Better skyline Houston or Dallas? (Henderson, Center: cemeteries, industry, looking for)

[ColdAilment]

Originally Posted by binkyman

Some people just like skyline porn. Reminds me of how my aunt use to butcher rabbits. She would distract them and then hit them over the head with a hammer. Most people are so distracted by tall skyscrapers that they can't even see the skyline. Again, I present this lessor endowed picture of the new downtown of Dallas with that being Uptown Dallas:

http://images.search.yahoo.com/image...hspart=visicom

To demonstrate the prowess of the new Dallas skyline, one which has been created by the melding of five skylines, one has to take a look at it from the middle.

With the spot of this picture being at the middle of an imaginary clock, proceeding sweeping around the dial, downtown Dallas, shown directly ahead towards the front, would be at 12:00, Victory Park would be located just out of sight to the right at 2:00, the Dallas Design District would be at 3:00, the Maple Corridor and Stemmons Corridor would be at the rear of this picture at 6:00, the Turtle Creek Business District would be at 7:00, Cityplace / West Village would be at 8:00, the State Thomas area would be at 9:00, and the Dallas Arts District would be at 11:00.

Here is the skyline of Dallas in pieces as it has grown to the extent that it rarely can be taken in as a whole:

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Here is downtown Dallas

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Here is the Turtle Creek area

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Here is CityPlace / West Village

I'm not going to include the rest of the skylines as I don't want to rub it in. Let's just say that if the skylines were people, Houston would be this:


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and the skyline of Dallas would look like this:

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Again, try to fathom the scale of development going on as Uptown Dallas spills into every surrounding neighborhood. Downtown Dallas is booming right now. Victory too has numerous projects under construction. The Dallas Design District has numerous apartments under construction. Apartment and office development is happening north along the Maple corridor. Two huge hospitals are being constructed in the Southwestern Medical District. Turtle Creek Village has a lot of developments as does the CityPlace / West Village area.

Uptown Dallas has lots of developments going on as well.

All of these projects are not just pie in the sky proposed developments. They are all real and are all under construction.

Surprisingly, about the only neighborhood next to Uptown not growing at the present time is the Dallas Arts District as the State Thomas area itself has maxed out.

You know, the skyline of Dallas is so massive and the amount of construction so incredible that the people are just getting sick of it! Indeed, the people of Dallas have become more caring as human beings. They kind of remind me of people from Paris which is also a city with a low rise downtown outside of all that messy tall crap they have out in that so-called La Defence office park.

Dallas does have a beautiful skyline. However, after seeing your pictures I have noticed Dallas has no density! Most of these buildings are separated by hedges, wide streets, and expansive sidewalks; it's easily 400 feet between some of these skyscrapers. Doesn't have the same kind of feel when you're downtown and there's shade all around you from the towering and enclosed buildings.

[binkyman]

Originally Posted by JKAddict

This.
Also that luxury thread too.

No, don't close the luxury thread please. We are really beating up the Houston people in that one.

[TXT]

Originally Posted by binkyman

No, don't close the luxury thread please. We are really beating up the Houston people in that one.

...Albeit only in Dallas' own mind.

[binkyman]

Originally Posted by ColdAilment

Dallas does have a beautiful skyline. However, after seeing your pictures I have noticed Dallas has no density! Most of these buildings are separated by hedges, wide streets, and expansive sidewalks; it's easily 400 feet between some of these skyscrapers. Doesn't have the same kind of feel when you're downtown and there's shade all around you from the towering and enclosed buildings.

Indeed, even downtown Dallas is developing to be more like a suburb at the central core of Dallas. I was reading recently that a huge Macy's is going to be demolished in downtown Houston. If that Macy's were in downtown Dallas, it would be converted over into residential. Believe it or not, it is the central core of Dallas that is shaping up to be more like the central core of Chicago and not Houston's. There is a lot of dimension to what is happening around Uptown Dallas and all those neighborhoods that surround it which accounts for about nine square miles.

But in Dallas, the retail doesn't develop around skyscrapers, but skyscrapers develop around retail. And retail has yet to reformulate in the central core area, but looks to be doing so along a stretch from Rosewood's upscale developments at the heart of Uptown, past West Village in CityPlace, and up into the Knox Park area. This could develop into something akin to a poor man's magnificent mile.

Indeed, the people of Dallas are still too downtown-centric. They can't see that the doors have been blown off. Really, Uptown Dallas has become the new downtown of Dallas as it has become the principle neighborhood spilling over into all the other neighborhoods next to it including downtown Dallas.

[dallasboi]

Originally Posted by ColdAilment

Dallas does have a beautiful skyline. However, after seeing your pictures I have noticed Dallas has no density! Most of these buildings are separated by hedges, wide streets, and expansive sidewalks; it's easily 400 feet between some of these skyscrapers. Doesn't have the same kind of feel when you're downtown and there's shade all around you from the towering and enclosed buildings.

No Density?!?.......

[binkyman]

Originally Posted by will christie

of course houston has a better skyline, they ***** their air quality out to big oil companies for their own profits and the result is you get huge skyscrapers in the central business district that the plebeians get to gaze upon!


thanks for posting my photo! it's a telephoto shot looking up at the skyline so the 5 huge skyscrapers seem much closer together and everything appears taller than it is.

