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Old Posted Oct 14, 2014, 7:24 PM
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The world is full of cool looking bridges and office towers. Being internationally famous is really difficult, and it's getting harder as a lot of sculptural stuff is getting built.

It's easier if the city is a center for tourism or emblematic in popular culture. From there, a few landmarks in that city might be well-known. But even then it's tough...for example Miami has a big profile but has no major landmarks at least in my mind.
Other cities can have their Statue of Liberty or Washington Monument, we have a local casino building a 10-story tall statue of a Pegasus fighting a dragon.

(yes this monstrosity is actually under construction, topped off actually):
http://miami.curbed.com/archives/201...sus-statue.php
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Old Posted Oct 14, 2014, 7:26 PM
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That Atlanta temple is cool, and probably deserves regional fame at least. International fame would have it competing with India, which probably has a lot of larger versions of various vintage and historical relevance.
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I'm going to nominate the Baha'i Temple in Wilmette, IL, just north of Chicago. Absolutely breathtaking and very underrated.. in fact, most people in Chicagoland probably don't know about it:


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Old Posted Oct 14, 2014, 7:58 PM
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I'm going to nominate the Baha'i Temple in Wilmette, IL, just north of Chicago. Absolutely breathtaking and very underrated.. in fact, most people in Chicagoland probably don't know about it:


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That is an amazing building! I can't believe I've never heard of it!
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I grew up in wilmette just a few blocks from the Bahai Temple, so to me it's a very familiar structure. it was just part of the neighborhood growing up, so it's kinda hard for me to think of it as a structure that should garner international fame, though it is magnificent. the intricate detail in the concrete exterior is exquisite.

when i was a kid, the top of it always reminded me of a giant lemon juicer.



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Other cities can have their Statue of Liberty or Washington Monument, we have a local casino building a 10-story tall statue of a Pegasus fighting a dragon.

(yes this monstrosity is actually under construction, topped off actually):
http://miami.curbed.com/archives/201...sus-statue.php
You have to get us more pictures in context.
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Old Posted Oct 14, 2014, 8:34 PM
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Ok so no Williams tower, but how about the Astrodome in Houston?
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Old Posted Oct 14, 2014, 8:52 PM
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I think you're discounting the building based on the city it's in.
In London or Paris it would stand out and probably be reviled as skyscrapers have generally been until recently, or been the slightly taller misc. tower at Canary Wharf, and well below their major attractions in fame. In New York it would've been among a lot of better and/or taller towers. In San Francisco it would've been the biggest but not terribly distinctive next to Transamerica, which is already #2 but #1 in fame. In Shanghai or Dubai of today would be fairly plain (vs. their common garish) and not very tall.

Like I said, it's nice looking. But it's not very distinctive. I suspect some hometown love is happening here, much like I like my city's buildings more than the average outsider probably does, or would if they could think of any.
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You have to get us more pictures in context.
You asked...


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Perhaps deserving to be more famous than it is: Fountain Place in Dallas. One of the cleanest curtain walls ever erected, and with such elegant geometry it's basically an inhabitable, 60-story sculpture:


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I love the Bradbury Building in downtown L.A. It's appeared in a lot of movies (most famously in Blade Runner):



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People need to get out more and see what exists in the rest of the world. A quick jaunt through NYC, Istanbul, London, Shanghai, and Bangkok would do a lot of forumers good. Most of the stuff that these homers are pushing are in no way unique outside of the counties that surround them. Your random ethnic temple in a random sunbelt city is an imitation of something older, nicer, and bigger somewhere else. Your suburban office tower goes unnoticed in Pudong. It's the reality of the situation. Don't get defensive about it.
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While I do like the Williams Tower a lot, and it is the one I'm always looking for when I'm in Houston, if you crack open a book about American skyscraper architecture and are likely to find two skyscrapers from Texas shown in it, chances are it'll be Dallas' Fountain Place and Houston's Bank of America Center. Judith Dupre's "Skyscrapers" is an example of this. Houston's Bank of America Center was one I was looking forward to seeing for the first time, but it was really the Williams Tower I was excited about. But again, that's just me. And I even have a weird interest/preference for skyscrapers with setbacks. Minneapolis' Wells Fargo Center is a perfect example of one I really do love.
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This is just my opinion, but I think it would be better for people to just let others state structures that they, in "their" opinion, think should be recognized internationally, without the expectation that someone will come back at them in a rude or condescending rebuttal. There's really no need for the rudeness being exhibited in this thread by a few members (one most notably). I'm not saying there's anything wrong with disagreeing, but there's a way to disagree and a way not to.

To me, the political areas of SSP are the place to unleash anything and everything (I don't know if the moderators agree with that or not).
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Old Posted Oct 15, 2014, 2:19 AM
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I'd say these lists are mostly accurate.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/06/travel...t-skyscrapers/
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25 great skyscrapers: icons of construction

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(CNN) -- China may have just topped out on its new tallest building -- the 632-meter Shanghai Tower -- but if plans underway in Changsha come to fruition, that building will hold the title until only April 2014 when the country's 838-meter Sky City is completed.
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http://www.touropia.com/iconic-skyscrapers/
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The term skyscraper became popular in the late 19th century as a result of public amazement at the tall buildings being built in Chicago and New York City. Today, skyscrapers are an increasingly common sight in large cities because they provide a favorable ratio of rentable floor space per unit area of land. But they are built not just for economy of space. Like temples and towers of the past, skyscrapers are considered symbols of a city’s economic power. Not only do they define the skyline, they help to define the city’s identity.
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Old Posted Oct 15, 2014, 2:29 AM
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Why was my post deleted?

BTW...I didn't take this thread to be saying "which buildings in your city should be iconic" I took it as "which buildings in your city would you like to see be iconic". Also, everybody is missing the point that it's not the architecture I'm talking about but the cultural influence on the city based on its setting.
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Most of the stuff that these homers are pushing are in no way unique outside of the counties that surround them. Your random ethnic temple in a random sunbelt city is an imitation of something older, nicer, and bigger somewhere else.
You need to back way up from this insulting crap.

The temple Ant131531 shared is hardly random, and Atlanta is hardly some random sunbelt city.

Allow me to educate you. This temple is an absolutely beautiful work of art, constructed of 34,000 pieces of Turkish limestone, Italian marble and Indian pink sandstone hand carved in India and shipped here for assembly by volunteers that contributed over 1 million hours of labor to construct it. It is the largest temple of this particular Hindu sect outside of India.

And Ant131531 is hardly an Atlanta homer. If I'm not mistaken, he moved here from L.A.
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Old Posted Oct 15, 2014, 1:23 PM
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^The building itself (the ornately carved section) is absolutely stunning but the site? It's surrounded by a sea of parking and the outlot with Walgreens...?
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Perhaps deserving to be more famous than it is: Fountain Place in Dallas. One of the cleanest curtain walls ever erected, and with such elegant geometry it's basically an inhabitable, 60-story sculpture:


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That is easily the most distinctive tower in Dallas (though only less famous than the Schoolbook Depository for better or worse).
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