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

[Architype]

Originally Posted by mousquet

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.

Paris may not be a skyscraper oriented city, but it's truly ironic that La Tour Eiffel, universally makes everyone think about magnificently engineered tall structures and skylines.

[MonkeyRonin]

Originally Posted by Chisouthside

8. San Jose (I know its really short but at night it gives me blade runner vibes)
...

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

Looks like we might have to update that old Jacksonville vs. Toronto meme.

[MonkeyRonin]

San Jose's skyline reminds me a bit of the Vancouver suburb of Richmond:


https://www.facebook.com/RichmondNews/


https://www.gettyimages.co.nz/detail...age/1313887966

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by mousquet

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.

It was a ranking of most photographed skylines, not most photographed skylines with skyscrapers. I find it very hard to believe that Paris isn't one of the most photographed in the world at any given moment.

[Klippenstein]

Originally Posted by iheartthed

It was a ranking of most photographed skylines, not most photographed skylines with skyscrapers. I find it very hard to believe that Paris isn't one of the most photographed in the world at any given moment.

From the report

Pixsy researched cities across the world with famous skylines to draw up an initial list, before searching relevant hashtags in Instagram (such as #nycskyline and #chicagocityscape) and pulling the total number of posts with each hashtag assigned to it.

[...]

This data was gathered in September 2021, with the figures accurate at the time of research.

They might have decided that Paris didn't have a famous skyline. Not sure.

[DZH22]

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.

My guess is that the pictures needed to have both "city name" and "skyline" among the keywords. I'm sure there are cities like Paris with tons more overall pictures than most of the cities on this list. They just aren't also tagged with "skyline."

[MolsonExport]

^the list is Bullshit without Jacksonville near the top.

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by Klippenstein

From the report



They might have decided that Paris didn't have a famous skyline. Not sure.

I think the methodology is just flawed. It is hard for me to imagine more people Instagramming the skyline of Nashville than the skyline of Paris.

[suburbanite]

Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

Looks like we might have to update that old Jacksonville vs. Toronto meme.

Using "Nothing that stands out" as a skyline criteria and then picking San Jose...

[Nouvellecosse]

Originally Posted by suburbanite

Using "Nothing that stands out" as a skyline criteria and then picking San Jose...

I noticed that too!

[MolsonExport]

Richmond and San Jose have lines, and sky, but not much in the way of skyline.

[Doady]

Richmond is really weird. I wonder what is the point of having a podiums for slab style buildings. Podiums are for the tall, skinny towers to meet the street, right? If you build them shorter slab-style, there is going to be a complete street wall anyways. If they are going to have podiums, the buildings should be taller and skinner. Short fat buildings with podiums just looks ridiculous.

[sentinel]

Originally Posted by DZH22

My guess is that the pictures needed to have both "city name" and "skyline" among the keywords. I'm sure there are cities like Paris with tons more overall pictures than most of the cities on this list. They just aren't also tagged with "skyline."

I'm surprised San Francisco isn't on the list, the skyline is amazing.

[edale]

I know this is an inherently subjective exercise, but there's absolutely no way San Jose should appear on any top 10 skyline list. That's absolutely ridiculous. I hesitate to say it even has a skyline. It's far less impressive than even the skylines of small cities like Dayton, OH

[softee]

Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

I noticed that too!

And nothing stands out in Toronto -- other than that 1,815 foot, tallest free standing structure in the Western hemisphere -- but that doesn't count!

[MolsonExport]

San Jose over Toronto.

Well now, how about that?

Personally, I think Peoria has a better skyline than New York City.

[Chisouthside]

Lol, nice to see everyone pearl clutching over my very subjective top ten list.

[edale]

Originally Posted by Chisouthside

Lol, nice to see everyone pearl clutching over my very subjective top ten list.

San Jose's tallest building isn't even 300 feet...You had to be trolling by including it in your list, so I guess you're getting the reaction you desired!

[Nouvellecosse]

Not sure about skylines, but my 10 favourite fruit are:

Raspberries
Strawberries
Pineapple
Apples
Lemons
Blackberries
Pomegranate
Grapefruit
Cherries
Cranberries

I've never cared for oranges or grapes though because I find them too sour.

[DZH22]

Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

Not sure about skylines, but my 10 favourite fruit are:

Raspberries
Strawberries
Pineapple
Apples
Lemons
Blackberries
Pomegranate
Grapefruit
Cherries
Cranberries

I've never cared for oranges or grapes though because I find them too sour.

No better bang for the buck out there than bananas.