Comments about towers

There are 98 comments about "towers"

Laura: haha... looks like the UES.... ruppert towers?...

in response to: Tall Buildings by jack

eyeofodin: If you would like to follow the construction of the Freedom Tower (the tallest of the towers to replace the twins), here is the link http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=419362 Go to the last page if you......

in response to: Ground Zero: lower Manhattan as it looks today by Peter

anon (x-128-101-227-29.micro.umn.edu): Nice view of the Moos Towers....

in response to: Sunrise over Moos Tower by Tyfoid Kid

comia: manila needs atleast,,, 5 or more towers of 70-80floors to be on top. but i think, manila is on its way... ...

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

june: thought I was looking at one of the twin towers. very pretty city. from south australia...

in response to: Downtown MinneApple by Tyfoid Kid

botchog: the towers in pic number 5 are the shangrila towers condominium in makati city...

in response to: Metro Manila by Laura

zagg: Finally something we agree on, jack. I wonder if they have a gift shop because I want a 'brown building with water towers' snow globe!...

in response to: Gratuitous Empire State Building Photo by Peter

jack: i like the old building with the water towers...

in response to: Gratuitous Empire State Building Photo by Peter

Richard: Here's a few more recent images of Brisbane City. By 2012 we'll have around 6 new supertalls reshaping our skyline. By 2020, an extra 10 fully constructed towers is expected, along with necessary infrastrucure upgrades.......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

jon doe: i belive that the towers were rigged from top to bottom without a dought. theres no question that our goverment was behind it. i want to know who was on the two planes that hit......

in response to: If You See Something by GGP

Paul: I live in downtown Toronto and I think our downtown is quite impressive, with the coloured lights on the Skydome and CN Tower it really enhances the night view and the Royal Bank Plaza glitters......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

Richard: Brisbane has a beautiful river contour which curls around the CBD. We also have several major towers under construction that will completely evolve the city skyline! It's a really exciting time for Brisbane. To catch......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

Richard: Hey, this is the current city skyline of Brisbane, Australia. Brisbane city is located in south-east Queensland, the fastest growing region in Australia. With so many new towers proposed, approved and underconstruction- Brisbane's skyline is......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

EvilGentleman: Well Elicar, my previous article on this particular location has become something of an online focal point for those who lived there during its heyday, much like Corsatki's {Cabrini Green} articles. Thus, this page is intended......

in response to: The Destruction of Benny Farm by EvilGentleman

Synthetrix: Excellent post! I thought I was the only freak obsessed with the observations towers. I have even dreamed about being up in them. I will hopefully see them in person this September. Until then, Cheers V http://www,synthetrix.com...

in response to: Road Trip, Part II by procyon

Liam McCann: Reading your article was like going back home. I grew up on 87th ST. off of Lex and remember alot ot the locations you cited. I remember what the Rupert Towers development was......

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

Peter: you know, i really hate it when people repeat blatantly knee-jerk (and ultimately, meaningless) mantras like ##"Never Forget what happened that day!"## ...as if its going to just, you know, skip right out of our......

in response to: Ground Zero: lower Manhattan as it looks today by Peter

Polarme: beautiful! i actually thought it was stockholm at first, we have a church-tower that looks rather similar to the one in this pic! (which is weird since churchtowers tend to look rather similar all around......

in response to: A Snow Falls in Brooklyn by Peter

Anonoymous: I will try to be succinct with my words. The symbols, ideology, artwork, whatever you prefer to call it serves one grand purpose, and this purpose, I will reveal in the conclusion of this......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

mavinrya: the twin tower is the galleria suites. adjacent to the towers is the galleria mall. ...

in response to: Metro Manila by Laura

Elicar: The two towers in Glorietta is the Ascott Hotel, formerly known as Oakwood Premier Ayala Center. They changed it to Ascott as it was the site of the "Oakwood Mutiny" in July 2003. A group......

