What's your favorite/least favorite skyscrapers?

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Obviously, a S/D would be tasteless right now.

I work a few blocks away from the Chrysler Building now. As I spend my day circling around the city, I soak it up from all angles, at different intersections and different times of day, its gleaming spire, its spoke windows broadcasting outward like the rays of an art deco sun in the middle of morning mist and daylight haze...every single time, I think: this is the most beautiful building in the whole wide world. And god, the other ones in the neighborhood! The Whole Sick Park Avenue Crew: Lever House, the Seagram's Building, Sony Plaza/the AT&T Building and the cock-eyed seventies' Legosity of Citicorp Center a few blocks away...all framing a Park Avenue view marred by the clumsy octagonal oaf that is the Pan-Am Building.

Other grand ones: Hong Kong's Bank of China Tower; Houston's Bank of America Center; 17 State Street, one of the rare mirrored-winowed buildings that's any good -- utterly unforgettable when the windows reflect the setting sun; just about anything with a golden or brazen spire; and of course, the Empire State Building.

Other horrible ones: 4 Times Square, which at night gives off this evil black hole anti-glow; Philadelphia's One Liberty Plaza, the Chrysler Building as parody; the tiresome no-brain Internationalism of nearly anything resembling the Seagram's Building built after the Seagram's Building.

― Michael Daddino, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the chrysler building's always been my favorite, everything you say about it is true.

― ethan, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

TOP TEN

1) Seagrams Building
Mies Van Die Rohe NYC
The rigidness of forms construct this stactco rythym until the wide plaza releases the enegy, providng a space for new yorks citizens
2)DG Bank
Kohn/Pedersen/Fox
Frankfurt
It looks like a huge pop art ionic column with this stadium halo ; reminds me of the AT&T builidng if it was done for beauty instead of laughs
3)Petronas Twin Towers Cesar Pelli
Kuala Lumpur
like silver rockets racing towards the future , full of hope and promise
4) AT&T builiding
Johnson
NYC
Funny as hell, nasty comment on capitalism as religon , the biggest joke in architechture. works on aesthic levels as well
5)Lloyds Building
Richard Rodgers
London
Remember when you were 6 and you had one of those toys that was bright, colorful and shiny ? It was so much fun thats what rodgers building reminds me of
6) Umeda Sky Building
Hiroshi Hara & Atelier
Osaka
Using the forms of ship building it looks liek a bridge made out of clouds and air
7) Johnson Building
Frank Lloyd Wright Racine, Wisconsin
Handsome on the outside with its red brick , inside it looked oddly like Alice in wonderland with its towering mushroom umbrellas
8) Burj El Arab Hotel am unsure of arichetecht Dubai
That bulging sail or sand dune , that singualr wide swoop that thrusts into the blue harbour painted white and held on by a slash of concrete
9) Interstate Bank building
unsure of architecht
This gleaming fuck you of black glass topped with a white glans , pure power and glamour
10) Royal Charoen Krung Tower
once again unsure
It has a gold cupuloa
I think alot of skyscrapers are arrogant and isotlationist, i tried to find ones that broke the mold.

― anthony, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sorry the interstate is in LA, no 10 is in bangcock .

― anthony, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

there is a building in Kansas City thst was used in the movie Ghostbusters as the Zuul building

― Mike Hanle y, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i hate the fucking Sky Tower inAuckland

― di, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ZUUL!

― ethan, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm an architecture buff, but I don't particularly like skyscrapers, at least not the ones built in the past twenty years. I like some of the older deco ones and, of course, the beautiful early skyscrapers we have here in Chicago, which is home of the skyscraper, you know. The most beautiful of the big ones is the John Hancock. Most of the really tall ones are out of scale and don't offer much to people on the street - they just look good from a plane or make good postcard views.

The most hideous is the garish "flashlight" building (done by KPF) next to the Sears Tower. Chicago's been in a rut pretty much since the Hancock, with the exception of 333 W. Wacker, a curved green curtain wall that sits at the curve of the river.

― Kerry, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh 333 Wacker? My brother-in-law works there and apparently, its sinking slowly into the chicago river.

― phil, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

in nyc, 5the flat iron and the crysler float my boat, empire state has certain features but isn't amazing. I'm a firm believer that most london skyscrpers should be cut off at the knees so we can regain more of the ludgate hill skyline, although I do like the natwest tower. The whole canary warf development was a wasted oportunity for spectacular building and is a haven for dull tin boxery, jubilee line station extended, which is one of my favorite pices of recent architecture being a submerged techno cathedral (I've said this before).

