Top 25 Skylines in North America 2023
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- Countdown of the 25 best downtown skylines in North America. A skyline is a city's centerpiece and in this video I rank the top 25 ones.
0:00 Intro
0:42 Detroit
0:59 Charlotte
1:14 Monterrey
1:41 Edmonton
2:02 Minneapolis
2:28 Los Angeles
2:53 Montreal
3:15 Houston
3:35 Austin
3:53 Cincinnati
4:13 Calgary
4:35 Miami
4:54 Denver
5:15 Boston
5:38 Dallas
6:00 Honolulu
6:21 Philadelphia
6:44 Seattle
7:03 Las Vegas
7:27 Pittsburgh
7:51 San Francisco
8:15 Vancouver
8:36 Toronto
8:58 Chicago
9:37 New York
10:08 Outro
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Hey guys. I should have mentioned it in the video, but many of the images shown are old and do not necessarily reflect the current skylines of certain cities. But do know that for the ranking I looked at the most recent professional drone footage and images, although I am not able to use most of it for the video. I've also visited most of these cities within the past couple of years and did not just base the ranking off of the old photos.
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FYI you have someone spoofing your account in the comments.
Your ranking still seems solid. No hate for LA and it's skyline but it's just unfortunate
Fight!! Lol
Maybe they're mad since u didn't mention the skyline of yellowknife in Canada....😜
One cool thing about the Detroit skyline is that because the city fell on such hard times, many of the sky rises that demonstrate Art Deco architecture weren’t torn down simply because it couldn’t be afforded. We now have some stunning examples of the style such as the Guardian building, the Penobscot and the Fox Theater.
I moved to West MI last year but finally went to Detroit last weekend for a show at the Fillmore.
Such a great town. Loved the architecture and truly was surprised by just how pretty the skyline was. Hopped across the river to Windsor for a few hours. Got some great shots. Can't wait to go back.
Driving 71 west into Austin today is a remarkable sight that didn’t exist when I was a kid and Austin was a “big small town” lol. I’m old
I've only been in Texas a few years, and live outside SA, but that's one thing I've LOVED about Texas...the 'big small town' feel of San Antonio. Nice to hear Austin has kept that, as well.
@@deegee424 No it hasn’t. Austin is busy now. What I meant was there was no big skyline view coming in on 71. 71 wasn’t freeway in Austin when I was in high school. It’s definitely changed.
That rounded top building in Denver used to be the United Bank tower. I'm not sure what it is these days. I remember shortly after it was built, one of the local news commentators referred to it as a Giant Remington Razor.
Pittsburgh looks nice on its own but driving into the city is amazing. Coming up to it you have to drive though a tunnel, so when you come out on the other side of the mountain it all hits you at once which I’ve always loved
I hear a lot of people talking about that tunnel and would love to experience that view someday
100% a few years ago I did it for the first time and I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
I love it.
In Seattle driving n on I5 you crest a rise then see the whole city at once. It’s great.
Cincinnati has the “Cut in the Hill”. You drive on I-71/75, and after the bend the skyline appears…
As dramatic as that is, Pittsburgh’s is an immediate impact from driving through a tunnel and then being in downtown once you clear through it
What do you think of Panama City’s Skyline? It’s crazy impressive for a city most people wouldn’t even consider
I was going to comment the same exact thing!!!
Yeah, it is impressive but hard to beat Pensacola's skyline which is only a two hour drive westward.
@@MikeNaples Uh I think he meant Panama City in Panama, not the one in Florida lol
I've heard the same thing!
Just looked it up, it is impressive. Definitely a top 10.
Love that you included Mexico and Canada. My favorite tho is probably Chicago. Loved the architecture tour from the architecture center there. So many interesting stories
Monterrey Mexico
Many tall buildings in adjoining city
San Pedro Garza Garcia
Chicago's my favorite too. I wanna visit the city so badly and it doesn't help that many great 80s movies were shot there.
@@stevepalmberg5905 I'd actually be really interested visiting Monterrey. Does it feel very American, or more like Mexico City?
@@theaveragejoe5781 our USA based company has an office here
Very USA like, less historical sites vs. Mexico City
More taller buildings
Closer to border too so more like Houston for example
Nice mountains surrounding
Very American feel chain wise..
