which city in the us has the third best skyline? (compare, bigger)

[Billiam]

double post :]

[Billiam]

Originally Posted by jmonroy1973

Not counting spires, if the three tallest buildings in Houston were in Manhattan, they would be the 2nd, 3rd, and 6th tallest buildings...at least until 175 Greenwich and the Freedom Tower are built. Houston's JP Morgan Chase Tower (305m), Wells Fargo Tower (302.4m), and Williams Tower (274.6m) would tower over everything else except the Empire State (381m). The Chrysler Building (282m) would be 3rd, and Citigroup (278m) would be 5th.

don't forget 200 Greenwich, Tower Verre (MOMA expansion) and the Girisole(which will be the exact height as chase) . well they're only proposed! Guess you only adding u/c towers

[jmonroy1973]

NYC is poised for another supertall construction boom. The economy just needs to kick it up a notch. Houston has so much land area that make it unnecessarily expensive to go up too high with new projects. There are however two 45 story, one 55 story, and a 54 story project either under construction or have been approved. That's not quite the height of the tall NYC projects either under construction, or proposed but exciting none-the-less.

[rainrock]

The makeup of a skyline is much more important to me than the actual visual components.Whats going on behind those buildings? When I see Hong Kong,Tokyo or NYC's skyline I see an incredibly vibrant civilization. Sorry but when I see Miami,Atlanta and some of the sunbelt skylines I see artificial, self important,unnecessary, unsightly height sprinkled around 12 lane highways.

I'd like to see Houston concentrate on building a core and forget about the 70 story high rises that act as humongous middle fingers to the rest of your city.

[Finger Laker]

I love the philadephia skyline - especially from the spring garden street bridge by the art museum - philly has a nice mix of heights, old and new and different designs - i dig it

although much smaller I absolutely love the mpls skyline

http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/slide...s/images/6.jpg
http://www.geraldbrimacombe.com/Midw...ne%20night.jpg

with the way it nestles into the mountains SLC has a lot of potential, but is far from there

i love SF as a city, but their skyline doesn't excite me - to me the buildings are probably some of the least interesting things about the city

I really like seattle's though - to me it would be a coinflip between there and philly - seattle throws some different stuff in with the space needle, key arena the more modern downtown and then the older areas near pioneer square

[anth611]

the city of brotherly love by far it says alot about philly ..william penn ...just newly built the comcast tower it beautiful at night

[blkgiraffe]

Originally Posted by rainrock

The makeup of a skyline is much more important to me than the actual visual components.Whats going on behind those buildings? When I see Hong Kong,Tokyo or NYC's skyline I see an incredibly vibrant civilization. Sorry but when I see Miami,Atlanta and some of the sunbelt skylines I see artificial, self important,unnecessary, unsightly height sprinkled around 12 lane highways.

I'd like to see Houston concentrate on building a core and forget about the 70 story high rises that act as humongous middle fingers to the rest of your city.

excuse me!?!? Is that your opinion of the sunbelt?? because its wrong.

[jmonroy1973]

Beautiful pics. Thanks for sharing! Here is a pic of the Legal District in the Northeast corner of Downtown Houston. The pic is from the 19th floor of the criminal courts building facing south towards the older criminal courts building (undergoing renovation).

[Endeavor305]

It is now Miami. Houston has fallen to #4.

The World's Best Skylines

Construction Comparison of the World's Most Booming Cities / Emporis.com

[NewAtlantisMiami]

Seattle is a choice I"ll never understand as far as skylines go.