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View Poll Results: What's your favorite signature tower?
BoA Plaza (Houston) 17 12.41%
Heritage Plaza 4 2.92%
Williams Tower 31 22.63%
Tower of the Americans 4 2.92%
Tower Life 6 4.38%
BoA Center (Dallas) 10 7.30%
Chase Tower 5 3.65%
Comerica Bank Tower 6 4.38%
Reunion Tower 18 13.14%
Frost Bank Tower 14 10.22%
The Austonian 7 5.11%
City Center 0 0%
FW Omni Hotel 2 1.46%
other 13 9.49%
Voters: 137. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 04-16-2008, 06:37 PM
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I love skyscrapers. Especially the ones here in Texas. Houston and Dallas have the most, but I love buildings from San Antonio, Austin, and Fort Worth.

Houston

Bank of America Center


Heritage Plaza


Williams Tower


San Antonio

Tower of the Americans


Tower Life
http://piglabs.com/towerlifebldgtwilight1.jpg (broken link)

Dallas

BoA Plaza
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/26/Building_night.JPG/477px-Building_night.JPG (broken link)

Chase Tower


Comerica Bank Tower


Reunion Tower


Austin (with more signature skyscrapers to come...

Frost Bank Tower
http://www.cdc-usa.com/w3/Images/FrostBank.jpg (broken link)

The Austonian (comming in 2009)


Fort Worth

City Center


The Omni (finishing latter this year)
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Old 04-16-2008, 06:52 PM
 
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Hands down, Reunion Tower...I remember eating in the rotating restaurant...don't forget Dallas owns all other major cities in Texas.
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Old 04-16-2008, 07:20 PM
 
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I would like to see the same forum with smaller cities listed. Amarillo has a couple of nice skyscrapers--smaller but beautiful. Midland is known as the tall city. It has to have more skyscrapers than any other city its size in America. We even have one skyscraper in Abilene--just one. My vote was for Comerica Bank Tower in Dallas.

For nostalgic reasons, I also love some of the older skyscrapers in these cities--Southland Life in Dallas, etc.
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Old 04-16-2008, 07:53 PM
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Location: Suburban Dallas
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Well, for starters, JJG, my favorite is one you failed to put in your list for the poll, and that's One Shell Plaza in Houston. It stands out from the rest there, and ever since the 1970s, it is, to me, the look of Houston. The first time I saw it was in 1975, and I've been fixated with it ever since. It was the city's first 50-story building, and for scant few years in the 1970s, was actually the tallest building in Texas. Its antenna gives the building added personality. You'll notice that a part of it is pictured next to the Bank of America building in your top photo. San Antonio's Tower of the Americas would rank second.

A number of well-deserving skyscrapers, including several in Houston, must have to settle for your other category. I'm sorry, my friend. Good thread idea, though.
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Old 04-16-2008, 08:46 PM
JJG JJG started this thread
 
Location: Fort Worth
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Originally Posted by Niceguyeddie View Post
don't forget Dallas owns all other major cities in Texas.
As a native of Fort Worth I would just like to say.... uhh... NO!

But yeah, like I said, Houston and Dallas have alot of signature skyscrapers, so I just though of the first few that came to mind.

And I'll do a small town skyscraper version.... but not now. Later.
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Old 04-17-2008, 09:08 AM
 
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Most of the skyscrappers in Houston and Dallas look really good, it is hard to pick a favorite out of so many beautiful buildings.

What I don't like though are the buildings like Reunion and Tower of the Americas. These "towers" look like a cheap attempt to build a tall, but mostly useless, structure. The Austonian is borderline, it looks a little too thin and irregular to be pleasing to my eye.
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Old 04-17-2008, 10:31 AM
 
Location: Hougary, Texberta
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Williams Tower to me.

Searchlight and all. I like it because it is so up and beyond anything else around it.
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Old 04-17-2008, 10:38 AM
 
Location: Lewisville
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I've always liked Frost Bank Tower since they built it. The top part reminds me of an artichoke
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Old 04-17-2008, 10:40 AM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX
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My favorites:

Frost Bank Tower in Austin
Tower Life Building in SA... theres so much detail to this building. I heard that from the Riverwalk, they built the building to look like a ship (which amazingly -- it kinda does! )
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Old 04-17-2008, 11:22 AM
 
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