How do u like Orlando?

http://orlando-suites.holiday-inn.com/picsbig/orlfam01p020.jpg

http://www.go2orlando.com/go2orlando/images/geoareas/downtown.jpg

http://www.citiscapes-art.com/cities2/orlando/71372pi.jpg

http://www.citiscapes-art.com/cities2/orlando/71370pi.jpg

http://www.relocationcentral.com/Images/Orlando/skyline.jpg

http://dempseyandsasso.com/Orlando_Skyline_Splash_2.JPG

the fifth pic seems rather good , it looks dense but what I see on the other pics is rather poor .

6.5/10

Orlando has an extremely weak skyline for its metro size... though the tallest, Suntrust, is quite awesome

3.5

7/10 The buildings are not high enough and too wide. Though, Orlando looks a great city with the best themeparks in the world. I'm going to Orlando in two weeks and i'm really looking forward to it. Not because of the skyline, unfortunatly.

4/10

quite a weak skyline from what i would expect

3.5/10

It has nice buildings but they are just too short.
5.0/10

8/10

4 orlando's just ok.

7/10


I love this pic

http://www.relocationcentral.com/Images/Orlando/skyline.jpg

Ive been there! really cool city! 5 on a normal RoM scale! but disney gives it 2 more points on the Ron Scale! :D :) 7\10

It's an okay skyline. The fourth picture is pretty good. 4.5/10

My old city....

I give it a 6.

Who are the 3 crack smokers that gave it a 10?

7/10

7/10

sometimes looks great and others boring... 7/10

6/10

6.5

That fifth pic definitely looks good, appears to have density, well-defined core and good height. However I love aerials to get a better feel of a place, and that aerial shows too much open space (carparks maybe??) and that the taller buildings are too far apart, looks more like nice buildings sticking up on their own rather than a skyline. Needs to be infilled more, not necessarliy more height, just more density.

6.5

More Pictures
http://ntlaw.com/eola.jpg
http://www.aboutorlandoresearch.com/orlando_skyline.jpg
http://www.floridahospitalortho.com/images/skyline2.jpg
http://community.webshots.com/s/image7/8/28/75/88782875QBYWYJ_ph.jpg
http://www.cyburbia.org/gallery/data/515/1orlandoskylinerain1.jpg
http://www.cyburbia.org/gallery/data/515/1downtownorlando3.jpg
http://www.cyburbia.org/gallery/data/515/1downtownorlando1.jpg
http://www.cyburbia.org/gallery/data/515/1downtownorlando4.jpg

uh, not bad... I expected more

6



Is that a dead tree sticking out of the water!?

http://www.aboutorlandoresearch.com/orlando_skyline.jpg

Haha, I didnt even notice that

6.5/10

Quite nice. I will give it 8/10.

I grew up in Orlando, I love the city, but I still only give the skyline a 6.5 out of 10. It's a city more enjoyed on street level. They plan on fixing the density issues very soon however. Of course, it seems every city is proposing numerous projects, I'll believe it when I finally see it!

5/10. Some good buildings but they're so far apart. The skyline is just spread out along I-4. Believe it or not those pics make it look more dense than it really is.

It has a little skyline for a city size. 6.5/10

6/10

Unfortunately it looks better in pictures than in real life. Not very dense.

Man, if only this thread would have waited until some of the proposed projects and under construction projects were done. Orlando has several 30 story to 25 story towers going up like Vue and some other huge twin tower project with retail and a movie theater. In a small skylines like Orlando this will make a huge impact. When these projects are done maybe a 7.5 but right now a 6..

Nice medium-sized skyline. I give it a 6.5/10.

I think it is nice, even if, it is not very dense. 8/10

another underrated american city.. 7

Nothing spectacular, but looks OK. 6,5/10

This is a very small and undersized skyline now but they have a lot of projects too.

6.5 for now

there are other tall buildings outside of the downtown area most of them are resorts. they would look nice if they were in the downtown area. would help to fill out the skyline

More depth would help it along. Overall it gets a 6.

