Give your opinion of the top 10 skylines in the U.S. & top 10 in the world - Page 25

chris08876 · #**481** Posted **Feb 17, 2023, 1:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by LAsam

^ No love for Los Angeles! What about LA's skyline keeps in out of the top 10 for you?

Just the aesthetics. It's nothing personal, just not my cup of tea.

Maldive · #**482** Posted **Feb 24, 2023, 7:27 PM**

Here's a Top 20 list of Instagram-worthy skylines across the globe based on posts (via Pixsy, an image monitoring platform)

1. New York City, New York, USA – 768,226 posts
2. Chicago, Illinois, USA – 313,502 posts
3. London, UK – 269,786 posts
4. Boston, Massachusetts, USA – 184,353 posts
5. Jakarta, Indonesia – 176,012 posts
6. Toronto, Canada – 143,440 posts
7. Dubai, United Arab Emirates – 134,035 posts
8. Frankfurt, Germany – 118,690 posts
9. Dallas, Texas, USA – 94,083 posts
10. Seattle, Washington, USA – 89,202 posts
11. Miami, Florida, USA – 77,892 posts
12. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA – 66,533 posts
13. Los Angeles, California, USA – 58,610 posts
14. Singapore – 58,352 posts
15. Atlanta, Georgia, USA – 51,335 posts
16. Hong Kong – 45,189 posts
17. Sydney, Australia – 43,157 posts
18. Houston, Texas, USA – 38,891 posts
19. Melbourne, Australia – 36,729 posts
20. Nashville, Tennessee, USA – 31,958 posts

Clearly L.A. lovers are lazy insta-posters... while Boston is killin' it.

Chisouthside · #**483** Posted **Feb 24, 2023, 7:43 PM**

My own top 10
1. Chicago(Hometown bias of course but also perfect mix)
2. San Francisco(natural beauty, nice mix, nice new towers, looks amazing when youre crossing the bay bridge from oakland)
3. New York(sheer size, multi nodal)
4. Houston (Love all the buildings from the 80s)
5. Seattle (Looks really beefy when traveling on the ferry, the Columbia builidng is one of my favs)
6. Los Angeles( small but iconic and beautiful backdrop of the san gabriel mountains)
7. Philadelphia( nice mix of towers and looks beefy)
8. San Jose (I know its really short but at night it gives me blade runner vibes)
9. Detroit( small but it's sort of a time capsule and i appreciate that.
10. Atlanta( flew in one time and downtown looked like an island in the middle of a forest sea).

I know Vancouver and Toronto have many beefy skylines but nothing besides the cn tower stands out tbh.

LAsam · #**484** Posted **Feb 24, 2023, 8:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by Maldive

Clearly L.A. lovers are lazy insta-posters... while Boston is killin' it.

That's so surprising to me. More Philly than LA on Instagram? With LA being such a big media market and tourism market you'd think it would perform better.

iheartthed · #**485** Posted **Feb 24, 2023, 8:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by Maldive

Here's a Top 20 list of Instagram-worthy skylines across the globe based on posts (via Pixsy, an image monitoring platform)

1. New York City, New York, USA – 768,226 posts
2. Chicago, Illinois, USA – 313,502 posts
3. London, UK – 269,786 posts
4. Boston, Massachusetts, USA – 184,353 posts
5. Jakarta, Indonesia – 176,012 posts
6. Toronto, Canada – 143,440 posts
7. Dubai, United Arab Emirates – 134,035 posts
8. Frankfurt, Germany – 118,690 posts
9. Dallas, Texas, USA – 94,083 posts
10. Seattle, Washington, USA – 89,202 posts
11. Miami, Florida, USA – 77,892 posts
12. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA – 66,533 posts
13. Los Angeles, California, USA – 58,610 posts
14. Singapore – 58,352 posts
15. Atlanta, Georgia, USA – 51,335 posts
16. Hong Kong – 45,189 posts
17. Sydney, Australia – 43,157 posts
18. Houston, Texas, USA – 38,891 posts
19. Melbourne, Australia – 36,729 posts
20. Nashville, Tennessee, USA – 31,958 posts

Clearly L.A. lovers are lazy insta-posters... while Boston is killin' it.