The new building in and around the GLA are rubish, or will be not even living up to there smart environmentally friendly plans because My Lord Foster is an Idiot and shuld not be allowed to practice as and architect, or should at least allow others to get some of the big commissions. now lets see: millenium dome, foster, dud; millenium bridge, foster, looks good, wobbles unusable, dud; GLA devlopment, will require mre energy than a badly designed 60s office block because its shaped like a large lens, dud; I could go on. Will someone please take foster away. ( I do realise that most of his building are infact designed by minions and he just sits on a pile of money going mwahhahaha)

― Ed, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I see the City Group have finished their tower...

(obviously the tower block you can see from my flat is the best - they just got swish security doors and everything! and we might even be getting cctv! we've already got security guards yeah cool yeah uphigh ect ect. i also do apologise for the fact that possibly only me will giggle at my first sentence ho ho.)

― Sarah, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What's wrong with One Liberty Plaza? I like the fact that it parodies the Chrysler Building (which I also like). I also think that Philadelphia has one of the nicest skylines of any American city -- very tasteful and aesthetically pleasing (nothing beats the view taking the SEPTA into Center City from the 30th Street Station).

Though I'm old enough to remember (and miss) the days when no building in Philly was taller than William Penn up top of City Hall. Come to think of it, Philadelphia's City Hall is a pretty grand skyscraper in itself. (Jess, you around?)

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No Starry I tittered too.

Coming into London on the A40 you pass the Trellick Tower and I'm starting to really like it.

― Tom, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Cheers, Tom!"

I also like Blackpool Tower (mmm smells of donuts and grease and hotdogs and the p&v - is my hem hem, trailer showing?) and THE MONUMENT (which Lixi and I climbed on SPONG DAY and I had the huge immense fear)! Okay so the Monument isn't exackerly a skyscraper but it's a big... thing... bah. Yah boo sucks to Le Tour Eiffel sez me and that's not just because I've never been to Paris and no-one ever offers to take me chiz chiz.

― Sarah, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Centrepoint and The Barbican are obvious, but still two of my favourites. i particularly love the subtle curve on the front of Centrepoint.

― m jemmeson, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I quite like the building that's shaped like the ark near Hammersmith station. Otherwise, I don't really dig the whole sky scraper vide.

― james, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ah, tad, you are so right. philly's city hall has to be one of the nicest buildings around, bar none. you take these things fer granted walking by them every day. when i was commuting to nyc pretty much every weekend, the skyline of philly really did offer a sort of minimalist comfort driving or train-ing it back in. (and yer also right about the septa runs, although its a shame, at least on my route, about having to travel through 10 minutes of burnt out cars and boarded up row homes before getting there. oh, and hearing snooty, wrinkled women talk about the "quality" of the people who live there. feh.)

― jess, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know a lot of skyscrapers, but since studying the endless newspaper photos from the last month I've become quite enamoured with the Woolworth building (I think Mike D mentioned it first), it's just fab.

In central Manchester there's this building next to (from my bedroom window) the hideous Arndale Centre tower, that is fairly bland as a building but has these shimmering green windows and the roof is covered in hundreds of satellite dishes and aerials and from where I am it looks really organic, like alien infestation or the building going mouldy and growing fungus, which is always cool.

Is anyone else concenred by tower blocks where the ground floor is narrower than the rest of the building?

― Graham, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"DG Bank (Kohn/Pedersen/Fox)"
Surely the best building ever?

― DG, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This question sucks. Everything in Times Square is ass.

― Ally, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Baxter Building, Titans Tower. They knock 'em down and they come back bigger & better.

― Pete, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Gold Building. Downtown Hartford, CT.

At certain times during the day, the sun smacks into said gold, bathing the streets below in a pissed-apple-cider type of yellow that doesn't add a damn thing to the intrigue and excitement that typifies downtown Hartford, CT.

― David Raposa, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Transamerica Building can fuck right off, as cod-Frisco-ism it's worse than Fisherman's Wharf. What a laughingstock.

― dave q, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The CN Tower can fuck right off too. Don't you get sick of Canadians who build ridiculous monuments to nothing just so they can into the Guiness book? Saves us from having to do something that would actually benefit humanity, I guess.