@@stevepalmberg5905 thanks. Maybe I include it in a visit to texas then
I’m studying in Hong Kong… Id love to see a top 25 skyline list for the entire world!
Hong Kong is my No. 1. Just too cool.
Great stuff Kyle. As a Chicago resident, I wouldn't dare think our skyline compares to NYC. There's a lot of cranes downtown, this will be a fun summer.
I live in Chicago and spend several weeks per year in New York - my take is that New York's may be more impressive and insane of scale, but I believe that Chicago's is more picturesque. New York's newest developments are kinda disjointed and the narrow skyscrapers near Central Park in particular have really messed up the aesthetic. Still beautiful, but more in parts than as a whole sort of work of art
Hah nothing beats the star wars esque centrality of the new world trade center. Some of the new supertalls are great, like the one in downtown Brooklyn. Rockerfeller center and the christmas tree, all the buildings on the park are picturesque, and it's very easy to orient yourself from the buildings in NYC, unlike chicago and the cluster.
I grew up in Manhattan and I hate those weird skinny buildings. Can’t wait to visit Chicago. You guys win the prettiest city skyline. The density and height is unmatched.
There's so many people that like Chicago's skyline better, but I'll personally never understand how NY can't be everyone's clear cut favorite. It's just on another level in my mind.
NYC is not one skyline - it's so massive that no one viewpoint allows one to see it all.
It's beautiful too - I recommend the walk across the Brooklyn Bridge at dusk to get a hint at just how big it is - though you would need to couple it with a stroll through Central Park to see it's sheer depth.
I've lived in NYC, Chicago, and Seattle, and those happen to be my three favorite skylines in the U.S.
As far as Toronto v Chicago, I’m always inclined to put Chicago ahead just because of the historical advantage. Buildings like the Tribune Tower and Wrigley Building just aren’t ever going to be built again, and that mix of old and new really helps Chicago.
But Toronto's Royal York gives them a run for their money and the symmetry of Toronto's skyline seems to work better . Close either way
I agree that Chicago's art deco collection on the Chicago river is gorgeous & unrivalled. It's a shame that a lot of Toronto's planned art deco projects like Vimy Circle and Eatons College Park were cancelled due to the 1929 stock market crash. Although Toronto has a much higher overall volume high-rises and skyscrapers with multiple suburban skylines, similar to an Asian city. So I'd give Toronto the edge for night-time and Chicago the edge for daytime.
@@thunderbird4709 Right now Chicago's is better then Toronto, but in as little as 2 or 3 years I would say it's a push, and between 5 and 10 years Toronto will 100% pass it as there's no end in site for construction boom in Toronto. There's currently 6 supertalls under construction in Toronto, and so many more big proposals there's to many to count.
@@C-mac_in_the_6ix Chicago has a mega project going on and they never quit building buildings. Chicago just keeps getting better and better
@@montanaman2439 Not even remotely close to what's going in Toronto. Even Kyle in the video obviously does his research cause listen to what he says when he list Toronto.
Detroit has amazing gothic and art deco architecture. It’s very impressive
I agree.
Agreed. And Detroit's development has been around missing middle developments and knocking old buildings downs so i don't think the skyline is going to change soon
@@tomrogue13 Detroit's skyline is already changing.
#1) The _HUDSON'S DETROIT_ complex (which is going to be Michigan's 2nd tallest skyscraper... and new home of the General Motors Headquarters).
#2) The _GORDIE HOWE BRIDGE_ (still under construction) over the Detroit River, connecting Motown to Windsor, Ontario, Canada... said to be open to the public later next year.
Thanks for remembering Mexico is part of North America. Love how Monterrey's skyline winds through the city. Recognizing Edmonton and Calgary was a nice surprise as well.
For Boston, the best views of the skyline are from the Harvard Bridge from Cambridge looking east! You can see the downtown cluster, but also everything in Back Bay and Cambridge’s buildings.
Boston is better from the Harbor...I love Boston from the water
Glad Pittsburgh made it on there. Always admired their skyline
Love these! And thanks for having my town, Vancouver, finish 4th again! Nice to see American channels that recognize things outside their borders. You're a bright man.
