Show us your home City's skyline

[lilshortjordan 0]

Wichita, Kansas pop. 600,000 (metro)

[nofunk 1,933]

odainsaker: That was a lovely tour of San Antonio! I'll admit: I always imagined it as a dusty Texas town, but it really is quite beautiful. And of course, your downtown is a dream come true for someone like me who loves old architecture. I must visit some day!

I haven't gone back to see if my city has been featured in this thread yet, but here you go:

Ann Arbor is a medium-sized city (about 115,000 people) in Michigan with a very modest skyline. The tallest building, Tower Plaza, is the city's tallest at 26 floors.

Here is a great image of downtown from flickr member ifmuth:

Another shot from ifmuth, here is Tower Plaza. Most people either love the building or hate it; I happen to like it

Another shot from flickr member dnj_Brian, this one from the "Big House" (the University of Michigan stadium) during a game day:

One more shot, from yours truly, looking down North University during the annual Art Fair. Most of the buildings in this photo are part of the University of Michigan, which is integrated into the east side of downtown Ann Arbor:

Hope you enjoyed the tour!

[Odainsaker 2,137]

@nofunk:  Hehe, glad you liked our little city.  When I first came here, I thought it was going to be banishment to some lost desert barrio of cactus and adobe as well.  Thankfully, it was nowhere near what all those John Wayne western movies would have us imagine.  While most of us think of oil-wealthy Texas cities given the influence of bigger megasisters Dallas and Houston with their towering glass boxes, older San Antonio and smaller Austin offer their own unique charms.  Hehe, maybe it is the univeristy town thing, but your images of Ann Arbor almost suggest the same scale and feel as Austin.

I would have added these goodies to the original post if I had found them earlier, as they are sexy old American buildings:

This great scene comes from paul is just dandy on Flickr, who has a great photostream.  The construction in the foreground is a small section of the reorganizing of our old Main Plaza into a new civic public space, with a restored 19th century fountain intended for this location.  Such quaint architecture...looming in the background from the left are the Tower Life Building, the former Plaza Hotel, and on the right the striking red tower of the Bexar County Courthouse.

Speaking of charming quaint buildings, I think I am falling in love with the Emily Morgan Hotel, and this scene by nalie_j from Flickr shows the way it terminates the vista of Houston Street.

Though today it is a fanciful Hotel in a central location near the Alamo, this originally was called the Medical Arts Building and housed the offices of private medical practices.  Together with the gothic-revival Nix, it made for lofty 1920's medicine.

And the terra-cotta gargoyles and mardi-gras froo-froo masks looking down on us are cool too, as is this even cooler photo by one2c900d on Flickr!  I just would never have expected skyline gargoyles to be so popular in South Texas!  Here is an atmospheric view from such a decorous terrace that renderer Hugh Ferriss would appreciate.

But, of course, we do have our dabbles in modernity, of which a cool example are the greenhouse domes of the San Antonio Botanical Gardens in this image by max1west of Flickr:

The conservatory domes by Argentinian architect Emilio Ambasz are just so space-age and make for strange contrasts with the tropical and desert plants and palms within or the nearby Kumamoto En gardens.  KenSA on Flickr has a great photostream of the Botanical Gardens.  This area was formerly a limestone quarry replanted into a lush garden, similar to the nearby restored Japanese Tea Gardens (aka Sunken Gardens), a 1910-1920s landscaping gem whose ponds and lush plantings were also formed within the deep open pits of an old rock quarry, making a fascinating interpretive mixture of Japanese gardening and Texas materials.  Of course, San Antonio is still either hot arid or hot humid, and my little garden is becoming a menagerie of bizarre looking hardy succulents and favorite tropicals from Hawaii.

