Here are some pictures from the city of Ghent in Belgium.

http://forum.fotoapparatuur.net/album_pic.php?pic_id=3937
Boekentoren - Booktower

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v291/giergel/Dscf2004.jpg
Back of the old Post building which is now a shopping centre.

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v291/giergel/Brussel/Nord/Gentsetorens.jpg
The three famous towers in Ghent. St Niklaaskerk, Belfort and St. Baafskathedraal

http://forum.fotoapparatuur.net/album_pic.php?pic_id=3989

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v291/giergel/select4.jpg
Back of the Lieven Bauwens building

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v291/giergel/select.jpg

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v291/giergel/Dscf2175.jpg

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v291/giergel/Dscf2184.jpg
View on St. Pietersabdij, Vooruit and Boekentoren

i really love the city and te history but the skyline issn't impresive 6,5/10

the skyline is beautiful with a lot of towers,and the historic buildings are wonderful too.
8.0/10

:cheers:

Very nice!

great nightpics taken by Jan a few days ago :eek:

http://skyscrapercity.com/database/buildings.02/2597.jpg

http://skyscrapercity.com/database/buildings.02/2598.jpg

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http://skyscrapercity.com/database/buildings.02/2600.jpg

http://skyscrapercity.com/database/buildings.02/2601.jpg

http://skyscrapercity.com/database/buildings.02/2602.jpg

http://skyscrapercity.com/database/buildings.02/2635.jpg

http://skyscrapercity.com/database/buildings.02/2633.jpg

http://skyscrapercity.com/database/buildings.02/2632.jpg

Can't find much of a skyline, but te city is quite nice anyways. 6.5/10

nice! but there are no high modern buildings
7

Nice historical buildings .. but only a few modern high-rise buildings and it's not tall !!

Beautiful city !! 7/10

up

I've seen some higrise from the highway(Antwerp-Lille). But it was not so spectacular.
But the old buildings are beautifull.

Great old city and modern city 9,5/10

9.5/10

Nice city but mediocre skyline: 6/10

Nice city but mediocre skyline: 6/10

Agree.

8/10 beautifull city

what a nice city, although it hasn't a real skyline.. 6.5 is my vote

Its much better than I expected it to be - 8

10/10 nice

nice! but there are no high modern buildings
7

Do you think it would look nice if they had modern highrise in between of these old beauties??
This city is just wonderful, one of Belgiums finest

8/10

8/10

9/10

Love this city, I had the pleasure to visit it in October 1999. It amazed me...

Nice city but what we're rating here is the skyline so, 5.5/10

Cool architecture but not much of a skyline. 4.5

The towers of Gent form one of the the most impressive historical skylines in Europe: 9/10

looks good 7.5

My first name (Genc) is a derivation of the name Gent. :)

9/10 for this charming city.

wow 10/10 for the city, the architecture is exceptional. 7/10 for skyline

Mooi!

Another pearl in Belgium. Beautiful. Historical skyline 10/10. Alltogether: 6/10

10.. Just for the architecture ;)

8/10- i think skyscrapers would ruin this beautiful city.

Nice historical buildings .. but only a few modern high-rise buildings and it's not tall !!

Beautiful city !! 7/10
Indeed :cheers: .

8/10

Can't find much of a skyline

Maybe this is closer to being a skyline photo?

http://i22.tinypic.com/257k3dv.jpg

<There's only one modern tall building, and that's the "Boekentoren" (Book Tower), built in the 1930s - it's the one the most to the right. Most modern talls have been constructed/are planned well outside the city centre - to preserve the historic skyline.>

I'm not rating. I live there :|

nice architectures, Ghent should try to preserve these rather than building modern buildings, or build them in another district of Ghent.
9/10

9.5

7 for the historical buildings

7/10

This pic is more complete:


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Beautiful city!

9 for the historic skyline

2 additions:

http://i18.tinypic.com/85oixhz.jpg

http://i4.tinypic.com/7x9yz2e.jpg

Pictures by Snot.

6.5/10

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:D

From a certain distance. Shows that the skyline isn't very tall. The only structure that exceeds the 100+ limit is a smokestack that belongs to a power plant (in the city centre!).

http://i32.tinypic.com/2yuzh1l.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/thiwenquicha/2267252538/)
Photo by thiwenquicha (http://www.flickr.com/photos/thiwenquicha/)

The core of the skyline: 3 old towers in a row.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/99/307946888_e4b1c8bf61_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeronimo/307946888/)
Photo by Jeronimo (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeronimo/)

extremely flat, no skyscrapers or high rises at all, 2-3/10

^^ "Extremely flat"??

