Glass Steel and StoneArchitecture encyclopedia and photo library.AT&T Building (Nashville)- (Found June 24, 2008 ) If you're looking for a warm, fuzzy image for your corporation -- this isn't it. This building was intended to look like a telephone at the top. And the decorative bridge that supports the company's logo does in some way resemble the receiver of a telephone in its cradle. But the addition of a pair of illuminated spires ruins the image. You can imagine bolts of electricity arcin...http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/BuildingDetail.php?ID=595 Tour Signal- (Found June 24, 2008 ) It is often the simplest shapes which compel us. The former twin towers of New York's World Trade Center were mostly just upended bricks with vertical stripes. London's new City Hall is a giant glass and steel egg. And there are countless buildings from Tokyo to Dubai to San Francisco which elongate the simple triangle into an architectural spire. It is from the simple shap...http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/BuildingDetail.php?ID=3175 Chicago Spire- (Found June 24, 2008 ) The city where the skyscraper was born just can't get enough of these supertowers. The Chicago Spire is the latest in a series of super-tall projects proposed and erected since the mid 1990's. Some, like the Trump International Hotel and Tower, come to fruition. Others, like 7 South Dearborn, do not. The opposition from NIMBY residents in Streeterville and scoffs from other parts of ...http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/BuildingDetail.php?ID=357 Discovery Tower- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Rising on the east side of downtown Houston, the Discovery Tower is helping anchor an area that some are calling Houston's "New Downtown" -- an area not bounded so much by geography, but by lifestyle. The Discovery Tower stands along the edge of a 12-acre park that is quickly being surrounded by residential high-rises, restaurants, hotels, arenas, and other amenities mean...http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/BuildingDetail.php?ID=3174 Children's Memorial Hospital (Chicago Downtown)- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Part of a rapid expansion of medical facilities in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood, the new Children's Memorial Hospital gives the facility almost double the space of its Lincoln Park predecessor. But even though there will be a 40% increase in space, there will be only a 6% increase in the number of beds at the facility. Much of the rest of the space will be used for research faci...http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/BuildingDetail.php?ID=3173 Comcast Center- (Found June 24, 2008 ) The Comcast Center thrusts skyward from the heart of Philadelphia, pulling this historic city into the age of 21st century skyscrapers. Sure, Philadelphia is no stranger to blue glass squarified skyscrapers. But this one eschews the gables and barn shapes that typify those that came before it. Instead of copying what had already been done through the years in Philadelphia, this one go...http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/BuildingDetail.php?ID=3172 Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago)- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Chicago's Trump International Hotel and Tower marked the end of a long drought in the city's super tower scene. The 1960's saw the Hancock Center rise into the sky. In the 1970's it was the Sears Tower and the Aon Center. Then... nothing. Several proposals, including ones for what would have been the world's tallest buildings; but nothing that would come to fruition. ...http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/BuildingDetail.php?ID=143 Dubai Mall- (Found June 24, 2008 ) A palace of excess in a city obsessed with excessiveness, the Dubai Mall is a colossus of spending, enticing people to stay, eat, shop, and leave with their wallets a lot lighter. Like most mega-malls, this one is carved into about a dozen different themed zones to make it a little more human scale and to group complementary retailers together. Emphasizing the mall's p...http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/BuildingDetail.php?ID=3171 Signature Tower- (Found June 24, 2008 ) A significant shot in the arm for Nashville's architectural ambitions, the Signature Tower could be just the boost downtown needs. Virtually every Tennessean who comes to Nashville is awed by the AT&T Building. It turns even the most backwoods country boy into someone proud of the urbanity his state can achieve. The Signature Tower has that potential, too. As Nashville...http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/BuildingDetail.php?ID=3166 50 East Chestnut- (Found June 24, 2008 ) 50 East Chestnut is one of the more luxurious skyscrapers to rise in Chicago's Gold Coast in years. Though it is 39 stories in height, it has just 34 floors of residential space; and only one tenant for each floor. Some floor plans have a larger square footage than many people's homes, and include libraries, media rooms, and living rooms, dining rooms, and kitchens that are separate f...http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/BuildingDetail.php?ID=1300 |