

Here is a rendering of the cancelled Waterview Tower in Chicago. I think this would be a great prototype design for the new tallest skyscraper in Minneapolis. It would be a great synthesis between our modern glassy towers and our older art deco building ( and Wells Fargo). It's very graceful and slender form would have a magnifacent profile on our skyline!fotoapparatic wrote:Yeah, a perfect tower for a city like mpls... let's just revive it and drop that in DTE North of the Armory. It has such a classic silhouette, but such modern flare.
Love this building!! Hey, its much better to be clinically obsessed with skyscrapers than being addicted to meth, heroin, or alcohol. eh?fotoapparatic wrote:I'm clinically obsessed with Frank Gehry's NY Apartments... so here is that too... le sigh...
Yeah, but when I visited it in May, people around me probably did think I was on something ;DJohn wrote: Love this building!! Hey, its better to be clinically obsessed with skyscrapers than doing meth, heroin, or alcohol. eh?
Well, you were in Manhattan with 7 million other crazy people, so I doubt anyone batted an eye!fotoapparatic wrote:Yeah, but when I visited it in May, people around me probably did think I was on something ;DJohn wrote: Love this building!! Hey, its better to be clinically obsessed with skyscrapers than doing meth, heroin, or alcohol. eh?
I want to go to Pittsburgh just to see this! lollordmoke wrote:John, that first building you posted is absolutely stunning. It's a crime that it didn't get built.
As for myself, I know it's boring and cliche because we all live here, but the Norwest Center has to be my favorite building. It looks great both at day and night, and the strong vertical lines make it look much taller and sleeker than it is (a feature shared by the IDS.) I could look at that thing for hours on end, and I'm very thankful we got it here.
A close runner-up would have to be PPG Place in Pittsburgh. I am quite envious of it, and wish gothic architecture would be modernized like this more often:
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My second favorite tower built in the last fifty years after the Wells Fargo Tower.lordmoke wrote:John, that first building you posted is absolutely stunning. It's a crime that it didn't get built.
As for myself, I know it's boring and cliche because we all live here, but the Norwest Center has to be my favorite building. It looks great both at day and night, and the strong vertical lines make it look much taller and sleeker than it is (a feature shared by the IDS.) I could look at that thing for hours on end, and I'm very thankful we got it here.
A close runner-up would have to be PPG Place in Pittsburgh. I am quite envious of it, and wish gothic architecture would be modernized like this more often:
[thumbnail]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... e-2007.jpg[/thumbnail]
Lordmoke, The Wells Fargo building is a masterpiece! Arguably, the best skyscraper design of Cesar Pelli next to one of best skyscraper designs by Phillip Johnson (the IDS). Amazing.lordmoke wrote:As for myself, I know it's boring and cliche because we all live here, but the Norwest Center has to be my favorite building. It looks great both at day and night, and the strong vertical lines make it look much taller and sleeker than it is (a feature shared by the IDS.) I could look at that thing for hours on end, and I'm very thankful we got it here.
Definitely agree with that! Johnson was a master. He actually did the PPG Place that I posted a picture of as well.John wrote:Lordmoke, The Wells Fargo building is a masterpiece! Arguably, the best skyscraper design of Cesar Pelli next to one of best skyscraper designs by Phillip Johnson (the IDS). Amazing.lordmoke wrote:As for myself, I know it's boring and cliche because we all live here, but the Norwest Center has to be my favorite building. It looks great both at day and night, and the strong vertical lines make it look much taller and sleeker than it is (a feature shared by the IDS.) I could look at that thing for hours on end, and I'm very thankful we got it here.
It is a very thoughfully composed complex that is really about improving the quality of life for people live in extremely dense urban centers ( which I think now is the majority of people on earth). I love how they take advantage of natural sunlight, and creates a strong sense of spaciousness with lovely views for its users. And the building is very dramatic in form and fun to look at! I like the way they transform the idea of a traditional Danish courtyard into something new and unique. A visionary approach to urban design and ahead of its time.fotoapparatic wrote:I love this potential building in Manhattan... The theory behind it is great to if you scroll through the slides...
http://www.big.dk/#projects-w57
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