TORONTO VS CHICAGO - Who has the better skyline!

**ryeler** · August 17th, 2006, 03:26 PM

I live about an hour away and have been their plently of times. Deffiniatly worth a vist

**The Beam Doc** · September 25th, 2006, 02:47 PM

I don't know why chicago's skyline is such a big deal. I think it's ugly. Toronto ftw (forthewin) hands down.

**Bright Lights, Big City** · September 27th, 2006, 04:15 PM

Originally Posted by OmegaNYC

BTW, have anyone ever been to Toronto? I would love to visit. Heard it is a great city.

You should visit some time. It only takes an hour to fly or eight hours to drive.

If you ever decide to head this way, let me know and I'll be happy to steer you in the right direction. With a city like Toronto, it's best to mostly avoid the main attractions and venture off the beaten path - this is where the city's true gems and unique character can be found; well away from the CN Tower, the Skydome...er, um Rogers Centre, and the downtown.

I'm happy to meet with anyone who comes here and show them all the best parts of Toronto, or simply advise them on where to go and how to get there based on their preferences.

peace

TOkidd

**eric** · October 1st, 2006, 07:00 PM

Originally Posted by Chicagoan

Chicago's skyline is much more impressive.

Toronto skyline is much more beautiful and ordered.

Torontos downtown skyline starts right at the waters edge, our does not.

Ours also has alot of gaps that are not really apparent in photos.

And also, Toronto must have more occupied taller buildings than chicago since it is many times more dense that Chicago.

So I think there are many points of comparision.

Many times more dense, NO. Chicago is a much more densly populated city!

**Twista** · March 20th, 2007, 09:17 PM

Chicago is the greatest city in the world am been I was born and raised I been to Hong Kong, Shang Hia, NYC, L.A., Toronto, Vancouver and alot of other cities. No skyline compares to Chicago's.

New buildings going up in Chicago

Chicago Spire: 160 stories

Trump Tower Chicago: 96 stories

Water View Tower: 90 stories

Aqua Center: 82 stories

Park Michigan: 80 stories

Legacy Millenuim Tower: 71 stories

InterContenital Hotel: 71 stories

Mandarian Orential: 92 stories

City Front Plaza III: 65 stories

680 North Rush: 64 stories

340 Tower: 64 stories

One Museum Park: 62 stories

300 North LaSalle: 60 stories

Elysian: 60 stories

1201 South Michigan: 60 stories

500 North Lake Shore Drive: 58 stories

560 North FairBanks: 58 stories

One Museum Park West: 54 stories

There is like 10 more 50 story towers that are going up but am running out of room.

All of this will go up before or by 2010.

**Bright Lights, Big City** · March 21st, 2007, 09:42 AM

I don't know if I agree with the above poster. Even within the US there are better skylines...or, at least one better skyline - NYC. Also, SF is comparable in my opinion. Maybe not as big, but certainly more beautiful.

When you factor in cities like Hong Kong, Rio, Shanghai, and a few others, I don't think Chi has the best skyline in the world, regardless of the new towers going up.

BL, BC

**kliq6** · March 21st, 2007, 10:25 AM

NYC has the best skyline since we have the worlds best skyscraper, ESB. Chicago will always be the "second city" even though its really the third city now and soon to be fourth city!

**Twista** · March 21st, 2007, 03:05 PM

Originally Posted by Bright Lights, Big City

I don't know if I agree with the above poster. Even within the US there are better skylines...or, at least one better skyline - NYC. Also, SF is comparable in my opinion. Maybe not as big, but certainly more beautiful.

When you factor in cities like Hong Kong, Rio, Shanghai, and a few others, I don't think Chi has the best skyline in the world, regardless of the new towers going up.

BL, BC

What you said right there is half true. Hong Kong might be in the lead but Chicago is doing pretty good to there coming back from the trama of the 911 attacks.

For NYC there doing horrible unfortunetly because the 911 has alot out of it. Which as Chicago has had the ability to bounce back from alot of major stuff like (Whole city burning to the ground) and (Rivers becoming so polluted).

NYC had said to the world that it won't make any skyscrappers any more after 911. 5 years later barely any building has gone up over 40 stories. NYC is has just started talking about a few towers that might go up that are actually pretty big.

**Twista** · March 21st, 2007, 03:18 PM

NYC is not as clean as Chicago. Chicago has the best artechure in America. NYC skyline is plain. Unlike Chicago's which has more color and better buildings. NYC's people arn't as skyscrapper freindly so its alot harder to make skyscrappers there.

Most of the competetion has moved to Chicago.

The only thing that NYC does this days is make better advertisment on there old buildings.

And if you really think NYC is actually improving even the tiniest bit your indenial.

