Skyline competition: San Francisco vs Toronto (best, state, better, places)

[nature's message]

Out of the two cities chosen, which has the better skyline??

San Francisco
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1..._skyline_3.jpg
http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq23/Grosvenor_Michael/San%20Francisco%20Week%201/IMG_0202.jpg (broken link)

Toronto
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...o/IMG_0356.jpg
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...s/IMG_0673.jpg

[analyticalkeys]

Going with SF here.. just looks overall more impressive to me.

[noid_1985]

Toronto

[Jwo85]

San Francisco.

If someone can post a pic of theToronto skyline with the CN towers lights on at night time, i think it would help out. It looks really nice when they have that backdrop on Hockey Night In Canada.

[Normal Heights]

San Francisco skyline only looks great and impresive cause of those hills it's sits on. Toronto has the real skyline.

[MantaRay]

Normal Heights, you are absolutely correct. Telegraph Hill and Russian Hill, as well as the greenery that comes with those hills, is what sets San Francisco above other cities' skyline and in my book elevates it to best in the US. Another facet that those hills brings is the contrast between the tall buildings in the financial district and the smaller hillside buildings, which almost have a mediterranean feel as they "roll" down the hills towards the bay.

Because of that, I think SF beats Toronto, whose skyline is just a bunch of buildings sticking up out of flat land. That unique spike rising out of the Toronto skyline adds enough unique visual interest to help it top a very many cities, but it simply can't compete with SF and its two hills, Transamerica Pyramid, Bay, and (in some pics) mountains in the background.

I think Toronto's best picture is the first one you posted (thanks for that), but it looks like winter, and the skyline would be a lot more impressive in the spring or summer when all those bleak bare trees at the foot of the skyline have lush green seen in nature's message's 1st Toronto pick. Your pic with lush green added would, IMO, put the Toronto skyline ahead of places like Philly and Boston. But still not ahead of SF with Telegraph and Russian Hills.

[Normal Heights]

Originally Posted by MantaRay

Normal Heights, you are absolutely correct. Telegraph Hill and Russian Hill, as well as the greenery that comes with those hills, is what sets San Francisco above other cities' skyline and in my book elevates it to best in the US. Another facet that those hills brings is the contrast between the tall buildings in the financial district and the smaller hillside buildings, which almost have a mediterranean feel as they "roll" down the hills towards the bay.

Because of that, I think SF beats Toronto, whose skyline is just a bunch of buildings sticking up out of flat land. That unique spike rising out of the Toronto skyline adds enough unique visual interest to help it top a very many cities, but it simply can't compete with SF and its two hills, Transamerica Pyramid, Bay, and (in some pics) mountains in the background.

I think Toronto's best picture is the first one you posted (thanks for that), but it looks like winter, and the skyline would be a lot more impressive in the spring or summer when all those bleak bare trees at the foot of the skyline have lush green seen in nature's message's 1st Toronto pick. Your pic with lush green added would, IMO, put the Toronto skyline ahead of places like Philly and Boston. But still not ahead of SF with Telegraph and Russian Hills.

You have made a valid claim. San Francisco skyline still piques my interest and I find it's natural beauty amazing, but it still doesn't have the same magnitude of density as Toronto.

[analyticalkeys]

Originally Posted by Normal Heights

^^^^^Are you kidding me San Francisco skyline more IMPRESSIVE!!!! I DON'T THINK SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just my opinion, doesn't have to be yours.

[jessemh431]

Toronto, but as a city, SF.

[US-Traveller]

Pretty tough for me. I pick San Francisco because of the overall landscape and skyline. San Francisco has much better architecture. San Francisco's waterfront is much better than Toronto's. San Francisco has much more unique and varied terrain, while Toronto's terrain is that of the midwestern United States. Toronto's got the height, but San Francisco's got the class.