Going on my 2nd year in Miami now and I absolutely love the skyline especially if you drive from MB to downtown from the Venetian Island bridge it never gets old
Surprised Panama City, Panama didn’t make your list.
That’s Central America
Central America is part of North America.
But its central america really its own continent? No. Its part of north america, north of the equator. A lot more so than part of south america, although the
@@devinmathews7809 well for Americans North America is only Mexico Canada and USA
Since North and South America are really one continent, I've always personally considered North America to be the "big three" and Central America the "little seven". Also interesting is that the Canal kinda creates a manmade continental split and Panama City is on the South American side of the canal. But either way it does have a really nice skyline
I love that Minneapolis is on this list. These are some beautiful places, and I'm proud you think Minneapolis belongs in the conversation. I'm biased as a resident of the Twin Cities metro... Having two distinctly different downtowns is pretty cool, even though Mpls gets all the outside attention. Great video, as always!
Agreed, maybe it's bias from living in the Cities, but the view of the MPLS skyline as you're crossing the Mississippi (especially if you can see Stone Arch Bridge) is phenomenal.
And even St Paul has its moments -- to anyone unaware, try going down Warner / Great River Rd from the East towards downtown. At night, when the capitol building is lit up, it's actually quite nice.
Love 35W northbound of Minneapolis skyline
Scene in Fargo
I394 east bound can tell MPLS skyline is spreading out
Check out Crosstown 62 from Mendota Heights toward Ft Snelling westbound... The view from the bridge, of both downtowns and the river valley is my favorite.
He put Minneapolis too low in my opinion. The Minneapolis skyline is more aesthetically pleasing than a lot of the ones higher on the list.
@BasedEngineer I love the IDSTower. I worked for them. We had a training center in Chaska. I always loved flying in from Pittsburgh, and I stayed a week, did my work and flew home a week later. I always had dinner Friday night at Capitol Grille. I also loved Manny's. Great memories from a wonderful and lively city. There was a brewery downtown, Gleucks. Great food and great beer. Remember Grain Belt beer? Parties on Nicollette Island were always fun.
Great memories.
I agree with you on the Chicago/New York thing...Being from Chicago I always thought we had a pretty cool skyline until I visited New York...New York's is simply breath taking...Surprised Atlanta didn't make the list...
Exactly what I thought about ATL. The view when topping the hill on I-20, west of the city is spectacular. The architecture is quite diverse and interesting, as well.
NYC was built by Chicago architects. Then ya look and notice some of the skyline is in Jersey City and Queens .......CHICAGO IS ALL CHICAGO!!! And that thing in Dubai was supposed to be in Chicago but Daley turned it down.
I disagree. I think the sheer number of skyscrapers built over the years in Manhattan ruined NYC’s skyline, it looks like a clusterfuck created by the power-hungry. Chicago’s skyline is visually stunning like it was intentionally planned.
@@jimoconnor6382 Queens is NYC
@painless465 yeah, but it's all supposed to be smashed into Manhattan
I agree with your decision about Pittsburgh in this context and how it punches above its weight. I always gravitate to Pittsburgh even though I've never visited. The physical geography alone makes it seem like it would be fun to explore. It's on my list after living in SF and Visalia. Monterrey seems awesome tambien
If you're going to visit between April and October, check out Pittsburgh Tour Company, which offers a double-decker bus tour with 21 stops.
I visited Pittsburgh in the summer of 2008 for a friend's wedding. It is a wonderful city, very underrated.
There are labeled streets that are actually just staircases.
@@sluggo0202 Don’t…don’t fucking do this. We all hate you sad jags on the tour busses. Be a normal tourist.
@@tac185 🤣🤣🤣thank u
I'm shocked you talked about the skyline of Cincy without mentioning skyline chili. Great video as always!
As a Seattle area native, I was rooting for Vancouver. It's such a beautiful city. You can easily see the pride citizens have when driving around because of how clean it is.
Vancouver isn't clean
Ur city’s skyline blows vancouvers out the water imo
Love our sister city Seattle too ❤
@@tomc2491how?
Great video, thanks - your enthusiasm and love for almost every region of the us is contagious!
Thank you!
Thanks for the video, Kyle. I’m biased toward Chicago, but the list overall is fantastic.
