City Skylines

[Greenstar5]

Which Australian city has the best skyline?

Interested to hear people's thoughts. Do you like your own cities skyline? Are there too many skyscrapers? Does it destroy the feel in the CBD or enhance it?

Seems to be a competition between Melbourne and the Gold Coast who can have the tallest building. Plenty of proposals and approvals each out doing one another.

Brisbane has been building a bucket load with more to come. Although is limited to around 270m by the Airport. Council trying to change this.

The Barangaroo development is beefing up Sydney, Parramatta also is starting to rise up.

Adelaide and Canberra have buildings under construction that will be their new tallest.

 

[Power Raid]

sydney

the rest are shit

 

[Billy ray]

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Someone post the pics for comparison

 

[Catfish Alley]

If you’re just looking at architecture I’d say Melbourne. If you’re counting surrounding nature/waterways you’d have to say Sydney.

 

[Smoooothy]

was hoping this was going to be a thread about the fantastic city builder game cities skylines, was disappointed

fwiw, I love the view of Melbourne you get at night from the bolte bridge. its spectacular

 

[iluvparis]

Even as a parochial Victorian anyone not voting sydney is completely taking the piss

 

[craigos]

Aside from the old school office buildings I quite like the Hobart "skyline" from Salamanca looking back to Mt Wellington.

 

[TheKanga]

Aside from the old school office buildings I quite like the Hobart "skyline" from Salamanca looking back to Mt Wellington.

Nice photo.

Also found this one which is rather nice.

 

[Thegibbsgamble]

From the hills the skyline is in front of the sea

From the sea it's in front of the hills.

From the north a river in front

From every other direction surrounded by parklands.

No contest

 

[Silent Alarm]

Skyline photos are so bad, like a glossy postcard being sold for 4 bucks in some tiny shithole town or something. There's something so dull to so many of them no matter how beautiful the night or amazing the city skyline is.

Sydney doesn't actually have a great skyline. What notable skyscrapers does it have? Ultimately that's what a skyline is, the outline and shape. Sydney is probably in the top five or six prettiest cities in the world because it's not some concrete after concrete shithole: the grass and native trees against the water, the amazing natural harbour, the iconic bridge and Opera House. Obviously none of that shit was there but when they sailed into that cove a couple of hundred years ago they must have gone 'jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez.' Like some sort of instagram but no one else had snapped one before. Sorta.

 

[Scotland]

Perth cheats at this because the city is basically laid out in a thin strip right across the waterfront so on top of the fact you get reflections from the river and great colours from the sky you also get the perception of a CBD that's bigger than it actually is.

There are some stunning photos of the city from South Perth and Kings Park, but it's a bit of a veneer. From other angles it is nothing special to look at. Plenty of pretty unimaginative 20-30 storey buildings that all blend into one. Brookfield Plaza looks like a Tetris piece, Central Park is OK, Bond Tower (old Bankwest) is probably the most iconic and was built in the 80s. And EQ is back being a construction site again.

 

[raskolnikov]

I was parochial and voted Brisbane.

 

[pieman123]

Even as a parochial Victorian anyone not voting sydney is completely taking the piss

Maybe 10 years ago, Melbourne has gone past Sydney and is having a boom at the moment

 

[Cruyff14]

Melbourne, but let's be honest, nothing will ever touch NYC.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Melbourne, but let's be honest, nothing will ever touch NYC.

This it he first thing that comes up if I Google the best ones in the wold. Sydney is number 1 and New York is well down.

If this was a global poll I’d probably go with Hong Kong.

https://www.thrillist.com/travel/na...d-ranked-where-sydney-new-york-and-dubai-land

 

[peternorth]

This it he first thing that comes up if I Google the best ones in the wold. Sydney is number 1 and New York is well down.

If this was a global poll I’d probably go with Hong Kong.

https://www.thrillist.com/travel/na...d-ranked-where-sydney-new-york-and-dubai-land

agreed, hong kong

 

[Mofra]

Canberra - if you don't die of boredom first. The planning laws enforce a natural landscape backdrop to the skyline in any direction, it's one of the few things governments get right.

 

[Scotland]

Innsbruck.

 

[Gralin]

Melbourne has a few choices

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

There's some definitive bias in the answers. Melbourne's isn't bad but you can't really go past Sydney's.

Adelaide's is pathetic.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

From the hills the skyline is in front of the sea

From the sea it's in front of the hills.

From the north a river in front

From every other direction surrounded by parklands.

No contest

Inspiring stuff indeed.

 

[NSWCROW]

Bonus Blood Moon

 

[Andre]

Inspiring stuff indeed.

Lol at anyone (even from Adelaide), nominating Adelaide. It's boring as hell. It only has the Torrens river as any water way (which you really need to set off a skyline). And there's this weird Adelaide one where right on the Riverbank is barely touched. Every other city in the world that's the prime real estate, but here it's like the half filled swamp at the back end of a yard.

Now livability is a different matter, but for the skyline Adelaide would have to come in dead last amongst all state and territory capitals.

 

[Greenstar5]