Honolulu Skyline (American's Underrated City)

[Resident]

Awesome city, would love to visit one day.

[icracked]

Honolulu

[mosito]

wow just luv these 2 pictures

[tanklv]

Hey! That's my condo building in that pic!!!

[tanklv]

Originally Posted by ALKUN

NO I LIVE IN LAS VEGAS, BUT I HAVE A PROPERTY IN OAHU.
I LIKE TO GO THERE OFTEN.

Me too - I moved to Vegas in '96 because of the shitty economy in Hawaii then - you?

[tanklv]

Originally Posted by RC14

I like how there are alot of buildings, but I don't think I like the look of the buildings, looks like Honolulu needs more glass/steel buildings.

Glass and concrete maybe - but hardly any steel - too expensive to import compared to poured-in-place.

There are only a couple/few buildings built with steel structure - and I mean less than 10 probably.

[tanklv]

Originally Posted by icracked

There's no volcanoes in Honolulu or on the same island that Honolulu is located. Only one of the Hawaiian islands have volcanoes and that's a 45 minute plane flight from Honolulu.

Actually, you probably mean "active" volcanos. ALL of the Hawai'ian Islands have volcanos - they were formed from volcanos.

Oahu has Diamond Head and Punchbowl, to name just 2...

The island of "Hawai'i" or the "Big Island" has the longest active volcano in the world, and that is only one of three or four (Moana Loa, Moana Kea, Kilauea and another I can't think of right now)...

And, as of couple decades ago, there are NO "dormant" volcanos in Hawai'i - only "inactive" - meaning that, yes, even Diamond Head and Punchbowl can become active again. This was all reclassified after Mt. St. Helens blew it's top...

There are desserts and rain forests and everything in between in Hawai'i. It only takes twenty miniutes or so to get to Hawai'i from Oahu - I used to "commute" every day for a few months or so a while back - loved to listen to all the bad traffic reports on the H1 and everywhere in Honoluolu as I was cruising down the highway on the Kona coast with no-one coming in either direction! Took me less time to drive to the airport, hop a plane and drive on the Big Island than it took me to drive to work in Honolulu!!! Never saw such BAD traffic jams as there were in Honolulu. There are more cars in Honolulu than can fit on all the miles of roads if they were all to be out at the same time...of course, car theft is a lot easier to crack there!!!

[tanklv]

Sorry 'bout all the posts all at once - I never noticed a Honolulu thread before!

I live in Vegas now - but Hawai'i is still in my heart. Had friends who moved to Vegas from Hawai'i and they begged me many times to move here because business was soooo good then - now it's DEAD in Vegas. But at least I have a nice home and plenty of friends and even a lot more from Hawai'i who moved here - they call Vegas the "seventh island" since it has more people from Hawai'i than any other location on earth.

I can't bear to watch almost anything about Hawai'i because it would break my heart beign separated from her...

It's getting a bit better now...

[Linguine]

Originally Posted by icracked

Honolulu

Lovely photos...

[LessZoa]

Originally Posted by VmR

¿como se llaman estos edificios?
name of buildings?

pic from USS Missouri:

Those are the "Twin Towers" of Pearl City - is what us locals call them anyway. I will swing by and get their official name.

Ok, Jai got it... heh.. didn't read the entire thread before posting.

[LessZoa]

Originally Posted by tanklv

Actually, you probably mean "active" volcanos. ALL of the Hawai'ian Islands have volcanos - they were formed from volcanos.

Oahu has Diamond Head and Punchbowl, to name just 2...

The island of "Hawai'i" or the "Big Island" has the longest active volcano in the world, and that is only one of three or four (Moana Loa, Moana Kea, Kilauea and another I can't think of right now)...

And, as of couple decades ago, there are NO "dormant" volcanos in Hawai'i - only "inactive" - meaning that, yes, even Diamond Head and Punchbowl can become active again. This was all reclassified after Mt. St. Helens blew it's top...

Mostly right.

Each island is and of themselves made up of volcanoes, all the way up the archipelago. Although time has long eroded them (or they blew up), the "hotspot" that created my home is basically burning through the Central Pacific Plate as it drifts over...

Of the major 8 islands...

Kaua'i & Ni'ihau
Made by 1 major volcano, name long forgotten.

O'ahu
Mt. Ka'ala formed the Wai'anae Volcano & mountain range to the west, then several calderas formed the Ko'olau Volcano (with lava overlapping to form the Waiawa & Wahiawa plains). To the south and east of O'ahu is where Ko'olau ends with Punchbowl, Diamond Head, Koko Head, Monoula Crater & Haunama Bay (which was a crater that blew itself up before recorded history and legend).

Moloka'i
Formed by two volcanoes as well, simply called East & West now.

Mau'i
Also formed by two volcanoes, East & West. Only Haleakala holds a name, as given by the Hawaiians. It is listed as a dormant volcano, and the vulcanologist believe it will erupt again - they just don't know when. It still vents steam from time to time... and East Maui does have a fair share of tremors.

Lana'i & Kahoolawe
Most likely eroded volcano-tops - but so old it is hard to trace the hotspot under these two islands. They are believed to have formed around the same time as Mau'i though.

Hawai'i
Kohala, Mauna Kea, Hualalai, Mauna Loa (largest), Kilauea (most active) and Lo'ihi (newest) are the volcanoes associated with the Big Island. Lo'ihi is the newest one, about 30km from the southeastern shore, and growing off the seamount - it is only about 300m below the ocean surface! At first, they wanted to grant it an island-in-the-making status, but as the undersea eruptions continue, it is merging with the base and side of Kilauea - adding mass to the island itself.



The Pacific HotSpot is what formed the entire island chain of Hawaii. As the Pacific Plate moves, the hotspot weakens the surface, and *pop* a new volcano is formed. We suffer earthquakes that are felt up the island chain - just as recently as 2006 when I witnessed our plate-glass windows warbling in our Wahiawa house! the Ewa Plains of O'ahu (being so flat) feels quakes a lot as well - from Maui & the Big Island.


Something we live with every day here.

[ChitownCity]

Those 2 shots are simply Beautiful

[desertpunk]

image hosted on flickr

Honolulu Sunset & Rainbow by Tallyn, on Flickr

[nigel20]

Nice skyline.

[Eryx]

That's some crazy density for a 300,000 inhabitants city. I've never quite seen anything like that. And it looks awesome! I'm sorry I haven't read all 9 pages, but just to comment on someone saying it looks like some Brazilian cities, I actually agree (link and link), although this linked one is a little broader considering it houses 2,300,000+ people.

[Tiger Beer]

Originally Posted by icracked

The white-ness of Honolulu's building comes from the coral-concrete mixed used to build these buildings.

Personally, I really like that Honolulu look!

[sursena]

Originally Posted by icracked

It might have something to do with the demographics here that played a big role in Honolulu's skyline. Honolulu as well as the state of Hawaii is the only state/city in the United States that Whites/Blacks are the minority.



18.64% of people are white, 2.23% are black, 63.12% are asian, 0.18% are native american, and 15.83% claim 'Other'.

? From Wiki:
According to the 2010 United States Census, Hawaii had a population of 1,360,301. In terms of race and ethnicity, the state was 38.6% Asian, 24.7% White (22.7% Non-Hispanic White Alone), 23.6% from Two or More Races, 10.0% Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders, 8.9% Hispanics and Latinos of any race, 1.6% Black or African American, 1.2% from Some Other race, and 0.3% American Indian and Alaska Native.[67]