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Originally Posted by kenc
I will get a lot of hate mail from New Yorkers, but I think Chicago's skyline may be more beautiful than even Manhattan. New York has so many great buildings that are almost invisible in the skyline because it is so dense. Chicago has just enough room to be dense, but you can enjoy the architecture.
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I don't think you'll get hate mail. I think your sentiments are agreed with by many fans of manhattan.
Chicago is about quality not quantity. It is almost perfect. There are places in Downtown where you feel as surrounded and as dense as in midtown manhattan then 5 minutes away you sense the prairie and the lake. One vista shows a way through the buildings and turn around and you can be faced with a forest.
The simple beauty of the Aon standing impossibly tall beside the spartan beauty of 2 Pru. The sheer enormity of the hancock with Olympia, Water Tower Place etc acting as stepping stones in a pyramid. The height and menace of the Sears. The massive wall of Mich as it sails on down to the hancock. The tribune and Wrigley looking at each other down the river from Mies's black beauty......I could go on as could anyone.
As you say each building exists independently and can be seen independentally yet collectively they represent a mass almost as dense as manhattan and IMO unarguably more impressive and beautiful. It is simply perfection- to north America what Paris is to Europe. the jewel. The ultimate.
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LOL, if it makes you feel any better, i just busted one on my keyboard. way to go KC!
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