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If you’re an architecture nerd correct. But layman’s the Hancock and Pru from Cambridge across the Charles is 100% the most famous skyline shot from either city.
I think that's a pretty bold statement. There's really nothing to substantiate that.
I think you, like some other Boston posters here, are very much overestimating the knowledge that the average American has about the the city's skyline. I find that to be pretty separate from its profile, honestly.
People who've been to Boston before are probably more likely to remember, but as it's been alluded to by many, the skyline is probably one of the most forgettable aspects of the city.
I think that's a pretty bold statement. There's really nothing to substantiate that.
I think you, like some other Boston posters here, are very much overestimating the knowledge that the average American has about the the city's skyline. I find that to be pretty separate from its profile, honestly.
People who've been to Boston before are probably more likely to remember, but as it's been alluded to by many, the skyline is probably one of the most forgettable aspects of the city.
The crux of literally every Philly vs Boston/SF/DC etc thread is always “Philly isn’t actually lacking <whatever people say city has> it’s just ignored”
Now I say Philly doesn’t lack substance is lacks recognition (in a thread about recognition not substance) and I’m done delusional Boston Poster?
The crux of literally every Philly vs Boston/SF/DC etc thread is always “Philly isn’t actually lacking <whatever people say city has> it’s just ignored”
Now I say Philly doesn’t lack substance is lacks recognition (in a thread about recognition not substance) and I’m done delusional Boston Poster?
Honestly wasn't what I was trying to say. You're not delusional. I'm just saying that profile and the skyline are separate in my book.
Boston does have a higher profile in terms of overall recognition, that's objectively true in a number of ways. I'm just saying it's not because of its skyline.
Definitely Philly with its two Comcost towers and Liberty Place twins; City Hall isn't always visible from afar but you can get some spectacular sightlines once in the city. Boston gets points for the Back Bay skyline but from nearly almost every other vantage point, Boston's skyline is surprisingly nondescript.
Dome? Where? Just as you can't pick out Philadelphia City Hall from many skyline views, I think you have to get really close to Beacon Hill for the Massachusetts State House dome to become identifiable in the Boston skyline. I sure can't find it in the photo you were commenting about; the closest thing to one is the shallow ziggurat topping the old John Hancock Insurance Company building just to the left of the John Hancock Tower in the Back Bay.[/quote]
See the above photo. To the left of the tallest building there's a dome with some sort of antenna sticking out of the top. IDK the name of the domed building. I'm not very familiar with Boston. Have passed by it on my way north but never had reason to visit.
Dome? Where? Just as you can't pick out Philadelphia City Hall from many skyline views, I think you have to get really close to Beacon Hill for the Massachusetts State House dome to become identifiable in the Boston skyline. I sure can't find it in the photo you were commenting about; the closest thing to one is the shallow ziggurat topping the old John Hancock Insurance Company building just to the left of the John Hancock Tower in the Back Bay.
See the above photo. To the left of the tallest building there's a dome with some sort of antenna sticking out of the top. IDK the name of the domed building. I'm not very familiar with Boston. Have passed by it on my way north but never had reason to visit.[/quote]
You left out a [quote] tag, but you have the answer to your question in my response (above) to BBMM's prior post:
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Originally Posted by MarketStEl
the closest thing to one is the shallow ziggurat topping the old John Hancock Insurance Company building just to the left of the John Hancock Tower in the Back Bay
What appears to be a dome in that photo is actually a series of stepped-back floors at the top of the old (1947) John Hancock Insurance Company headquarters building.
The one actual dome I know about in Boston is the gold one topping the original (1795) wing of the Massachusetts State House on Beacon Hill. (The Charles Bulfinch structure is one of my favorite state capitol buildings, up there with Ohio's, Maryland's, Delaware's and New Mexico's. Of the Washington clones, Pennsylvania's is the most elegant.)
I attended college in Cambridge and lived in the Boston area for seven years in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
I think that's a pretty bold statement. There's really nothing to substantiate that.
I think you, like some other Boston posters here, are very much overestimating the knowledge that the average American has about the the city's skyline. I find that to be pretty separate from its profile, honestly.
People who've been to Boston before are probably more likely to remember, but as it's been alluded to by many, the skyline is probably one of the most forgettable aspects of the city.
The signature Boston sight lines aren’t office towers. The Citgo sign beyond the Green Monster at Fenway Park is probably the best known nationally. The view of the Charles River where the buildings are the MIT campus across the river. Philly is kind of the same way. City Hall and Independence Hall are what people know. It’s not like Manhattan where skyscrapers are the feature. Personally, I like that about the two cities.
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