Top 25 Highrise Skylines & Top 25 Historical Skylines

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Top 25 Highrise Skylines

Updated June 2010

1. Asia: 10
2. North America: 8
3. Europe: 5
4. Australia: 2
5. South America: 1




* Methology:
Scores are based on Weighted Matrix method. Because of the time required to perform the (mostly) manual calculations, only those cities that received ~400 or more votes have been included in the counting. See complete listings on Google Docs

** Position in January 2010 using the old counting system (i.e. % of 10-point votes of total votes).




1. Hong Kong CBD, China (NEW!)Weighted average score: 15.03* (world rank before: 1)**



2. New York - Manhattan, USA 13.99 (2)



3. Chicago, USA 13.54 (3)



4. Sydney, Australia 12.4 (4)



5. Shanghai, China 12.26 (5)



6. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 12.25 (8)



7. Singapore CBD, Singapore 11.93 (11)


Image Credit: Rafflescity

8. Tokyo, Japan 11.93 (7)



9. Toronto: City, Canada 11.90 (6)



10. Frankfurt am Main, Germany 11.83 (13)



11. Melbourne, Australia 11.5 (9)



12. Shenzhen, China 11.47 (25)



13. Seattle, USA 11.41 (12)



14. Vancouver CBD, Canada - 11.4 (18)



15. San Francisco, USA 11.39 (15)



16. Seoul, South Korea 11.04 (31)



17. Guangzhou, China 11.01 (17)



18. London City, UK 10.8 (26)



19. Dubai, UAE10.64 (10)




20. Minneapolis, USA - 10.64 (24)



21. Bangkok, Thailand 10.62 (20)



22. Warsaw, Poland 10.46 (30)



23. Rotterdam, Netherlands 10.43 (35)



24. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 10.42(14)

25. Moscow, Russia 10.41 (28)



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26. Los Angeles, USA 10.38 (26)

27. Brisbane, Australia 10.34 (27)

28. La Défense, Paris, France 10.33 (28)

29. Beijing, China10.28 (21)

30. Calgary, Canada 10.16 (37)

31. Sao Paulo, Brazil10.03 (22)

32. Buenos Aires, Argentina 9.91 (34)

33. Gold Coast, Australia 9.9 (33)

34. Montréal, Canada 9.83 (36)

35. Jakarta, Indonesia9.77 (19)

36. Miami, USA 9.68 (39)

37. Houston, USA 9.68 (38)

38. Pittsburgh, USA 9.67

39. Philadelphia, USA 9.59

40. Auckland, New Zealand 9.53

41. Metro Manila, Philippines 9.43 (23)

42. Paris de Ville / Central Paris, France 9.36 (16)

43. Perth, Australia 9.32 (42)

44. Dallas, Texas 9.30 (43)

45. Canary Wharf, London, UK 9.30

46. Atlanta, USA 9.23 (44)

47. Madrid, Spain 9.09

48. Charlotte, USA 9.04

49. Mexico City, Mexico 8.93 (38)

50. Boston, USA 8.89

51. Berlin, Germany 8.89

52. Barcelona, Spain 8.62

53. Istanbul, Turkey 8.31 (39)

54. Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel 8.03

[Bricken Ridge]

Just looking at the rankings, you can tell this analysis is flawed. Try two more ways of splicing the data, combine all three results and see how your rankings change.

[LMCA1990]

Frankfurt should be higher but it's a pretty good list IMO

[elliot]

Just goes to show that a thinly-populated nation can skew these sort of "popularity contests" on an internet forum, when represented by determined voting "representatives".

With the exception of the top 3, you could scatter most of the other skylines into Shanghai and they would almost disappear, save for a couple of tall structures (eg. Burj).

[MDguy]

pretty interesting. Btw - Buenos Airies isn't in the US

[thaproducer]

i am not agree with this top, most of the people in the forum vote for your own city.

Rio better than frankfurt?? nooo. Los Angeles is better, even Shenzhen is better.

And Dubai should be higher, like 4 or 5. just look the skyline



The others cities are ok....

that´s what i think!!!!

[LMCA1990]

The buildings look lonely, maybe that's why it's not higher

[thaproducer]

yea maybe, just give to the city 5 years, and the top will change.

[Major Deegan]

nv,

[Quall]

Thanks for the list!

That's North Sydney in the picture, by the way.

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that's all i could find. If you know of a better picture for this thread, feel free to post it here.

[Imperfect Ending]

That's a pretty bad angle of Bangkok but that's okay

[Cunning Linguist]

Nice compilation.

Your methodology results in rankings that are for the most part similiar to mine.

[mhek]

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This is the February poll.

[Mpol]

Hmm nice list.

[luci203]

Originally Posted by LMCA1990

The buildings look lonely, maybe that's why it's not higher

The density is very poor in Dubai. It might change in the future, but we not vote "future skylines".

This is the "people choice"

To think that one of the most esthetic skylines: SINGAPORE did not even made the "runner-up" list.

image hosted on flickr


And a very impresive skyline like Shenzhen is only no 22.

image hosted on flickr

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added Singapore at #10 spot

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Update: added Top Historical Skylines chart.

[Canalero]

Interesting list.