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View Poll Results: Detroit skyline - Pre or post Ren Cen?
Pre Ren Cen 5 29.41%
Post ren Cen 12 70.59%
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Old 11-05-2013, 02:14 AM
 
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Detroit has a skyline? Wonder if the Canadians would call it that?
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Old 11-05-2013, 07:06 AM
 
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Detroit has a skyline? Wonder if the Canadians would call it that?
Aside from Toronto, Calgary, and Montreal most Canadian city skylines are pretty mediocre in comparison with Detroit.
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Old 11-05-2013, 07:08 AM
 
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Your original picture was far from a skyline. The picture you just posted is much different looking than the original.

I still prefer the new skyline. Particularly when looking from Windsor. On my recent drive in from NYC my fiance said "Wait, THAT'S the Detroit skyline? How embarrassing." we are spoiled when it comes to skylines though.
Compared to NYC maybe, but compared to NYC just about any other entry is far from a skyline.

That older pic in the first post was an impressive skyline for Detroit when it was taken, I promise you. It may lose some of it's luster due to being an aerial shot, but there are a nice collection of tall buildings there. Again....for Detroit, not NYC.
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Old 11-05-2013, 08:40 AM
 
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This is my favorite view of the current skyline.....from the midtown vantage point. Nice and cohesive, thanks in large part to Cadillac Tower, which sits between Ren Cen and the rest of downtown.


This angle from the river, however, shows a huge gap between Ren Cen and the other buildings. I have always wished this space could be filled with at least one 40 story or higher building to not only connect the skyline from this angle, but to diminish the monstrous, overwhelming presence of Renaissance Center.
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Old 11-05-2013, 08:52 AM
 
Location: Chisago Lakes, Minnesota
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Aside from Toronto, Calgary, and Montreal most Canadian city skylines are pretty mediocre in comparison with Detroit.
Don't forget Vancouver. Fantastic skyline, although it lacks sorely in correlation with the older, art deco gems that Detroit has.
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Old 11-05-2013, 03:42 PM
 
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People have complained that the ren cen architecture "doesn't fit in" with the rest. I now believe it makes Detroit unique and immediately recognizable as opposed to other cities with a level of "sameness" in their architecture.
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Old 11-09-2013, 03:30 AM
 
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Aside from Toronto, Calgary, and Montreal most Canadian city skylines are pretty mediocre in comparison with Detroit.
Montreal's "skyline" looks like Buffalo, NY's. Canada in general is a joke.
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