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Old Posted Aug 4, 2020, 11:24 AM
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Suburban Detroit is littered with them, so it would be a very time consuming to document them all. Most of the towers built in the Detroit area since the 1960s would qualify. I'd be surprised if the Detroit area isn't in the top 3 nationally for count of towers thrown up in random ass places. But here are some examples:
Right, most of Metro Detroit highrise development over the last 50 years would qualify. IMO the former American Motors World HQ in Southfield is the worst, but there are lots of examples. The Chrysler World HQ is also absurd, way out in Auburn Hills. And there's a random highrise condo tower in St. Clair Shores.
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Copenhagen Carlsberg Tower:

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Old Posted Aug 4, 2020, 11:54 AM
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Gothenburg Karlatornet (u/c, tallest in the Nordics at 245m)

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Suburban Detroit is littered with them
Southfield and Troy both have clusters of office/residential towers so I don't feel like this is akin to the OP's example where he specifically excluded places like Shaumberg.
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True, Big Beaver Rd. in Troy is really a defined, linear office district. It even has some half-hearted urban gestures, like benches, and urban-style sidewalks. Functionally, it's total sprawl, but it isn't exactly towers in a cornfield.

And Southfield has its most impressive tower cluster in a very small geography, called Southfield Town Center. Not at all walkable, but most of the towers are connected. It's kind of a suburban version of the Renaissance Center.
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Old Posted Aug 4, 2020, 2:34 PM
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The twin "towers" of Hoover's Riverchase Galleria (outside Birmingham, AL) immediately came to mind:

Google Streetview - Riverchase Galleria
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Right, most of Metro Detroit highrise development over the last 50 years would qualify. IMO the former American Motors World HQ in Southfield is the worst, but there are lots of examples. The Chrysler World HQ is also absurd, way out in Auburn Hills. And there's a random highrise condo tower in St. Clair Shores.
Yeah, the FCA HQ is probably the best example of a tower in a cornfield in all of Metro Detroit.
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True, Big Beaver Rd. in Troy is really a defined, linear office district. It even has some half-hearted urban gestures, like benches, and urban-style sidewalks. Functionally, it's total sprawl, but it isn't exactly towers in a cornfield.

And Southfield has its most impressive tower cluster in a very small geography, called Southfield Town Center. Not at all walkable, but most of the towers are connected. It's kind of a suburban version of the Renaissance Center.
It's not exactly towers in a cornfield, but they're still ridiculous since almost all of them are surrounded by surface parking. At least in car-centric high rise districts like Atlanta's Buckhead or Miami don't waste space by building a high rise in the middle of a gigantic parking lot.
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Gothenburg Karlatornet (u/c, tallest in the Nordics at 245m)

Wow! This is a spectacular tower.
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These two towers in Oxnard always seemed odd. One is 25 stories maybe?
They seemed even odder back in the late 1980s when I was going to school at UC Santa Barbara, when going up the 101, it looked like two office towers in the middle of strawberry fields. The effect has lessened somewhat, as generic-looking suburban development surrounds these towers now. There also seem to be more freeway overpasses in that area now than back in the late 1980s.

I remember at the time, a guy at UCSB (who was from Oxnard) telling me that they were the tallest buildings between Los Angeles and San Francisco. I wonder if that was true, and I wonder if it still is?
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Mesa, AZ has one. It sits all by itself. Just north of the Superstition Freeway.
https://goo.gl/maps/8sBijJPx8eLRpTpM6
https://goo.gl/maps/8GkZtjyDmJTpysg16

It's in a regional mall/shopping district from the 1980s that has entering the redevelopment life cycle stage. Most of the stores have shuttered in the area. It's a nice looking building about 3 miles outside of Mesa's small downtown with rail connections and about 15-20 miles from Central Phoenix.
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Martin Tower - HQ of Bethlehem Steel (demolished 2019)
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
- at 332 ft. was tallest building in Pennsylvania outside of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh



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The ~450 foot tall Seminole Hard Rock Casino Guitar Tower in suburban Hollywood, FL. Looks pretty out of place from the street (would probably look out of place anywhere): https://www.google.com/maps/@26.0466...7i16384!8i8192


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Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood, FL. You can see the light beams for miles at night from this 450ft tall suburban hotel. This one sticks out like a sore guitar

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guess we were both thinking of it at the same time
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A highrise with surface parking. Jesus christ.
I know, right?

It cuts against every notion of skyscrapers being "machines that make the land pay".

Like how did the pitch go down to the investors?

"Ok, so here's the plan, we're gonna buy 30 acres of land out in some random burb, and we'll take 1 acre of it and build an extremely expensive 400' office tower on it.

The other 29 acres? SURFACE PARKING!!!"
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Old Posted Aug 4, 2020, 5:04 PM
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Florida always manages to out Florida itself.
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Old Posted Aug 4, 2020, 5:10 PM
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It's obviously totally ridiculous, but I kinda love that Hard Rock guitar hotel. It's very Vegas -- which Florida seems to want to be more and more each day.

I wanna go there and party with washed-up '80s hard rock superstars.
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Old Posted Aug 4, 2020, 5:11 PM
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This office building in the Montreal suburb of Vaudreuil is pretty much the definition of a sore thumb:

https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.41287...7i16384!8i8192

Fun fact, it was ConSec's headquarters in the 1981 movie Scanners by David Cronenberg (great movie)

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