Okay, I think that is enough SA tourist boosterism...the Chamber of Commerce owes me something here, hehe!  However, two more pictures, because focusing on downtown makes things seem a little too pretty:

Radiating beyond downtown in all directions is the quintessential American sunbelt sprawl, in this great and depressing image of Loop 410 near the airport taken by Kaptain Krispy Kreme and found on his photostream on Flickr.  A satellite suburban "center" that really has no definable center or sense of place and is perceived primarily as banal amorphous strips around an ugly interchange where cars rule and people submit.  No matter how bright red they paint the overpass balustrades and retaining walls, this is so harshly bland, it could be anywhere and so speaks of nowhere.  This is the slow cancerous death of American dowtowns, and the worst of unsustainable resource-wasting misplanning and inhumane design.

Aarrgh, it just sucks the urbanity away, almost an instant cutoff...rant, rant, rant...hehehe.

[anik 14]

Houston...

Awesome City. Space City, Tech town. H-town, anything you wanna call it

[supercity124 8]

Originally posted by: GQBouncer05 My City Los Angeles

DTLA

Century City, Los Angeles (LA's second Downtown)

Westwood, Los Angeles

Millionaire Mile(Westwood, Los Angeles)

Please note the maximum image size is 800 x 600 - MM

Wilshire/Westwood, Los Angeles

Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles

Miracle Mile/Wilshire, Los Angeles

Warner Center, Los Angeles

the rest of the towers couldn't fit in the pic

Westwood with Century City right behind it

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              Los Angeles is my hometown, but in the Van Nuys neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles. Los Angeles is such a boring city, San Diego is a better city I will live in San Diego when I am older.

[laurieking101 0]

My hometown of Bristol, United Kingdom, has a small skyline in comparison to many other cities. However, it has changed enormously in the past 10 years and now can safely be credited as a tourist destination.
Pictures:
The Clifton Suspension Bridge lit beautifully at night.
Millenium Square.
The Centre.
The docks, with St Mary Redcliff.

[Muck308 55]

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. USA. The Steel City, The Golden Triangle.

One of two surviving inclines scaling Mt. Washington. There use to be many of these.

A shot of Oakland from Schenley Park (where Pitt and Carnegie Mellon campuses are.)

Ketchup anyone?

Balloons

Fort Pitt Bridge

Satelite

One PPG Place

Where I live... West View (just to the north of Pittsburgh's city limit)

And where I just moved from. Bellevue

Opposite sides of  Interstate 279

[J D 1]

On my way to school:

From my roof:

Inner Harbor-ish:

There's always shade where I'm standing:

[J D 1]

/I live in Baltimore

[Whenmonkeysbite 0]

Much as you would like to pretend, there is no competition. Sydney is the best.

[Whenmonkeysbite 0]

Also, see here.

http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen6/f52-sydney.html

[xV.I.N.C.E.N.T.x 0]

This is in my back yard.  I didn't take the pic though. 

LOVE it here.

This Chicago Spire seen here in an artist rendition, has already broke ground.  

It will be 150 stories tall..  Dear Lord!!!!!

Check out this video of the Spire.  The music is very much SIM in God mode! 

[leleone 0]

Torino (Turin), Italy

[Made in Erie 814 60]

I don't live there, nor did I take the picture, but this is truly a nice small-city skyline.

Here is the skyline of Covington, Kentucky in all its' glory as photographed from Cincinnati. Sorry about the image quality (I had to conform to ST's regulations)

[Simcitymaster13 27]

Here is my Home City of Denver,Colorado. The Mile High City

[Muck308 55]

Simcitymaster13. Try to keep the pics limited to 800x600.

[edcase2k4-thugangel1983 1]

not my own hometown's skyline, but i took this beautiful photo of Fuengirola's "skyline" (from a small ferry which travels along the coastline), in the Malaga region of the Costa del Sol, Spain.

(click the image for full-sized version)

i did have that as my desktop wallpaper previously. i've also had this one of the London Docklands skyline set as my wallpaper. i took this photo from the Deptford Strand riverwalk, looking east across the River Thames towards the London Docklands.

[sarahsanden 0]

Heej Guys.

My hometown Eindhoven, NB in the Netherlands.

It's the fifth city in the NLD and as around 800.000 in urban area and in the whole metro region around 2.3 mil.