― dave q, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Chrysler building. Without a doubt. I just wish they'd open the top up so I could spend the day snooping around. And I'd go so far as to nominate most skyscrapers in Hong Kong as being classic just for the impact of seeing them all from Kowloon, especially at nighttime. We stayed on the 50th floor of a hotel and the views are breathtaking. Also, the thousands of tower blocks seen when driving to the airport awed me.

― Bill, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You seem to really like the Philip Johnson buildings, Michael...

― Nitsuh, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

...And the spanking new City Point is amazing (notice it's opposite Centre Point and looks vaguely the same and is almost the same name...was that planned). If you stand at the far end of Silk Street on the Barbican highwalk, it looks like this massive chasm with a glass wall at one end. With razors at the top, obviously.

― Bill, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Philip Johnson is so overrated.

― C.E. Jeanneret, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like the CN Tower dave, you cynical bastard you. :) Sure it's a purely ostentatious monument to excess (kind of anyway) but that's just so atypically Canadian a sentiment that I'm surprised that it even exists. So I think it's great that it's there. Design wise it's quite seventies, but it's extremely pretty at night, especially now that they light up the Sky Dome roof below with this bright indigo light that kind of reflects upwards. I do associate it quite strongly with home though, so I'm willing to admit a certain prejudice. Ever stood up there on that glass floor? Now that is one freaky experience.

― Kim, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it proves tornot is overcompansating for a small penis

― anthony, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You say that as if it's a bad thing...

― Kim, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i hate toronto this makes me a canadain

― anthony, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Seems like the only thing anybody can think of anymore is pink stone facades and blue-green windows, like th e building I work in. It's like a Denver Hilton (without room service)

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Y'all are just jealous. ;) But seriously, I'd hope that most of those who say such things on such a regular basis, still feel deep down that it's essentially a pet peeve and not a real resentment - much as the cliche Canadian resentment towards Americans (in regards to their general indifference to Canada) largely fell away at the first sign of this crisis. I mean, I've bought into and participated in my share of reactionary mud slinging, but lately I'm a bit embarrassed for it all. It's time seems over, and only reinforces this useless (and mostly unfounded) national inferiority complex going on. Do Americans resent New York, Chicago, or L.A.? In a lot of ways I think we need more of that national pride. I've seen glimpses of it - Ottawa and capital hill on Canada Day this year was incredible - spontaneous flag waving parades wherever you looked - everyone in red and white, people were genuinely excited about being Canadian, you know? But other times I just wonder what the fuck is *with* this country... erm... end rant.

― Kim, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I figure I should say something about the Twin Towers, the skyscrapers I knew the most intimately. I have to be perfectly honest with you -- I didn't like them much. They seemed completely unimaginative; the plaza was a godamned wind-tunnel; and it took years before the concourse had some decent shops.

(Another detail I was very pissy about were the subway exits for the Cortlandt Street station. The stairs were very very narrow -- possibly to help maximize the real estate upstairs -- and so it would take absolutely forever for a train full of people to clear out the station. I always thought to myself, every single time I got off the train, if there's ever a fire down here, people will DIE because nobody will be able to get out in time.)

Some people I know also disliked the window situation. They were much too narrow and the columns between them too wide to adequately display the kind of unbroken panoramic views such tall buildings promise. As a result, the landscapes outside would barely register in your consciousness unless you were practically dry-humping a window. (The Windows on the World restaurant actually did provide marvellous views partly because IIRC, the ceiling heights and hence the windows were much taller than for the average WTC floor.)

The there was the wind. I worked on the 17th floor for a year and a half, and then the 21st and 22nd floors afterwards, and even working on those low floors, you could hear the building creak as it moved baaaack and foooorth in any mild wind situation. It never ceased to be disconcerting. I've also read anecdotal stuff about how on the upper floors, pens would fall off desks in similar situations.

Now, in the towers' absence, I can see how they added heft to the lower portion of the New York skyline. Plus, the quasi-gothic shapes the windows took towards the bottom of the towers actually displayed a kind of wit. You can see it in the photos taken in the WTC's early days, back before the World Financial Center was built and blocked an impeded view of the towers from afar -- on that scale, the arches become a weirdly delicate detail of proportion worthy of Aubrey Beardsley or Mondrian. Plus, well...they did their job.

― Michael Daddino, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

One Liberty Plaza is the Chrysler Building crossed with the Crystal Cathedral.

