Your City's Best Building Built This Century

[homebucket]

First one is definitely the best there. The second one is mid. Looks nice but nothing spectacular. Third one looks like it came out of the 1980s.

[202_Cyclist]

Originally Posted by UrbanImpact

The 1st one is not meh IMO. Studio Gang Architects hit One Hundred Above the Park "out of the park"

The building is fine-- I was making a joke on the user's name.

[Toasty Joe]

Originally Posted by meh

For St. Louis I would say either:

100:


https://studiogang.com/img/YThtMkltR...tom-harris.jpg

I like the unique facade treatment but wish the building was taller to do it more favors, maybe with a flared form similar to 1000M or the proposed Parcel I here in Chi

[UrbanImpact]

Originally Posted by 202_Cyclist

The building is fine-- I was making a joke on the user's name.

LOL, your joke was so meh I missed it!

[Wigs]

Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

Never gets old picking up people at CVG and greeting them with "Welcome to Kentucky!"

edale was spot-on with the Contemporary Arts Center. Queen City Square had the most-impact on the skyline (I hate that tiara) but CAC is the real gem.

I always appreciate your sense of humor, Buckeye. The exterior of CAC is hard to love but interior I'm sure it's great.
Queen City Square tiara makes sense, even if folks see it as tacky since like Charlotte it's a "Queen City"
The logo at top is pretty bad though

Originally Posted by jmecklenborg

The Daniel Liebeskind condo tower that went up 2006-08 isn't spectacular but it is fairly interesting and sadly a hint at what could have been at the World Trade Center site.



What's crazy is that they sold about 1/3 of the units right before the housing crash, so it avoided being left unfinished like a lot of condo towers from that era, but most of the building remained empty until after 2015.

Yeah that building is bizarre, but kinda interesting for a condo.
I heard a rumor that George Clooney was thinking about buying or bought a unit in that building to be close to family in KY?

[meh]

ha, i missed the joke as well and was about to be like "you posted the Hepburn and the Amaris."

i think 100 is the most flashy/eye catching, but i think Roberts Tower is elegant (and i like the skinny profile, which isn't obvious in that image), and i think the Park East's minimalist neo-art-deco style is interesting (with the exception of the parking podium). it also looks a little different from every angle.

[meh]

Originally Posted by Toasty Joe

I like the unique facade treatment but wish the building was taller to do it more favors, maybe with a flared form similar to 1000M or the proposed Parcel I here in Chi

yeah, taller would've been great but the st. louis market won't support that at the moment. i actually really like the cross section. i'm not seeing the diagrams online anymore, but it's kind-of shaped like a leaf—narrower near the stem and flaring out as you move in the direction of the barbs or the teeth or the serrations or whatever you want to call them.

[Toasty Joe]

Originally Posted by homebucket

Some might say Salesforce Tower (which won CTBUH's “Best Tall Building Worldwide" in 2019), but I personally like 181 Fremont the most.

This is a 55 floor, 810 ft tall mixed use tower, of office, residential, and retail, completed in 2017.


https://www.architectmagazine.com/de...-san-francisco

I'm from the Bay, and this is my pick as well. The de Young Museum is up there, though.







https://www.azahner.com/works/de-young

[Nouvellecosse]

I like Salesforce Tower but I like it more from a distance for its silhouette and skyline presence than I do up close.

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by BnaBreaker

I love skyline shots like this that are focused in on a relatively obscure (to most) portion of the overall skyline.

Yeah, for me, the overall rise of the South loop skyline has been infinitely more fun than watching any single given building go up. The south end of grant park had been screaming out for some skyline attention for decades, to help balance out all of the heavy skyline bulk towards the northern end of the park. It took a little while, but that time has finally come!

Originally Posted by BnaBreaker

I'd bet that the vast majority of people outside of Chicago would have no idea what skyline this is

Hell, the South loop skyline is so relatively new that there are probably plenty of people IN Chicago who wouldn't recognize it either (not nerds like us obviously, but regular people).

[Toasty Joe]

South Loop during the polar vortex last month:



Source: Barry Butler

[BnaBreaker]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

Hell, the South loop skyline is so relatively new that there are probably plenty of people IN Chicago who wouldn't recognize it either (not nerds like us obviously, but regular people).

Haha fair point! I bet you're right... most people in general aren't doing a whole lot of looking up in their day to day lives... and no, that isn't a veiled religious statement.

Originally Posted by Toasty Joe

South Loop during the polar vortex last month:



Source: Barry Butler

That is incredible.

[Steely Dan]

^ yeah, the sea smoke combined with 1000M lit up like a torch is quite a dramatic sight.

And 90% of it wasn't there when I first joined this forum at the close of the 20th century.

Thanks for posting that shot, toasty!

[SIGSEGV]

I do like NEMA and 100M and St. Regis, but I really like how striking the Legacy looks, even if it's not as interesting as some of the other buildings...


(from yesterday evening)

[Steely Dan]

^ yeah, the legacy has a very nice and simple understated sleekness to it.

It's one of my favorite SCB towers ever, as their usual MO is to busy up the facades of their buildings with all kinds of banding and other decorative flourishes.

[UrbanImpact]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

^ yeah, the legacy has a very nice and simple understated sleekness to it.

It's one of my favorite SBC towers ever, as their usual MO is to busy up the facades of their buildings with all kinds of banding and other decorative flourishes.

Legacy at Millennium Park Chicago seems like a better/updated version of the John Hancock Tower in Boston.

[Wigs]

Originally Posted by Toasty Joe

NEMA Chicago is a solid contender, although less compelling from some angles.

I like this tower from certain angles. It reminds me of something you might see built in South America or possibly Southeast Asia.
Chicago meets Bogotá lol
Cheers Chicago, you're looking good!

[Nouvellecosse]

Originally Posted by UrbanImpact

Legacy at Millennium Park Chicago seems like a better/updated version of the John Hancock Tower in Boston.

Really?? It's very nice and looks high quality but doesn't compare to JHT in my books.

[DZH22]

Originally Posted by UrbanImpact

Legacy at Millennium Park Chicago seems like a better/updated version of the John Hancock Tower in Boston.

Updated? I guess?
Better? Not in a million years.

It's a perfectly nice building though.

[BnaBreaker]

Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

Really?? It's very nice and looks high quality but doesn't compare to JHT in my books.

Originally Posted by DZH22

Updated? I guess?
Better? Not in a million years.

It's a perfectly nice building though.

Subjective opinion of course, but I think you guys are vastly overstating the aesthetic appeal of The John Hancock Tower. I mean, it's perfectly fine. But how you could say these two aren't pretty close approximations of each other, I have no idea.