Most of what downtown Houston is concerning those skyscrapers were built way back in the 80's. Most are thirty to forty years old. I think some people like old skylines just like they tend to like old people. In contrast, the skyline of Dallas is a refurbished modern one. It is better fitted to advance in the Internet age.

In contrast, downtown Houston is better fitted to sink:

Houston Floods 1 | Dave Rossman Photography

The above image is a picture of the flooded gateway into a flooded Houston which happens about every seven years.

Click here for High Resolution Click here for High Resolution

This above image is of the Port of Downtown Campus of University of Houston

Tropical Storm Allison-10 Years Later | Texas Hurricane

The above image says it all. I must admit that there is no more awesome sight than riding through downtown Houston when class five rapids are tearing through its deep canyons before shooting you out through the world's largest ship channel into the over flowing waters of the Gulf of Mexico!

[Truth713]

Originally Posted by binkyman

Most of what downtown Houston is concerning those skyscrapers were built way back in the 80's. Most are thirty to forty years old. I think some people like old skylines just like they tend to like old people. In contrast, the skyline of Dallas is a refurbished modern one. It is better fitted to advance in the Internet age.

In contrast, downtown Houston is better fitted to sink:

Houston Floods 1 | Dave Rossman Photography

The above image is a picture of the flooded gateway into a flooded Houston which happens about every seven years.

Click here for High Resolution Click here for High Resolution

This above image is of the Port of Downtown Campus of University of Houston

Tropical Storm Allison-10 Years Later | Texas Hurricane

The above image says it all. I must admit that there is no more awesome sight than riding through downtown Houston when class five rapids are tearing through its deep canyons before shooting you out through the world's largest ship channel into the over flowing waters of the Gulf of Mexico!

Houston has those class of stroms one every 15- 20 yrs like , any other major city(New york. L.a etc)

see the real problem is Dallas delunsional state that they are so above Houston, yet in every poll outside of a Texas tread.. this is never the case.. They brag about this and that till you get into the bare numbers, then they run to the DFW to sup up their numbers..

Here is How it goes" Dallas has X over Houston. then you show the data that shows no it does not and they follow back with" you are not including the numbers of the DFW !!"

Here it is Is Dallas ahead of Houston in one or two things sure, Just as Houston is ahead in something.. Is Dallas so far ahead of Houston as poster like blinkyman would have you belive"light years") hell no.. that is why Dallas does not lead in any threads outside of the Texas forums.. where outsiders get to voice their view..
That is something Dallas tells itself but no one outside of Dallas agrees with

[dollaztx]

Originally Posted by dallasboi

No Density?!?.......

I didn't even bother to reply to him. It just shows he hasn't been to Dallas since at least 2000.

[binkyman]

Originally Posted by Truth713

Houston has those class of stroms one every 15- 20 yrs like , any other major city(New york. L.a etc)

see the real problem is Dallas delunsional state that they are so above Houston, yet in every poll outside of a Texas tread.. this is never the case.. They brag about this and that till you get into the bare numbers, then they run to the DFW to sup up their numbers..

Here is How it goes" Dallas has X over Houston. then you show the data that shows no it does not and they follow back with" you are not including the numbers of the DFW !!"

Here it is Is Dallas ahead of Houston in one or two things sure, Just as Houston is ahead in something.. Is Dallas so far ahead of Houston as poster like blinkyman would have you belive"light years") hell no.. that is why Dallas does not lead in any threads outside of the Texas forums.. where outsiders get to voice their view..
That is something Dallas tells itself but no one outside of Dallas agrees with

Actually, Houston averages those rain drenching tropical disturbances about every seven years. There are Hurricanes that hit the area about every twenty-five years and many that also skirt the area like Rita bringing high winds. And it has been reported that there are more tornadoes in Harris county than any other county within the United States. But they tend to be on the small size.

There was a top secret Hurricane that hit the Houston area during World War Two that was never reported because the government didn't want the Germans to find out about it.

I worked through Alicia. That storm tore down a lot of trees and blew a lot of glass out of downtown Houston. Six months after that, an incredible super cell tore through town with an incredible force spawning what meteorologists reported to be as many as 200 tornadoes rotating at tree top level. I remember that storm because it also tore down huge numbers of trees which were all piled up along the streets.

[Truth713]

Originally Posted by binkyman

Actually, Houston averages those rain drenching tropical disturbances about every seven years. There are Hurricanes that hit the area about every twenty-five years and many that also skirt the area like Rita bringing high winds. And it has been reported that there are more tornadoes in Harris county than any other county within the United States. But they tend to be on the small size.

There was a top secret Hurricane that hit the Houston area during World War Two that was never reported because the government didn't want the Germans to find out about it.

I worked through Alicia. That storm tore down a lot of trees and blew a lot of glass out of downtown Houston. Six months after that, an incredible super cell tore through town with an incredible force spawning what meteorologists reported to be as many as 200 tornadoes rotating at tree top level. I remember that storm because it also tore down huge numbers of trees which were all piled up along the streets.

again How does this differ from most major cities that get hit with natural probelms every few years ? It has never effected Houston ability to function and second Houston has shown the ablity to fully recover with months.. This is nothing new to us