5/10

Downtown looks small, but Orlando is fun. :)

9/10

It is an okay skyline. Love the theme parks though!

pretty nice city way better than i thought i give it a 7/10

8.5/10

I live in Orlando and always thought it had a small skyline for its metro population, but it looks pretty nice from some angles. 7.0/10

amazing but it needs more high rise buildings
8

:eek2: I Lived there for 8 months and i hated it! Everything is Disney Disney Disney. I was living a nightmare!!!

I'm from Jacksonville and we used to vacation in Orlando all the time. It's a fun fun place, and when you're there it feels like you're at one of the world's crossroads. People from all over the world all the time.

Best kept secret in Orlando? Downtown Orlando, where the locals go. DT is lotsa fun with cool bars and clubs, a few nice tourist places (reasonably priced!) and there is a nice feeling in the air.

Orlando is a huge place and it sprawls up to it's many satellite cities and towns. Disney et.al are in Kissimmee, a satellite city.

Orlando's skyline should be taller and more dense, but when you're driving on I-4 beside DT Orlando, it looks pretty damn impressive!

8.5

Picture of Downtown Orlando: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/custom/growth/orl-special-citruscenter,0,7553300.htmlstory?coll=orl-news-growth-headlines

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/5660/orlandoe008web9sx.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/8954/images5ob.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://orlandoskyscrapers.com/Built.html:
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/2387/orange20avenue20looking20north.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/4221/orlando4yx.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/3154/orlandoskyline99827gc.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/5180/orlando7477550wm9in.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

6.5/10

6.5 A growing city on the rise

4/10

7.5/10

quite nice 6.5

7/10

7/10

Too spacey and not tall enough. 5/10

7.5/10

4.5/10 Hmm hoped for more...

The skyline is sparse for a city of such size, but the buildings are mostly very attractive, and the lakes provide for some truly stunning views -- especially that lake where they've put a fountain in the center. I think it proves that you always need a forest of supertalls to make a really nice skyline. 8/10

I like Orlando skyline 9.5/10 :)

7/10- it can be much better.

That's what I like about the Florida skylines...They have some average skylines...NOt much but they have a lot of skylines within the state...

4/10

Orlando along with tampa and jacksonville have fairly small skylines but Miami WOW !!! Miami has more high rises in the metro than the metro of los angeles.Miami is third in the country for number of high rises in the metro areas for the united states only following new york and chicago.there is over 1,600 high rises in the Miami area now thats impressive. To add to this Miami has been experiencing the biggest building boom in the world by far.it started a few years ago and its really just the beginning. 65 high rise buildings currently under construction 79 more aprooved and 47 proposed thats a wopping 191 buildings WOW !!!!! 69 of those buildings are over 500 ft tThe tallest is 1,400 ft 120 story twin towers. a couple more are in the 900 ft 80 story range and one under construction right now is 866 ft 74 stories called met 3.The tallest current building in Miami right now is the 70 story mixed use four seasons tower.These are mostley apartments.There has to be a second boom of office buildings if this boom ever ends but right now there is no end in sight.More projects are added every day.People are not just selling them people are making lotteries the demand is so strong.The numbers above are just downtown Miami its not including all of the other areas in Miami that are booming such as kendall little havanna coral gables sunny isles south beach aventura and so on waahh to many to count!!!!

I think the rest of the cities in FLORIDA are going to catch on which they already have but not to the scale as Miami.The up to date poulation in Florida is 18 million. Orlando is just over 2 million as for the rest of the major cities in Florida Tampa is over 2.6 million jacksonville is at 1.4 million and Miami is at 6 million not including all the illeagal people that flock there.There is a huge rise in population of daytona beach and gainsville.It wont be long before Floridas 4 major cities will be 6 major cities.

7.5/10

pretty nice

Some photos taked by me last week

http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/1323/imgp0670gl2.jpg

http://img321.imageshack.us/img321/4038/imgp1171mm4.jpg

http://img321.imageshack.us/img321/2896/imgp1176ov1.jpg

:):)

9/10 ;)

not bad for orlando 3.5/10

7/10

6/10

6/10

like its skyline, 7.5/10

6/10

This thread should probably be updated if people are going to keep replying. The skyline is starting to look completely different.