One could think of New York as having 5 skylines. Downtown, Midtown, Long Island City, Downtown Brooklyn and Jersey City. If you stand in the right place you can see them all at once and all around you.
jersey city isnt new york guy
Even more than that, NYC Rezoned for transit oriented development. L.I.C. used to be just the Citi tower but in just 10 years the skyline came out of nowhere. NYC has so many clusters of skylines, Lower Manhattan, Midtown, Long Island city, Jamaica, downtown Brooklyn, Williamsburg, flushing, south Bronx and many more sprinkled in like near Forest Hills, Rego park, and so many more, not to mention across the river in NJ there is Jersey City, Hoboken and Fort Lee which all contributed to the metro's skyline. NYC is a city of cities
@@aidenknox158 no but i get what he’s saying, they are in very close proximity to each other and a lot of people in Jersey City work in NYC. Jersey City is technically a part of the NYC metro area too
Liberty State Park is the perfect place to see all of Manhattan, as well as Jersey City and Brooklyn's skyline all at once
@@aidenknox158 Jersey City is closer to midtown Manhattan (core of the metro area) than many other locations within NYC. The boundaries are meaningless. In addition, there are many people who live in Jersey City that just say they live in NYC.
The Hudson's Site will be a big game changer for Detroit's skyline. There's another residential high rise going up on the riverfront too where Joe Louis Arena used to be. Pittsburgh has the best skyline of a city its size. The view from Mount Washington is just stunning, especially at night. Love Cincinnati's skyline too. Driving up I-75 the view from the cut in the hill is so impressive. Chicago will always have my favorite skyline. IMO Chicago's skyline is just perfect.
Just to add that next to the residential high rise at JLA they recently made a deal for 600-800 room hotel. For reference the Westin Book Cadillac is ~450 rooms at ~350 ft.
I’m partial to Midwest geography and urbanism - and fully agree with your take here.
I just discovered this channel and I am obsessed. It really makes me want to travel - I always forget how many amazing places there are to see in the US. 😍
I like that Dallas building lined with green lights. Haven’t spent much time there but I just like driving by it.
Thank you Kyle! I'm amazed how different some of these look than I thought or remembered. Living in South Carolina it's mindblowing seeing the scale of some of these places. In Charleston our skyscrapers are church steeples!
Where's Atlanta??
Georgia
It's a top 5 city in the US. The others can't say that. Buckhead, midtown and downtown Atlanta is undefeated together.
Very nice video, you just earned yourself a new subscriber. Keep up the good work.
Amazing video as always
I think it's a bit unfair to omit Washington, DC. Yes, the buildings aren't very tall, and if the viewing distance is far, I can understand. But, the closer you get, the architecture of the buildings, monuments and memorials in and around The National Mall is seriously impressive and iconic.
Yeah but this is the Skylines. So silhouettes from afar, ect.
Hi kyle, I live in Denver and it looks amazing. I was also searching for a video like this. And I got it, all thanks to you.
Happy to see Cincinnati on the list! On the drive into town from the airport (in Kentucky), you can't miss the turn on I-75 when the skyline suddenly come into view. It's absolutely beautiful.
Yes it is! Never gets old!
You need to get a view of the Cleveland skyline. Best of Ohio
@@boogitybear2283 Cleveland skyline should be among the top 25 most exciting in North America
Toronto (and Niagara Falls') growth has been amazing. I remember going to the CN Tower when it was outside of the downtown and they were just starting to build high rise condos nearby. When I see the tower fully enveloped now, it's impressive...
When I was in Niagara Falls in 2012, I was very impressed at how much the skyline had grown relative to what it had been when I had last visited in 1993.
There's so many new skyscrapers going up in DT that you can't even see it anymore from half the places downtown. It's blocked out by skyscrapers in front of it.
I love this stuff! Good vid!
The top three are beyond iconic skylines. The difference between Toronto/Chicago/NYC and the rest is absurd. Chicago is only going to look crazier too. West Loop is getting built up in the next ten years which will give it another good angle.
