Best US Skyscraper

[Cotuit]

Why include a building in Cleveland but leave out Pittsburgh? We have a few very nice ones...

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I voted "other," PPG is my favourite.

[M. Brown]

Seattle's BoA is my favorite.

[Fruit Cove]

it may not be my favorite building but it has to be one of the most unique out there. and extremely overlooked. the wyndham emerald plaza hotel in san diego.

http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=118061

[ironchapman]

Nice building, Fruit Cove.

[samsonyuen]

Chrysler, bar none!

[AmericanUrbanDesigner]

Very nice pics, UrbanAmericanDesigner.

I should have put the Hearst Tower on the poll.

P.S. Is the tower namedafter William Randolph Hearst, the late-1800's and early 1900's newspaper baron?

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Yes it is. I believe it's home to the Hearst Publishing Corp.s accounting or marketing division?

[NorthStar]

I think the Wells Fargo tower in Minneapolis beats out a few of the listed towers.

[ironchapman]

Good point, NorthStar.

I'll probably organize another one of these polls someday, and I'll have to remember to see if I have room for it.

P.S. Not that I'm trying to be rude to anyone who's suggested a tower, but I tried to pick famous towers. There are quite a few overlooked jewels out there that I didn't list because I felt that not many people would vote for them or recognize the towers, not because I don't like them or anything (and believe me, there are a few on that list that I do not like).

[caravan70]

I voted for the Chrysler Building, but I think the Woolworth Building, also in Manhattan, is up there as well. And I have an abiding love for the Transamerica Pyramid in SF, even though most of the NIMBYs hated it when it was completed in 1972.

Darren

[MJLO]

ok I know it's a bit late to be saying this, but the Westin Peachtree tower in Atlanta, has an Identical Twin in Detroit, The Rennesaince Center Marriot. The Buildings are Identical in almost everyway except the Marriot has Like ten Feet on the Westin, they were desinged by the same architect. Not to rain on any Atlantians parades.

[ironchapman]

The Rennaissance Marriott in Detroit is a nice hotel.

I never really cred for the last few feet of it...it looks as if there's no windows.

The Westin Peachtree was one of the first of its kind in terms of hotels. It was built before the one in Detroit. It is also home to one of the first rotating restaurants. It was the first famous "superhotel" as I call it. (By that, I mean it is a hotel that is a skyscraper in its own right.

There's a shorter, fatter version of it in Memphis. I believe it's the Hilton Memphis.