Philadelphia Skyline Getting a New Look.

The blog toptutor reports that the Comcast Center in Philadelphia will be, once completed, the tallest skyscraper between New York and Chicago.

For full write-up, go to toptuor.

Bank Of America Tower, Jacksonville, FL

The tallest building in Jacksonville is also, hands down, the most impressive: the Bank of America Tower.

43 stories high, it has a unique facade with an almost mosaic-like design, and a distinctive pyramid crown.

The building is the tallest between Atlanta and Miami. It was complete in 1990.

Links:

Bank of America Tower [Emporis]

Bank of America Tower [Answers.com]

Bank of America Tower [Wikipedia]

This is Cool!

Check out this post! This blog has found a 1931 article from Modern Mechanics about the Empire State Building. My, how far we've come!!!

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/02/16/new-facts-about-skyscrapers/

Blazing the Trail in Portland, OR

I've never thought there was much to get excited about, building-wise, in Portland, OR but the US Bancorp Tower is pretty cool...

Known as the "Big Pink," it was built in 1973 and is pretty much the trophy building in Portland.

Here are some links:

US Bancorp Tower [Emporis]

US Bancorp Tower [Unico]

US Bancorp Tower [wikipedia]

Today's Cool Photograph!

Blogger Ricardo Carreon has today's cool shot of office towers on Bunker Hill in Los Angeles, CA.

Check out his blog for more on the shot.

Photo credit: Ricardo Carreon

Comerica Stands Out in Detroit.

Comerica Tower is tops in Detroit. At 43 stories it is the tallest building in Michigan. Its elegant crown provides a nice rebuttal to all the nasty jokes you hear about the Motor City!

Here are some links:

Comerica Tower [Emporis]

Comerica Tower [Hines]

Comerica Tower [Wikipeida]

And I Thought I Needed A Real Hobby!

Blogger "Toby" at the Diva Marketing Blog has discovered a service that photographs skyscrapers from a satellite in space and that has literally created an "alphabet" out of buildings that look like letters when viewed from space.

You can send a greeting message to someone, spelled out with buildings!

Tell me this isn't right up my alley!!!

Your Name In Skyscrapers [Diva Marketing Blog]

Classically Cool in Louisville, KY

The Aegon Center dominates the skyline in Louisville, and rightfully so. It's a tasteful, 34 story building with a beautiful crown. While Kentucky isn't known for its skyscrapers, this is the tallest building in Kentucky!

The building cost $110 million to build and was sold in 2004 for $128 million.

Here are some links:

Aegon Center [Emporis]
Aegon Center [Wikipedia]

Great Buildings-- Too Bad You Can't See Them!

What is the point of designing beautiful, expensive buildings if you can't see them?? In China, air pollution has gotten so bad that you literally have trouble seeing your hand in front of your face.

Check out this post from nowpublic.com... it's a great shot of some cool buildings, but they are almost totally obscured by the low-hanging smog! Truly frightening.

Not to sound like an environmental evangelist (because,believe it or not, that's considered divisive these days (great world, huh?)), but China, get your act together!!!!

Here's the link:

Skyscrapers in the smog [Nowpublic]

The Queen of All Buildings in Charlotte!

Charlotte, NC is home to the Bank of America Tower-- by far one of the coolest buildings in the country. At 60 floors, it is the tallest building between Philadelphia and Atlanta and is known to locals as the "Taj McColl" (a pun on retired BofA Chairman Hugh McColl.)

The building is actually a subtle tribute to Queen Charlotte, the British monarch who ruled for 60 years (60 floors... 60 years, get it?) and for whom the city is named. Additionally, the building's crown resembles an ornate tiara (or as one friend put it, "The Fortress of Solitude... only inverted." He needs to get out of the house more!)

The coolest thing about the building? The elevators travel at a speed of 1,200 feet per minute!

Here are some links:

Bank of America Tower [Glass and steel and stone]

Bank of America Tower [Emporis]

Bank of America Tower [Wikipedia]

Bank of America Tower [Emporis]

If A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words...

Then this blog post from the blog Fresh Pics is worth, like, an encyclopedia length novel! Check out some of the amazing photos at this blog:

Skyscrapers in HDR [Fresh Pics]

Tops in Minneapolis!

This building, designed by James Ingo Freed, is just plaing 56 floors of "cool"-- especially at night when it's "halo" crown is illuminated (the halo is actually 45 feet tall and is both an antenna and a sunshade for the building!)

225 South Sixth isn't the tallest building in Minnesota, the IDS building (another really cool building) is-- by 12 inches!!!!

Here are some links:

225 South Sixth Street [Emporis]

225 South Sixth Street [Wikipedia]

225 South Sixth Street [Cities Architecture]

Amazing Photo.

I came across this high-res, nigh shot of the Tokyo skyline on Boing Boing. It's incredible.

Be sure to click through to the actual post on Flickr to get the full effect!

Stunning HDR shot of Tokyo skyline [Boing Boing]

Tokyo Nightscape [Flickr]