# What is your favorite skyscraper? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 25, 2006, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-skyscraper/370144 "2006-08-25T04:33:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 36
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-skyscraper/370144/36 "2006-08-26T04:22:57Z")
> [@stuyguy](#): > > It is utterly _insane_ that no one has professed supreme love for the **Empire State Building** yet, so I will do it. It is the quintessential skyscraper. The Chrysler Building, by comparison, is the architectural equivalent of a fifty-cent whore wearing too much lipstick, jewelry and perfume.\* > > - Kidding, kidding. But I’m trying to make a point here. I agree with the **Empire State Building** as being the greatest and most amazingly constructed, but the Chrysler Building would be #2 on my list. While I grieved deeply for the destruction of the Twin Towers to the Terror events of 9/11 and the loss of life on that day of infamy, the buildings themselves were soulless glass boxes built of inferior material and having no style. I love the grace of the classic stepped Manhattan buildings. I was just driving through Orlando and I commented to my wife that I love the fact that their newish Tall buildings have some style and very few plain glass boxes. Jim --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-skyscraper/370144)._