Most Massive Skyline - Page 4

PhxPavilion · #61 Posted: **Dec 31, 2009, 2:38 PM**

Figured I'd post this of Shanghai.

HomrQT · #62 Posted: **Dec 31, 2009, 3:29 PM**

Shanghai is the winner. This shot by "The Chemist" here on SSP. It has a sea of highrises, but also the talls and supertalls that really show off a massive skyline.

yellowboy06 · #63 Posted: **Dec 31, 2009, 6:01 PM**

I am still agreeing with myself on this topic that São Paulo, Brazil in my opinion has the most massive skyline. Why? Because just look at this skyline!

you can clearly see that it is very massive with Shanghai, China

right behind it...

Ok I am gonna post all five massive skylines in a row and you tell me which one is the most massive...

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Dac150 · #64 Posted: **Dec 31, 2009, 6:12 PM**

As big as it is I find Sao Paulo’s skyline to be very ugly and disheveled. Minus a couple select parts, Shanghai isn’t all that better, and Hong Kong has some pretty ugly patches too. Nonetheless they’re all ‘massive’. But I find New York’s skyline to be more orderly and ‘kept up’.

vid · #65 Posted: **Dec 31, 2009, 6:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by yellowboy06

I am still agreeing with myself.

muppet · #66 Posted: **Dec 31, 2009, 8:39 PM**

a coupla Tokyo:

http://image.blog.livedoor.jp

yep, keeeep scrooolllinng

http://chiri.xrea.jp

jacks · #67 Posted: **Jan 2, 2010, 8:05 AM**

My addition to the discussion...

By dirtyforker at 2009-10-28

For what it's worth I've lived in Seoul too and think Seoul is bigger though perhaps not more massive.

DZH22 · #68 Posted: **Jan 2, 2010, 10:10 AM**

Yellow, when I look at the comparisons you posted I think it helps prove why Sao Paulo's skyline is NOT the most massive. You are asking me to be in awe of a bunch of buildings that would barely even register in Shanghai or NYC, and are pretty much dwarfed by much of Tokyo, etc. It's all about the scale of it. When you throw up a 1600 foot building, suddenly everything else looks a little smaller. The buildings Sao Paulo is making its bones on are the types of buildings that you would gloss over as a "lull" in the main skylines of the other cities. When I see NYC I am not pointing out all the apartment buildings between and outside of Midtown and Downtown as the "impressive part of the skyline", yet most of those are still a larger scale than Sao Paulo! Let's throw a Pudong-sized area in the middle of Sao Paulo and then tell me how big the rest of the skyline looks then?

However, that is not to say it isn't massive, or massively impressive in scale. Obviously it is. But, if you take were to take Sao Paulo's tallest building and put it in one of the other cities mentioned... it would be ranked approximately in the low 50's in Tokyo, somewhere in the 60's in Shanghai, 70's in Hong Kong, and wouldn't even crack New York's top 120. In other words it wouldn't even register. Chicago has 4 buildings that are over DOUBLE the height to the roof. I think the lack of scale really works in Sao Paulo's favor for looking more massive, but if you ask me it's probably around 5th and dropping.

And that's my rant of the day

Rico Rommheim · #69 Posted: **Jan 2, 2010, 11:09 AM**

blah blah blah, this thread collpased under the weight of its contributor's massives egos long ago.

Besides all of you seem to forget that the most massive skyline is actually in my pants.

thank you.

Ch.G, Ch.G · #70 Posted: **Jan 2, 2010, 11:11 AM**

Retarded thread? Nay, most retarded thread. The word is skyline. Not cityscape, not aerial perspective.

M.K. · #71 Posted: **Jan 2, 2010, 12:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by yellowboy06

I am still agreeing with myself.

x2

I would say only ....

OMG thoses sky(line) more cityscape fights here are terrible. If were Dubai downtown Burj Dubai area in middle Av. Paulista among communication towers, then i would understand Sao Paulo would be the winner, but actually Dubai is the more massive if you compare the drop between BD height to the other buildings nearby that height floats a lot, from the perspective sea.

ungerdog · #72 Posted: **Jan 2, 2010, 4:23 PM**

I just bought a widescreen monitor and this thread alone is making the purchase worth every penny. Despite the nonsense in this thread, thanks for the photos guys.

PartyLine · #73 Posted: **Jan 2, 2010, 8:36 PM**

Here's Singapore (wikipedia)

PartyLine · #74 Posted: **Jan 2, 2010, 8:37 PM**

Didn't know that first picture would be that big lol

The North One · #75 Posted: **Jan 2, 2010, 11:42 PM**

Shanghai also gets the title of most gritty/smoggy skyline too.

Mr Roboto · #76 Posted: **Jan 3, 2010, 1:35 AM**

This thread is a little old for SSP. Ive seen tons of threads like this on city-data, and maybe SSC, but not on SSP for at least a couple years.

Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Seoul are all on another level for sheer mass as far as Im concerned - but that is not a skyline. For combination of height and mass, Shanghai is probably the most balanced of those three, but it lacks the density, or wall to wall mass of skyscrapers, of a city like NYC or Hong Kong.

All that said, even without the vastness of the three S's mentioned above, I prefer NYC and Hong Kongs skylines among the huge megacities - but thats just me.

Dan Denson · #77 Posted: **Jan 3, 2010, 2:44 AM**

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Originally Posted by Mr Roboto

This thread is a little old for SSP. Ive seen tons of threads like this on city-data, and maybe SSC, but not on SSP for at least a couple years.

Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Seoul are all on another level for sheer mass as far as Im concerned - but that is not a skyline. For combination of height and mass, Shanghai is probably the most balanced of those three, but it lacks the density, or wall to wall mass of skyscrapers, of a city like NYC or Hong Kong.

All that said, even without the vastness of the three S's mentioned above, I prefer NYC and Hong Kongs skylines among the huge megacities - but thats just me.

Me too, and for high quality architecture, both old and new, NYC appeals to me most.

phoenixboi08 · #78 Posted: **Jan 31, 2010, 9:23 PM**

Moscow is pretty impressive

Although, I can't really tell if these are only highrises (which it seems they are)...it's still a pretty large city.

Lecom · #79 Posted: **Jan 31, 2010, 11:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

Shanghai is one I would think of, the other would be Tokyo. Also, I'm not sure any American city can really be put into the same category as places like Sao Paulo and Shanghai. Even New York seems smaller by comparison.

Trantor · #80 Posted: **Feb 1, 2010, 12:28 AM**

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Originally Posted by Mr Roboto

All that said, even without the vastness of the three S's mentioned above, I prefer NYC and Hong Kongs skylines among the huge megacities - but thats just me.

but the thread is not about favorite skyline, but about "most massive skyline". People are inserting comments about their aesthetic preferences in this thread, since their favorite skylines dont win this topic...