DISCUSS: Best North American Skyline

[QuantumX]

Originally Posted by nyarch21

Another new tallest to break ground? Could you direct me to a thread for this building?

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...7#post97912317

http://exmiami.org/threads/panorama-...-approved.202/

[deranged]

1. New York
2. Chicago
3. Toronto
4. Panama City
5. Vancouver
6. Los Angeles
7. Houston
8. Philadelphia
9. Seattle
10. Dallas

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by QuantumX

I'm sorry for posting pics here you've seen before Isaidso, but whenever, I see Miami pics that I don't think do the city justice like the ones Yellow Fever posted, I have to post my own.

No need to apologize. You never load a thread up with 30 photos of the same city like some other people do. This photo below is revealing. When a hurricane approaches, does that whole area get evacuated? Fabulous beaches, but it looks quite vulnerable. What is this area called? I take it downtown Miami is in the distance?

[nyarch21]

Does Miami have more than one skyline?
And also is this official to be the 3rd biggest skyline in the USA?
Isaidso, I think you should add something about basketball being created by a Canadian to your signature just to top off your list! Lol

[deranged]

^ The Miami metro area has more highrises than any other in the US, except for New York and Chicago. I always thought of Miami CBD and the Miami Beach-Sunny Isles-Hollywood as two separate skylines. If they are considered as one, I'd rank them 4th in North America.

[QuantumX]

Originally Posted by isaidso

When a hurricane approaches, does that whole area get evacuated? Fabulous beaches, but it looks quite vulnerable. What is this area called? I take it downtown Miami is in the distance?

Yes, that is downtown Miami in the upper right. Yes, when a hurricane approaches people are advised to leave the coast and go inland. These costal cities are on barrier islands. Not a place you want to be in a hurricane, though I imagine stair wells in the cores of many of these buildings are pretty safe.

Originally Posted by nyarch21

Does Miami have more than one skyline?
And also is this official to be the 3rd biggest skyline in the USA?

Miami does now officially have the third largest skyline in the USA with the number of tall buildings overall. A number of US cities outside of New York and Chicago have one, two, or even three buildings that are taller than what we currently have here in Miami, but enough made it to construction in the last decade to edge out all other US cities other than New York and Chicago to give Miami this 3rd place ranking with more under construction.

Miami doesn't really have more than one skyline. The City of Miami Beach has its own skyline and the skyline in the foreground of the above photo is the City of Sunny Isles Beach. It has the second largest skyline in Florida and is still growing. I couldn't get all of it in the photo. We can't count all of these skylines as part of Miami's tally because they are all in indepedent wealthy beach towns.

Originally Posted by deranged

^ The Miami metro area has more highrises than any other in the US, except for New York and Chicago. I always thought of Miami CBD and the Miami Beach-Sunny Isles-Hollywood as two separate skylines. If they are considered as one, I'd rank them 4th in North America.

Miami-Dade county has three separate large skylines with Miami, Miami Beach, and Sunny Isles Beach, but they can't be counted as one. There are smaller buildings in the 300-400 feet range all over Miami-Dade county though.

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by nyarch21

Isaidso, I think you should add something about...

Could you add it in yours? Mine's getting kinda full.

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by QuantumX

Yes, that is downtown Miami in the upper right. Yes, when a hurricane approaches people are advised to leave the coast and go inland. These costal cities are on barrier islands. Not a place you want to be in a hurricane, though I imagine stair wells in the cores of many of these buildings are pretty safe.

Thanks. Yeah, those areas look really vulnerable to storm surge. There's little to stop the ocean from washing right over it and on to the other side. Kind of alarming when viewing it from the air.

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by Omarxd94 :)

Mexico, D.F.

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Is that an aqueduct?

[QuantumX]

Originally Posted by isaidso

Thanks. Yeah, those areas look really vulnerable to storm surge. There's little to stop the ocean from washing right over it and on to the other side. Kind of alarming when viewing it from the air.

This is what it looks like in the other direction. So far, there are 9 buildings over 500 feet tall in this line of buildings. There are only two over 500 feet tall in Miami Beach because of NIMBYS. This is going to be the banner on December 8th. From right to left, Sunny Isles Beach (Florida's second largest skyline), Aventura, Hallandale Beach, Hollywood Beach, and Fort Lauderdalte Beach. The southeast coast of Florida is known as its Gold Coast.

[yankeesfan1000]

Little too much monotony in Miami's skyline for me. It may statistically be third largest, but it's in the lower half of my top 10. NY starting to pull away with 1 WTC, 4 WTC, and One57 all finishing up, and many many more skyscrapers/supertalls U/C.

Edit: Sorry the pictures are so huge, think they're worth it though.

Thanks to NewYorkDominates on SSP for finding these. Photo's are all thanks to Liberty Helicopter Charter's facebook page.

[QuantumX]

Originally Posted by yankeesfan1000

Little too much monotony in Miami's skyline for me. It may statistically be third largest, but it's in the lower half of my top 10.

That's pretty much what everybody says about it. It is a bit short and boxy. What page did you put your top 10 on?

[yankeesfan1000]

I don't think I've come up with a top 10 for NA, that was just sort of ball parking off the top of my head. It'd be between 7 and 10 I would say though.

[Yellow Fever]

awesome pics of NY.

[Eduardo L. Ramirez]

PANAMA CITY

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Panama City by Alex E. Proimos, on Flickr

[Alexenergy]

Great view!!!

[Yellow Fever]

like that twisted tower on the left.

[QuantumX]

That's the best shot of Panama City I've ever seen!

[Eduardo L. Ramirez]

One more of
Panama City

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Panama Skyline from Ancon Hill by johnb10175, on Flickr

[QuantumX]

Thanks! A lot of Panama City's architecture I've never gotten to see up close and this has certainly changed my view of it, especially the first photo.