Comments on: Comprehensive collection of isometric skyscraper illustrations

Comprehensive collection of isometric skyscraper illustrations

cadastral — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:56:42 -0800

If you were to make a huge database of skyscrapers where users could submit their own isometric drawings, I'd tell you that you'd done a wonderful thing.

If you compiled these isometric drawings in to neat collections (see: World's Tallest, New York 1935, and Evolution of World's Tallest) I would then acknowledge that you had made something of substantive import and value, and extend my sincere thanks.

But it is when you provide a robust and responsive search functionality that allows me to include any type of structure, and sort by city, by project status, (eg. "Built", "Under Construction", "proposed", "destroyed") that I drop to my knees and reverently fellate you while holding back tears.

By: cadastral

cadastral — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:57:56 -0800

Also know that by virtue of the fact that they accept user submissions, there are a wide variety of different renderings of the same building available (here are 29 Drawings of the Empire State Building). (Extra bonus... the worlds tallest Churches, Chimneys, and Pyramids)

By: pascal

pascal — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:03:40 -0800

It's also worth mentioning that the regional forums at skyscraperpage are _the_ place to find out what is being built in your city. OK, it holds true where "your city" = Vancouver, elsewhere YMMV. The quality of debate can be a bit sub-Mefi (I would not be at all surprised to discover that the average age of posters is 17), but it's a fantastic site regardless.

By: kyleg

kyleg — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:10:51 -0800

This is absolutely wonderful. I'm such an architecture nerd; this is going to waste days of my life.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:14:00 -0800

I drop to my knees and reverently fellate you while holding back tears. Get in line.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:21:06 -0800

Wow. There are so many versions of each building when you get closer - someone should make a crawler that saves all the images of a given type, to save me from breaking my right mouse button due to overuse. This is fantastic, thanks a googolplex, cadastral.

By: punishinglemur

punishinglemur — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:21:18 -0800

awkward

By: dhartung

dhartung — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:33:33 -0800

This has expanded unbelievably since I saw it last. I mean, the 152 tallest structures in Wisconsin?! (Unfortunately, very few of them outside Milwaukee and the State Capitol have drawings.) What about the 18 tallest in Alaska? Alas, I note that even in the few moments I've been using it, the site's performance has begun to suffer. It's too bad you can't do searches that exclude items easily, though, e.g. "all buildings in Illinois except Chicago".

By: Poagao

Poagao — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:40:21 -0800

I'm glad they got the tallest building in the world correct; many such sites seem to have somehow "overlooked" Taipei 101, either listing older, shorter buildings, or newer, as-yet unbuilt ones at No. 1.

By: uncanny hengeman

uncanny hengeman — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:59:16 -0800

I was waiting for the last part of the last paragraph to say "I'd tell you that the FBI demanded that the site be pulled because tuhrrists would be too interested." Seriously.

By: wfrgms

wfrgms — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:59:45 -0800

Suck it world - Sears Tower is still da biggest.

By: pmbuko

pmbuko — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:05:46 -0800

Those aren't isometric drawings. Did you read the wiki article you linked? other than that, great post.

By: cadastral

cadastral — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:22:12 -0800

You're right. I'm re-reading the article, and these drawings are not isometric. They resemble isometric drawings in that many of them allude to depth, but they do not have equal x, y, and z angles of projection. Apologies to anyone misled. Would also hate for anyone to interpret my (euphamistic, prurient) description of the depth of my gratitude as trivializing contributions made by the unfellatable. In a project of this size and scope I'm sure that many women played a huge part.

By: painquale

painquale — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 01:07:25 -0800

I've seen this before, but then it didn't have any cute little pixelated pictures of buildings my dad designed. Now they're there! How ridiculously complete. I'll have to show this to him.

By: pjern

pjern — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 01:22:30 -0800

I got a kick out of seeing the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on the Indianapolis page- it looks like the world's largest aircraft carrier on the site :)

By: BrotherCaine

BrotherCaine — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 01:46:29 -0800

cadastral, does this mean women won't get reverent cunnilingus?

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 01:46:51 -0800

This is my favorite fpp of the past... say, 6 months. Bravo!