― Michael Daddino, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

who was teh artist who did those haunting sketches and guaches of the empty WTC floors ?

― anthony, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

six years pass...

http://www.mxxy.net/towers/MubarakTower4.jpg

Mubarak Tower, Kuwait City
3,284 ft
Floor Count: 250
almost twice the height of Taipei 101

― negotiable, Saturday, 11 October 2008 18:49 (seventeen years ago)

won't be done for another 20 years though :(

― negotiable, Saturday, 11 October 2008 18:50 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.luxurylaunches.com/entry_images/1107/15/Burj_Mubarak_4.jpg

― negotiable, Saturday, 11 October 2008 18:52 (seventeen years ago)

http://q8futuristic.com/new_files/mubrak.gif

― negotiable, Saturday, 11 October 2008 18:54 (seventeen years ago)

i buying in dream city

― negotiable, Saturday, 11 October 2008 18:55 (seventeen years ago)

http://internationalpropertyinvestment.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/tallest-towers.jpg

― negotiable, Saturday, 11 October 2008 18:57 (seventeen years ago)

where is sears tower on that chart?

― joe 40oz (deej), Saturday, 11 October 2008 19:08 (seventeen years ago)

my city is the only one that still reps for bigdick towers, way to go rest of united states >:(

― joe 40oz (deej), Saturday, 11 October 2008 19:09 (seventeen years ago)

Construction of the Chicago Spire has been slowed by the developer and will not resume normal activity until the markets improve from the subprime mortgage crisis.[15]

― joe 40oz (deej), Saturday, 11 October 2008 19:15 (seventeen years ago)

the Grace building was the first one i ever fell in love with:

http://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/manhattan/midtown/buildings/grace.jpg

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 11 October 2008 19:45 (seventeen years ago)

no pic there, tracer

http://www.fortuneireland.com/burj-al-alam.jpg

^^burj al alam is awesome and triffidy

― dream city (negotiable), Saturday, 11 October 2008 20:20 (seventeen years ago)

These skyscrapers are going to make for spectacular demolition sites and/or abandoned ghettos one day.

― z "R" s (Z S), Saturday, 11 October 2008 20:23 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.burnsomedust.com/images/set1/153.jpg

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 11 October 2008 20:43 (seventeen years ago)

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x-post to myself

it's the new CCTV headquarters in beijing btw. will look like this http://www.globalconstructionwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/beijing-cctv-headquarters.jpg

― jabba hands, Monday, 13 October 2008 01:41 (seventeen years ago)

xpost, also to myself.
That building on the left is triangular, also. My love for deep windows and thick frames was more than satisfied, Pictures of skyscrapers are an iffy thing, It's extremely striking with simple means, as so many of the best are.

― And a good afternoon to you too, Officer Colicchio (mehlt), Monday, 13 October 2008 01:42 (seventeen years ago)

five years pass...

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/newsroom/img/posts/2014/09/cloud_city_shenzhen_architecture_pearl_river_delta_economy_tallest_buildings_skyscrapers_in_the_world/8a070c334.jpg

http://www.citylab.com/design/2014/09/china-considers-an-immense-skyscraper-shaped-like-a-cloud/380258/

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 19:43 (eleven years ago)

so I've spent my whole life thinking that the Chrysler building is the empire state btw

― fedora, wherever it may find her (darraghmac), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 19:44 (eleven years ago)

lmao, its much nicer tbf

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 19:45 (eleven years ago)

http://newyorkyimby.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/One-Vanderbilt-Skyline-2.jpg

http://newyorkyimby.com/2014/09/skyline-view-one-vanderbilt.html

― lag∞n, Friday, 19 September 2014 16:12 (eleven years ago)

Torre Velasca frequently gets cited as one of the world's ugliest buildings but I love it.

http://i.imgur.com/ux8Q85N.jpg

Doesn't really come across that well in photos but the it feels oddly medieval.

― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Friday, 19 September 2014 16:27 (eleven years ago)

ya looks sort of tudorish

― lag∞n, Friday, 19 September 2014 16:28 (eleven years ago)

darragh you need to hit up some of this to get the matter straight in your head:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/quietus_production/images/articles/9930/q-the-winged-serpent_1346757123_crop_550x406.jpg

― Fizzles, Friday, 19 September 2014 16:31 (eleven years ago)

I saw that at 3am on channel 4 on one of my very first nights staying up that late and being able to access channel 4 its been rare since that my hopes have been so beautifully realised

― fedora, wherever it may find her (darraghmac), Sunday, 21 September 2014 13:43 (eleven years ago)

three weeks pass...

