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I agree with your last paragraph, but again its semantics. While Houston is taller than say; LA or San Francisco, it doesnt have the density and urban fabric of those two yet. Of course SF more than LA.
You cant find aerial shots of Houston that look this dense and urban, because its not. Its really not a knock on Houston either, its a growing mega-city, but its not the end all be all that some claim.
SF - has far more buildings and more square footage than Htown
LA - while not quite as tall overall, seemingly far more dense.
Well, I never claimed that Houston is the end all be all skylines. I'm simply stating that in terms of high-rise Houston takes the cake over LA or SF, despite the lack of density in Houston. I'm simply speaking concerning the buildings that border the skyline. Houston has more of them.
Awesome pics, I agree totally. Its much much more impressive. People are easily impressed by the ones that stand out, but youve got to look below at whats going on.
I agree too... I like the urban density more over anything else. But still a skyline like Houston's doesn't fail to impress.
I agree too... I like the urban density more over anything else. But still a skyline like Houston's doesn't fail to impress.
I agree - Also powerful in many ways and I do like some of the architecture of the buildings; there is no perfect . Am curious if you just took the core CBD of each how they would rank in terms oh height/high-rises that might be a good density barometer. Though this thread is based on height above 90 meters, which is objective criteria. Honestly it is pretty impressive for cities like Houston/Dallas/Atlanta which encountered a building boom more recently to have established so much height and so many buildings.
Another thing on all this is the Philly skyline, until the mid 1980's there was a gentlemans agreement that no building would be built taller than William Penn a top the City Hall clock tower that is 540 ft, prior to 1984 I believe no building was taller. Philly actually added quite a bit to their skyline since then, and one now approved to go over 1,500 ft but to me although the skyline sticks out I think of these images when i think of Philadelphia (For some reason they all show with the same description but are different)
I agree too... I like the urban density more over anything else. But still a skyline like Houston's doesn't fail to impress.
No, you're conversation has been good. I love Houstons skyline, I just dont like over the top homerism. Others make some ridiculous statements that are just plain absurd.
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