By: pandaharma

pandaharma — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 02:27:45 -0800

Great link. I found this page a few years ago and found some interesting and improbable structures, of which, this is my favorite. Hard to believe Dear Leader Kim would have feverish dreams of a skyline from Blade Runner. For extra geeky crossover action, Starship Dimensions uses some of the drawings from skyscraperpage as a point of reference for comparing a Cardassian crusier to the CN Tower.

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 04:08:52 -0800

Cool, I never knew that the building that I worked in for five years was designed by the same architect, Max Abramovitz, as the UN and Lincoln Center.

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 04:15:02 -0800

Why all the talk about blowjobs, cadastral?

By: mediareport

mediareport — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 04:39:07 -0800

Wow, some of those "proposed" buildings are really great. So is it true that building codes in the USA don't allow the kind of shapes we see in places like Spain, Dubai and Shanghai?

By: tellurian

tellurian — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 05:21:34 -0800

Wow! the tallest building in Sydney is less than half the size of the worlds tallest. What's the base on that thing? Thanks for this cadastral... just thanks, that's all.

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 05:23:24 -0800

Excellent. A very good post.

By: patgas

patgas — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 05:50:31 -0800

I del.icio.used this a while ago, with the intent that I would teach myself how to create those kinds of images. After that, I would merrily document the various buildings of Richmond. Then I found out that somebody beat me to it.

By: azazello

azazello — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 06:06:34 -0800

FYI emporis.com is also a very useful and highly comprehensive skyscraper database, although their more in-depth material is subscription-only.

By: azazello

azazello — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 06:13:47 -0800

And of course no skyscraper resource would be complete without what I consider to be the most beautiful high-rise in the world.

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:03:38 -0800

Ok, so now the page is MeFi'ed so all I'm stuck with is commenting on the oral sex references. Is cunnilingus a verb? Would it be fair to use cunnilingate? Would someone confuse that with a politcal scandal involving lesbians? So many questions. Page still loading...

By: pinto

pinto — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:07:22 -0800

I work for The Skyscraper Museum in NY. I would like to suggest, in that professional self-linking sort of way, the Museum's VIVA project, a visual index to our archive of skyscraper postcard's from lower manhattan using a 3d map. Also timeformations, a multi-layered flash interface of different maps of Manhattan. We are currently working on VIVA2, which will document construction photos of the Empire State Building and World Trade Center.

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:15:56 -0800

Glad to see the relatively controversial Fordham Spire on the list. Thanks for the great link!

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:41:03 -0800

Tallest skyscraper in Vermont is 9 floors.

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:48:10 -0800

Taipei 101 is the tallest building in the world? Is that wise with all the earthquakes they have? Five of the top ten buildings are in China. Sounds like they're trying to compensate for something.

By: raedyn

raedyn — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:58:55 -0800

Tallest skyscraper in Vermont is 9 floors. - jessamyn Wow. I didn't realize there was actually a part of North America less impressive than Saskatchewan.

By: Mcable

Mcable — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:50:28 -0800

I've done some of these. Where exactly do I recieve this fellatio of which you all speak?

By: squirrel

squirrel — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:55:16 -0800

I drop to my knees and reverently fellate you while holding back tears. Cool site, but icky post. Seek help in embracing your genuine sexuality; keep MeFi out of it (i.e. for your issues, gyobfw).

By: aparrish

aparrish — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 09:19:36 -0800

I like this post, because it is like a little story.

By: uni verse

uni verse — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 09:39:49 -0800

azazello, the last pic from your link makes me dizzy. Great posts all around!

By: pmbuko

pmbuko — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 10:28:44 -0800

Ok, now that's just ridiculous.

By: insomnia_lj

insomnia_lj — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 11:24:05 -0800

Cadastral blows skyscrapers!

By: Megafly

Megafly — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:22:33 -0800

They even have the most important building in my hometown The Big Chicken

By: patcoston

patcoston — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 23:45:37 -0800

I found about 50 versions of the Freedom Tower in New York city and they are all different.

By: Tubes

Tubes — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 11:45:21 -0800

Oh man, I saw this and now my hands won't stop sweating.