What does the Tallest Building say about YOUR City??? (2014, apartments)

[BlueRedTide]

"It was Joseph Campbell who famously said that you can tell a lot about a city and what drives it by its tallest building. In medieval times, it was often the spire of a cathedral. In 18th century towns it was the political palace – and in 1920s it was the office building".
-Quote from this video: ( minute 02:37)
https://youtu.be/Yy8tDcdUUJY?si=b5P0CEEELLMeOrrO.


"You can tell what a society values most by what the tallest building is ... when you approach a modern city, the tallest places are the office buildings, the centres of economic life."
- Joseph Campbell


"Throughout history the world's tallest buildings have acted as barometers, symbolising the principles society holds dearest"
https://textureofarchitecture.blogsp...alues.html?m=1
- summary of a quote by Joseph Campbell


"In Some Cities the Tallest building is A Church, Some Cities the Tallest Building is a Political Palace or Monument, Some Cities the Tallest Building is A Spanking Brand New Skyscraper, Others An Iconic Skyscraper, Still others a Skyscraper Under Construction, and in others the tallest happens to be an Abandoned Skyscraper, testament to past glories..."
-Me, BlueRedTide


According to the Quotes above A Cities' Ambitions And what drives it can be measured by its Tallest Structure. (past or present). Curiously, What does The Tallest Building in YOUR City say about it ???

Can be Your City or any other city you're interested in, a favorite city.

[FL_Expert]

Tampa’s largest building was built in 1992, and I think that’s reflective of some stagnation in the city over the years. Fortunately it should be surpassed in near future as there’s been a resurgence of growth.

[Joakim3]

San Diego's buildings are restricted to ~500' in elevation (not height) so theres several tied for #1. But the current crazy wave of 30-40 story apartments shows its continued residential growth in the greater core.

Batimore's tallest building is 100 Light St. at 529' built in 1973. There are now several apartment/mixed-use buildings approved that are expected to rival and or exceed it in height so it's been long overdue for a rebound to say the least.

DC... well it takes old-world European approach to city design.

[ClevelandBrown]

Cleveland=big boy ambition

Had the tallest in the world outside of NY or Chicago for about 40 years. Then built a near super tall (which I think was top 25 in the world at completion) in the early 90s when the city/region was at its bottom.

It's why I'm a bit surprised that Sherwin-Williams opted for a 600 foot tower (going up now) and seems like a 500-foot second tower is right behind.

Personally, I like two dual towers more, but the Cleveland way should have been one 1,100 to 1,200 foot super tall based on the history of its tall buildings.

[TheTimidBlueBars]

In West Seattle, my "borough" of the city, I believe the tallest one is the Alaska House, a 9-story low-income housing complex. (I thought there might be a hospital I was forgetting, but the closest one is in the suburb of Burien.)

https://www.lowincomehousing.us/gall...1622606723.jpg

I suppose it illustrates that people in this part of the city who can afford high-rise living largely don't want it. We may look down on the rest of the city because they retain the edge and iconoclasm we've never had, but we will be looking down from 4 feet off the ground.

[mshultz]

The tallest building in Wayne County, Ohio is a grain elevator. Typical of rural counties.

[jjbradleynyc]

The tallest building here in New York City is now "One World Trade Center," at 1,776 feet high. Finished construction in 2014, it symbolizes endurance, strength and resilience of NYC and the global power that it has.

In recent years, many supertalls have been completed in NYC: with Central Park Tower, at 1,550 feet, being completed in 2021, and the world's most slender skyscraper at 1,428 feet high, located at 111 West 57th street, finished in 2022.

I suspect in the next decade or two, "One World Trade Center" will be surpassed by another skyscraper as the city's tallest. Could be even sooner than that.

Brooklyn recently has added a supertall to the list, with the Brooklyn Tower being finished last year in 2022, and rising to 1,073 feet.

Queens is also getting into the skyscraper mix, with a boom going on in Long Island City over the course of the past decade, and their new tallest tower, at 811 feet, is under construction.

I suspect the Bronx may eventually build a "new tallest." There is fast gentrification happening on the south Bronx waterfront, and several luxury residential towers of 20-30 stories have recently been built. I would not be surprised if a 500-600 foot tall building went up in the next few years there.

[the resident09]

DC- Washington Monument = Monumental.

The tallest free standing stone obelisk in the world at 555 feet since it's completion, and will likely stay that way unless the world goes back to building new stone monuments. Not even Europe has a stone obelisk of that height. The tallest structure in DC was created as a monument to the first US president, but now is a global symbol to the strength of the union, along with the US Capitol Building.

[Chriscross309]

In my hometown of Charleston, WV the tallest building is the state capitol. It's a symbol that the state government is the dominate player in the city. That's kind of why the city and state can't seem to get out of its own way.

[Arktikos]

The tallest building in Juneau, AK is the 9 floor federal building, constructed in 1964.

Obviously it's a consequence of Alaska becoming a US state in 1958.