seven iconic buildings, according to Delta's in-flight magazines

i voted for the seattle library because i know the chrysler building is gonna make a killing in this poll.

so much focus on the new in thiis

(voted malmo cuz it deserves at least one vote)

burj dubai vs el debarge

where is cowboys stadium

It's certainly an odd 7. Voted Versailles, if we're really going for "iconic".

WILLIS TOWER SHIT ON ALL OF THEM

I gis'd Willis Tower and all these photos of the Sears Tower came up. Did not know it was now called that.

chrysler building, without reading responses, which took the wind out of my sails in an immediate and direct fashion.

that should garner it quite a few votes.

Let's not let it get that meta.

The fact that this is a real photo make me feel weird, somehow:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Burj_Dubai_20090916.jpg

It's like a drawing from the cover of an old paperback sf novel. "Foundation", maybe.

Heh, I was amused when that thing surpassed the CN Tower back in '07 and City-TV made it the top news story of the day. (lol torontonians)

Only now do I realize that it says ICONIC not IRONIC. haha

another boring chrysler vote

"Seven Iconic Buildings At Delta Destinations" more like, LOL inflight mags...

The Seattle Public Library comes closest to my favorite architectural style, which is Buildings that Resemble Jawa Sandcrawlers (see also Denver Art Museum).

Architecture nerd answer: I voted Seattle. Chrysler is the prettiest here, and Versailles is maybe the most important historically (in terms of sheer quantity of imitators that were also themselves interesting, good buildings) (tho you could argue that Versailles itself is just a scaled-up knockoff of Vaux-le-Vicomte). But Seattle is the most significant today in terms of new architectural production, which is to say that it somehow encapsulates (or has been made to symbolize) vast swaths of Important Stuff in both theory and practice. It's a bit of a Rorschach blot, and it's not really more or less important than any other mid-to-large-sized Koolhaas building (ie Porto music hall, Utrecht Educatorium, Kunsthal in Rotterdam) but it's the one pinned up on the most architecture student cubicles and, count on it, there will be decades of half-baked imitations by people who saw it, thought it was cool, and wanted to do something similar.

Huge dud for hastening the proliferation of badly-thought-through program diagrams that have big words printed on the page turning into the building. But what can you do?

Porto, btw, is the best Jawa building in his arsenal:

http://cache.io9.com/assets/images/gallery/8/2009/06/medium_3633825402_1cbcdfca43_o.jpg

short version of above: seattle represents things that my kind of architecture nerds have been really into for the last x years.

everybody understands that the beijing national stadium is totally bitchin right

http://blog.thisnext.com/storage/Beijing_National_Stadium.jpg

http://www.checkonsite.com/wp-content/gallery/national-stadium-beijing/beijing_national_stadium_interior_1.jpg

Oh, yeah, it's totally cool - just not so sure where it leads. But I do like Herzog & de Meuron tons.

Thats actually an interesting list, even with the heavy reliance on the "new". I think the Chrysler Building is a great choice to symbolize the great age of American skyscrapers. Yeah the Sears (fuck that Willis shit) and Empire State are more "famous", but I totally think the Chrysler fits the iconic image of "skyscraper" more completely. The only change I would make would be to replace the Reichstag with Guggenheim Bilbao.

Reichstag is definitely an odd pick for a list like this, but, not having read the article, I guess the pitch would be that it's symbolic of all this German history, the progress made since the war, the reunification, everything. I think the Foster addition is pretty iffy though and the original building is not a particularly distinctive piece. Iconic for its history moreso than the building itself.

The omissions are too numerous to count, really, and this is obviously the product of someone picking a handful of cities that were this month's Delta Destinations or whatever, but somehow this is still a fun list. Again speaking as archi-nerd, it's really interesting to see what buildings are being pulled out of archi-land into the world of Recognizable Things. Which isn't to say that Seattle Public Library has the kind of recognition as Bird's Nest or the Sydney Opera House, say, but it was probably coverage like this that GOT the Sydney building to its permanent celebrity status...?

yeah, it's a really odd list in terms of "iconic" - Seattle Library is certainly more important than it is iconic, as is Versailles.

On that list I feel like Burj, Beijing Stadium, and the Chrysler Building are the only buildings that have reached iconic status.

you don't think versailles is iconic?

Perhaps the problem with versailles is that it's iconic of a few too many things.

Working towards a definition of iconic - an article you won't see in Delta's in-flaight mag.

argghh - FLIGHT

I think Versailles is more symbolic than iconic.

I think Turning Torso's really the odd one out here, not only because of its relatively low public profile but because of the lack of a public element - even the Chrysler Building has a lobby the public can enter, and part of the attraction of the rest is the ability to experience the interior.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

love them all (except no particular feelings for versailles), my favorite is the reichstag though

Beijing Stadium doesn't have a gigantic superscreen for fat lazy Texas, so it's a failure in my book.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

malmo!