Thumbs up on the video, and the selections. When I travel on business, one thing I always appreciate is mountains in the background of a city. You're focused on a meeting, and then off in the distance, seeing Mt Rainier, juxtaposed will with ports, trains, and buildings, it just gives you pause and breaks you out of the time between meetings and gives you an opportunity to appreciate things that stand outside the immediate. Same with Vancouver, Denver, SLC, and Portland. Also appreciate your selection of Pittsburgh. Agreed, that city has done much in the tight space and beauty of the waterways.
LETS GO Cincinnati at #16 😄😄😄 couldn’t agree more! I have a beautiful view of the skyline at the end of my street 🥹 its so cool, never gets old. Thanks for the video :)
The skyline in West Palm Beach, FL amazes me. Not cause it’s actually so impressive but when you realize it only has a little of 100,000 people, the skyline in correlation to its size is unlike any other. It’s visible from close to 20 miles away! For a such a small city that’s super impressive
Great video! My next video is coincidentally a skyline rankings video as well, which I'm hoping to post later this week.
I think you're more qualified for the topic. Plus I'm a cheapskate and skimp on paying for good images
@@GeographyKing haha well I don't know about that but there are a few differences between our rankings. I may have been over thinking it though.
I'm glad you included Charlotte! I live here and they are building high rises like crazy.
BTW, GREATEST CHANNEL ON TH-cam-Kudos!
4:21 As a Calgary resident, I'm a little surprised your picture is from before 2010, which is when The Bow (774 feet) and later Brookfield Place (810 feet) rose up to dominate the skyline. There is a third building, Telus Sky (728 feet) added to the skyline as well, so the tallest shown, Suncore Energy Center is now the 4th tallest in the city. Not mad, though - love your videos, and a bit of pride my city made the cut.
Yeah I'm not too happy about that either. I tried to get images as new as possible but I'm limited as to what I can use permission-wise and the image quality for many isn't very good.
@@GeographyKing Just thinking, if you want, I can drive up to some decent vantage point (it's not really that far from home) and snap a few pictures for your use. I don't see any need for compensation - you could use the pictures as your own. I mean, the video is already out, but maybe if there's some future video, then it could work for you. Haha, I can send you a picture of Chattanooga that I took a few years back when I was passing through.
Great video!!!
Dallas represent! I hate driving there, especially at night, because the freeways are spaghetti, but seeing the Reunion Tower and all the other buildings light up *almost* makes it worth it
Love to see the Chicago skyline from across Lake Michigan in my hometown of Michigan City, Indiana.
Thanks for showing Cincy and MoTown!
I was a bit surprised you bypassed the opportunity to plug Skyline Chili in Cincinnati! Great job as always.
Very cool thanks. Glad to see Boston on the list
I would have to slightly disagree. Atlanta definitely has a top 10 skylines. The westin hotel is the one of the tallest hotel in north America not to mention the Bank of America building one of the tallest Building in the South.
Yet weston is extremely ugly? Absolutely nothing special about atlantas skyline
I agree that Atlanta has a beautiful skyline and is one of the greenest cities with so many trees! Of course I’m somewhat biased because I live in the metro area, but I do realize that sometimes it’s not included in these lists because some people consider it too “spread out “ and not compact enough.
One of your better lists. Your assessment is right on too.
There's actually a solid argument for Chicago having a better skyline than ny. Hear me out. Despite ny having individually pleasing buildings, the city does not take care of the skyline as a whole, so you end up with beautiful buildings being blocked by less inspiring ones, and some totally off the wall out of scale pieces. Not to mention that it's hard to find a place to admire ny's skyline as a whole as a pedestrian, whereas Chicago has plenty along with wider walkways thanks to the L.
While I personally would still put NYC first, it’s definitely much easier to appreciate the architecture in Chicago because it has a unique combo of a high demand for skyscrapers but also plenty of land to build on so you don’t get quite the same “dark canyon” effect as Manhattan.
Absolutely agree. Maybe when the twin towers were still there and the ESB was unhindered by these skinny high rises all over, it had presence. Now, it's meh. Chicago will be my #1 choice for awhile. You just can't ignore the fact some of these cities are on the edge of of bodies of water that add to it. NYC is, too. But you never get a good look at the entire skyline from the water. Chicago, Toronto and Seattle just rule.