How does Paris not make this list at all? lol

LAsam · #**486** Posted **Feb 24, 2023, 8:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by iheartthed

How does Paris not make this list at all? lol

Right? Frankfurt over Paris? On Instagram?!

JManc · #**487** Posted **Feb 24, 2023, 8:30 PM**

@art.of.chi (Chicago) is hands down some the best photography I've seen on Instagram.

homebucket · #**488** Posted **Feb 24, 2023, 8:32 PM**

Yeah that list doesn’t pass the sniff test. Boston and Atlanta over HK? I don’t see Tokyo or SF on the list either. Maybe the algorithm is broken or the data was taken during the pandemic?

sopas ej · #**489** Posted **Feb 24, 2023, 8:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by LAsam

Right? Frankfurt over Paris? On Instagram?!

Kind of a toss-up.

homebucket · #**490** Posted **Feb 24, 2023, 9:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chisouthside

My own top 10
1. Chicago(Hometown bias of course but also perfect mix)
2. San Francisco(natural beauty, nice mix, nice new towers, looks amazing when youre crossing the bay bridge from oakland)
3. New York(sheer size, multi nodal)
4. Houston (Love all the buildings from the 80s)
5. Seattle (Looks really beefy when traveling on the ferry, the Columbia builidng is one of my favs)
6. Los Angeles( small but iconic and beautiful backdrop of the san gabriel mountains)
7. Philadelphia( nice mix of towers and looks beefy)
8. San Jose (I know its really short but at night it gives me blade runner vibes)
9. Detroit( small but it's sort of a time capsule and i appreciate that.
10. Atlanta( flew in one time and downtown looked like an island in the middle of a forest sea).

I know Vancouver and Toronto have many beefy skylines but nothing besides the cn tower stands out tbh.

Interesting results! Definitely didn't expect to see San Jose mentioned in this thread.

LAsam · #**491** Posted **Feb 24, 2023, 9:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by sopas ej

Kind of a toss-up.

Paris has better photos than that!

Chisouthside · #**492** Posted **Feb 24, 2023, 9:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by homebucket

Interesting results! Definitely didn't expect to see San Jose mentioned in this thread.

its looks the best when heading towards downtown on the 87 from the airport at night. I honestly think it's just the lighting that makes it look as cool as it does.

homebucket · #**493** Posted **Feb 24, 2023, 10:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chisouthside

its looks the best when heading towards downtown on the 87 from the airport at night. I honestly think it's just the lighting that makes it look as cool as it does.

Not the same angle, but there's a nice recent shot of the skyline with some snow on the peaks of the Diablo Range. It's almost like a mini LA!

https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/com...town_san_jose/

Chisouthside · #**494** Posted **Feb 24, 2023, 10:16 PM**

WOW! Can you imagine a san jose skyline without the height restrictions and that natural backdrop?

bilbao58 · #**495** Posted **Feb 24, 2023, 11:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by sopas ej

Kind of a toss-up.

Pan to the right.

Downtown by Aurélien Le Roch, on Flickr

La Défense Lever de Soleil by EC2015, on Flickr

mousquet · #**496** Posted **Feb 24, 2023, 11:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by iheartthed

How does Paris not make this list at all? lol

Even though the district of la Défense helps in that matter, we're not renowned as a skyscraper city anyway.

We need a couple of supertalls to enter the upper skyline league. But you know, nimbyism is a plague in this city.

I think Paris frequently ranks as the "world's most beautiful city" online, as a cliché that even ends up boring people in the world.
That's because the central city is really hard to beat at street level.
It is a very pretty city indeed.

Now is it the most beautiful? I find the question to be naive and silly. There are many beautiful places in the world.

sopas ej · #**497** Posted **Feb 25, 2023, 1:06 AM**

I was being facetious, guys.

Besides, there are so many more interesting and beautiful things in Paris to take pictures of that trumps taking a shot of its modern high-rises; I'm sure its skyline of modern high-rises isn't a priority for many visitors. It wasn't for me, anyway.