in response to: What Poverty? by Elicar

alensky: well,that twin towers i supposed is the Glorietta complex? (not sure) but it's like a Condo then shopping mall.filipino like to do shopping......

in response to: Metro Manila by Laura

Elicar: I might as well acquaint readers the exact place where this was taken. We were travelling along Ortigas Avenue, coming from Pasig City (Manila, as I refer to is the Greater Manila Area). The background......

in response to: Wrong Way, Buddy! by Elicar

Jeff: I am from Boston and even though my home city is very nice and livable like Montreal (my favorite), it doesn't make my top five skyline cities: 1) HONG KONG - Very difficult to......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

steve brown: I lived in Turner Towers we owned the largest penthouse there.It was a great place with. 4bedrooms 5 baths and two maids rooms.The roof garden was huge with unlimited views on all sides....

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

HushUp: Ok apparently not. So here we go (I guess because of my first post I used copy and paste so it didn't go through) Sooooo, I will type it all out, just because I......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

jack: thank you wally, my great-grandfather was one of the workers on that bridge and he also worked on the battery tunnel, roebling has a town named after him, roebling new jersey where his wire factory......

in response to: Brooklyn Bridge and World Trade Center by WallyG

susannah: Thanks so much for these photos and commentary- they brings home the reality of the situation. I'm sorry about the tourists- that is pretty upsetting. I couldn't bear to go to ground zero after 9/11......

in response to: Bridge Collapse 2 - Life in the Exclusion Zone by Tyfoid Kid

procyon: General consensus seems to be a combination of luck (sometimes it's just unlocked) and being polite/respectful to the people who work there (i.e. if you see people working inside, try asking nicely if you can......

in response to: The Tent of Tomorrow, Revisited by procyon

CE: The picture of the second factory doesn't do its size justice at all. It's a massive building that towers over you when you're near it and even when you're on the other side of......

in response to: Two Factories by CE

Peter: heh, i used to live between 4th and 5th avenues just down from the park. nice. i also love that shot with the 5 water-towers superimposed under the fence....

in response to: Sunset Park by little ukraine

rox2mel: I just went on vacation back to my hometown of Colorado Springs. My son and I went to see the castle and I was amazed!! It really took my breath away after I......

in response to: Bishop Castle: Another Self-Made Masterpiece by Jim Bishop

Hijaz: Kuala Lumpur will be adding some supertalls(The 4 Seasons Place and Lot C) that will match and complement the Petronas Towers height and architecture in some years to come. Then hopefully the author will rank......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

EvilGentleman: Photo 2: Construction of {Angrignon} Towers retirement {condo} complex [[http://www.reseauselection.com/residences-detail.asp?ID=31]] Map: [[http://maps.google.ca/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&q=&t=k&om=1&ll=45.446561,-73.607492&spn=0.001833,0.003616&z=18]]...

in response to: Montreal Scenery, 2004 by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Still getting the hang of it, CartLegger. If you also are party of the Google Earth Community, I have added a few placemarks there under the name of Arcticmohawk. No problem, Cinic. As far as the......

in response to: Rufus Rockhead Street by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Amazing that nobody has commented about the lack of towers in the sky in this shot. I personally do not recognize the vantage point, but I am assuming that the WTC would have filled the......

in response to: NYC: this skyline once filled with towers by Peter

ron m: I was working at KP when the olympics were on and you couldn't "Buy" a posting in any of the towers, it was reserved for all the"Bosses Kids"....

in response to: Kingston Penitentiary by EvilGentleman

joey southside: 1st I'd like to say I dig the site sort of a memorial for the falling buildings...But In the chicago project buildings, more people were killed and commited sucide ( due to their situation) then......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

Jeff: New York City is the gretest city and place a person could be the skyline is #1 along with chicago, and hong kong and there are more things to see and do there than anywhere......