Well, actually you are wrong on one very important point. Manhattan is an island, has great places to view it, all the way around, from NJ, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and The Bronx. And it just goes on and on, the only break being around Greenwich Village, Chelsea, East Village, because the ground won't support super tall buildings. I would have put Jersey City on the list too. It's skyline is very modern and impressive, but being directly across from lower Manhattan makes it seem less impressive. And in Chicago to fully appreciate the view, you have to get on at sightseeing boat. In NYC there are vantage points on shorelines across from Manhattan all the way around. It's not even a close competition.
@@markrichards6863 no, it doesn't. Not to see the entire skyline from beginning to end. Maybe over on the Throgs Neck. Even them, you're a distance away. NYC is so huge, you don't get a great vantage point in any one spot. Sure, I've been over at the Atlantic Highlands in NJ and got a great view. But I can't see midtown much. Chicagoland is flat. And if you're on the lake, it's so impressive. Same for the other cities I mentioned. If you're on a plane, maybe then you'll get to appreciate the NYC skyline. Otherwise, no.
I live on the NJ side of the Hudson River. From my windows, I can see from the Verazanno Bridge, Statue of Liberty, Jersey City Lower Manhattan and all the way up the river into Midtown and beyond. So, you are quite wrong. From Atlantic Highlands the view is quite distant, we go to Sandy Hook. You can see the taller buildings of Midtown, but Downtown is in the foreground. There are plenty of elevated spots in Queens and Brooklyn, where you get a great view of the city. I used to like to take visitors to a local Cemetery in Brooklyn for a panorama of the city when I lived over there. But I also have friends in high rises is Queens and Brooklyn that have killer views. Iike the view from my vantage point, really enjoy whe cruise ships are going up and down the Hudson. NYC has 4 or 5 times more tall buildings than Chicago. You'd have to go to Hong Kong to find something more impressive than NYC. And there is a lot more high rise construction going on now here than in Chicago. NYC is still growing. Chicago is losing population.
Chicago by far best skyline in the country let’s agree
No, I have to disagree. The number to 50+ story buildings in Manhattan is almost off the charts. Plus NYC has the two tallest buildings in the United States, now that Central Park Tower is completed.
Disagree. NYC is better. Chicagos has the looked the same forever, NY is constantly growing.. sure it’s cluttered but that’s what growth does to it.
As a houstonian who graduated high school in 09 I’ll say downtown was half parking lot then. Today it’s INSANE.
But Houston has mostly boxy looking, uninspired buildings. It's big but very generic in appearance.
@@markrichards6863 that’s your opinion. Nothing boxy about it. I think you have us confused with LA ☕️
@@AliciaTheTroonSlayer No, I've been to Houston. Your skyline is spread out, large but mostly nondescript. I don't think Houston has any unique and iconic structures that stand out. Your buildings all look like buildings somewhere else. I don't care for Houston. It's spread out. unwalkable, and the weather is horrible. You need a more dense downtown with a means to walk from place to place that's safe from the bad weather, like Minneapolis or Montreal. I think it would benefit people of Houston to have a walkable downtown. The obesity rate in Houston is through the roof.
@@AliciaTheTroonSlayer
Detroit, Motown here...
Hey, Houston is just fine.
@@YesIagreeBut Thank you. Our downtown has transformed a lot, ignore the commenter above who is obsessed with the 80’s Houston. I hear downtown Detroit is also on the come up! Good luck my northern friend
Keep it up Kyle!
should do a video like this but with the secondary cities/business districts of a metro area. definitely not as impressive as the main cbds but i still find it interesting how high rise clusters can come about outside of the main downtown of an area.
This was the video that first introduced me to your channel a few years ago
The San Antonio skyline, while not super impressive, is still better than some of your other choices IMO.
I like the video.
In my personal opinion, San Antonio is a much cooler city than its skyline would suggest. Downtown San Antonio looks like it could have been lifted out of an old Soviet bloc country and transplanted to Texas.
Two kinda underrated cities for their skyline is Birmingham and Tulsa. Both have larger skyscrapers than you’d expect and their architecture is very interesting. Not super dense or photogenic so I understand how they’re not on the list.
Birmingham, when viewed from the Vulcan statue, is really quite impressive for a small city. If they would add some interesting lighting to some of the buildings, I think it would make it even more photogenic. The mix of historic and relatively new architecture is very attractive, as well. Thanks for paying homage to my former hometown.
