Favorite Building

[SteveG1988]

For small town building, I have a twofer, both built the same year (1930) under a Federal Project and they compliment each other.

Mt Holly NJ's Police Dept/Municipal Building



And the Post Office.

[signalman]

^ Those are indeed beautiful buildings.  How are they ADA compliant though?  Is there handicapped access somewhere else on the building not pictured? 

[c172]

If we include other  countries, I love Turning Torso, in Sweden. In the U.S., it's really hard to say. It really depends on what is surrounding it. If I were conworlding my own city, I might have replicas of:

1: St. Louis City Hall https://www.flickr.com/photos/mbell1975/2313657222/
2. Toyota Stadium, Dallas http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2013/09/10/new-fc-dallas-partnership-toyota-lead-stadium-improvements
3. all of Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu
4. all of Downtown Brattleboro, VT
https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrSbnmdezBVgqIA14FXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzZ2oybHFiBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDUlZMSTAxXzEEc2VjA3Nj?p=Downtown+Brattleboro&fr=yfp-t-250
5. The clocktower and adjacent tilty structure at Riverfront Park, Spokane. http://yhoo.it/1GRsG5y
6. The neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh. https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0SO8wpdfTBVaigA7x1XNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE1MjI3NG01BGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDUlZMSTAxXzEEc2VjA3BpdnM-?p=squirrel+hill+pittsburgh&fr=yfp-t-250-s&fr2=piv-web7.
7. The neighborhood of East Sacramento. http://yhoo.it/1FQvJ8E

[kkt]

Does it have to be a really big, imposing structure?  I like the Lucy Stern Community Center in Palo Alto, Calif., a mission style group of 1- and 2-story buildings.

[SteveG1988]

^ Those are indeed beautiful buildings.  How are they ADA compliant though?  Is there handicapped access somewhere else on the building not pictured? 

Not to the best of my knowledge, but they are probably grandfathered in, i know the Municipal building has a ramp around back in the addition.

[Halian]

Of all the buildings in these United States, my favorite would probably have to be Spaceship Earth.

[c172]

I'm disabled but I may be wrong: I had thought buildings older than 1970 were exempt from the ADA. If true, those buildings would be exempt (not that you couldn't throw in a button for a door just to be PC, but you don't have to).

In any case, I love their post office. On topic of infrastructuure and/or government buildings, I like fire stations as well. Not sure I have a favorite, but I love some of the old ones back east.

[SteveG1988]

I'm disabled but I may be wrong: I had thought buildings older than 1970 were exempt from the ADA. If true, those buildings would be exempt (not that you couldn't throw in a button for a door just to be PC, but you don't have to).

In any case, I love their post office. On topic of infrastructuure and/or government buildings, I like fire stations as well. Not sure I have a favorite, but I love some of the old ones back east.

Some other buildings from my town.

County Courthouse, still kinda used today, not sure if it is just for larger ceremonial stuff.




High St, the main road out towards the west:



1803 jail, in use until the 20th century

[Scott5114]

Don't tell me what to do, George W. Bush.

[roadman65]

You know the Citi Corp Building at the intersection of Lexington Avenue and 53rd Street in New York has to be a building of interest to me that in another way be considered a favorite of mine.

I like the slanted roof on top of it which is pretty cool.  Plus the bottom of the building where one side of the structure is supported by one giant pier as there is a cut out of either one half or one third of the lower floors to be open.

[Pete from Boston]

Citicorp Center is fascinating for so many reasons, from the base you describe (to leave room for the church on the corner) to the secret discovery and remediation of the fact that it might topple in hurricane winds, to the fact that everyone forgot that its solar-panel-accommodating slant roof faced north and thus would never face the sun!

[cpzilliacus]

Thomas Jefferson's Monticello.

[kkt]

Citicorp Center is fascinating for so many reasons, from the base you describe (to leave room for the church on the corner) to the secret discovery and remediation of the fact that it might topple in hurricane winds, to the fact that everyone forgot that its solar-panel-accommodating slant roof faced north and thus would never face the sun!

Doh!  Astronomy is hard!