I just moved from Orlando to Miami, and all i can say about small little Orlando is that its skyline is small, wide but its beginning to get soem good density but its still a not so great skyline thats why im giving it a 5/10.

More pics of Orlando :)

http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/3771/dscn1323ah6.jpg

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/8436/dscn1337sp5.jpg

http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/1696/dscn1354to5.jpg

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/3285/dscn1342sk1.jpg

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/8772/dscn1368yf8.jpg

http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/1297/dscn1370br0.jpg

6, but the construction is looking good!

Growing skyline 5/10

6/10

7/10

http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/5712/ivanhoe3ad2.jpg (http://img111.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ivanhoe3ad2.jpg)
http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/3417/ivanhoe2ng2.jpg (http://img111.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ivanhoe2ng2.jpg)

From mayday at skyscraperpage -

http://www.clevelandskyscrapers.com/cruise07/cruise07_2.jpg

From MNiemann in the Orlando forum -

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v189/egveitekki/DSC01012.jpg

6/10. Very plain.

Where is all the parks like disney world, wet n wild, universal studios!

^^disney world is in lake buena vista, and universal orlando is in orlando but far away from the actual downtown, this isnt a theme park website!

8/10

:cheers::):)10/10:):):cheers:

8/10

7.5/10

7.5/10

8/10

8/10

living here now I give the skyline a 6/10. There are no buildings over 500 ft/152 m due to a municipal airport a few miles east of it. The downtown area is quite small for a metro of over a million too.

6/10 need more buildings

7. Regards.

7.5/10

7,5/10

10.8

I have been to Orlando,in 1999,do not remember much although there was this one street lined with tall palms like some streets of L.A.

from flickr: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Orlando+Skyline


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2255/2188589756_4272832dfa_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3062/2661541290_e6f7853c7f_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3004/2970094578_e13586d1f3_b.jpg

7/10

7/10

http://s005.radikal.ru/i212/1002/44/8313a81f66ef.jpg
http://s47.radikal.ru/i117/1002/37/4369c1e261e8.jpg
http://s006.radikal.ru/i213/1002/f4/937a92cae04e.jpg
http://i063.radikal.ru/1002/52/30be1f1cac79.jpg

5.5/10

very sexy

From 2007, but still nice photo (http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisgent/2042098864/) of my favorite city in Florida!
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2248/2042098864_857a24dfe5_b.jpg

Link (http://www.flickr.com/photos/breannalane/4418140134/)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2568/4418140134_db89f7aa01_b.jpg

Link (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24834912@N08/4417064226/)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2743/4417064226_af4beed45d_b.jpg

I like the city center, I hate the burbs. But since we are rating skyline, I'll give 7/10

magical city 10/10

Link (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24834912@N08/4417064226/)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2743/4417064226_af4beed45d_b.jpg

I like this picture.

I was one time in Orlando, around 1990, and never saw a so boring city like this. I mean there is Disney Land, Sea world and so far, but the city had main street with a little bit activities, looked like in the wild west, but nothing more. You went to streets besides, and it was like in a dead desert, strange feeling there, dont know, how this city can be the second most attractive tourist city of the US, besides New York City.

5.5/10

6.5/10 It's coming along but it still lacks...gravitas.

7/10.

Maybe not a stunner, but certainly pretty enough. (7/10)

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4146/5066504372_21dd44be5b_b_d.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/setholiver1/

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4146/5414150373_aaaf39267a_b_d.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/setholiver1/

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4105/5085394660_4205f969e7_b_d.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/setholiver1/

5/10. Nothing special, needs more height and density.

5/10

5/10

6/10

7.5/10
To those complaining about height: not gonna happen any time soon. Approaches to the airports (there are 2) limit height in down town Orlando so unless the FAA changes their mind then heights are not going to get much higher. Tampa has a similar problem through most of DT.

Steve

7/10