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Old 09-24-2009, 11:49 PM
 
Location: In the heights
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Pretty much every skyline I've ever seen has been a hodgepodge of different styles which is ultimately boring to me. Is there any city with an impressive and cohesive skylines with preferably NO radical outliers whatsoever?

I'm thinking the kind of cohesion you might see in a scifi movie where the cities of an alien or advanced race are almost always depicted as having a flowing and cohesive architecture.

 
Old 09-24-2009, 11:51 PM
 
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Sao Paulo.
 
Old 09-24-2009, 11:55 PM
 
Location: The Greatest city on Earth: City of Atlanta Proper
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Sao Paulo.
I agree. São Paulo looks like a city made out of lego bricks. The same color lego bricks:

 
Old 09-25-2009, 10:20 AM
 
Location: Sarasota, Florida
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Pretty much every skyline I've ever seen has been a hodgepodge of different styles which is ultimately boring to me. Is there any city with an impressive and cohesive skylines with preferably NO radical outliers whatsoever?

I'm thinking the kind of cohesion you might see in a scifi movie where the cities of an alien or advanced race are almost always depicted as having a flowing and cohesive architecture.
It depends on your definition of cohesion....IMHO..Pittsburgh fits the bill....the buildings may vary, but the Golden Triangle is so dense with towers that it all blends together well, at least for me.
 
Old 09-25-2009, 01:40 PM
 
Location: Bronx, NY
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NYC
 
Old 09-25-2009, 02:49 PM
 
Location: New York
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The skyline of Albany, NY looks very sci-fi, I'm not a huge fan of it but it does look okay at certain angles.

http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/chf/i...ny_Skyline.jpg

http://www.astrallight.org/skyline2A.jpg (broken link)
 
Old 09-25-2009, 04:28 PM
 
Location: In the heights
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Albany and Sao Paolo (though Sao Paolo certainly doesn't have a very pretty style to it). It's a bit like looking for what Santa Fe and the city proper of Paris have, but with skyscrapers cut from the same architectural cloth.
 
Old 09-25-2009, 07:16 PM
 
Location: Boston Metro
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Sao Paolo
 
Old 11-25-2013, 07:07 PM
 
Location: Like 2 hours away from New York City... In a rural area.
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You could try Singapore. The buildings are kind of weird, but they are all the same amount of weird (if you know what I mean). Anyway, I think it blends together pretty well. Either way, it looks nice.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...anorama_v2.jpg
 
Old 11-25-2013, 07:34 PM
 
Location: Medfid
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Maybe Vancouver and/or Miami?
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