Miami 3rd largest skyline in the USA

[QuantumX]

Originally Posted by Aceventura

Q, check out these threads:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...=754278&page=3

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...=377383&page=8

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...401827&page=61

Shanghai is crazy but Hong Kong is still my favorite skyline. Not just because Central and Kowloon, but because the highrises just keep wrapping around the Island and Mainland, even over by the airport. Amazing place.

THANK YOU! Hong Kong has such a beautiful setting with the harbor and the mountains. It's like they put New York and Rio together!

[QuantumX]

Originally Posted by QuantumX

And Dave, Chicago still does have more skyscrapers than Shanghai, and they both deserve third on that list better than Tokyo.

No, now I believe you are right. It's just that I didn't check much below 500 feet, where I tend to stay fixated, and while Shanghai doesn't have as many buildings taller than 500 feet listed as Chicago has, it does have a ton of shorter high-rises and it's amazing how so many of their taller buildings are spread out amid so many of the shorter high-rises. That photo above looks like Sao Paolo with taller buildings spread throughout it, and it's a very interesting-looking configuration of buildilngs to me.

[VisionMIA]

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[QuantumX]

Originally Posted by VisionMIA

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Well, I'm glad we're finally getting the recognition we deserve. I don't get Atlanta being placed where it is though, over Dallas, Houston, and Los Angeles.

[Elnerico]

I would say miami is well on its way to having one of the larger skylines. Emporis says it has about 300 highrises what would that number be now? Chicago is around 1,100 and Toronto is 1,800.

[bigbarcelona]

I am not hating on Atlanta at all... but there is no way in hell Atlanta got a better skyline than Philly or Seattle. The way I see it, Atlanta looks perfect on #7 in comparison to those skylines and how those cities are put together against how Atlanta is so spread out. I love LA, but for a city it size the skyline is very mediocre or small (Tall buildings... but it doesn't make up for the lack of skyline). Plus... How did Seattle manage not to be on this list??? In my view... Seattle should it been on this list instead of LA.

My list would it gone this way:

1. NYC
2. Chicago
3. Miami
4. Seattle
5. Philly
6. San Francisco
7. Atlanta
8. Dallas
9. Houston

[bigbarcelona]

Originally Posted by Aceventura

Yeah, Shanghai is far under counted, it may not beat New York but the number is much closer to NY than what is listed.

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This not a sea of buildings... Matter fact this should be describe better as an OCEAN and there is no way in hell NYC or even Chicago can compete at the level that Shanghai is at.

[miami305]

Originally Posted by dave8721

Chicago doesn't have all that much more "highrises" than South Florida if you are going by the Emporis ~100 foot definition. According to Emporis earlier this year, the Chicago metro area had 1219 completed buildings over 100 feet while South Florida had 1144 (the NYC area had over 6000). Chicago's just happen to be much more centralized into a single skyline while South Florida's are broken up into literally dozens of smaller skylines.

Imagine if Miami, Miami Beach, Sunny Isles, Aventura, Hallandale, Ft.Lauderdale, Coral Gables, Dadeland, West Palm Beach..etc were 1 skyline.

It would be an amazing skyline...but to me...already is....I dont think of all those cities you mentioned about as separate skylines...I see them as one...including Ft. Lauderdale and even West Palm Beach....especially when I drive to work from Aventura to South Beach and take Collins Ave....I see it as one big city...with lots of traffic and slow drivers!! but that is another topic...

[QuantumX]

Originally Posted by Elnerico

I would say miami is well on its way to having one of the larger skylines. Emporis says it has about 300 highrises what would that number be now? Chicago is around 1,100 and Toronto is 1,800.

Did you not read the list? Miami already has one of the larger skylines.

Originally Posted by miami305

It would be an amazing skyline...but to me...already is....I dont think of all those cities you mentioned about as separate skylines...I see them as one...including Ft. Lauderdale and even West Palm Beach....especially when I drive to work from Aventura to South Beach and take Collins Ave....I see it as one big city...with lots of traffic and slow drivers!! but that is another topic...

I would be happy if we could just count all of Miami-Dade county as one big skyline or at least Miami, Miami Beach, and Sunny Isles Beach. But in spite of that, after living in South Florida for 25 years, I never dreamed there would be a day when Miami would have the third largest skyline in the country. Like the guy who wrote the Wiki page said, it surprised even him. And we know it's not going to stop right here the way developers are still buying up property and getting in position to make their move when the economy improves.

