Discuss: best copied buildings

octagonal towers: Torre de Cristal (Madrid) and 1 World Trade Center (NYC). Crystal Tower began construction in 2004 and this iteration of the "Freedom Tower" was unveiled in 2005.


Torre de Cristal, Cuatro Torres Business Area, Madrid by Gaspar Serrano, on Flickr


One World Trade Center by Jakub Slováček, on Flickr

Toronto based Olympia & York, which built large parts of Toronto's CBD, sought to recreate a little bit of Canada in both London and New York. The company built Canary Wharf in London and World Financial Center in New York. Quite predictably some of the buildings look very similar.

Olympia & York eventually went bankrupt and some of their properties became part of another Toronto company called Brookfield.

Waterpark Place, Toronto


One Canada Square, London

Courtesy of wikipedia

World Financial Center, New York

Courtesy of wikipedia

^^
I like this style

one more building with same shape but a bit different cladding:
181 west madison, chicago, 210m, 50 floors





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/181_West_Madison_Street

I think also the Unipol Tower u/c in Milano is inspired by the 30 St Mary Axe in London.

Unipol Tower, Milano

http://blog.urbanfile.org/2018/01/27/milano-porta-nuova-nuovi-rendering-della-torre-unipol-sai/

30 St Mary Axe, London

http://mydecorative.com/londons-magnificent-30-st-mary-axe/782/

The MetLife Tower in New York City might have been inspired by the Pirelli Tower in Milano

Pirelli Tower, Milano

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirelli_Tower

MetLife Tower, New York City

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetLife_Building

The Mercuriales (1975), Paris (Bagnolet)



The towers was inspired by the WTC.

There are certain buildings are building by the same architectural firm but with a slightly different concept.

Take Goldman Sachs Tower in Jersey City and IFC in HK particularly 1-IFC are they are within the similar height range.

Not a complete copy but some similarities

US Bank Tower (LA)



UOB Tower (Singapore)