Skyscrapers

The "Playboy Building" was home to Playboy magazine from 1965 to 1989, its now called the "Palmolive Building", you can choose, what sounds better, is a 37 story, 172 m high Art Deco building, completed 1929. Seen from John Hancock Center, down into the white fog, on the roof you see the famous "Lindbergh Beacon". scanned slide Minolta X700, Fujichrome 100

World Trade Center, built 1972, destroyed 2001, height 417 m (antenna 526 m), 110 floors.......

View from Edificio Lopez Serrano.

Edificio Girón is a seafront apartment building, located in the Vedado district. It was opened in 1967, the year that Che Guevara died, and a decade that saw Cuba settle from revolutionary fervour into a socialist republic. The Girón building was formed from two 17-storey blocks, fitted with elevators and with a series of tubular walkways that join the two hemispheres like neural fibres. It is also called the ‚Experimental Building‘, because the first time in Cuba a sliding formwork was used. Some call this kind of architecture 'brutalism' ;-) The years haven’t been kind to the Edificio Girón, nevertheless it's still fully inhabited. I posted some photos from outside years ago, but this time we explored the building and the views from up there. See the following small series. For some details about Havana architecture read this, Edificio Girón is also described here. www.thebohemianblog.com/2016/05/climbing-all-over-the-massive-modernist-architecture-of-cuba.html

The Meliá Cohiba Hotel is a high-rise hotel opened in 1994, located in the Vedado district of Havana, just off the Malecón and next to the historic Hotel Habana Riviera.

After a renovation in the last couple of years the balconies are out of order, the handrails are gone.

The Havana Riviera is a historic resort hotel located on the Malecón waterfront boulevard in the Vedado district of Havana. The hotel was built in 1957 and still maintains its original 1950s style. It has twenty-one floors containing 352 rooms. The Havana Riviera was originally owned by mobster Meyer Lansky who had been inspired to build it after visiting his friend, Moe Dalitz's nine-storey Riviera Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. It was intended to rival the comfort and contemporary luxury of any Las Vegas hotel of the era. The choice to build in Havana was because Lansky simply did not want to be subject to U.S. laws or the scrutiny of the FBI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Habana_Riviera A Ford model A (around 1930) can be seen in the foreground.

View from the skydeck of Sears Tower (since 2009 "Willis Tower"). It was the highest skyscraper on earth in 1986. 442.1 m is the architectural height, but the building is 527 m tall till the top of the antennas. I made a little research about the buildings, which can be seen here (see notes). Some are really old. scanned slide Minolta X700, Minolta MD 4/70-210mm lense

left: Hancock Whitney Center, 212 m, 51 stories, opened 1972 right: Poydras Center, 91 m, 27 stories, completed 1983 scanned slide Minolta X700, Fujichrome100

New Orleans, Poydras Center - 1986 scanned slide Minolta X700, Fujichrome100

New Orleans Central Business District (CBD), seen from the roof of World Trade Center (image before). panorama of two scanned slides Minolta X700, Fujichrome100

The World Trade Center Building is a historic 33-story, 124 m-tall skyscraper designed by noted architect Edward Durell Stone, opened 1967. It is now used and known as Four Seasons Hotel. In 1986 the top floor hosted a cocktail lounge called "Top of the Mart". The bar slowly rotated once per hour and the next image was taken from there. The bar remained until Hurricane Katrina in 2005. scanned slide Minolta X700, Fujichrome100