I haven't lived there in over 20 years, but what the heck-- the county courthouse of Hamilton County, NE, in downtown Aurora. A pretty red sandstone building. The roof tops shine in the bright sun, and on the flat eastern NE plains you can see the building from miles away. For a small town, it's quite an impressive little building.
The new W Hotel @ Victory Plaza And of course a GREAT place to see the orchestra, the Morton H Meyerson Symphony Hall. There's a TON of new high-rises going up that will probably give any building a run for their money.
Nothing like in Europe, but in Little Rock we have: The Old State House, the first state house in Arkansas, built in 1836. The County Courthouse Not sure if this one would count: The Old Mill.
It's an impressive looking building, as is that terrace behind it. Pity about the rest of the town though
I've not been to Bolton town centre in nearly ten years but the last time I went it was a dump, waaay too much 60's architecture.
It's absolutely awful these days, the Middlebrook development and The Trafford Centre have destroyed it along with a short sited council that charge you for parking anywhere and give you a £60 ticket even if you're only 5 mins late. The one and only good thing left in the town centre shopping wise is the market.
Doncaster like many Northern English towns doesn't have a lot to shout about architecturally. There is the corn exchange: http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/gallery/450/bb9/bb93_29337.jpg There is St George's church: http://www.doncasterfhs.co.uk/images/photos/doncasterstgeorge.jpg Beyond that there isn't much. Over the years and particularly since the war Doncaster council has been very good at pulling down fine old buildings and equally good at putting up cheap, nasty, poorly designed ones in there place. Something strange happened in England, in an effort to reconstruct the country architects were given carte blanche to do whatever they liked, just so long as it was cheap and modern. It devastated the face of many of our towns and cities. And we're still ruining them by putting up vast out of town shopping malls and endless faceless tin box retail outlets. We don't even use proper architects anymore, it's all 'design and build' ie cheap and nasty. It seems like we don't really care about our urban environment anymore. It's very sad when you see some of the wonderful modern buildings around the world like some in this thread. I would like to bulldoze almost all the new buildings in Donny, particularly the shopping mall: http://www.donny.co.uk/Doncaster/wallpaper/images/wp_frenchgate_800.jpg and start again.
I won't write off all 1960's modernism as rubbish but most of it in English towns is. It's still all around, bus stations, office blocks, shopping malls. It's brutal, dispiriting, vandalised and in most places it's neglected and rotting away.
Wow, I didn't know you guys worked on the Tremont Grand. That's one of my favorite saves ever, and we didn't have to do all that much work on it. We said, "hey, why don't you guys restore that place and use it as a conference facility instead of tearing it down and building a parking garage" and they said, "wow, great idea, never thought of that!" Did you do any work at Lovely Lane?
Yes. We're the ones who restored that dome. We work often with Thomas Moore. Nice guy, I've known him for quite some time actually.
[/URL][/IMG] [/URL][/IMG] [/URL][/IMG] Prada Epicenter Tokyo by Herzog & de Meuron The building looks stunning,almost surreal,at night as it seems to float amid surrounding structures.