Hong Kong painted view looking out to the harbor

another section of the painted view looking out to the harbor and Kowloon beyond...

The flatiron building, New York...

"I found myself agape, admiring a sky-scraper the prow of the Flat-iron Building, to be particular, ploughing up through the traffic of Broadway and Fifth Avenue in the afternoon light."

H.G. Wells

From Wikipedia...When the building was first constructed, it received a lot of mixed feedback. The most known criticism received was known as “Burnham’s Folly”. This criticism focused on the structure of the building and claimed that “combination of triangular shape and height would cause the building to fall down.” Critics believed that the building created a dangerous wind-tunnel at the intersection of the two streets, and could possibly knock the building down. Although the wind is strong at the intersection, the buildings structure was meant to accommodate four times the typical wind loads in order to stabilize and retain the building’s iconic triangular shape.

The New York Tribune called the new building "A stingy piece of pie ... the greatest inanimate troublemaker in New York", while the Municipal Art Society said that it was "Unfit to be in the Center of the City". The New York Times called it a "monstrosity".

Tower Studies view of test post for gif file

 

 

Taking a look at a very very simple try with a gif file format for the tower studies...this might lead to something new and cool...

 

City National Bank Building, Houston, Texas

Using a painting too from the adobe ideas app, a series of progressive views of a beautiful deco building in downtown Houston, focusing on the top portion of the structure...

Historic name: City National Bank, 921 Main Street and McKinney

Current name: 1001 McKinney Building

Architect, Albert C. Finn

Completed: 1947

City of Houston Historic Landmark, National Registry of Historic Places

Tower study variations, chroma change

First version of tower study, blue chroma version

Second version tower study, yellow chroma push