# What is your favorite city skyline? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 21, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-city-skyline/336692 "2005-12-21T22:14:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PigBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@PigBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigBoy)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-city-skyline/336692/1 "2005-12-21T22:14:03Z")
The title says it all, I guess. Which city’s skyline is your favorite? Links to pictures would be wonderful! My favorite is [Pittsburgh](http://metroscenes.com/2005/yr.in.rv.05.59.jpg), for various reasons. (That photo and many more great ones can be found at [this site](http://www.pittsburghskyline.com/).) ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-city-skyline/336692/2 "2005-12-21T22:16:46Z")
[Austin](http://www.randysmithlimited.com/sunset.html), TX. ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-city-skyline/336692/3 "2005-12-21T23:17:10Z")
Chicago ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-city-skyline/336692/4 "2005-12-21T23:56:02Z")
Houston, specifically [at sunset](http://www.photohouston.com/Houston-skylines_1/houston-sunset-A7-137.jpg). The way the sun reflects off the towers is really something! Makes the whole city look like a live postcard. ---
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-city-skyline/336692/5 "2005-12-22T00:04:00Z")
[Chicago](http://community.webshots.com/photo/69399787/69399787bhQsgX) at night, was my first encounter with a big city skyline. It gave me goosebumps to see. ---
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-city-skyline/336692/6 "2005-12-22T00:05:07Z")
Oops, I meant to post [this](http://community.webshots.com/photo/46810520/46814215eyyBIt) picture. ---
**Author:** ![davmilasav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@davmilasav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davmilasav)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-city-skyline/336692/7 "2005-12-22T00:32:46Z")
Pittsburgh! And there ought to be a law that every city is entered through a tunnel so the skyline leaps out at you like it does there. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-city-skyline/336692/8 "2005-12-22T00:39:02Z")
[Ghent.](http://www.nicolaikerk.nl/actueel/gent/103_1541s.JPG) Nice town. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-city-skyline/336692/9 "2005-12-22T00:39:37Z")
I’m a sucker for [Detroit’s](http://www.claytonstudio.com/Images/MornSkyline2.gif) ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-city-skyline/336692/10 "2005-12-22T00:45:12Z")
I like [Toronto](http://www.toronto.ca/toronto_images/gallery_cityviews2.htm). I have better photos here than I could find on the web, but they aren’t scanned and I don’t have a website. But it’s a nice place. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-city-skyline/336692/11 "2005-12-22T01:42:56Z")
No love for [San Francisco?](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/store/buybooks/mysticalsf) I love how you can come over a hill and unexpectedly see the city spread out below you. (Sorry I don’t have any photos of my own to show y’all). ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-city-skyline/336692/12 "2005-12-22T02:09:14Z")
> [@Roderick Femm](#): > > No love for [San Francisco?](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/store/buybooks/mysticalsf) I love how you can come over a hill and unexpectedly see the city spread out below you. > > (Sorry I don’t have any photos of my own to show y’all). [Allow](http://www.flickr.com/photos/troymccluresf/44711453/in/set-1067542/) [me](http://www.flickr.com/photos/troymccluresf/71103594/in/set-1531100/). ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-city-skyline/336692/13 "2005-12-22T02:26:50Z")
> [@PigBoy](#): > > The title says it all, I guess. Which city’s skyline is your favorite? Links to pictures would be wonderful! > > My favorite is [Pittsburgh](http://metroscenes.com/2005/yr.in.rv.05.59.jpg), for various reasons. (That photo and many more great ones can be found at [this site](http://www.pittsburghskyline.com/).) A tossup for me between [Istanbul](http://www.turkeytravelplanner.com/photo_galleries/istanbul_winter/photopages/018.html) and [Prague](http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/Czech_Republic/photo94215.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-city-skyline/336692/14 "2005-12-22T03:57:08Z")
> [@davmilasav](#): > > Pittsburgh! And there ought to be a law that every city is entered through a tunnel so the skyline leaps out at you like it does there. This is how San Francisco appears coming from the north. The approach south on Hwy 101 snakes around in such a way that the city, the Golden Gate, the ocean, everything to the south is completely hidden by the Marin Headlands. Then you go through the Rainbow Tunnel (I expect it has a real name, but it has a rainbow painted around the arch, so that’s what people call it) and suddenly you have this astonishing vista of the Pacific to your right, the Bay to your left, the Golden Gate Bridge rising out of the gate in front of you, and the skyline of the city beyond. I have driven and ridden on this stretch of road hundreds of times, and it’s amazing every single time. It’s amazing when the fog is in and the only thing that’s visible are the tips of the orange towers of the bridge peeking through the clouds, and it’s amazing when it’s clear and the water is sparkling and the sailboats are out, and if it’s super super clear, you can even see the Farallones out in the ocean. I love the San Francisco skyline because it does say “home” to me. I adore Chicago, but it’ll take many years to build up enough memories for it to compete. For practical reasons, I must say I am extremely fond of the Chicago skyline because a. I have a terrible sense of direction and b. Chicago has some _extremely_ tall buildings. It’s hard to get too terribly lost when your local landmarks are that tall. As long as I can I can see the Sears Tower, I can figure out what direction I’m going. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-city-skyline/336692/15 "2005-12-22T04:22:15Z")
Unless there’s a stand-out feature like the Eiffel Tower or the Sydney Opera House all city skylines look much the same to me. ---
**Author:** ![barking\_frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@barking\_frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barking_frog)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-city-skyline/336692/16 "2005-12-22T05:04:32Z")
I remember as a kid I always loved the Bank of China and Central Plaza towers in Hong Kong. Very unique buildings. Montreal also has a bit of a nice and different skyline because of Mont Royale. However, I’m young and not as well-travelled as I’d like. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-city-skyline/336692/17 "2005-12-22T05:07:01Z")
How about [Dallas](http://www.dallassky.com/skyline.htm) ? ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-city-skyline/336692/18 "2005-12-22T06:05:22Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > Unless there’s a stand-out feature like the Eiffel Tower or the Sydney Opera House all city skylines look much the same to me. That’s why I like Honolulu’s skyline so much. You have to have it with Diamond Head on the right hand side. It’s such an iconic shot. And at night what makes it so pretty are the neighborhoods on the hillsides. Tantalus, St. Louis and the rest. It’s like the lights just hang there in the air. And you lose your depth perception so it looks like it’s going straight up. It never fails to make me tear up when I fly out or in at night. I can’t really find any pictures that really do it justice. You really need to get it from a boat off of Waikiki. The [Best](http://www.hawaiiradiotv.com/~media/) google does. Living in it’s shadow as I do it really dominates the skyline. With just buildings though I’d have to say Manhattan easily, even though it always makes me kinda sad. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-city-skyline/336692/19 "2005-12-22T08:50:13Z")
[Durham](http://pages.britishlibrary.net/alan.myers/durham.jpg) (the original one!) ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-city-skyline/336692/20 "2005-12-22T09:02:20Z")
> [@Fern Forest](#): > > With just buildings though I’d have to say Manhattan easily, even though it always makes me kinda sad. Although I haven’t seen the film yet, I read in a review that the final scene of Spielberg’s new film, MUNICH is (spoiler alert!) a scene of the NYC skyline with the World Trade Center in the background. For me, I like all city skylines…but NYC with the Statue Of Liberty and NYC in the background always takes my breath away. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-city-skyline/336692.md?page=2)