[Barfolomew]

Originally Posted by bigbarcelona

I am not hating on Atlanta at all... but there is no way in hell Atlanta got a better skyline than Philly or Seattle. The way I see it, Atlanta looks perfect on #7 in comparison to those skylines and how those cities are put together against how Atlanta is so spread out. I love LA, but for a city it size the skyline is very mediocre or small (Tall buildings... but it doesn't make up for the lack of skyline). Plus... How did Seattle manage not to be on this list??? In my view... Seattle should it been on this list instead of LA.

My list would it gone this way:

1. NYC
2. Chicago
3. Miami
4. Seattle
5. Philly
6. San Francisco
7. Atlanta
8. Dallas
9. Houston

I think Atlanta has a linear skyline a lot like Miami in many ways, including Buckhead and the far reaches it is quite large like Miami, New York, Chicago. It just never seems to have any shots that can capture the entire line of towers..... here's one that has to be taken from very far away to get them all....

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It should also be noted that Atlanta is one of the few cities in the nation that has a skyscraper over 1000 feet tall. Miami still needs to get past that hurdle before it can ultimately be among the giants in my opinion. That and a really good rail system that has multiple lines & stations. They also need to annex some other areas to get the population of the "Miami" city proper up over 1 million as well.... not an argument! just my opinion, please don't try and "correct me"....

Here's another Atlanta shot, a little closer, but leaving out most of the Buckhead skyline....

[kevinkagy]

I agree with Barfolomew. I wish the "unincorporated Miami-Dade" areas were "incorporated" into the City of Miami. That must be at least a million people, probably closer to 2 million. That'd really represent Miami accurately, as the current City of Miami borders are only but a small speck of the real Miami.

On another note, the tree canopy in Atlanta is amazingly beautiful. It looks like a city in the middle of a forest. Awesome.

[QuantumX]

Originally Posted by kevinkagy

I wish the "unincorporated Miami-Dade" areas were "incorporated" into the City of Miami. That must be at least a million people, probably closer to 2 million. That'd really represent Miami accurately, as the current City of Miami borders are only but a small speck of the real Miami.

It must be quite impressive for someone visiting Miami for the first time as they drive along I-95 from Broward County into Downtown Miami. How many times during a Dolphins' game has Sunny Isles Beach been mistaken for Miami?

[QuantumX]

It would be nice if we could count all of this as part of Miami's tally of tall buildings.

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[Aceventura]

Originally Posted by QuantumX

It would be nice if we could count all of this as part of Miami's tally of tall buildings.

I did a rough count of the county as a whole around when this thread started, I believe we were right behind Seoul. But Beijing is far under counted from what I saw it has way more than Dade, I would imagine it would be more around Guangzhou from what I saw of the two of them, and Shanghai of five years ago easily beats Tokyo of today, although Tokyo is a way awesome city.

[Barfolomew]

I think another skyline that seems to get neglected in these polls is Los Angeles, which definitely has a solid canyon of towers. Even the older sections of the city have mass....

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[QuantumX]

Oh, that's a very nice shot of the Los Angeles skyline. It is particularly stunning after a winter storm has moved through and the Los Angeles skyline can be captured set against the snow-capped San Gabriel Mountains. I think the Los Angeles skyline doesn't get more attention because its setting is often obscured by smog.

[noland123]

So this is what Los Angeles looks like without the smog, beautiful city and what is more impressive is Century City that I have seen in other foreground photos that give the city downtown more density.

[QuantumX]

Originally Posted by noland123

So this is what Los Angeles looks like without the smog, beautiful city and what is more impressive is Century City that I have seen in other foreground photos that give the city downtown more density.

Imagine if Century City were actually in downtown Los Angeles. The size in land area of both Houston and Los Angeles works against them because, as I've said on other threads, not all of their skyscrapers are in their downtown.

[Barfolomew]

Well, even said, aside from the whole Century city portion missing in the picture, the old downtown still leaves many buildings to be desired in density. There must be at least 600-700 twenty story buildings in the "old downtown" (prior to Wilshire towers going up in the 80's and 90's).

When you drive through downtown L.A., it definitely takes a long time to get from one side to another too, walls of canyons of buildings smack against each other for 10-15 miles in any direction.

These are just some of the elements of major U.S. Cities that Miami still needs to strive for, although I'm hoping we eventually get a 1000 foot tower at some point in history.

[QuantumX]

Originally Posted by Barfolomew

When you drive through downtown L.A., it definitely takes a long time to get from one side to another too, walls of canyons of buildings smack against each other for 10-15 miles in any direction.

Sorry, Barf, but I don't get this from any pictures of L.A. I've seen and having lived there before, I know downtown L.A. pretty well. Between 10 and 15 miles is a distance halfway from downtown L.A. to the Pacific Ocean. Miami's first 1,000 footer is scheduled to break ground sometime next year. Anyway, here is some New York density courtesy of MathJak107 and his wife Marilyn during their recent helicopter ride.


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