Williams Tower (Houston) VERSUS Bank of America Tower (Dallas) (skyline, architect)

[AlGreen]

do you know what would improve houston's skyline by like a 1000 points??...DESTROY HERITAGE PLAZA...that is the most butt ugly building i've ever seen in my life. it ruins the whole skyline for me

every time i see a pic of downtown houston where i can see that building, i cringe

[An0nym0us88]

Originally Posted by AlGreen

do you know what would improve houston's skyline by like a 1000 points??...DESTROY HERITAGE PLAZA...that is the most butt ugly building i've ever seen in my life. it ruins the whole skyline for me

every time i see a pic of downtown houston where i can see that building, i cringe

Really? I thought it is a good looking skyscraper. It has a Mayan architecture, maybe that's why you don't like it?

[DANNYY]

Originally Posted by AlGreen

do you know what would improve houston's skyline by like a 1000 points??...DESTROY HERITAGE PLAZA...that is the most butt ugly building i've ever seen in my life. it ruins the whole skyline for me

every time i see a pic of downtown houston where i can see that building, i cringe

I like it, I think it adds character to the skyline.

[AlGreen]

Originally Posted by An0nym0us88

Really? I thought it is a good looking skyscraper. It has a Mayan architecture, maybe that's why you don't like it?

ugh, i hate it lol. i always thought that i didn't like houston's skyline, period, but i realized it's pretty much just that one building i can't stand. it's like ultimate symbol for bland-80s boom-sunbelt architecture....it's too bulky and cheap looking to be so tall.

imagine if, in it's place instead, there was a nice, detailed, renaissance like tower with a sleek crown on top. it would complement the skyline much better

[SouthmoreAve]

Originally Posted by AlGreen

ugh, i hate it lol. i always thought that i didn't like houston's skyline, period, but i realized it's pretty much just that one building i can't stand. it's like ultimate symbol for bland-80s boom-sunbelt architecture....it's too bulky and cheap looking to be so tall.

imagine if, in it's place instead, there was a nice, detailed, renaissance like tower with a sleek crown on top. it would complement the skyline much better

Yeah, but the same could be said about any building that one might consider ugly in DT, replace it with a "detailed, renaissance like tower with a sleek crown on top". And Heritage Plaza, personally, is a great tower, its unique, easily distinguishes the Houston skyline, and its not a box, well a box with a cool top. My only complaint is that its too wide and its location at the forefront of DT makes it look even more huge. It doesnt look cheap to me, bulky yes, but not cheap, and its anything but bland, as if that mayan top is commonplace in 80's sunbelt architecture.

[AlGreen]

Originally Posted by SouthmoreAve

Yeah, but the same could be said about any building that one might consider ugly in DT, replace it with a "detailed, renaissance like tower with a sleek crown on top". And Heritage Plaza, personally, is a great tower, its unique, easily distinguishes the Houston skyline, and its not a box, well a box with a cool top. My only complaint is that its too wide and its location at the forefront of DT makes it look even more huge. It doesnt look cheap to me, bulky yes, but not cheap, and its anything but bland, as if that mayan top is commonplace in 80's sunbelt architecture.

i'm sorry but it's a very ugly building.

the mayan top is the worst part of it. it looks silly and misplaced. the entire building looks like it belongs in LEGOland. the difference between it and the other towers downtown is they aren't ugly

sure, some people might find the top to be "cool", but cool =/= attractive...which a skyline should be

[Trae713]

It's really not as bad as you're making it out to be:


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/52/18...4c20f9.jpg?v=0

[AlGreen]

Originally Posted by Scarface713

It's really not as bad as you're making it out to be:


http://farm1.static.flickr.com/52/18...4c20f9.jpg?v=0

sorry, but that's just the way i feel about it

if anything, they should've just stuck with the mayan idea and use that pattern and those materials for the entire building. but instead they thought that shiny curtain wall combined with ancient architecture was appropriate

[Trae713]

Originally Posted by AlGreen

sorry, but that's just the way i feel about it

if anything, they should've just stuck with the mayan idea and use that pattern and those materials for the entire building. but instead they thought that shiny curtain wall combined with ancient architecture was appropriate

Now THAT would have been ugly, in my opinion.

[DANNYY]

Originally Posted by Scarface713

Now THAT would have been ugly, in my opinion.

Ewwww, we're trying to build a city for the future, not a city for 300 BC or something like that...