Your city's tallest in your lifetime

[Austin55]

Born in 94, so The Omni (447 ft in 2009)

[Phil McAvity]

I was 3 when Victoria's tallest (a 22 story residential building) was built in 1969 so it's basically been there my whole life but after half a century the city is finally building a taller building (a 25 story residential building)

From this:



To this:

[Pedestrian]

Originally Posted by JManc

Yeah but two really tall ones in the past ~10 years in a city that dragged its feat when it came to tall buildings period. It went from having no skyline 35 years ago to one of the biggest and most iconic in the US with some of the tallest buildings. That's impressive.

When I was a child and teen, Philadelphia was thought of pretty generally as the "second city" of the east coast (no matter how unfair that may have been to Boston), New York's little sister but still the urban big time. Looking back it may not have had that impressive a skyline (though I wouldn't say it had none) but it seemed to most people that it did (this was a time when only NY and Chicago REALLY did--recall that I believe I was in college when the original World Trade Center went up).

But when you start talking "biggest and most iconic" NOW, I think this bit from the other thread ( http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/newr...eply&p=8284063 ) is worth reposting becauase hey, there are a few other cities between NY/Chicago and Philadelphia:

Originally Posted by dimondpark

No. of buildings 400 feet tall or taller:
Miami 89
San Francisco 54
Houston 49
Las Vegas 44
Los Angeles 41
Atlanta 39
Seattle 39
Calgary 38
Boston 31
Philadelphia 31
Dallas 30
Montreal 30
Jersey City 22
Vancouver 22
Minneapolis 19
Denver 17
Pittsburgh 16
San Diego 16
Charlotte 15
Austin 14
Detroit 14
Honolulu 13
New Orleans 13
Cleveland 10
Columbus 10
Kansas City 9
Mississauga 9
Edmonton 8
Nashville 8
Baltimore 7
Tampa 7
Bellevue 6
Milwaukee 6
Fort Worth 6
Indianapolis 6
Oklahoma City 6
Tulsa 6
Fort Lauderdale 5
Portland 5
St Louis 5
San Antonio 5
Jacksonville 5
Louisville 4
Orlando 4
Memphis 3
Raleigh 3
St Paul 3
Newark 2
Phoenix 2
Sacramento 2
Oakland 1
Virginia Beach 1
Albuquerque 0
Arlington 0
Colorado Springs 0
El Paso 0
Fresno 0
Long Beach 0
Mesa 0
San Jose 0
Tucson 0
Washington DC 0
Wichita 0

[dave8721]

In my lifetime (I didn't live in Miami for all of these):
Wachovia: 764 feet (1984)
Four Seasons: 789 feet (2003)
Panorama: 868 feet (2018)

Theres ~10 active proposals/approved towers taller than Panorama in the works but who knows when/if they will be built

[pj3000]

Originally Posted by MayDay

Born 1972 (on May Day ). Tallest in Cleveland at the time was the Terminal Tower, then Key Tower took the title in 1991.

Two EXCELLENT skyscrapers

[Centropolis]

cleveland has an unbelievably monumental downtown. it feels like it was planned for a 10 million metro.

[Wpg_Guy]

born in '84 so Richardson building (on the right) until 1990, then 201 Portage (on the left) until present, new tallest currently under construction.

[iheartthed]

I saw the new WTC be built. If not for the terrorist attacks, there would not have been a new tower in Manhattan to surpass the height of the old WTC 1 and 2.

In my city of birth, One Detroit Center is the tallest to be built in my lifetime. The new development on the Hudson's site will be the tallest in the city when completed.

[Gresto]

Toronto's tallest, First Canadian Place, was completed when I was an infant, and remains the tallest today, though several challengers look to eclipse it within the next few years (unless one includes the CN Tower, which was completed around the same time, and will remain the tallest for the foreseeable future).

[volguus zildrohar]

I'm 35 and Philadelphia has had four tallest buildings during that time with a jump in range of more than 500 feet.

Gotta be some kind of record.

[Pedestrian]

Originally Posted by iheartthed

I saw the new WTC be built. If not for the terrorist attacks, there would not have been a new tower in Manhattan to surpass the height of the old WTC 1 and 2.

In my city of birth, One Detroit Center is the tallest to be built in my lifetime. The new development on the Hudson's site will be the tallest in the city when completed.

I saw the original WTC being built. Before you ask, I did NOT see the Empire State being built. I was born in Washington DC. I also did NOT see the Washington Monument being built.

[Will O' Wisp]

San Diego is a bit odd in that the tallest building built in my lifetime will almost certainly be the tallest building ever built in downtown SD.



Due to the proximity of the airport to downtown, there will never be a tower taller than the 500' One America Plaza. At best it might be equaled but I seriously doubt that will ever happen tbh.

[FtGreeneNY]

Born an raised in Philly in '68:

City Hall, 1894 - 548'
1 Liberty Place, 1987 - 945'
Comcast Center, 2008 - 973'
CTC, 2018 - 1,121

But I've lived in Brooklyn longer than I've lived anywhere:

Williamsburgh Savings Bank, 1929 - 512'
The Brooklyner, 2010 - 514'
388 Bridge Street, 2014 - 590'
AVA DoBro, 2015 - 624'
City Point II, U/C - 721'
9 DeKalb Avenue, U/C - 1066'