NYC is bigger but Chicago is better. Great vid tho
As a lifelong resident of Cincinnati (NKY actually), that PNC building was originally a Central Trust bank. An iconic building for sure.
I live in Denver and immediately thought of Toronto. Then thought, Denver isn't bad either. Great ranking all around. Thanks!
You've been to Toronto?
Yeah I thought it was interesting that you thought of Toronto as well.
Interesting to see again!
Love your videos. I think it would be cool if you did a crossover and rank amusement park skylines!
Reppin #25 Detroit, BTW
Denver's Elitch Gardens amusement park would rank pretty high on that list. It's right on the edge of Downtown Denver, so it would get double points.
You should do one of cities under 1mil or something of the like, loved your vid as always.
Really a cool video. Depending on what you consider best sky lines everybody can come up with something different but surprising to me according to Wikipedia largest sky lines in the US behind New York City and Chicago sits Miami at number 3 that is based on the number of buildings 400 ft tall or more. Miami is growing more everyday starting to look like baby New York City
Thank you for mentioning Edmonton! My home town!
Great vid! Agree with your list for the most part. Pittsburgh is amazing. Seattle I think is the best in the PNW. Dallas bugs me as I don't like the contours of a building lit-up in neon. That's more of a Vegas style. My hometown of Portland has a building that has a rooftop in green neon, ugh. It's so distracting. It's like that building was mad it's not the tallest so it found a neon roof-line to be all: "look at me!"
I agreed with this list for the most part until I saw that Atlanta was not on it, which is not only one of my favorite top skylines in the US, but the world IMO... I'm amazed it didnt make it..
New York is unbelievable. I grew up in New Jersey with the view of the skyline from my backyard. Atlanta is very awesome looking driving 400 South through Buckhead to 75-85 thru midtown and downtown. Awesome. Chicago is also picturesque driving Lakeshore Dr northbound
I always liked how the Tucson skyline looks, even if there really aren't any high-rise in buildings there...
Would you consider doing a list of top unimpressive & uninspiring skylines in North America? Big cities as well as cities maybe 500k pop and up (think Fresno). I don’t think you had one good thing to say about LA’s skyline, yet it still made the top 25.
Was just in Nashville and the number of cranes downtown is mindboggling!
Thanks for making this North America, instead of just limiting it to the US. It would have been a shame to leave out Toronto, especially because the skyline is clearly visible from parts of NY state.
I knew those three would be top three - I think that's pretty uncontroversial (although I do love the natural backdrops Vancouver and Seattle have). Was definitely curious which way around you were going to put Chicago and Toronto as well! This was a really cool list, and has made me want to visit Chicago even more than I already did. Also lol about Vegas - completely agree, it's ridiculous but also great at the same time.
Nice video thank you. One thing though it would of been nice to include more nighttime views.
Also I'm on number 9 and I haven't seen Pittsburgh yet, hmmmm.
Oh there it is thanks.
Love your videos, however shocked that Atlanta did not make the top 25.
Great list! Have you ever looked at Sunny Isles Beach, FL for its skyline in comparison to its population?
Calgary has density downtown because zoning laws restricted the downtown business core to a little triangle wedged between the river and the railroad tracks. It's very convenient if you work there, especially with the plus-15 system and free C-Train service through the downtown core.
Good to know!
Have you ever been to the top of Scotman's Hill? Gives a perfect view of the skyline with the Saddledome in the forefront. I really want to go there.
Can you do a list for the skylines in Canada? I feel it would be interesting to see the skylines of the lesser known cities in Canada.
Manhattan skyline is super impressive, I remember being in awe when I first saw it from the plane window.
This is fascinating.
Great video . I'd like to see one on the change of skylines from say 1963 to 2023 .
Cant argue. I do agree with you choosing Chicago ahead of Toronto (although I am from Toronto). Chicago has more style.
Great video, Kyle… but we all know that McAllen, TX is your favorite skyline.
I do have a soft spot for one-building skylines.
Looking forward to the Lincoln Yards project in Chicago giving a somewhat second mini skyline to the northwest of downtown.
