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View Poll Results: Which building looks better?
Bank of America Plaza (Dallas) 54 71.05%
JPMorgan Chase Tower (Houston) 22 28.95%
Voters: 76. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 04-07-2010, 06:20 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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Originally Posted by SouthmoreAve View Post
Wow, this is not even a contest. We may have the tallest tower, but its not fair. BOA Dallas vs Wells Fargo Plaza or Williams, is a better poll.
Yes, that would've made this into a better poll/thread.
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Old 04-07-2010, 11:08 PM
JJG
 
Location: Fort Worth
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You should have picked a better building from Houston.

Williams Tower
Heratage Plaza
BoA Center


... one of those would have been better competiton.
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Old 04-07-2010, 11:24 PM
 
Location: The City
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at least both appear to have ample parking - i cant decide though the Houston one is a very cool design. BTW I really do like the modern skyscrapers of Houston and Dallas (and Atlanta for that matter)
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Old 04-08-2010, 12:21 AM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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Two different animals...

BOA Dallas screams "look at me" I'm so glitzy & glamorous which represents the image the city loves to portray.

Chase Tower Houston screams power & boldness. A city not afraid to flex its muscle & build some of the tallest, most gleaming glass structures in the entire world without giving much thought on how they look after dark.
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Old 04-08-2010, 12:51 AM
 
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Two different animals...

BOA Dallas screams "look at me" I'm so glitzy & glamorous which represents the image the city loves to portray.

Chase Tower Houston screams power & boldness. A city not afraid to flex its muscle & build some of the tallest, most gleaming glass structures in the entire world without giving much thought on how they look after dark.
LOL ok if you say so. Maybe Dubai or Hong Kong.
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Old 04-08-2010, 01:12 AM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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LOL ok if you say so. Maybe Dubai or Hong Kong.
At 992 ft. tall (over 1,000 ft. if you measure its below street level lobby) Wells Fargo Plaza Houston is the tallest all glass facade building in the Western Hemisphere.
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Old 04-08-2010, 02:53 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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You should have picked a better building from Houston.

Williams Tower
Heratage Plaza
BoA Center


... one of those would have been better competiton.
I agree. I think a comparison of the two Bank of America centers would be a better one to make. Or as like to refer to them as the 80s building (Dallas...sorry, but the green reminds me of the 80s) and the Gotham building (Houston...really, all the BoA center in Houston is lacking are gargoyles...)
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Old 04-08-2010, 02:57 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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I should also add that Houston used to have a green outlined building now called the WEDGE International which is apparently home to the WEDGE Commercial Properties group. It was the inspiration of for the Bank of American Center in Dallas. However, it's no longer outlined in green at night....
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Old 04-08-2010, 07:37 PM
 
Location: Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
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Two different animals...

BOA Dallas screams "look at me" I'm so glitzy & glamorous which represents the image the city loves to portray.

Chase Tower Houston screams power & boldness. A city not afraid to flex its muscle & build some of the tallest, most gleaming glass structures in the entire world without giving much thought on how they look after dark.
Chase tower screams ugly & plain. I hate how one side look like a box! Chase tower is the ugliest building out of the top 3 tallest buildings in Texas!
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Old 04-08-2010, 08:54 PM
 
Location: Seattle, WA
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BoA Plaza easily wins. It's a lot more elegant, and it just seems to have a cleaner, nicer look to it.
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