Top 20 European skylines, Poll

[BaalNamib]

Twin towers XD


Two clusters of Warsaw

[GENIUS LOCI]

Originally Posted by eemreee

Can you please tell me the height of the tallest buildings of these clusters ?
I'm talking about first 4

I think the tallest towers in these clusters are about 110 m or something

[Minato ku]

The tallest is la Tour Super Italie this height is 113m
It is a private swimming pool in the last floor.

[whereisflat]

Originally Posted by Fireburner

Twin towers XD


Two clusters of Warsaw

where is the second cluster?

[Europeo]

Hi guys,

none of your photos are really good .... i am sorry ...
and first .... What are we talking about ?? a Skyline ... yes ...
what is a skyline ?? from an angle, a city can be seen magnificient ... and from another one ... can become very ugly ...
Paris is the perfect example ...
first ... before arguing like fishermen ... it could be interesting to create some caracteristics typically european to judge each city ...
and what can be use for an european city is not necessary pertinent for another continent ...

personnally ... i think the european skylines are not pathetic like one canadian told in this tread earlier ... he just doesnt have the same references in cities like Calgary or Vancouver, which are "new cities".

here is my point, u cant judge efficiently a city skyline if u take only few new buildings built the past 50 years ... like in Francfort or in La defence or Istanbul...
If u do so, then every european cities can't compete with the fast growing world cities.

But if u succeed to agglomerate in one angle .... the main faces of a city ... from its beginning, though its apogee, to the future of it ....
We will then be able to compare what we can compare ....

i will give u an example.
Paris. if we can find a place where we can see ....
the louvre (a beautiful renaissance palace).
with The Luxor Obelisque (3300 year old).
with the Grand Palais (piece of art of the end of the 19th century, symbol of the trust in sciences and modernism at this time).
with the Champs Elysees (seeing as one of the most romantic spot for many young couples in this world).
with the Arc de Triumph (huge piece of stone who remind us the Roman Empire, civilisation who inspired the European countries as the egyptian one did too).
with a huge space of classical low rise european Hausmannian buildings (as Neuilly distrit) and a huge Hood (the Boulogne park)
and finally with the La Defence, that everyone knows here, which was actually only born fifty years ago, which means that we have seen nothing yet ....

at this stage ... if we can find the perfect place to contemplate this skyline ... i go .. take a photo ... show it to u ... and after u could decide if this one is not the best skyline of europe .... and maybe more than that ....

i wait for ur comments.

[GENIUS LOCI]

Originally Posted by minato ku

The tallest is la Tour Super Italie this height is 113m
It is a private swimming pool in the last floor.

I love this skyscraper

I think in the pano of 13eme I posted it isn't visible 'cause it's the place from where the pic was taken
Am I right?

A reproposition of this beautifull pano

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[Jujo]

A wonderful evening in Sevilla

[Bitxofo]

Very nice view, but NO skyscrapers in Seville yet...

[Dallas star]

All these vote for Frankfurt and no pics

[Minato ku]

Originally Posted by GENIUS LOCI

I love this skyscraper

I think in the pano of 13eme I posted it isn't visible 'cause it's the place from where the pic was taken
Am I right?

A reproposition of this beautifull pano

scroll>>

I think so to

[oralB]

Frankfurt, Paris and Warsaw.

[VelesHomais]

Originally Posted by minato ku

I think so to

These look like soviet commieblocks built in 1970's on the outskirts of every city.

[oranger]

Originally Posted by GENIUS LOCI

I love this skyscraper

I think in the pano of 13eme I posted it isn't visible 'cause it's the place from where the pic was taken
Am I right?

A reproposition of this beautifull pano

scroll>>

what a f...?
stilisto komunisto commieblokisto

[Minato ku]

Yes and not

those buildings are in inner Paris and many are over 100m

Top 20 of this cluster

1 Immeuble Super-Italie 113 m
2 Tour Anvers 104 m
3 Tour Athènes104 m
4 Tour Cortina 104 m
5 Tour Helsinki 104 m
6 Tour Londres 104 m
7 Tour Mexico 104 m
8 Tour Sapporo 104 m
9 Tour Tokyo 104 m
10 Residences Antoine et Cleopatre 104 m
11 Tour Ancone 102 m
12 Tour Bologne 102 m
13 Tour Ferrare 102 m
14 Tour Palerme 102 m
15 Tour Ravenna 102 m
16 Tour Cilops 101 m
17 Tour Mykernios 101 m
18 Tour Chambard 96 m
19 Tour Atlas 95 m
20 Tour Mantone 95 m
etc..

Those buildings are not for the lower class.