I find 432 Park Avenue to be ugly ugly ugly.

― Van Horn Street, Monday, 13 October 2014 18:27 (eleven years ago)

Yeah, it's weak. I guess I like that it really nakedly says "we could get more multi-multi-million dollar aparments this way."

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 04:35 (eleven years ago)

nine years pass...

As late as 2014… when this thread was last active… the Empire State Building was NYC’s tallest occupied building (Freedom Tower opened November 2014). Today the Empire State is only the 8th tallest building in NYC.

― Josefa, Thursday, 14 March 2024 23:40 (one year ago)

My NY-centric answer to the question is that the Chrysler Building is in a class by itself… but I LOVE the Seagram Building, its dark moodiness, and the way it reflects is beautiful. And the openness underneath it. It’s perpetually “That Girl” skipping past the fountains in 1966.

― Josefa, Friday, 15 March 2024 00:06 (one year ago)

Least favorite? 30 Hudson Yards is up there

― Josefa, Friday, 15 March 2024 01:09 (one year ago)

https://hellgatenyc.com/brooklyns-tallest-tower-radiates-pure-evil-and-i-love-it

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 15 March 2024 02:58 (one year ago)

My least favorite is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, because building the world's tallest building in the Emirate of Dubai, a small desert country, is among the most senseless and hubristic acts since the raising of the Great Pyramid of Giza. They could probably fit the Emirate's entire population (fewer than 3.5 million people) inside it, if they were inclined to get a second entry in the Guiness Book of World Records.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 15 March 2024 03:13 (one year ago)

My only hate towards the tallest building in the world is that it is not taller.

― Jeff, Friday, 15 March 2024 10:39 (one year ago)

we shall never marry, you and i

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 15 March 2024 16:29 (one year ago)

I don't know about my most favorite, but I really appreciate Jeanne Gang's contributions to the Chicago skyline. I still love Aqua, even more after having had the opportunity to spend the night in the hotel last fall and stand on one of those corner wrapping balconies:

https://studiogang.com/img/c3ZSK2hZbmpKSkdPclpKN2FJTm5pdz09/0425-aqua-image-001.jpg

I also really like St. Regis, even coming to terms with the "blow-through floors" I found awkward at first:

https://www.magellandevelopment.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/363-E-Wacker-Dr-Chicago-IL-large-001-005-0001-667x1000-72dpi.jpg

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 15 March 2024 16:34 (one year ago)

my favorite piece of popular architecture criticism of the past few years, about a truly vile building that used to be on my commute

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/mar/17/a-gas-guzzling-villains-lair-welcome-to-las-grotesque-new-high-rise

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 15 March 2024 17:01 (one year ago)

Oof.

There's part of me that could get down with a brutalist appendage attacking a bog standard glass tower, but that ain't it chief.

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 15 March 2024 17:03 (one year ago)

The St. Regis tower looks v promising, looks like they are adding one to the right of the tallest tower slightly higher than the one to its left and then just need the 'thumb' extension to the right of that.

― nashwan, Friday, 15 March 2024 17:11 (one year ago)

lol, and aimed directly at Trump Tower

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 15 March 2024 17:12 (one year ago)

I see so many people talking pictures of themselves in front of the Trump Tower on my morning commute. I would forgive them if at least they had the decency to flip it off in picture.

― Jeff, Friday, 15 March 2024 17:20 (one year ago)

When I used to work in the South Loop on Wabash, walking north I was often confronted with the vomit inducing sight of his gigantic name splattered on the side of the building, which I very frequently greeted with a hearty single digit salute.

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 15 March 2024 17:42 (one year ago)

my fave big building will always be the Flatiron. i just love it. i recently got an awesome coffee table book about it. great pictures. my sister-in-law lives right there and outside on her rooftop it seems like you can touch it! its so close. which is cool but being on her roof still scares me when i think of it. to high for me.

― scott seward, Friday, 15 March 2024 18:02 (one year ago)

If you love it so much why didn't you buy it? Went for a scant $161m a year ago. Gonna be condos now.

― henry s, Friday, 15 March 2024 18:07 (one year ago)

that's a steal really. i should have.