**kliq6** · March 21st, 2007, 03:32 PM

Originally Posted by Twista

NYC is not as clean as Chicago. Chicago has the best artechure in America. NYC skyline is plain. Unlike Chicago's which has more color and better buildings. NYC's people arn't as skyscrapper freindly so its alot harder to make skyscrappers there.

Most of the competetion has moved to Chicago.

The only thing that NYC does this days is make better advertisment on there old buildings.

And if you really think NYC is actually improving even the tiniest bit your indenial.

When two 1200 plus towers come falling down in front of your face ( as what happened to me) you can get a little afriad and thats what has happened in NYC. Chicago didnt have to bounce back after 911, nothing happened there so they were not effected in terms of worrying about there buildings. If )god forbid) the Sears or Hancock came down Chicago would be building nothing as well

**rincony** · March 21st, 2007, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by Twista

NYC is not as clean as Chicago. Chicago has the best artechure in America. NYC skyline is plain. Unlike Chicago's which has more color and better buildings. NYC's people arn't as skyscrapper freindly so its alot harder to make skyscrappers there.

Most of the competetion has moved to Chicago.

The only thing that NYC does this days is make better advertisment on there old buildings.

And if you really think NYC is actually improving even the tiniest bit your indenial.

You think? NYC has so much beauty then Chicago. Go see neighborhood photos in the phtos page here and find me so many nicer neighborhoods like that in chicago. chicago only has tall buildings but not too many nice neighborhood. just few. New york has that and tall buildings and I think more new ones soon.

Chicago will want to be like nyc.

Chicago downtown living just started there. nyc uptown and downtown living started long time ago.

**Twista** · March 21st, 2007, 06:25 PM

Originally Posted by kliq6

When two 1200 plus towers come falling down in front of your face ( as what happened to me) you can get a little afriad and thats what has happened in NYC. Chicago didnt have to bounce back after 911, nothing happened there so they were not effected in terms of worrying about there buildings. If )god forbid) the Sears or Hancock came down Chicago would be building nothing as well

Am not stupid i lived in NYC i read the news paper were it said "No More Big Ones"

And I keep track of what NYC yes there are coming back from 911 you can't say that nothing happened it did happen if you were not narrow minded you would know that Chicago is creating a 2000 feet tall building 160 stories its called the Chicago Spire.

We should be fighting I see why you would like NYC your from there and am from Chicago but most importantly were all American and NYC and Chicago are like cousins.

So what ever good I want for Chicago I want the same for NYC and its people.

**TREPYE** · March 22nd, 2007, 12:27 AM

Originally Posted by Twista

NYC is not as clean as Chicago. Chicago has the best artechure in America. NYC skyline is plain. Unlike Chicago's which has more color and better buildings. NYC's people arn't as skyscrapper freindly so its alot harder to make skyscrappers there.

Most of the competetion has moved to Chicago.

The only thing that NYC does this days is make better advertisment on there old buildings.

And if you really think NYC is actually improving even the tiniest bit your indenial.

Dude, what ever get you through your miserable windy day

. Fact of the matter is NYC may not be as tall and try as hard t prove itself as chi-town but inspite of some sporadic atrocious greedy developer driven buildings overall I'll put NYC's classics and variety over Chicago's architecture any day. I for one I'm glad that some black stack of boxes known as the Sears does not dominate my skyline.

**sfenn1117** · March 22nd, 2007, 01:42 AM

I'm sorry, but if you were born AND raised in Chicago, I think you would speak much better english.

Also, this is a TORONTO vs. Chicago thread. You were the first to mention New York, which is not what this thread is about. So please, go troll on skyscrapercity. We don't deal with it here.

**pianoman11686** · March 22nd, 2007, 02:01 AM

Originally Posted by Twista

NYC is not as clean as Chicago.

Inaccurate.

Chicago has the best artechure in America.

Subjective and untenable in essence. And ultimately wrong.

NYC skyline is plain. Unlike Chicago's which has more color and better buildings.

You need to look at some more pics of the two cities. Because in New York, there are several skylines that offer a variety of shapes, heights, and colors. Chicago has but maybe two.

NYC's people arn't as skyscrapper freindly so its alot harder to make skyscrappers there.

Hey, you actually made a somewhat intelligent statement there. Yes, NIMBY's in NY are a bigger issue, it seems. Then again, so are higher constructions costs, less developable land, and security concerns.

Most of the competetion has moved to Chicago.

The only thing that NYC does this days is make better advertisment on there old buildings.

And if you really think NYC is actually improving even the tiniest bit your indenial.

Competition? For what? In case you haven't noticed, there's an entire subforum dedicated to New York skyscraper developments. Why don't you look at any number of 40+ story buildings going up right now: Bank of America, NY Times, WTC, Ratner's Beekman, Goldman Sachs, etc., in addition to all the ones that are either in planning or have been built in the past few years.

If you're going to put up uninformed and unintelligent posts on this forum, I'd heed sfenn's advice and move on somewhere else.