building in the world when completed













I think it should deffinetly be one of the best from the 70s
 
#23 ·
70s architecture mostly sucked but i'll have to go with the sears tower and i guess the peachtree tower
 
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