post pics of your favorites, the best your city has to offer, or overlooked gems:
A few of my picks out of what I consider the best architectural style for skyscrapers:
Carbide & Carbon Building, Michigan Ave, Chicago. Green brick and 24k gold on the crown. According to legend the architects got the idea from a champagne bottle:
![](http://www.chicagoarchitecture.info/Images/TheLoop/CarbideAndCarbon-002.jpg)
Eastern Columbia Building, Broadway, Los Angeles: blue terra cotta!
![](http://www.easterncolumbialofts.com/html/images/side/home.jpg)
American International Building (70 Pine Street), NYC Financial District:
The Deco is in the Details: model of the building carved into the limestone entrance facade, and lamps, in aluminum:
![](http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SCC/SCC010-70pine6031.jpg)
![](http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SCC/Pict0473.jpg)
![](http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SCC/Pict0468.jpg)
can you spot the now-closed obervation deck? Imagine the penthouses you could get, with those terraces, if this building was converted to residential. It's 952 feet to the tip of the flagpole:
Cushman liked it, back when it was the tallest building downtown:
The Hotel Carlyle, Madison Avenue, Upper East Side NYC; google wasn't returning a lot of pics, but it really does stand out at night, seen from Central Park:
The GE Building (570 Lexington Avenue): behind St. Bart's, across the street from the Waldorf=Astoria:
![](http://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/manhattan/midtown/sidestreets/east51st/04ge.jpg)
might have the most interesting crown of any skyscraper- gothic tracery reinterpreted as radio waves:
![](http://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/570lexington_main1.jpg)
![](http://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/MID017-570Lex_2.jpg)
this building drips with detail:
![](http://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/21520266.jpg)