I agree this cluster is ugly


Other clusters

La Defense
Courbevoie Puteau and Nanterre inner suburbs of Paris

1 Tour Total 187 m
2 Tour Areva 184 m
3 Tour Gan 179 m
4 Tour Alicante 167 m
5 Tour Chassagne 167 m
6 Tour EDF 165 m
8 Cœur Défense 161 m
9 Tour Assur 159 m
10 Tour Adria 155 m
11 Tour Egée 155 m
12 Tour Ariane 152 m
13 Tour Les Poissons 150 m
14 Tour CBX 2005 142 m
15 Tour Défense 2000 136 m
16 Tour Europlaza 135 m
17 Tour Descartes 130 m
18 Tour France 126 m
19 Tour Franklin 120 m
20 Tour Séquoia 119 m
21 Tour Winterthur 119 m
22 Tour Michelet 117 m
23 Tour CB16 117 m
24 Tour Neptune 113 m
25 Préf des Hauts-de-Seine 113 m
26 Grande Arche 110 m
27 Tour Manhattan 110 m
28 Tour Aurore 110 m
29 Tour Eve 109 m
30 Tour Initiale 109 m
31 Tour Nuage 1 105 m
32 Tour Nuage 2 105 m
33 Tour Gambetta 104m
34 Tour Cèdre 103m
35 Tour Opus12 100m
36 Tour Athéna 100m

Front de seine
This cluster is near the Eiffel tower in inner Paris

Top 15

Tour Eiffel 300m
1 Tour Totem 100 m or 98 m
2 Novotel Paris Tour Eiffel 100 m or 98 m
3 Tour Cristal 100m or 98 m
4 Pierre & Vacances 98 m
5 Tour de Seine 98 m
6 Tour de Mars 94 m
7 Tour H15 94 m
8 Tour Perspective I 94 m
9 Tour Perspective II 94 m
10 Tour Reflets 94 m
11 Tour Avant Seine 93 m
12 Tour Espace 2000 93 m
13 Tour Evasion 2000 93 m
14 Tour Keller 93 m
15 Tour Rive Gauche 93m
etc..

Orgue des Flandre and la Villette
Inner Paris and one tower in Aubervillier

1 Tour Olympe 125 m (aubervillier )
2 Tour Prelude 123 m
3 Tour Fugue 108 m
4 Tour Cantate 101 m
5 Tour de Flandre 90m
6 Le Belvedere 88m
7 Orgues de Flandre IV 82m
8 Tour Occident 82m
9 Residence Artois-Flandre 80m
etc..


Microclusters

Montparnasse

1 Tour Montparnasse 210m
2 Hotel Meridien Montparnasse 116 m
3 Residences Super Montparnasse 90 m
4 9, Rue Georges Pitard 26 floors 80~70 m
etc..

Porte De Montreuil
20th district of inner Paris

1 Tour Giralda 104 m
2 Tour Saint Blaise 88m
etc..

Porte de Bagnolet
Inner Paris and Bagnolet

1 Tour Ponant 122m
2 Tour Levant 122m
3 1 Rue de la Noue ~80m
etc..

Bibliotheque Mitterand
National French library built in 1996 inner Paris

Tour des Lettres 80 m
Tour des Lois 80 m
Tour des Nombres 80 m
Tour des Temps 80 m


Porte Maillot has only one skyscraper

Hotel Concorde Lafayette 137 m

Paris is not a truly scrapers city ?

[ronald]

There can only be one Skyline King, if you ask me.
For Europe, it's Frankfurt.
Even though I live near Rotterdam, and love the skyline there, my vote still goes to Frankfurt because of the taller skyscrapers there.

[Bitxofo]

I agree, Frankfurt is Europe's number 1, for the moment.

Moscow will be the number 1 in the near future!

[Metropolitan]

Originally Posted by Europeo

But if u succeed to agglomerate in one angle .... the main faces of a city ... from its beginning, though its apogee, to the future of it ....
We will then be able to compare what we can compare ....

i will give u an example.
Paris. if we can find a place where we can see ....
the louvre (a beautiful renaissance palace).
with The Luxor Obelisque (3300 year old).
with the Grand Palais (piece of art of the end of the 19th century, symbol of the trust in sciences and modernism at this time).
with the Champs Elysees (seeing as one of the most romantic spot for many young couples in this world).
with the Arc de Triumph (huge piece of stone who remind us the Roman Empire, civilisation who inspired the European countries as the egyptian one did too).
with a huge space of classical low rise european Hausmannian buildings (as Neuilly distrit) and a huge Hood (the Boulogne park)
and finally with the La Defence, that everyone knows here, which was actually only born fifty years ago, which means that we have seen nothing yet ....

at this stage ... if we can find the perfect place to contemplate this skyline ... i go .. take a photo ... show it to u ... and after u could decide if this one is not the best skyline of europe .... and maybe more than that ....

i wait for ur comments.

You mean a picture such as this one ?




My favourite picture of Paris skyline remain this one though :

[Matthieu]

I can create polls with more than 15 answers.

I can close that thread and start a new one with 20 answers and post it if you want. Just pm me the options.

[olli_ruhr]

Originally Posted by LuckyLuke

Essen's Skyline is very underrated

Congrats to the European Capital of Culture 2010!!!

underrated??

its my hometown but i don´t know why someone put essen on the list. its nothing. sorry. 4-5 midrise building will never make a skyline!

[whereisflat]

I though Istanbul was the capital of culture in 2010, at least we were told like that here