in response to: New York City 2 by JayEastsider

Anthony: I live near Denver International Airport and have been there many, many times and have seeked out and found everything mentioned here and then some. I first heard about the DIA conspiracies a few......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

murphy: I grew up in Turner Towers in the mid fifties. It was wonderful...with a doorman and a switch board operator. The hallways always smelled like "cooking"...and the elevator operators were warm and friendly!~......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Pete Cesarini: A few thoughts: 1. Reminds me of another famous Spanish Don - Don Quijote. Who is Don Justo's Sancho Panza? 2. Another Quixotic monument (sculpture) still stands tall in Los Angeles, The Watts Towers. Very similar......

in response to: Don Justo\'s Self Built Cathedral by Hasslehoff

little ukraine: these are really great! Do you know what the name of the twin towers in #5 is?...

in response to: Metro Manila by Laura

jeeff: kricket - you couldn't, but i like your idea. i don't think the bike towers will be incorporated into the permanent version....

in response to: Quay to the City by jeeff

susannah: Wake up - I watched the towers go down from Fifth Avenue - it was not a bomb. Trust me....

in response to: Video Stills of the Pre-9/11 New York by EvilGentleman

Mark Visser: If it retrofitted as a water tower I will sure add it to my website 'Canadian Water Towers and Standpipes' www.eureka4you.com/watertowers/index.htm ...

in response to: Dereliction by Cameo

Ger van de Ven: It is impossible, you do not believe it, it is a wonder. That tiny man build the cathedral al alone, without any help. And no plans on paper, no structural drawings. I admire this monk......

in response to: Don Justo\'s Self Built Cathedral - Part 2 by Reiner Wandler

Ger van de Ven: It is impossible, you do not believe it, it is a wonder. That tiny man build the cathedral al alone, without any help. And no plans on paper, no structural drawings. I admire this monk......

in response to: Don Justo\'s Self Built Cathedral by Hasslehoff

Chris Erb: What happened to the water towers?...

in response to: Water Tower Platforms in Dumbo, Brooklyn by Mark

Peter: i have a soft spot in my heart for towers. nice....

in response to: Calgary Tower by ksedge

Chris Erb: This building is actually quite nice to Fredericton standards. Even though Fredericton is one of the richest places in Atlantic Canada, it's still quite poor compared to much of the rest of Canada. ......

in response to: Yuppy Scum by CE

Tyfoid Kid: I did a little digging (thank you U of M libraries) and found some more stuff on The Ivy (actually probably more then you'd want to know:) ******************************************************************************************************************** From an article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune Dec......

in response to: Ivy Tower by Tyfoid Kid

farleymowat: A nice evening photo, Peter. A bit doleful. Looks like a busy asylum of some kind off in the distance. Are those water towers?...

in response to: Blurry Rooftop Skyline by Peter

EvilGentleman: The shots with the sailboat also show Olympic Harbour, where the sailing events for the 1976 Montreal Olympics were held. Just imagine the view the guards must have had from the watch towers....

in response to: Kingston Penitentiary by EvilGentleman

Chris Erb: You MUST get pictures from Le Corbusier blvd. I can just imagine it: Different traffic levels of roads going into the boulevard then when you get there all you see are great big towers......

in response to: Multidick by EvilGentleman

elaine: also good are martello towers [[http://www.martello-towers.co.uk/]] and [[http://www.ecastles.co.uk/martello.html]] (and loads more) which were built as defences for the napoleonic wars. they look surprisingly modern and span the suffolk coast down throughout kent. i am sufficiently......

in response to: Sound Mirrors by elaine

grange: bay street , Like wall street in NY .I like the pics but for some reason the thought of homeless people sleeping in the streets on the weathiest street in Toronto just irks me to......

in response to: Only in Toronto... by Elicar

jeeff: very informative article, tho i think your enthusiasm for the space needle definitely clouds your objectivity a bit. a couple things: 1) the space needle itself was inspired by the stuttgart tv tower in germany,......

in response to: Spawn of the Space Needle by Machupicchu

jack: i cant get over all those towers around the globe. very good job. also hool can we submit original poetry here....

