Chicago: Third Best Skyline in the World? (Paris, Manhattan: architecture, rated)

[chitown2pa]

Chicago=the best, in my opinion. New York is impressive and super dense, and HK's is phenomenally modern. However, no other skyline quite "stirs the soul" like this:

[Venom]

Chicago best in the U.S.

[ERS-One]

I wish it really glowed green like in the picture above.

[UICJohn]

Personally, and yes I am a tad biased being a Chicagoan for life, I think New York is overrated too. They have a ton of buildings and it's a huge skyline, but it just doesn't have any special look. It doesn't give the same "awe" factor that Chicago does in look. I do think that Pittsburgh and Seattle do have underrated skylines though.

[wunderkidchi]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

Now, if you extract the U.S. rankings from this list, and interesting picture emerges:

2. New York City
3. Chicago
26. Miami
29. Houston
31. Honolulu
36. Los Angeles
41. Atlanta
42. Dallas
44. Philadelphia
45. San Francisco
52. Seattle
56. Boston
64. Las Vegas
68. Minneapolis
73. Denver
77. Pittsburgh
78. Detroit
99. Miami Beach

It has changed and Chicago has been bumped down:

1. Hong Kong 6,943,600 1,053 km² 7,649 126,464
2. New York City 8,363,710 800 km² 5,759 37,923
3. Singapore 4,351,400 685 km² 4,327 17,231
4. Chicago 2,836,658 589 km² 1,096 16,990
5. São Paulo 10,990,249 1,523 km² 5,644 16,811

I personally like Toronto and Dubai as well as Chicago.

People putting Pittsburgh in the same class as these cities? Why not Toledo, OH or Biloxi, MS skyline? *insert sarcasm here*

[Carantini]

i put us at #1 skyline

[ERS-One]

For a brand spanking new (not to mention awesome) view of the skyline, head over to the Nichols bridge connecting Millennium Park to the new Modern wing of the Art Institute. It just opened today, and I checked it out. At the top of the bridge, if you look out in the southwest direction, it's just an beautiful take on the skyline that I never saw before (that close anyway). People were taking pictures like mad. I highly recommend it.

[Drover]

Originally Posted by wunderkidchi

People putting Pittsburgh in the same class as these cities? Why not Toledo, OH or Biloxi, MS skyline? *insert sarcasm here*

Because neither Toledo or especially Biloxi have a skyline that can touch Pittsburgh's. Pittsburgh's skyline is a great example of quality over quantity. and its setting (squeezed onto a triangle bound by two rivers, and the way it reflects off the river) frames it very well; and the orderliness as it gets progressively taller from west to east is pretty cool. Plus there are great vantage points from which to take it in such as West End Park, the Mount Washington observation deck, and the upper deck of PNC Park, pictured below respectively:









Another cool thing about Pittsburgh's skyline is how it's completely obscured by Mount Washington as you approach Pittsburgh from the west end. You drive along for miles and miles with no sign of the city anywhere, and then you drive through this long-ass tunnel under Mt. Washington, and BAM! there it is on the other end:

[Carantini]

Originally Posted by ERS-One

For a brand spanking new (not to mention awesome) view of the skyline, head over to the Nichols bridge connecting Millennium Park to the new Modern wing of the Art Institute. It just opened today, and I checked it out. At the top of the bridge, if you look out in the southwest direction, it's just an beautiful take on the skyline that I never saw before (that close anyway). People were taking pictures like mad. I highly recommend it.

will do, thank u

oh and thats an awesome video, kinda like driving off 55 then under mccormik then seeing the skyline here. sort of.

[Irishtom29]

Originally Posted by Drover

Because neither Toledo or especially Biloxi have a skyline that can touch Pittsburgh's. Pittsburgh's skyline is a great example of quality over quantity. and its setting (squeezed onto a triangle bound by two rivers,

From the site of Forts Duquesne and Pitt at the Forks to the ridge behind the Downtown where Grant and his Highlanders got the axe during Pontiac's Rebellion, Pittsburg sits securely in it's history.

I got the Mount Washington tunnel experience at about 3AM one morning in 1969, travelling east in my 67 Camaro SS-350. I hammered down through the tunnel and shot out the east end at over 100 mph and there was Pittsburg, I about plotzed.