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I don't know, I think our skyline is more impressive simply for the fact that our buildings and bridges are more interesting, and the setting on a great lake AND a river make it a beautiful blend of natural and man made beauty. Plus we have the tallest building in the midwest outside of Chicago. To me there is nothing that really stands out in the Minneapolis skyline. It's pretty generic.
Anyway, here's the newest addition to our skyline.
This is the newest building, but several buildings in our skyline that have been vacant are also being converted into apartments, and hotels. We also have a 30+ story convention center hotel in the works.
How, may I ask, do bridges have anything to do with the skyline? Even so, Cleveland has a few interesting bridges, yes, mainly the Main Ave. Bridge (which is structurally deficient, sadly) and the Detroit/Superior Bridge (which is one of the coolest bridges in the Midwest). You have a few unused lift bridges, which are decent, and some other generic but decent looking truss bridges, but the remainder of the bridges in the Cleveland area are simple, fairly ugly decks held up by cylindrical cement piers. The bridges in Cleveland are larger than the bridges in Minneapolis-St. Paul, but the main reason for that, especially in Downtown, is that they have to be large because they have to span over the massive industrial wasteland that surrounds the Cuyahoga river. They technically could be just as small, if not smaller, than the bridges here, but the city planners obviously didn't want the major roads cutting through all of that.
I decided not to include the truss railroad bridges, lift bridge, or under construction bridges in order to save space. I also did not include the pictures of the couple of generic ugly bridges though, also, because Minneapolis and St. Paul of course have some of those too.
You're welcome, glad I could add a little levity to your day. Perhaps my analogy wasn't totally appropriate, but my point was that Minneapolis has a rather unexciting, generic skyline, that while nice, does not really stand out among the crowd. And the IDS tower is one of the ugliest skyscrapers I've ever seen. Cleveland's historic Terminal Tower is far nicer than any of the buildings in the Minneapolis skyline. Cleveland's Key Tower is far taller than anything in the Twin Cities (947 ft vs 792 ft), and Cleveland's multitude of bridges are on par with anything in the twin cities.
I agree, the terminal tower is probably one of the best skyscrapers in the Midwest. And remember, before you get to cocky over your Key Tower (Which, by the way, one tall building does not equate to a nice skyline) was designed to be built in Minneapolis. We got the Wells Fargo (Norwest) Tower instead, which I am glad for.
Cleveland has two really great buildings, the Key Tower and the Terminal Tower, which almost completely dominate the entire skyline. Beyond those, the remainder of the buldings are almost completely nondescript boxes. I don't see how you can say that Minneapolis has a generic skyline when Cleveland's is almost completely composed of box shaped towers, with your 4th, 5th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 13th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th tallest buildings all being boxes. That is 13 out of Cleveland's 20 tallest buildings that are boxes, and 3 near-boxes. The remaining 4 buildings in the skyline consist of 3 unique buildings, and 1 historic building. How is that so much better than Minneapolis?
Minneapolis' list of 35 tallest buildings only contains 6 boxes, and 6 near boxes. That leaves 23 buildings that do not have a simple box design. How is that unexciting and generic?
Also, your point about the height of the Key Tower is great, but that is the height of one building. Cleveland has 4 buildings over 500 feet, Minneapolis has 8. Cleveland has 18 buildings over 300 feet, Minneapolis has 36.
1. Minneapolis(Great skyline, very modern, just lots of tall buildings
2. Detroit(The ford towers give the skyline some uniqueness, it could be better
3. Cincinnati(The historic buildings are unique, dense amount of buildings
4. St. Louis(Only reason its even 4th is because of the arch without it would be last place
5. Kansas City(Not very tall but a bit dense, good amount looks modern to me
6. Cleveland(spread out not very dense, not unique
7. Indianapolis(Its okay, not unique
8. Columbus(Again not unique spread out
PS Boosters from Cleveland your skyline is not unique, it looks similar to Indy and Columbus to be quite honest, i find it ridiculous that your trying to even compare Minneapolis to Cleveland.
hahahaha...It is amazing how humble people from Detroit are. 45 pages and I think there was only 1 person from Detroit who just explained the architecture of Detroit's buildings. While as usual, people from other cities come online screaming and clamoring about how great each of their city's are. So let me be the fist Detroit homer after 447 posts to come to the defense of Motown. I disgree with people who say the Renaissance Center doesn't belong and makes the city skyline look odd. I think that it is actually cool and it shows a continuum from the past to the future.
Those are beautiful, I don't care what people say about how much crap Detroit is, yeah the city might be having some struggles, but Detroit is a city with so much history, culture and has so much influence into today's world.
PS Boosters from Cleveland your skyline is not unique, it looks similar to Indy and Columbus to be quite honest, i find it ridiculous that your trying to even compare Minneapolis to Cleveland.
It is their MO. Whatever the question, the answer is Cleveland. It is ridiculous, really.
Those are beautiful, I don't care what people say about how much crap Detroit is, yeah the city might be having some struggles, but Detroit is a city with so much history, culture and has so much influence into today's world.
How are you going to say that Detroit is so beautiful when Cleveland's architecture is pretty similar? There are many angles at which you can look at a skyline, and depending on the angle it can appear more or less dense. For instance:
Cleveland
Minneapolis
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