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From the South or Southwest an ultrawide lenses is needed to fit Philadelphia's skyline expanse (including University City). Similar to the picture Duderino just posted, but extend river to river, plus U City. And I am not dogging Boston's skyline, I just find Philadelphia's more impressive and recognizable, but agree to disagree.
And Philadelphia's City Hall is the world's largest free standing masonry building, a unique trait. And (as you know) features the prominent 23' statue of William Penn at the top.
And I included Philadelphia City Hall because it's over 500' tall, and the thread said feel free to include prominent or iconic buildings, and many skyline angles and post-cards feature Philadelphia's iconic City Hall.
I’m not dogging the skyline it’s till nice it’s just not as expansive and I find the buildings to be a little more monotonous.
its obvious more people recognize it but it’s just shocking to me- I know Philly’s skyline well and sometimes confuse it with Atlanta until I see the peach tree plaza.
I think basically each of the big three towers being very different stylistically is awesome. The Fido area is pretty weak and crowded but damn if there aren’t some unique buildings there too most notably the federal reserve building, R2D2 building, and Two International place. All of those building seem a good deal more distinctive than what I’ve seen in Philly.
I think each city's tallest towers are pretty darn distinctive. They were all designed to be "signature" and are all pretty recognizable--to me at least as a skyline nerd.
I think it just comes down to what a person values more, height or expanse.
If I ranked skylines it’s be like NYC CHI LA SEA MIA BOS ATL PHI. It doesn’t do much for me.idk this makes me feel crazy because I don’t see it at all… but everyone else does.
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Originally Posted by BostonBornMassMade
its obvious more people recognize it but it’s just shocking to me- I know Philly’s skyline well and sometimes confuse it with Atlanta until I see the peach tree plaza.
Since you brought up Atlanta, that skyline loses points for me because it lacks the density that Philadelphia and Boston have, which I consider an important skyline trait. And that is the case for most "newer" skylines (Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, etc.).
Anyways back on topic before the ATL police show up.
I've been to Boston and I would not be able to recognize it if someone showed me a picture. To me, it could easily be mistaken for any somewhat large city on a body of water.
I wouldn't be able to recognize Philly either. Though I would probably be able to guess it in a few tries because its skyline is so big and dense.
I actually think Boston has one of the most underwhelming skyline for a legacy city it's size.
Really? I'll admit that it's hard to get all of it in one photo because it's vaguely built in a straight line, but the angles that get it show that it's pretty darn expansive:
Really? I'll admit that it's hard to get all of it in one photo because it's vaguely built in a straight line, but the angles that get it show that it's pretty darn expansive:
^Vaguely 3-3.5miles from the tower all the way on the right to the one far in the back on the left.
This is easily surprising poll regarding Boston I've ever seen on C-D. The margin is crazy to me. I'm triple-checking the skyline over here.
But alas even that image you posted misses a lot of the skyline.
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