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All right, I'll go back to the original point of the thread.
Some large cities that in my opinion don't have a landmark. I'm not going by biggest cities either, I'm just naming some cities.
Indianapolis - It doesn't really have a big one, yet the motor speedway is still a landmark.
Portland, OR
San Diego
Milwaukee
Columbus
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Tampa
Pittsburgh
Nashville
Denver
Etc.
For Pittsburgh I think the tower with the raised corners (P&g?) is very recongnizable.
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The For Boston, what about the Paul Revere statue in Boston Common? The park itself, most people wouldn't recognize, but the statue is used for lots of TV shows, sporting events and movies as a location shot.
That's not Paul Revere in the Public Gardens/Boston Common. That's actually George Washington on that horse. There is however a statue of Paul Revere in the Paul Revere mall behind the Old North Church in the North End. I think the Old North Church is an iconic Boston landmark, though not so sure most people outside the region could identify it.
It's criminal for Boston to have a building that looks like that at all, let alone for it to be city hall. That thing looks like it belongs somewhere in the northern mountain states, maybe Alaska. Very ugly, they should be ashamed.
It is criminal indeed, Boston City Hall is hideous. Even the mayor hates it and has lobbied to build a new one in another part of the city, though that's a financial boondoggle that the city isn't in favor of at oresent time. Though why put down the Northern mountains states or Alaska? Doubtful that Anchorage or Boise would have a city hall that ugly, though Dallas City Hall is almost as ugly as Boston's. They both look like they belong in Vladovostok, Russia or some other industrial armpit in Siberia.
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All right, I'll go back to the original point of the thread.
Some large cities that in my opinion don't have a landmark. I'm not going by biggest cities either, I'm just naming some cities.
Indianapolis - It doesn't really have a big one, yet the motor speedway is still a landmark.
Portland, OR
San Diego
Milwaukee
Columbus
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Tampa
Pittsburgh
Nashville
Denver
Etc.
Most people do recognize Monument Circle. They might not say Soldiers & Sailors monument, no but it's not really referred to that in Indianapolis even though that is the official name. It's Monument Circle, the middle of the city and almost geographic middle of the state.
You will find the Astrodome listed in that article. At the time that it was built, is was an architectural breakthrough, an American cultural phenomenon, and it remains an icon of the pro-sports world. Anyone who says otherwise simply has no idea what they're talking about.
If you weren't alive in the 70s, then ask your parents about the Astrodome, children.
I was born in the late 80's. I know the significance it has....
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I believe the Astrodome has moved from landmark to eyesore. It was a remarkable achievement in sports stadiums and changed the game of baseball (and even football, to a great degree) for both better and worse. It is now a rotting corpse, though.
The Astrodome, in its prime represented the optimistic, can-do spirit of Houston. The city was inhospitable to big-league baseball in summer heat, torrential thunderstorms and mosquito swarms, so they brought the game inside. Purists balked, but everyone was amazed. Everyone considered it a priviledge just to be in the place. I remember standing in the field level seats as a kid and looking up at the massive roof in awe. It was truly an amazing engineering achievement.
It misses the landmark status today, in my opinion, because, while being a great engineering achievement it is not a great architectural one- like Golden Gate Bridge or The St. Louis Arch. It was showy and entertaining, with its scoreboard and Judge Hoffheinz's palatial playpen, but the more public spaces lacked any soul or flair. It was a big, soulless, concrete spaceship sitting in the middle of a square mile of concrete parking lot. Not exactly the most attractive representation for a city, but nonetheless, iconic.
Now, it is a victim of the Houston Texans. As the primary tenants of Reliant Park, they have blocked all attempts to refurbish the Astrodome, because it would create a competitive fixture for their parking revenues in the lots that they would share. They want the thing destroyed and looking at its present condition, its hard to argue with them. That doesn't make their behavior any less shameful, though.
Indeed, the Astrodome was once a landmark. It's a shame the vision that led to its creation wasn't employed in its preservation.
I believe the Astrodome has moved from landmark to eyesore. It was a remarkable achievement in sports stadiums and changed the game of baseball (and even football, to a great degree) for both better and worse. It is now a rotting corpse, though.
The Astrodome, in its prime represented the optimistic, can-do spirit of Houston. The city was inhospitable to big-league baseball in summer heat, torrential thunderstorms and mosquito swarms, so they brought the game inside. Purists balked, but everyone was amazed. Everyone considered it a priviledge just to be in the place. I remember standing in the field level seats as a kid and looking up at the massive roof in awe. It was truly an amazing engineering achievement.
It misses the landmark status today, in my opinion, because, while being a great engineering achievement it is not a great architectural one- like Golden Gate Bridge or The St. Louis Arch. It was showy and entertaining, with its scoreboard and Judge Hoffheinz's palatial playpen, but the more public spaces lacked any soul or flair. It was a big, soulless, concrete spaceship sitting in the middle of a square mile of concrete parking lot. Not exactly the most attractive representation for a city, but nonetheless, iconic.
Now, it is a victim of the Houston Texans. As the primary tenants of Reliant Park, they have blocked all attempts to refurbish the Astrodome, because it would create a competitive fixture for their parking revenues in the lots that they would share. They want the thing destroyed and looking at its present condition, its hard to argue with them. That doesn't make their behavior any less shameful, though.
Indeed, the Astrodome was once a landmark. It's a shame the vision that led to its creation wasn't employed in its preservation.
Yeah, the fact that they're discussing tearing down the Astrodome sort of diminishes some of the claims to landmark status. Can you imagine anyone even daring to discuss tearing down Fenway Park or Wrigley Field?
At the time of it's construction it really would've been a really amazing sight--and for a long time the Astrodome was one of the most famous stadiums in the US.However, it's not even in use at this point, and I wonder how many Americans can pick the Astrodome out of a lineup of domed stadiums these days.
What??? Houston has multiple easily recognized buildings. Dallas has that dandelion/ microphone building, and has Olympic park and coke
I guess if you drive past them everyday, you'd recognize them, but nobody outside Houston or Dallas has any idea what buildings you are talking abouit.
Thanks to the miracle of imaginative architecture, no two big public buildings look exactly alike, but that doesn't mean everybody in the world recognizes all of them.
Can you imagine anyone even daring to discuss tearing down Fenway Park or Wrigley Field?
. . . or Yankee Stadium?
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