― scott seward, Friday, 15 March 2024 18:14 (one year ago)

both sf and ny currently have tilting towers cause developers cheaped out on the foundations, classic

― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 March 2024 14:57 (one year ago)

also Pisa

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 21 March 2024 15:04 (one year ago)

xp - do you have a link to stories about those towers, or at least the tower names? would love to read more about them?

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 21 March 2024 15:08 (one year ago)

wait, I think I've found the NY one - 161 Maiden Lane?

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 21 March 2024 15:19 (one year ago)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/05/29/the-fifty-nine-story-crisis-citicorp-center is a good read

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 21 March 2024 15:20 (one year ago)

nobody's mentioned PENN 15 yet?

https://newyorkyimby.com/2023/03/new-rendering-revealed-for-penn-15-supertall-at-15-penn-plaza-in-midtown-manhattan.html

https://books.vno.com/books/kpoe/#p=175

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b4/da/ed/b4daed512c7a7553aeec8ceb2d51d300.jpg

― 龜, Thursday, 21 March 2024 15:22 (one year ago)

SF's leaner is the Millenium Tower:

https://archinect.com/news/article/150417670/san-francisco-s-millennium-tower-is-sinking-again-despite-foundational-corrections

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 21 March 2024 15:22 (one year ago)

xp - Yeah, that one's a classic caek, we read that in one of my structural engineering classes back in college.

Thanks, Steve Shasta.

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 21 March 2024 15:35 (one year ago)

I...kinda like that Culver City building, at least it's trying to be different.

― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 21 March 2024 15:53 (one year ago)

lots of youtube videos on both the tilting towers, pretty fun rabbit hole with politics money lawsuits laws bad decisions bad math etc in the mix

― lag∞n, Friday, 22 March 2024 22:48 (one year ago)

theres one engineer who who tries to be even handed and sober about the story but you can tell inside hes just screaming wtf

― lag∞n, Friday, 22 March 2024 22:51 (one year ago)

the sf one is really the star, the ny one is more for true tilting tower heads

― lag∞n, Friday, 22 March 2024 22:56 (one year ago)

this popped up on my FB. the view from my sister-in-law's apartment roof deck.

https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/548517_10150703131962137_2046499443_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=HRYVEixYPXIAX8WI9Q1&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&oh=00_AfC3t1xMuGS6LfaQF1SUomrjANNzpn1Q0dj4WK0deIo3_g&oe=6628F0F2

― scott seward, Monday, 25 March 2024 14:30 (one year ago)

Sweet. Only in NY, kiddies.

― Josefa, Monday, 25 March 2024 14:48 (one year ago)

The proposed 175 Park Avenue skyscraper will dwarf its neighbors, the supertall One Vanderbilt and the much beloved Chrysler Building:

https://newyorkyimby.com/2023/01/new-rendering-released-for-project-commodore-supertall-at-175-park-avenue-in-midtown-east-manhattan.html

― Josefa, Thursday, 4 April 2024 02:27 (one year ago)

https://cloudsao.com/ANALEMMA-TOWER

― brimstead, Friday, 5 April 2024 02:51 (one year ago)

More like anal-lemma

― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 5 April 2024 12:04 (one year ago)

It does indeed remind me of when a stalactite of poop is dangling from a dogs butt

― brimstead, Friday, 5 April 2024 14:36 (one year ago)

The people behind that page are obviously enjoying themselves

While researching atmospheric conditions for this project, we realized that there is probably a tangible height limit beyond which people would not tolerate living due to the extreme conditions. For example, while there may be a benefit to having 45 extra minutes of daylight at an elevation of 32,000 meters, the near vacuum and -40C temperature would prevent people from going outside without a protective suit. Then again, astronauts have continually occupied the space station for decades, so perhaps it’s not so bad?

― ledge, Friday, 5 April 2024 14:56 (one year ago)

lol I saw that

That whole page reminds me of the kids I went to architecture school with who would come up with these ridiculous, physically impossible to build designs that were not feasible on any level at all but got praised to the high heavens in crits because "purty renderings"

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 5 April 2024 15:03 (one year ago)

The Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower was the tallest building in Brooklyn for the 90 years between 1929 and 2009. Now it’s the 12th tallest.

The Brooklyn Tower/9 Dekalb/Sauron’s Lair has seemingly distracted from the fact that big stuff is going up all around downtown Brooklyn.

― Josefa, Sunday, 14 April 2024 18:46 (one year ago)

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