in response to: Spawn of the Space Needle by Machupicchu

jack: of course the person who is sick and throws his garbage in the street is illiterate. and yes i had to scan in those two pics because i took them in 1965 or there......

in response to: 130 Cedar Street by jack

EvilGentleman: Love these pictures, especially the frog, the Chrysler building (can that Buck Rogers spire ##ever## look bad?) and the water towers. And at least there are stains on the Concorde's toilet services panel, that would......

in response to: NYC Rapid Fire by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Mary: I love that shade of blue, that door could be in Morocco. I read somewhere that Brooklyn has a lot of water towers. This particular one has quite a bit of character. Peter, I think......

in response to: Warehouse by Peter

jack: people used to talk about events that happened 25 years ago and call it the good old days, now its pre 9-11. looking at your pics make me realize that at that time we......

in response to: Video Stills of the Pre-9/11 New York by EvilGentleman

jack: amazingly great shot. i sometimes wonder if there are photos of the escalators before 9-11 and to see some of the people who were in the towers. i went up those escalators many......

in response to: Escalating the Commute by Peter

BAHADIR: If we want to see a metropolitan city that is full of buildings, we must visit tokyo.But if you want to see a metropolitan city thats with nature we must to visit Istanbul.Tokyo has a......

in response to: Tokyo Architecture by Chris Jongkind

Elicar: My apologies Sonny! Yes, it is the Royal Bank Plaza! Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is housed in the RBP. And true, there are two towers, but the other one is much smaller. The reflection......

in response to: Afternoon Reflection by Elicar

Sonny: It's The Royal Bank Plaza (RBP) and there two Towers....

in response to: Afternoon Reflection by Elicar

Peter: this was taken from inside the area that is in the third photo: [[img:4294]] its the set of two glass towers (rising from a single base) to the immediate left of the far right building in this......

in response to: Construction Site: AOL/Time-Warner Center by Peter

Peter: those are actually from {cental park}, looking south towards the southwest entrance of the park at {columbus circle}. i can tell because i see the dual glass-towers of the {time warner center} building there, rather......

in response to: Trees and Buildings by julie

on the juice : richmond st. and sheppard st.at camp ottnotobe in the heart of our financial district just a block away from the future home of trump towers........

in response to: Grime by Elliot

jeeff: that's a great example of generic 00's architecture. toronto is full of condo towers exactly like that, particularly out in the suburbs. they're all gonna look real dated 20 years from now....

in response to: Going Up by ian

anon (49.Red-88-0-24.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net): From more than 40 years ago, Justo Gallego was reading books of architecture and he has been working in those years seeing in direct the way of resistence of materials, so now when he......

in response to: Don Justo\'s Self Built Cathedral by Hasslehoff

Cheesy_Member: Instantly recognisable because of its unique design, the Forth Rail Bridge was one of the greatest achievements of 19th century engineers. The original designer was Thomas Bouch - but his rail bridge over the River......

in response to: Forth Rail Bridge by Cheesy_Member

Peter: yeah i always love those water towers... they remind me of {hopper} paintings... i snapped this shot while on the way to {my dentist} on {57th} street....

in response to: Disappearing Skyscraper by Peter

tenyen: those gastowers have particular resonance for me. short version of the long story is that I named a computer, which lived behind the [[1057:robot building]], after them. I particularly like the "stitch up"......

in response to: Full of Gas by elaine

Jamie: Yes happy new year ram. Seriously! But hey, yeah i wish i had a cool nickname like rockin al. I always like your gas towers. I can still remember being amazed by my dad telling......

in response to: Full of Gas by elaine

GGP: I wrote a lot more before 9/11 than I have since. That experience really sucked something right out of me. I think this may be the only "writing" or note-taking I did during that time,......

in response to: Notes from 9/11/01 by GGP

elaine: yeah babe. come and pick me up. but lissen, we got dungeness to do yet, and the martello towers and the sound mirrors. i have been trying to get jeeff over by promising to take......

