NOW, all of the towers are beautiful and have some real character to them.
#1 is full of verve.
#2 is fascinating because of the water.
#3 I confess to not exploring this one enough
#5 is traditional, like an awesome shrine, and I like it a lot
But....
I have REALLY liked #4 from the beginning and it's still my winner.
I'm talking about the original version, mind you, because at that stage it was actually ART in that it challenged you.
If you ran in without caution you immediately discovered that it was a horrifyingly long drop into the Void... an act which is totally the sort of thing that architecture-as-art can get away with.
It was a mean building... a building that is aggressively bereft of real function.
The current one has been modified to remove the danger of death and in doing so it lost that certain challenging edginess that good art can possess.
{insert Reading Rainbow wrapup tune}
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