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No matter how you cut it, Houston's skyline is massive even when compared to Atlanta.
I wouldn't say that. Atlanta has distinct clusters in Sandy Springs, Buckhead, and Midtown/Downtown. You can view an aerial of the 3 clusters at 0:28 below:
Yeah, Austin is building faster and taller than any city its size in the US. By 2030, it should have in the range of 70-80 skyscrapers completed over 300 feet.
That puts Austin in the top 10-12 US cities for total number of skyscrapers over 300 feet. It will be rivaling cities like Philadelphia, and overtaking cities like Denver and Boston.
Philly is throwing up towers like crazy, but currently Boston has more +500' buildings and +300' than Philly. It's just capped out on absolute height due to FAA.
300 meters is the international threshold for supertalls, so going off that; New York has supertalls, Chicago has supertalls, Houston has supertalls, Los Angeles has supertalls, Atlanta has a supertall, San Francisco has a supertall, and Philadelphia has a supertall. Austin and Miami are each constructing a supertall (the tallest in their respective states) and the pipeline could have more supertalls in store for both cities beyond that.
So all in all 6 U.S. states currently have at least one supertall tower; New York, Illinois, Texas, California, Georgia, and Pennsylvania. With Florida poised to soon join that list as the 7th state. That makes it 9 U.S. cities and 7 states in total.
I wouldn't say that. Atlanta has distinct clusters in Sandy Springs, Buckhead, and Midtown/Downtown. You can view an aerial of the 3 clusters at 0:28 below:
And Houston has more areas of clusters than Atlanta with large amounts of buildings. I think Atlanta has an impressive collection of buildings, it's just not as large of a collection as what Houston has.
And Houston has more areas of clusters than Atlanta with large amounts of buildings. I think Atlanta has an impressive collection of buildings, it's just not as large of a collection as what Houston has.
The sheer volume of tall buildings in the Houston metro is very impressive, but I don't know that the skyline is overly striking. In my opinion it's bland architecturally and skyscrapers are too spread out to provide an overwhelming feeling of density.
The sheer volume of tall buildings in the Houston metro is very impressive, but I don't know that the skyline is overly striking. In my opinion it's bland architecturally and skyscrapers are too spread out to provide an overwhelming feeling of density.
Atlanta's skyline is absolutely more interesting by a long shot, but the volume of buildings in Houston is very impressive.
If we're looking at buildings 300+ feet tall, this is the breakout for an assortment of listed (excluding Austin) and unlisted cities:
Charlotte - 35 (20 built in the last 8 years)
Nashville - 31 (20 built in the last 8 years)
Pittsburgh - 30
Cleveland - 21
Cincinnati - 18
Columbus - 17
St Louis - 17 (this includes the Arch)
Kansas City - 14
Louisville - 14
Milwaukee - 12 (14 if you include the Brewers Stadium and Casino well west of downtown)
Indianapolis - 12 (the most recently built building downtown is 290 feet tall)
OKC - 10
Toledo OH - 5
Lexington KY - 3
Fort Wayne - 3
Grand Rapids - 3
Seattle has 48 buildings over 400 feet, 13 under construction, and 5 approved for construction.
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LA actually has a very nice skyline, people just expect it to be bigger like Chicago and NYC being that it is such an important city.
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