City icons

**Comte Arnau** · 03-30-2012, 12:12 AM

Some cities have a clear well-established icon, such as Paris, London, Rome, Barcelona, Athens, Moscow, San Francisco, Sydney... In some cases, it's fairly recent, as the Guggenheim in Bilbao. When those icons are shown in a film, we automatically know the city we're in.

But there are many other cities out there without a definite, relevant or well-known icon. Others may have more than one, all being of a similar relevance. Feel free to post and discuss what you consider to be the main icons of any cities world-wide.

**~~Osweo~~** · 03-30-2012, 12:50 AM

Sadly, a lot of the old smoke stacks are gone now, but it would have to be our 'dark Satanic mills' for Manchester:

Or the canal system, much of which dates to the 1700s;

My favourite bit of Town;

FUCK!

For the modern, the very new Beetham Tower should be on the list, with its peculiar overhang (there's a bar in there, and you can stand on the glass floor panel and look down!

):

**Comte Arnau** · 03-30-2012, 12:55 AM

I like those pics! The area has a distinctive hard-to-describe sight to my eyes, pretty much as if I'd like to film something in there.

Cool.

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**~~Osweo~~** · 03-30-2012, 01:04 AM

Originally Posted by Count Arnau

I like those pics! The area has a distinctive hard-to-describe sight to my eyes,

Definitely. And it's no coincidence that I felt at home in the Moscow suburbs!

pretty much as if I'd like to film something in there.

Heh, funny thing is; Manchester IS used as a location for a LOT of films, Hollywood ones too, but it rarely plays itself!

With a bit of tweaking of signage and so on, Manchester has stood in for ... let me see... Victorian London (that recent Sherlock Holmes film), New York, and others.

http://www.prideofmanchester.com/movies/films.htm
Ah yes, and some of that new 'Captain America' was filmed here too!