Most Powerful Skyline in the U.S. (best, place, America)
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NYC for first hands down, Chicago a distant second, Miami a distant third. From there it would be more difficult.
Pittsburgh has 19 votes, the 3rd largest total? Just more proof that the people in this godforsaken city haven't really ever ventured outside of their hometown...
NYC for first hands down, Chicago a distant second, Miami a distant third. From there it would be more difficult.
Pittsburgh has 19 votes, the 3rd largest total? Just more proof that the people in this godforsaken city haven't really ever ventured outside of their hometown...
Miami's skyline is just too unoriginal and bland to me.
Are you kidding me. NYC is way more diverse than Chicago. You need to do more research before you make your acusations. NYC has the largest collection of individual, free-standing office and residential towers in the world. We have art deco, goth, modern, post modern, post war, etc. And please it took you guys long enough to get up to the height of us.
Ur list of tallest buildings is off. Why did you only name the top 6 and why not the top 10. Anyway you said by what they did with thier skyline so we are getting way more buildings that are architectually better and tall.
We are getting more tall buildings than a any city in the Country Especially Chicago.
Fredoom Tower 1,776 ft
Madison Square Garden Tower 1 and 2 1,400 ft
2WTC 1,350 ft
Hudson Place Tower 1 1,300 ft
3WTC 1,255 ft
Tower Verre 1,250 ft
Manhattan West Tower 1,216 ft
15 Penn Plaza 1,198 ft
Hudson Place Tower 3 1,080 ft
World Product Center 1,011 ft
Girasole 1,000 ft
4WTC 975 ft
Manhattan West Tower 2 935 ft
Four Seasons Hotel and Condominiums 912 ft
Beekman Place Tower 876 ft
708 First Avenue Tower 864 ft
68 First Avenue 836 ft
56 Leonard Street 796 ft
360 Tenth Avenue 774 ft
130 Libert Street 743 ft
Goldman Sachs New World Headquarters 740 ft
50 West Street 709 ft
and 22 buildings between 600-700 ft
1. The Freedom tower isn't taller than the sears tower, it just has a HUGE spire soaring 400 ft into the air.
2. The Spire will pass the Freedom tower anyway
3. Those are proposed buildings, not ones under construction. I could find you a list of proposed buildings in Chicago that would be just as long.
Maybe YOU should check your facts before you post. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones eh?
Pittsburg's skyline works with the city's sense of place at the forks of the Ohio and places the city firmly in it's historic context. When I look at the skyline I think of Fort Duquesne and Captain Beaujeu and Charles Langlade stripped down and painted leading their Chippewas and Ottawas from the pays den haute against Bradddock, of Grant and his Highlanders massacred above the fort and of Ecuyler holding Fort Pitt against the Senacas and Shawnees and Bouquet marching to the rescue.
I think of the opening of a new land, of people crossing the mountains to spread west to subdue forest and prarie. And thinking of the prarie I think of Chicago and it's magnifcent skyline on a cold inland sea and my thoughts go to Marquette and Minivavana and lonely canoes travelling gray waters.
The freedom tower isn't just about how tall it is--it's about what it represents to America, and especially us NYers.
I understand that, but I hate how NYC tries to victimize themselves with 9/11. It happened to all of us. You cant just say the Freedom tower ESPECIALLY represent New Yorkers, when it represents the freedom of Americans. But I get what saying, its not all about its height.
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I understand that, but I hate how NYC tries to victimize themselves with 9/11. It happened to all of us. You cant just say the Freedom tower ESPECIALLY represent New Yorkers, when it represents the freedom of Americans. But I get what saying, its not all about its height.
If you experienced 9/11 firsthand and grew up seeing the WTC, you'd feel differently.
If you experienced 9/11 firsthand and grew up seeing the WTC, you'd feel differently.
No, I'd feel the same. It doesn't matter if I grew up in NYC, Hawaii, or Alaska. The point is that we're all American's. You can't pick and choose how people are going to feel based on their location in the country. If that were the case, why wouldn't New York, Washing D.C, and Pennsylvania be at war with Afghanistan instead of the whole country? Probably because we are one nation, undivided . What happens to you in New York, has the same effect on me here in Chicago, and I mean on a national level of course.
But the whole sympathizes for NYC is crap, its the new race card. You can't say anything about NYC because of 9/11, and I don't mean this about you necessarily so don't get defensive about it, but I'm just saying some New Yorkers use 9/11 as an excuse.
Isn't it a bit unfair to include NYC and Chicago with all of these cities that pale in comparison to size?
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. What happens to you in New York, has the same effect on me here in Chicago, and I mean on a national level of course.