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I think NYC and Chicago's skylines are awesome. I think Houston's is a little under appreciated. It's definitely one you have to see in person and from a ways away...
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I tried attaching pics (not really sure how to do that on this site). So, if it didn't work then...oh well...
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Can somebody tell me how to attach pics?
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Lovin these skyline pics btw! If NY, Chi, Seattle, et. al.
Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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I think NYC and Chicago's skylines are awesome. I think Houston's is a little under appreciated. It's definitely one you have to see in person and from a ways away...
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I tried attaching pics (not really sure how to do that on this site). So, if it didn't work then...oh well...
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Can somebody tell me how to attach pics?
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Lovin these skyline pics btw! If NY, Chi, Seattle, et. al.
For the 3rd tallest skyline in all of North America, it certainly IS very unappreciated.
Oh just right click on a picture from whatever, site you go on, then go to properties, highlight the URL then copy it, then on city-data respond to someone's post, and click on the icon at the top of the writing box with the yellow sky and mountains, and paste the URL that you copied, and it'll post the picture.
Miami- 3rd largest skyline by concentration of number of buildings.
Atlanta/Los Angeles- Each have one building taller than Houston's JP Morgan Chase Tower by 5 meters. But overall Houston's skyline is taller because it has many buildings taller than 250M which other cities can't compete with.
I hate how we haven't had a building boom in nearly 30 years. There was one starting due to Enron, but shortly after, they collapsed, and I guess with all hope of Houston's skyline getting more supertalls.
True. Even though it's not a super-tall, once MainPlace is built it ought to add a nice flair to downtown. I wish the Southwest Bank Tower had been built....that would've looked pretty sweet
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Southwest Bank Tower (what it would've looked like)
Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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True. Even though it's not a super-tall, once MainPlace is built it ought to add a nice flair to downtown. I wish the Southwest Bank Tower had been built....that would've looked pretty sweet
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Southwest Bank Tower (what it would've looked like)
^ I really wish they built it, it's a really cool design for a building plus it would've given Houston more skyline recognition.
Ahhh since 90% of the office space in downtown is now occupied, I hope this means that a mini building boom kicks back up in Houston. We could really use one.
^ I was skyping with my friend that co-owns/operates skyscraperpage.com and he told me that just a few days ago he got word that they're planning to build a building in downtown Houston. It'll be the 4th tallest building in Houston, a little bit taller than the Bank of America building.
That's pretty cool. It's in the proposal stage, but my friend told me it has a 95% chance of being approved, because of the decreasing available office space in downtown, and to attract more businesses from the outer metro area back into the core and as part of renovating the downtown.
1.) Colorful - the offices lit up at night that look like little stars are nice but I'm ready for some color in my skyline again. I miss Continental's blue glow and the Wedge building's neon green lights (that's right folks, Dallas got that idea from good ol' Houston)
2.) It better not be boxy. Yes, Houston's architecture is known for being sleek and modern but I think the next wave of modern architecture trends for CBDs is going to be a sail shape or some sort of...well, wave...
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