Sub-districts with more impressive skylines than major cities?

jayden · #1 Posted **Dec 29, 2022, 3:48 PM**

What are some sub-district/neighborhoods with more impressive skylines than a major cities' "downtown" area?

For example, I'd say Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood has a more impressive skyline than many major city downtowns. Another example would be Brooklyn.

202_Cyclist · #2 Posted **Dec 29, 2022, 4:04 PM**

Rosslyn, VA, has a more impressive skyline than DC but because of the Height Act, DC will never have an impressive skyline.

Antares41 · #3 Posted **Dec 29, 2022, 4:21 PM**

Long Island City, NY is another obvious district that has a skyline that looks like a separate city. In fact if you photograph the skyline from the west looking east many people would have a hard time realizing they are looking at a part of the NYC skyline. And the real kicker is 30 yrs ago it didn't exist.

iheartthed · #4 Posted **Dec 29, 2022, 4:42 PM**

Midtown Manhattan or Lower Manhattan on their own would be bigger skylines than almost all US cities. Chicago is probably the only true competitor against those sub-districts. Jersey City's skyline would probably rank in the U.S. top 10 - 15 range in its own right. Brooklyn + Queens today is probably a top 10 today, if not a top 5.

softee · #5 Posted **Dec 29, 2022, 4:49 PM**

Yonge & Eglinton, Humber Bay Shores, and North York Centre in Toronto have bigger skylines than quite a few major cities.

mhays · #6 Posted **Dec 29, 2022, 5:39 PM**

Bellevue is another example.

UrbanImpact · #7 Posted **Dec 29, 2022, 6:14 PM**

For Florida I would say Sunny Isles:

Sunny Isles Beach by Luis Gomez, on Flickr

ilcapo · #8 Posted **Dec 29, 2022, 7:25 PM**

Old European cities in general. Paris La Defense and London Canary Wharf the obvious ones.

chimpskibot · #9 Posted **Dec 29, 2022, 8:41 PM**

Clayton & St.louis. Basically all of NoVA & DC.

JManc · #10 Posted **Dec 29, 2022, 8:55 PM**

Uptown Houston and the Texas Medical Center.

homebucket · #11 Posted **Dec 29, 2022, 9:02 PM**

If we're just looking at local situations, the Hub once fully built out will be more impressive than the Oakland and San Jose skylines, with a new 250 ft tower, 400 ft tower, 424 ft tower, 437 ft tower, 540 ft tower, and 590 ft tower.

C. · #12 Posted **Dec 29, 2022, 9:04 PM**

Journal Square

https://www.jerseysbest.com/communit...rals%E2%80%AF/

https://www.redfin.com/NJ/Jersey-Cit.../home/36429223

rbt · #13 Posted **Dec 29, 2022, 9:09 PM**

Interesting topic. Europe seems like it should have a number of them, but La Defense went so far beyond downtown Paris, that it has become downtown Paris. I suppose any city with an "old town" has relocated downtown in a similar way.

If half of what's proposed in Burnaby gets built then it will start feeling larger than downtown Vancouver; or be central to the Greater Burnaby Region.

bilbao58 · #14 Posted **Dec 29, 2022, 10:06 PM**

Uptown Houston

Over Uptown My photo on Flickr

Uptown Sunset by brijonmang, on Flickr

Obadno · #15 Posted **Dec 29, 2022, 10:36 PM**

Tempe

https://goo.gl/maps/i7dxP4hkUomjmUUs6

Being on the water helps

And on the otherside of the Mountain:

craigs · #16 Posted **Dec 30, 2022, 3:39 AM**

Century City on LA's Westside has a more impressive skyline than some major US cities.

600 ft. 46 floors, Century Plaza North Tower, Res.
600 ft. 46 floors, Century Plaza South Tower, Res.
571 ft. 44 floors, Century Plaza Tower I, Ofc.
571 ft. 44 floors, Century Plaza Tower II, Ofc.
533 ft. 39 floors, SunAmerica Center, Ofc.
492 ft. 34 floors, Fox Plaza, Ofc.
491 ft. 35 floors, MGM Tower, Ofc.
483 ft. 40 floors, 10000 Santa Monica, Res.
478 ft. 41 floors, The Century, Res.
460 ft. 36 floors, The Tower, Ofc., Burbank
398 ft. 28 floors, 1900 Avenue of the Stars, Ofc.
364 ft. 26 floors, 10100 Santa Monica, Ofc.
348 ft. 23 floors, Watt Plaza North Tower, Ofc.
348 ft. 23 floors, Watt Plaza South Tower, Ofc.
328 ft. 21 floors, Eighteen Eighty Eight Building, Ofc.
307 ft. 28 floors, 2222 Avenue of the Stars, Res.
305 ft. 28 floors, 2220 Avenue of the Stars, Res.
305 ft. 21 floors, Century Park Plaza, Ofc.

muppet · #17 Posted **Dec 30, 2022, 9:48 AM**

Just a sidenote: highrise areas outside European cities also tend to be ghost towns after work hours (and for most of that they're cooped up inside) -
all the commerce, leisure and nightlife happens in the old city. Thus 'downtown' in Europe tends to mean the lowrise centre still, and the skyscraper districts
will always be 'bigger' in skyline, and almost suburban in location.

The beating heart that's heaving with people at all hours is actually the nondescript swathe around the red x. All the clusters actually demarcate quiet areas of the centre:

the cityscape of the West End:

Nite · #18 Posted **Dec 30, 2022, 12:20 PM**