[atilla5 6]

here's my hometown and where I live Booge, South Dakota, USA population 6

Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA (also my hometown) city population 153,000 metro population of 227,000

[astondb9 7]

I dont have any pics of my hometown because I live in a tiny little village with a church being the highest.. But im SO glad London is finnally going high-rise, considering its ment to be one of the worlds *megacities.*

Yet the skyline is very... err boring???

However... According to wikipedia..

As of June 2008, there are 1,384 completed high-rises in the city.

Hmm =]

[_Atticus 10]

The thing about London is that there are several "downtowns": The City, Canary Wharf, etc.

[astondb9 7]

Yea, But compared to other cities (especially the US) they are very spread out.. (And Canary Wharf where they are built together, was designed by Americans anyway)

The buildings in the City are very randomly placed.. And are lots of different styles. (European desgined obviously) =]

[GMT 389]

I live in the 200.000 souls village of Saarbrücken. As I use to call it the small town with large town airs and graces (looking at cab fares, bus fares, parking fees and whatnot)

here's some pics of the "breathtaking" skyline of my city...

most of them taken on special occasions.

Not New-Years-Eve. the fireworks were part of the opening ceremony of the annual "Saar Spektakel" fair, one of the biggest annual fairs in the area

this is the other side of the river, the church is illuminated because of the german catholic convention

thats aswell a picutre of the city on the german catholic convention, only hint is the green laser beam tho, everything else is standard

this is the city hall, illuminated blue on "blue-hour", one of the sidekicks when the annual "Max Ophüls-Festival" takes place in the city, a big cultural event with literally LOADS of exhibitions, shows, movies and stuff

Same event, but this time it's the castle that's illuminated blue (the original castle dates back to 999, but none of it remains, what you see now is the baroque construction built on demand of the widow of Gustav-Adolf from Nassau-Saarbrücken, only change made to the building's outside after WW2 is the big dome with a glas facade from top to bottom in the courtyard.

that's actually the real skyline, given that these 2 buildings are the highest.

same location, only the opposite direction

Maybe I should add that the most interesting time of the year in this cidy actually is around the afore stated Max Ophüls Festival, because many many many locations are colorfully illuminated and it really gives loads of atmosphere cuz... you know... colorful lighting isn't a regular sight here

[Dizastrow 4]

DULUTH MINNESOTA

[jotauveefe 24]

 This is Barcelona's view from the Tibidabo, the highest mountain of our city (512m)

And the skyline ^^! Down here!

[Stomtroopa 3]

Here's my home city, Lima, Peru.

 

[Kryptowhite 9]

Boston, Beantown, Birthplace of America, awesomeland, etc. etc.

Downtown, probably taken from Logan Airport. Notice a unique architectural design that is very creative...the box...

Back Bay [the second skyline]. Tall blue one is the Hancock Tower, tall grey funny lookin one is the Prudential Tower.

View from the Prudential Center. This is the kind of view that would make a suicidal man want to live. Although really, don't test that statement, because its not safe to bring suicidal people up to the 60th floor of a skyscraper. Also notice the UFO Landing/Missle Launch on the right side.

The Zakim Bridge and the TD BankNorth [now without the north i guess] Garden, home of the Celtics and Bruins. This picture pretty much sums up life: Basketball, Bud Lime, and Neon Lights.

Government Center aka Ugliest Place On Earth.

Urban Renewal. Is. Satan.

[SteveMSim 275]

I see several photos that exceed the 800 x 600 rule.  If I was a moderator, I would delete the entire post the offending photo was in and I think that is a good way to enforce the rule.  Keep ALL photos to no more than 800 x 600!!

[George Mayor 0]

well the highest skyline int he city i live is only a hi-rise building.it is about 10 stories high.Well i live in Nicosia the capital of Cyprus well not a good place to live but it's ok!

[Aviator333 0]

The highest building where I live is going to be The Bow, which will block out all of my hometown, Calgary's beautiful skyline. We don't have a very big downtown though because of our terrible urban sprawl.