You're totally correct on how fast Charlotte is building new buildings. The pictures in your videos are already a little behind as they're missing Honeywell's new HQ and Duke Energy's new HQ. heck we might have added a few more while I was typing! lol
It's interesting in most European cities that if they do have skyscrapers, they tend to be more on the periphery like in Madrid's Plaza de Castilla where even older US cities like Boston, NYC, Philadelphia that still have their colonial parts preserved have the skyscrapers in a more central area with density decreasing as you go out into suburbia
Having recently flown over the Toronto skyline and seeing the other pockets of skyscrapers outside the CBD, I was very impressed compared to what I saw flying out of Columbus. Two totally different cities in terms of scale and architecture!
I liked the Chicago skyline in person, but nothing beats the NYC skyline. I don’t fancy big cities but it surely is awe-inspiring.
Now I wonder what other mega cities look like in person, such as Tokyo and Shanghai..
Chigago skyline is better...more spread out you can take it all in easier
Oh Kyle I love your videos so much. And I know people are going to be mad in the comments regardless. But hear me out- I REALLY feel like you forgot Saint Louis! I’m not originally from stl and even moving out soon- but I’m a sucker for skylines and that skyline might be part of the reason I moved there. I live downtown and work in Illinois and every time I see the arch it doesn’t get old and stands as a beacon of hope. Crossing the river next to that gorgeous thing on 64 is pure beauty imho. But some of the cities you named, I absolutely couldn’t pick out of a lineup. I would argue that stl has the most iconic skyline in America that people could identify. Our courts buildings?? Stunning. The lighting, everything. Please consider us next time!!!!! Our skyline is ICONIC. P.S. I also want to vouch that Panama City would have been a great city to include.
I agree St. Louis could’ve made at least number 25 over Detroit. I live in IL across the river and hike the bluffs. On a clear day you can see the skyline..the arch looks like a shiny coin on the horizon. It’s pretty neat!
I hear you on St. Louis but I didn't include it because I felt it really comes down to the Arch. Without it I think the skyline is a little underwhelming considering the history of the city's importance. But it's all just my opinion and I can see people viewing St Louis downtown as more impressive
@@GeographyKing thanks for the explanation I was really wondering your reasoning
@@WayneHigh1500 my friend used to live on one of those big bluffs in Caseyville and had a wonderful few of the skyline even that far away. I know exactly what you mean
@@GeographyKing that’s a fair assessment. The arch and the Cardinals are about the only things that keep us relevant lol
I’m just floored to recall my college days in Austin when the entire skyline was the library tower (this was before the shooting) and the State Capitol.
Surprised not to see Atlanta on this list. Feel its much better than a good amount of these cities
FYI, Kyle: The Denver "cash register" building is none other than the headquarters of - wait for it - Wells Fargo!
Touché. 😎
Milwaukee wouldn't be near to being on this list, but we are at a massive disadvantage of appearance due to much of out downtown being almost in a valley/lower elevation compared to surrounding parts of the city. Another great video Geography King!
I like the Milwaukee skyline, especially some of the older buildings, but it's not quite ready for this list.
@@GeographyKing How ‘bout now?
I really like grand rapids. Nothing super tall but the view from Lake Michigan Drive is beautiful.
I enjoyed the video, and I was glad to see that you included Canada and Mexico. Those were some skylines I hadn't seen before. But I would love to have seen San Antonio on the list. The downtown area includes the Riverwalk, and it's a beautiful area. I'd love to see it considered for future lists! :) Miami and Chicago are probably my favorites on the list, although I do love the mixture of old and new in Philly.
Hard to argue with this overall, but it's also easy to argue for the single best view from within these skylines; the view through the bridges and cityscape river canyon of the Chicago River cutting through the skyline - at and around dusk preferably.
I always tell people that Toronto is similar to Chicago in many ways, so you pretty much nailed it by putting them #2 and #3. As for NYC, no comparison, there is only one New York, although I enjoy going there more than Chicago and Toronto, can you say Broadway, numerous museums, Brooklyn Bridge, Little Italy, Empire State Building, Times Square, SOHO, etc. well, you get the picture........
Toronto and Chicago have many similarities superficially, but very different vibes.
Absolutely all valid points for each of your picks. I’m surprised Portland, OR didn’t come in somewhere near the bottom. Probably close to 25.