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View Poll Results: Which building looks the best?
Chase Tower 18 40.91%
Bank of America Center 25 56.82%
Both buildings are ugly. 1 2.27%
Voters: 44. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 05-25-2010, 05:14 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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Indeed they do somewhat resemble each other. Heritage Plaza minus the all gray glass facade & see through hole at the top.

Houston's Bank of America Tower is a far superior building in every sense of the word. The Gothic inspired design is classic & will never go out of style.
I'm not trying to be arrogant, but BOA Houston is an exemplary building, it's legacy lives on. It was the only building from Texas that they put on for 2000-2008 posters of world renowned architecture posters. Several of which I bought.

I'm not trying to put Chase-Dallas down, but BOA Houston is a far better known tower, not just by Houstonians but outsiders of the city. I would say more better known than even Wells Fargo Plaza or Chase Tower both in Houston.
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Old 05-25-2010, 08:06 PM
 
Location: Pasadena
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Chase Tower is interesting and very unique, and manages to be appealing, at least to me,
which is hard to do in most cases where there is a giant hole in skyscraper. BUT, Bank of
America Center is way more aesthetically pleasing to me. It hardly gets better than this, Chase Tower's
design just doesn't compare to the subtle intricateness and spires that adorn BoA Center.


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BoA Center on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomhaymes/1677819282/ - broken link)
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Old 05-26-2010, 12:13 AM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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I think a better comparison would have been Houston's Bank of America Vs. Dallas' Commerica Tower. Both are almost the same in height.
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Old 05-26-2010, 10:26 AM
 
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Boa Tower is a nice building.......however the spires that are mentioned are the only intresting thing about the architecture......its basically three stair-step triangles....
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Old 05-26-2010, 12:18 PM
 
Location: DFW Texas
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Although both of the buildings are my favorite in each city, I chose Chase Tower.......I have always wanted to fly a small plane through the hole to the other side.
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Old 05-26-2010, 01:05 PM
 
Location: SW France
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I feel sorry for that building at the base of the Chase Tower!

I quite like the BoA building, and the view you get of it from the Freeway.
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Old 10-26-2011, 03:35 PM
 
Location: Albany, GA
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How do you create a thread??
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Old 10-26-2011, 04:27 PM
 
Location: Richardson, TX
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How do you create a thread??
Go to the forum you want to post in, and click the New Thread button on the left side of the page.
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Old 10-26-2011, 08:16 PM
 
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Very tough choice. I like both buildings a lot.

I would probably give BoA the nod just because its design is more memorable to me. Chase tower is very nice as well and I think it has a cool, sleek design but it's not the best Dallas has to offer
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Old 10-26-2011, 09:26 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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After seeing Chase Towers new blue lighting scheme in person I'm not liking it as much as I originally thought I would. It doesn't reflect as well as it should or could off of the brown facade & glass. Lighter colors always reflect more light.

The warm white originally up there in the key hole was much better on that particular building.

They only switched to blue because that is the color of Chase.

Thumbs down on that one Dallas.
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