Better skyline Houston or Dallas? (McKinney, Spring: interior, venue, job)

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by savanite

Let's switch some words and see if that makes a difference...

Note to Houston skyline fans. While tall, your skyline isn't pretty enough to compete with Dallas's...

You need some more pretty...

Tweedledum... Tweeted ee...

You say powtahto, I say powtahto...

I find both skylines interesting in their own way.

Its not really that pretty in the first place.

Texas Medical Center is more impressive than Downtown Dallas:
My photo


That view blocks 2/3 of the buildings in that skyline.

[savanite]

Originally Posted by annie_himself

Its not really that pretty in the first place.

Texas Medical Center is more impressive than Downtown Dallas:
My photo


That view blocks 2/3 of the buildings in that skyline.

Perhaps the Houston buildings are not that tall in the first place.

But we have agreed that they are taller than Dallas, albeit not that tall, and dallas is more pretty than Houston, albeit not that pretty.

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[savanite]

If the Houston buildings were shorter, then that would be better... There would be a more extensive downtown district in that city.

[Yokandyman]

Houston's Medical District (also included in the previous photo with downtown Houston doesn't make it anymore impressive in my opinion. Sometimes, less is more and that is just the case here... Dallas has it hands down.....

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by savanite

Perhaps the Houston buildings are not that tall in the first place.

But we have agreed that they are taller than Dallas, albeit not that tall, and dallas is more pretty than Houston, albeit not that pretty.

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Don't include me in that "we."

None of these skyline are noteworthy to the world. ...Yes even with the show "Dallas."

[savanite]

What I find impressive is an urban core where the high rise buildings go on and on, all the way to the horizon. Not just as in New York, but in many cities outside the US, such as Sao Paolo, Panama City, Santiago, Rio de Janiero.

By limiting the height of its downtown buildings, Dallas has extended the physical extent of its CBD, and supported a much larger urban footprint.

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by Yokandyman

Houston's Medical District (also included in the previous photo with downtown Houston doesn't make it anymore impressive in my opinion. Sometimes, less is more and that is just the case here... Dallas has it hands down.....

If less is more, Dallas wins everything.

[savanite]

Originally Posted by Yokandyman

Houston's Medical District (also included in the previous photo with downtown Houston doesn't make it anymore impressive in my opinion. Sometimes, less is more and that is just the case here... Dallas has it hands down.....

Now that is one pretty photo... Interesting because it is unexpected.

The opening credits of the Dallas TV show display a much narrower footprint, but that photo shows a massive and extended one.

[savanite]

My experience of Dallas is a set of high rise buildings in one continuous extent that go on for miles. Whereas in Houston, once I cross the freeway into Midtown, I'm in the middle of nowhere.

In fact, once I'm out of the small downtown loop, I'm in the middle of nowhere.

I judge a city's skyline not from a distance but from inside the high rise cluster.

[annie_himself]

Originally Posted by savanite

My experience of Dallas is a set of high rise buildings in one continuous extent that go on for miles. Whereas in Houston, once I cross the freeway into Midtown, I'm in the middle of nowhere.

In fact, once I'm out of the small downtown loop, I'm in the middle of nowhere.

I judge a city's skyline not from a distance but from inside the high rise cluster.

Moderator cut: not permitted per tos but Midtown, BBVA Stadium, and Washington Ave is the middle of nowhere?! I wouldn't even say that about Dallas!