Underrated Skylines (Not NYC, Chicago etc.)

I agree

Pittsburgh is beautiful - shockingly beautiful

Panama City

Ottawa

Stone Town (Zanzibar)

Cork Ireland

The beauty of St. Louis begins and ends with its skyline.

My dad worked on the top floor of the PPG building in Pittsburgh. I remember his office was all glass windows and I would walk right up to the edge and look down. It was very disorienting.

Edinburgh has magical vistas. This one from Calton Hill

I wish The DL had a veto vote. Two of these are completely unremarkable.

The great thing about Pittsburgh's skyline is that there are a few points where it just sort of magically appears because of the way the roads are. It sort of just pops up from Parkway East.

But the real "reveal" is when you come through the tunnels from the south hills/airport - and then on the other side, boom, you're there. I've been on several buses where people applauded when they came through that other side.

Now, as a driver, coming through that same tunnel is a death twist where you have about 200 feet to figure out which of 4 lanes you need to get into, but still, the skyline is real pretty......

A dull winter day, but you get the concept here. It's beautiful in spring/summer/fall and especially at night.

Houston

Chongqing just popped up instantly it seems.

I supposed it's well known now, Shibam Yemen

Busan, South Korea

Dallas, TX

Atlanta skyline jutting from a forest of green.

Not Philly

R18, that's because of the stupid fucking Gentlemen's Agreement, not to build higher than the hat on William Penn on City Hall. While Chicago and NYC were blossoming with art deco masterpiece skyscrapers, we got nothing.

Now they're building cheap flat-top glass and steel buildings that are aesthetically tragic.

San Diego

R20. And you fly just above when you land at the airport.

What is praise worthy about some of these "skylines"? Sand Diego? Bland squat "towers" on the sea. Cork, a skyline? The one tall building in cork is 17 stories and unremarkable.

sand 🤡

I don't have one.

R24 Welcome to Datalounge, Helen Keller.

Sand Diego 😄

Sandy Eggo

Atlanta after dark.

Melbourne's is pretty impressive.

Atlanta is amazing to me because it looks like it was planned carefully and expertly and I doubt it was

I live here, r25, and it's really difficult to get a picture of the few skyscrapers and make it look like a skyline at all.

R30 - I only see like 5 tall buildings, although I admit they are nicely spaced out. Wiki says there are over 40 buildings in Atlanta over 400 ft tall - where are they in the skyline??

That's not even all of Atlanta's skyline. That photo doesn't even include Buckhead (uptown) where plenty of tall buildings stand.

This shot looks south from Buckhead all the way downtown. Only part of the Buckhead skyline is shown.

Cité d'Émeraude

Gold Coast Australia is shaping up in recent years. Rio isn't high towers but the mountains complete it.

La Paz is very unusual because you are often looking down at the skyline and when you are level with downtown, you still dont see sky as much as the city scrambling up the mountains behind buildings. it creates a mosaic of buildings of different sizes and heights in your entire field of vision and is dazzling.

Very few skyline views can beat Hong Kong. Looking down on the skyline from the hills is mesmerizing.

Some of these look elaborate bristles on a hairbrush.

R20 - I think this is a better view of San Diego's.

R37 Who knewHong Kong has a great skyline? Thanks for bringing it to our attention as an underrated one.

The skyline of Atlantis

Istanbul.

They’re totally talking about Omaha. I just know it.

San Gimignano

Balneário Camboriú, Brazil

The beach falls into the shadow of that beautiful skyline, after lunch time. They tried to solve this major issue by widening the beach, to mitigated effect.