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New York City vs Frankfurt

Battle of Skylines

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Bracket

NYC doesn't really just have one skyline, it has 3. Midtown, Lower Manhattan, and Brooklyn.

I may talk like an asshole but i think that Warsaw already has better skyline than Frankfurt

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I really like the Frankfurt pic in the OP, but this is usually why I have to vote for NYC. There's so much going on in many different places.

Houston

never seen non Pole saying that

I love GTA IV because of "new york city", I used to play it twice a year, just roaming in the streets, I loved it.

I upgraded my PC and now I can't run GTA IV properly, the game can't recognize powerfull components REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

my vote goes to NYC

New York City

triggered by the "stairs" building, the left part is not as wide as the other parts

I was going to say "And after this, Usain Bolt vs. a man with no legs," but Frankfurt isn't as bad as I thought it'd be, and it does have the hard luck of being against NYC.

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HongKongwinslol

>I was going to say "And after this, Usain Bolt vs. a man with no legs,"
thats dubai vs moscow

well its kind of bad that NYC and HK have to face off before the finals but atleast we won't have the same exact final like the last year

imo NYC will easily win, HK is not really supported at all this year

Frankfurt

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I do share your shock of that result, though.

As for NYC, as someone who would have rather they rebuilt the Twin Towers, the Freedom Tower's been growing on me. Have they built the rest of the new complex yet?

That proposed building in Brooklyn isn't half bad either, if a bit thin. I like new skyscrapers that aren't just blue glass, and they're building one in my hometown of Chicago right now: grecstudio.com/projects/one-bennett-park.html

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people will vote HK just because of yellow fever or anti americanism

>Have they built the rest of the new complex yet?
No they didn't yet. Well World Trade Center complex should actually be quite good as they aren't some meme pencil skyscrapers.
>That proposed building in Brooklyn isn't half bad either, if a bit thin.
I dont see it as the same as these pencil skyscrapers in midtown

well we'll see there's fuckton of Americans here and people generally hate Chinks for some reason I honestly doubt that HK won't get rekt

It's exciting seeing the skyline start moving out from just Manhattan, 2bh.

NYC

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NYC should have been matched with HK or Shanghai for the sake of skyline. Or maybe London? Anyway voting for NYC

I vote HK because it is objectively better.

WTC1's light-pole and the pencil building ruin NYC's skyline for me.

>people generally hate Chinks for some reason

America's media is on full anti-China propaganda mode. Soon enough China will be seen as Russia even though it hasn't gone to war since 1979.

The bracket was random except for the "Big Four"(NYC, Chicago, Shanghai, HK) which were guaranteed to not meet each other in the first round
>Or maybe London?
London is completely on another(lower) level also btw it failed to qualify to the knockout stage anyway

also checked quads

Unfortunately I have to go to sleep now if the poll doesn't make it to the 50 votes which I doubt I will make the same thread tomorrow

Ok

Yeah, I think having some seeding is a good idea.

Well, it is early evening for Americans, so it's possible to get some more votes.

Giving the good ol' Main a pity vote

I think all of those votes are pity votes 2bh

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comfy 2bh

Oy vey, this lack of traditional architecture is triggering me

Are there any sizeable cities that haven't been defiled by hideous modern architecture?

Love rowhouses desu lads.
Not anywhere in America but here we do have some really great preserved cities like Charleston, Boston, New Orleans, Savannah, San Francisco, Philadelphia, etc, and smaller towns in between like Williamsburg and Salem. Do you have anywhere in Australia like that? I imagine Australia must be hell for fans of dense historic architecture. (However Australia must be doing something right if they keep winning all these livability contests).

I am not saying that London has a more powerful skyline than Manhattan, but it certainly has decided that when new skyscrapers - which are very regulated - get put up, they need to be of a high standard.

The property prices in London (as a whole, not the square mile/City of London (old town/financial centre)) are the highest in the world after Hong Kong

The first picture is from The City and the second is from Canary Wharf.

The walkie talkie had not been completed in my first picture that was taken from the City btw. The buildings look a bit faded in the lighting but are good looking. Gherkin, Cheese-grater etc.

Canary Wharf in pic, again not the most stylised picture.

I see nothing in these pics that even resembles anything "high standard".

With respect to height, European Skylines are at a marked disadvantage; the tallest building in Europe, in Moscow, is only the 34th tallest in the world, and no building in the EU is in the top 100. As evidenced by the Moscow vs Dubai thread, height isn't everything, but it would certainly help when going against the Big Four, and it's simply something Frankfurt lacks.

At the same time, American cities have themselves been stagnating in their own tallest buildings. Chicago has had the same tallest building since 1974, and it's likely that the original World Trade Center, also completed in the early 1970s, would still be the tallest in NYC were it not for 9/11. There was a proposal called the "Chicago Spire" that would have been 2,000 feet tall, the Burj Khalifa of the Western Hemisphere, that was killed by the recession. There's currently another plan floating around with the same height at the same site called the "Gateway Tower": businessinsider.com.au/theres-a-plan-for-a-new-skyscraper-in-chicago-2016-6

Then again, a skyline isn't just about its highest point, and there's at least quite a bit of robust activity going on in constructing middle-height skyscraper in both cities in particular, and many others in general, so I'm not too worried about the long-term health of American Skylines.

Bump for those still up

Voting for New Amsterdam. From a better, more comfy, less hectic time of history. Not to mention more exciting language.