in response to: I\'m From the Village! by JJ

jack: i think the 7 train went to kew gardens, if so i took it for quite awhile when i would drive to kew gardens from long island and hunt for a spot to park and......

in response to: 7 Train by Peter

vz: it doesn't seem horrific to me at all -- i lived in places that look exactly like these for a good part of my life, actually, just not in this country -- but it does......

in response to: projects, against a beautiful sky by vz

JayEastsider : sorry about the poor quality of the pictures there from scans if anybody is interested here is the link to the story about the guy at the tracy towers http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/manhattan/nyc-deli0405,0,3330951.story?coll=nyc-topheadlines-left...

in response to: New York City 2 by JayEastsider

jeeff: i used to live right by there. i think with so many low-rent high-rise apartments in the st. jamestown towers it makes it hard for landlords to get a decent price (and a decent......

in response to: Abandoned Homes by JayEastsider

Jamie: I've been playing GTA San Andreas on the PS2 alot lately and the watts towers certainly do star in the game. they can be found in the city of Los Santos. I got shot and......

in response to: Watts Towers by Lisa Tang

TomMich: In response to an earlier comment by jupiterbaal on the longevity of Medieval cathedrals, I would like to remind you that many cathedrals did fall down due to faulty building techniques or poor foundations. ......

in response to: Don Justo\'s Self Built Cathedral by Hasslehoff

GGP: this building has bizarre and complex meaning to me, as I stood in front of it on 9/11 and from there watched the twin towers fall while fighter jets flew low and at truly terrifying......

in response to: Samuel Underberg Building by GGP

joey: what is the building in the second picture with the two towers? a hotel?...

in response to: Rowboating: A Reprieve by Laura

Lili: Years ago I read that after Simon Rodia passed onward the city tried to pull at least one of the towers down by attaching cable from a large truck to the top of the tower -......

in response to: Watts Towers by Lisa Tang

elaine: if you are interested in this kind of thing trawl the net entries on 'outsider art'. the periodical 'raw vision' has a website [[http://www.rawvision.com/]]. lots of these people are alive and visitable, but some are......

in response to: Don Justo\'s Self Built Cathedral by Hasslehoff

V.F.: In the reflections of the bland Express store windows you can see the Art Institute of Philadelphia building which is a stunning building. The art deco/machine age design seems so out of place when......

in response to: art deco echo by vz

jeeff: i like the washed-out smoggy colour palette. reminds me of a shot posted awhile back which peter pegged as having been taken from the observation deck of one of the WTC towers. the......

in response to: Central Park & Skyline by caracarn

Peter: no way? indeed! [[http://www.martello-towers.co.uk/]]...

in response to: Cement Thing by Peter

elaine: aha, yes! and also, though, did you know about martello towers? early concrete sea defences against napoleon, honestly!...

in response to: Cement Thing by Peter

CAPTAIN AMERICA: email: finaljustice05@yahoo.com You take great pictures. You're Crazy! Here's one for ya. Please trust me. I live in El Paso, Texas. I lived in "East New York, Brooklyn", until I joined the Military 6 years......

in response to: Brooklyn Broadcast & Audio by Peter

elaine: and you thought the thread in the 'found note' commentary was obscure? this is fucking bonkers! I laughed like a drain at the 'death march' holiday, very resonant. I think once you have that as a......

in response to: urban orienteering by elaine

Marc: great writing, really fascinating pics-- reminds me of the watts towers in los angeles, made by one guy over 20 years out of rebar and concrete- he used the nearby railroad track to bend the......

in response to: Don Justo\'s Self Built Cathedral by Hasslehoff

Marc: heh well some of us have our own cell towers, 'fanx'....

in response to: Two Hundred Years From Now by Jamie

Peter: ...but what happens when the cell towers go down?...

in response to: Two Hundred Years From Now by Jamie

cognac: that s%#t makes sense but graffitti as a whole is a wild and uncontrollable monster. as much as we would like to bring integrity to the art form there are many other purposes it will......

in response to: Alright by -creAtor-