Indeed, there are no modern highrises/skyscrapers in this skyline, but that doesn't mean the skyline is flat, or does it? Just take a look at the first pic on this page. The world is a bit older than the Empire State Building, you know. I mean, since when does "skyline" equal "20th/21st century"... and nothing else?

7/10

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http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y60/iehduery/BoekentorenGentPanorama.jpg
by giergel



http://i30.tinypic.com/23lzkf6.jpg
by snot

http://www.gentblogt.be/wp-content/jo%20137.jpg

http://www.gentblogt.be/wp-content/20051027_Gent.jpg

great nightpics taken by Jan a few days ago :eek:

http://skyscrapercity.com/database/buildings.02/2597.jpg

http://skyscrapercity.com/database/buildings.02/2598.jpg

http://skyscrapercity.com/database/buildings.02/2599.jpg

http://skyscrapercity.com/database/buildings.02/2600.jpg

http://skyscrapercity.com/database/buildings.02/2601.jpg

http://skyscrapercity.com/database/buildings.02/2602.jpg

http://skyscrapercity.com/database/buildings.02/2635.jpg

http://skyscrapercity.com/database/buildings.02/2633.jpg

http://skyscrapercity.com/database/buildings.02/2632.jpg

Amazing pics :cheers: The skyline is great!
9/10 :)

6.0:)

8/10 like it.

Very nice city.

7.5/10

7/10

I love it 9/10

Skyline??? 4/10

City 6/10
Skyline 2/10

http://static.gallery.zoom.nl/images/3/7/4/3749/468/MgPSXc.jpg

6/10

8/10

8/10

6,5/10

10/10

5/10

6/10

6/10

7. Regards.

6.5/10

6/10

Such a beautiful city doesn't need a skyline! 9'5/10

Beautiful city. High rises would mar the skyline of this lovely place. The definition of skyline does not include glass towers. It is defied as an outline of land or buildings defined aganist the sky. 9.5/10

9.5 de tweede mooiste stad in belgie! sorry maar brugge is....

http://i871.photobucket.com/albums/ab272/Miike____/thibxl.jpg

http://i871.photobucket.com/albums/ab272/Miike____/Gent_in_May_by_deylac-1.jpg

http://i871.photobucket.com/albums/ab272/Miike____/like_a_buffalo_in_the_snow_by_bond70-d340na1.jpg

http://i871.photobucket.com/albums/ab272/Miike____/olakala.png

nice. :) 9/10

100/100

:rock:

beautiful city but empty of true skyline 1/10 for skyline

but 8/10 for medieval traditional style :)

final= 1/10

http://i1195.photobucket.com/albums/aa396/PappaGiorgio87/SkylineGentFull.jpg


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historic skyline 9/10; modern 0/10

over all 7 ;)

5/10

10/10

nice architectures, Ghent should try to preserve these rather than building modern buildings, or build them in another district of Ghent.
9/10

And guess what, they are :) The city's main railway station lies a couple of kilometers southwest of the old center, where that gothic skyline is. There's a masterplan that provides in 5 towers between 70 and 90 meters, which is pretty tall to local standards. And even more to the south, the former airfield is slowly being developed into a new business district. The same concept as Paris' La Défense, but obviously on a much smaller scale... One of the first realizations on the spot was a 119m tall office building.

I made this panorama in june 2011:



http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Puinkabouter/2011/06/panorama-2011-06-18-klein.jpg (http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Puinkabouter/2011/06/panorama-2011-06-18-groot.jpg)



^^ You can click on it to see a much larger version. You'll see the old skyline and some social housing blocks that lie in the west of the city on the left side of the picture. In the middle there's the station. At that time construction on a 90m office tower still had to start, but in the meantime the core is already halfway up. On the far right of the picture you'll see the 119m office building U/C. That one's finished, by the way.

You can find threads (in dutch) about these buildings here:



GENT : de Link | 90m | 22fl | U/C (2) (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1496871)
SINT-DENIJS : KBC-Arteveldetoren | 119m | 24fl | T/O (3) (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1378687)




Neither of them will impact the old skyline. It's pretty likely that in a couple of years' time, Ghent will have 3 small skylines (old town, station area, old airfield), that will only seem like a complete skyline when seen from a considerable distance.

City: 9
Skyline: 6

2/10

8/10 Very nice city

http://i.imgur.com/X67Rr.jpg