Recent Landmarks (state, largest, compare, America)

[po-boy]

Most big cities have a handful of landmarks that are recognized around the city. Some of those become more famous and become recognized around the coutry or even the world. A few obvious examples in the US are the Statue of Liberty (NYC), Empire State Building (NYC), Hollywood sign (LA), Golden Gate Bridge (San Fran), Space Needle (Seattle), and St. Louis Arch.

My question is, what are the most famous landmarks to be built recently (say in the last 20 years)? A few things pop into my mind:

-Millenium Park, especially the Cloud Gate (aka the "Bean") in Chicago is a very popular tourist spot.
-Freedom Tower: although not finished yet, the Freedom Tower in New York is already a very famous symbol.
-The Devon Energy Center: also not yet completed, it is nevertheless already the tallest building in Oklahoma and absolutely dominates the OKC skyline.

What are some other recent US icons/landmarks?

[ChikidII]

Originally Posted by po-boy

Most big cities have a handful of landmarks that are recognized around the city. Some of those become more famous and become recognized around the coutry or even the world. A few obvious examples in the US are the Statue of Liberty (NYC), Empire State Building (NYC), Hollywood sign (LA), Golden Gate Bridge (San Fran), Space Needle (Seattle), and St. Louis Arch.

My question is, what are the most famous landmarks to be built recently (say in the last 20 years)? A few things pop into my mind:

-Millenium Park, especially the Cloud Gate (aka the "Bean") in Chicago is a very popular tourist spot.
-Freedom Tower: although not finished yet, the Freedom Tower in New York is already a very famous symbol.
-The Devon Energy Center: also not yet completed, it is nevertheless already the tallest building in Oklahoma and absolutely dominates the OKC skyline.

What are some other recent US icons/landmarks?

I disagree with the Devon Energy Center. Maybe regionally it will be but nationally it won't. OKC is rarely ever in the national media or do people see images of it. The only time that might come up might be during a Thunder games. While it dominates the skyline it's nothing particulary special. Of a city like Houston with it's skyline, doesn't really have a well known landmark, I don't see why OKC's tower would.

Totally agree with Cloud Gate and Freedom Tower. Although I think Cloud Gate stands more on its own in relation to Millenium. I feel like people go to Millenium Park to see cloud gate and then exlpore the park. If it weren't there, I am not sure if the park would really be THAT much of hot spot.

Those two I think are the most prominent.

Some less prominent ones:

Art Museum in Milwaukee (by Calatrava)
Aqua in Chicago
The new Gehry building in NYC

Can't think of any others.

[po-boy]

Originally Posted by ChikidII

I disagree with the Devon Energy Center. Maybe regionally it will be but nationally it won't. OKC is rarely ever in the national media or do people see images of it. The only time that might come up might be during a Thunder games. While it dominates the skyline it's nothing particulary special. Of a city like Houston with it's skyline, doesn't really have a well known landmark, I don't see why OKC's tower would.

Totally agree with Cloud Gate and Freedom Tower. Although I think Cloud Gate stands more on its own in relation to Millenium. I feel like people go to Millenium Park to see cloud gate and then exlpore the park. If it weren't there, I am not sure if the park would really be THAT much of hot spot.

Those two I think are the most prominent.

Some less prominent ones:

Art Museum in Milwaukee (by Calatrava)
Aqua in Chicago
The new Gehry building in NYC

Can't think of any others.

Good suggestions. That Milwaukee art museum is particularly striking, and Aqua is not a very cool building but one of the very few (only?) really famous skyscraper designed by a woman.

The Devon Energy certainly will never be as famous as some of the others, I agree with that, but I think for people in the region it will be a huge landmark b/c it is so much larger than anything else. You compare it to Houston, but I don't think anything in Houston completely towers (excuse the pun) over the competition like Devon.

[iamjacobm]

These are going to be more regional than national, but here are two off the top of my head.

Kauffman Performing Arts Center in KC. Simply gorgeous addition to the KC skyline.
Bob Kerry Pedestrian Bridge over the Missouri River.

National ones could include:
Seattle Public Library
New Yankee Stadium

[EndersDrift]

Milwaukee Art Museum is great but its not an icon and neither is Kauffman Performing Arts or Seattle Public Library or most of the things named here.

The top 3 new landmarks off the top of my head are:
1. Apple Store 5th Ave
2. Wizarding World of Harry Potter
2. Chicago Bean

I could be really forgetting something but I'm pretty sure the 3 I just named are far and away more iconic and visited than anywhere else built in recent times.

[ChikidII]

Originally Posted by EndersDrift

Milwaukee Art Museum is great but its not an icon and neither is Kauffman Performing Arts or Seattle Public Library or most of the things named here.

The top 3 new landmarks off the top of my head are:
1. Apple Store 5th Ave
2. Wizarding World of Harry Potter
2. Chicago Bean

I could be really forgetting something but I'm pretty sure the 3 I just named are far and away more iconic and visited than anywhere else built in recent times.

You really think the Wizarding world of Harry Potter is more well known and more of a landmark than Milwaukee's art museum? Even the apple store is stretching it.

[lrfox]

I'd say the Zakim Bridge in Boston has quickly become a landmark. It certainly won't be on par nationally with the Golden Gate or Brooklyn Bridges, but it's one of Boston's more iconic structures already.

[ChikidII]

Originally Posted by lrfox

I'd say the Zakim Bridge in Boston has quickly become a landmark. It certainly won't be on par nationally with the Golden Gate or Brooklyn Bridges, but it's one of Boston's more iconic structures already.

Yes I forgot about that one.

[annie_himself]

Baton Rouge built The Shaw Center for the Arts in 2005.

The Shaw Center for the Arts is a 125,000 square foot (12,000 m²) performing art venue, fine arts museum, and education center located at 100 Lafayette Street in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It opened in 2005. The Center includes the Louisiana State University Museum of Art, the LSU School of Art Gallery, the 325-seat Manship Theatre, classrooms, a rooftop sushi restaurant, and a park. Among other collections, the museum includes the largest assemblage of Newcomb Pottery in the United States.

The Shaw Center has won several awards for design excellence including:

• 2008 American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Honor Award
• 2005 AIA Gulf States Region Honor Award
• 2005 AIA New England Region Honor Award
• 2005 Boston Society of Architects Award for Design
• 2005 Boston Society of Architects Higher Education Award Citation

Shaw Center for the Arts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It's already a landmark for the city and nicknamed the "Lantern on the Mississippi"

[Drewcifer]

The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis:


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