The 10 best tall buildings - in pictures | Culture | The Observer

The 10 best tall buildings - in pictures | Culture | The Observer: "It would be possible to write a list of top 10 towers without leaving Manhattan: the Woolworth, the Empire State, the Flatiron, the Seagram, the encrusted crags of the American Radiator building, the heroic blankness of the late twin towers. But if one were only to pick one, it has to be the Chrysler, for its combination of fantasy and elegance. Its top of gleaming semi-circles and triangles is pure Gotham. At the same time it has a miraculous slenderness, reinforced by a subtle play of horizontal and vertical that reduces its apparent mass"