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Chicago Fire Station 98

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One of the best examples of historic municipal architecture in Chicago, this fire station is just steps away from one of the busiest tourist drags in the city, but is often overlooked in favor of its ...

Chicago Bar Association Building

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Great building. Bad location. Not in terms of convenience or transit, but because of the fact that there are very few vantage points from which to admire this structure. It's white facade helps l...

The ParkShore

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Chicago is famous for its food, its criminals, and its politicians. It is also known for its architecture. Though most often known as the birthplace of the skyscraper, Chicago can also be thanked for ...

NBC Tower

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How can you not like a skyscraper with flying buttresses? It's the ultimate blending of historic ambitions to reach the sky, and the modern-day ability to fulfill those ambitions. Most people are...

Grace Episcopal Church

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Self-described as an "English Gothic Revival" building, Grace Episcopal Church is one of the outstanding architectural assets of Oak Park. The building's soaring arches are filled with...

One U.S. Bank Plaza

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Banks have always used their buildings to project their image. In the past monolithic stone and classical columns were used to portray an image of sophistication and safety. Today's US Bank tower...

Highcliff

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Few cities face a land crunch as accute as Hong Kong. And few towers in Hong Kong deal with the problem as gracefully as Highcliff. Though the skyscraper is backed into a cliff, it has no implicit bac...

Foshay Tower

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One of the most beloved skyscrapers of the American Midwest, the Foshay Tower tells a tale of personal success and the failure of the American Dream. The building was the lifelong ambition of its name...

Burj Dubai

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When completed, this building is intended to be the tallest in the world. Originally, it was in the running with the Freedom Tower in New York, however, the Burj Dubai has the advantage of actually h...

Macy's On State

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Like most successful iconic retail enterprises, Marshall Field grew over time. Originating as a single store on the block it eventually grew and took over its neighboring buildings, knocking down wal...

Metropolitan Square

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An homage to Saint Louis' cherished French heritage, and a nod to its future, Metropolitan Square is an American skyscraper in the Gallic tradition. It's oversized gables and roof in the sam...

Angels Flight

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Los Angeles' funicular railway system has seen its ups and downs over the years, both literally and figuratively. Once there were two railways carrying people up and down the hills of the city&a...;

The Baine Building

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This is a building that tells a tale of two eras of Hollywood history: the glamor days of yesteryear, and the seedy needy times that followed. {HumanName} almost looks like it's been through a...

The Ahmanson Theater

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While this building would fit in out in a suburban office park, it is the downtown Music Center location that makes it special. {HumanName} gleams white marble and glitters blue glass in the heart ...

The Aon Center

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One of the tallest buildings on the west coast, {HumanName} is an iconic building in a city full of icons. Its black glass sides are interrupted only by the white stone of the chamfers extending from...

AT&T; Tower

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Most American cities have at least one, if not more, antiquated telephone switching buildings in their downtown cores. These structures serve as a reminder that not all that long ago we relied on pil...

The Bank of America Plaza

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{HumanName} continues the tradition of Los Angeles skyscrapers with strong vertical lines and room at the top for the corporate brand. Its 55 stories occupy a prominent location on Bunker Hill slight...

617 West Seventh Street

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What would otherwise be a rather unremarkable downtown office building is spiced up by a bit of texture. The exterior of this building features endless rows and columns of Chicago-style bay windows p...

The John Hancock Center

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An iconic presence in a city of architectural icons, the John Hancock Center rises boldly from the mid-American prairie to cast a cultural shadow much larger than the one it gets from the sun. ...

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