Darwinism Member Username: Darwinism
Post Number: 475 Registered: 06-2005 Posted From: 70.226.96.50
| Posted on Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 8:11 pm: | |
It is rather shocking to see city skylines of Louisville(#109) and Des Moines(#74) rated higher than Detroit's(#121) by a generally global perspective. http://www.skyscrapercity.info /900.php?id=1003 Please take the initiative to increase the reputation and the image of Detroit's buildings, vote the D up the chart. |
Rberlin Member Username: Rberlin
Post Number: 508 Registered: 06-2005 Posted From: 68.76.54.108
| Posted on Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 8:36 pm: | |
I wish everyone didn't insist on taking the picture from across the river. I know that that is the standard when skyline picture are concerned, but I just don't think Detroit looks all that good that way. The only way to take that picture is to have the Ren Center in the center, otherwise the poor layout of the city, and the huge gaps on the waterfront become too apparent. Unfourtunately, by doing this you place to much focus on the Ren Center, which I don't necessarily love anyway, and obscure or at least diminish the view of the other, and in my opinion, better looking buildings. I think Detroit looks best from in the city. My computer is not working right now, and I don't have the pictures on my wife's computer, but these are always the pictures I save when I can find them. |
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed
Post Number: 17 Registered: 04-2006 Posted From: 68.40.50.194
| Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 12:44 am: | |
Obviously, our popularity is showing how irrelevant we're becoming as a region on the national and international scale. Save Detroit. |
Hysteria Member Username: Hysteria
Post Number: 68 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 205.188.116.137
| Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 12:50 am: | |
The site won't allow me to vote ... Anyway, for a city under 200,000 Des Moines has a great skyline. More attractive than a city like Indianapolis with a population nearing 800,000. |
Dougw Member Username: Dougw
Post Number: 1085 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.73.55.190
| Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 1:17 am: | |
Could do worse... San Jose (which recently passed the city of Detroit in population) ranks #531. |
Cabasse Member Username: Cabasse
Post Number: 2 Registered: 01-2006 Posted From: 69.133.90.28
| Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 1:40 am: | |
i discovered detroityes first by being a long-term member at the skyscraperpage forums, and i've also been a long-term lurker at skyscrapercity. the latter is one mess of a forum, and consists mostly of children and/or morons. that ranking makes no sense. minneapolis above los angeles? philly and boston below atlanta and dallas? and london?! detroit's skyline is much more well-known than many of the others above it on that list. rubbish, i say. |
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku
Post Number: 154 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 68.43.107.72
| Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 1:43 am: | |
The view downtown on Grand River is money |
Mpow Member Username: Mpow
Post Number: 187 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 200.65.7.180
| Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 2:49 am: | |
I agree chitaku. Along the spoke streets coming up the city is alot more impressive and mysterious. |
Put_in_bay Member Username: Put_in_bay
Post Number: 6 Registered: 05-2005 Posted From: 75.10.17.8
| Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 3:26 am: | |
Belle Isle is also a good vantage. There needs to be pay-a-quarter viewers on the island towards the D. |
623kraw
Member Username: 623kraw
Post Number: 892 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.41.224.200
| Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 4:44 am: | |
That site crashed my computer... |
Illmatic774 Member Username: Illmatic774
Post Number: 1 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 70.189.142.74
| Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 10:36 pm: | |
cmon yallz, we're still behind Tampa! and Charlotte! |
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku
Post Number: 160 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 68.43.107.72
| Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 10:38 pm: | |
site crashed my computer too |
Jimelnino Member Username: Jimelnino
Post Number: 395 Registered: 06-2005 Posted From: 68.61.118.126
| Posted on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 12:34 am: | |
Good god Hong Kong doesn't look real, it looks like something that someone made after playing SimCity 4 for 2 weeks straight. Anyway, I love our skyline, but yeah I hate when people take the picture from across the river. I've got a great picture of the city as my desktop, I wish I could find it and link to it, but I can't seem to track it down, I'll keep trying. |
Gistok Member Username: Gistok
Post Number: 2000 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 4.229.6.119
| Posted on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 12:46 am: | |
Detroit's Skyline looks best from the 73rd floor of the RenCen..... |
Andyguard73 Member Username: Andyguard73
Post Number: 40 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 64.25.200.14
| Posted on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 1:42 am: | |
This is my favorite pic of the city. I found it on this website. http://doblevych.com/english/portfolio/photo/cities/detroit/
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Andyguard73 Member Username: Andyguard73
Post Number: 41 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 64.25.200.14
| Posted on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 1:44 am: | |
Sorry for the double. It was my first time posting a pic and I'm not sure what I did, lol. Oh well I'll figure it out. At least I got it posted |
Tomoh Member Username: Tomoh
Post Number: 153 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 68.40.176.163
| Posted on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 2:18 am: | |
What a ridiculous list. Not that Detroit is a top 10 skyline.. (I've had the oppurtunity to visit the top 7 except for Shanghai, and I don't think even the top 7 is accurate at all). I think people have high expectations for a city as important, recognizable, and large (metro population) as Detroit and are, on the other hand, simply amazed when cities like Des Moines actually even have a skyscraper. It's not like people are ranking all these cities side by side. Relative to Detroit's current 7.75, many cities above it deserve much lower scores. Yellowknife? WTF? |
Tomoh Member Username: Tomoh
Post Number: 154 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 68.40.176.163
| Posted on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 2:22 am: | |
Andyguard73, that's also my favorite (or one I really, really like). Detroit woulda done better with some more flattering pictures like that one instead of the standard RenCen-tric shot. |
Broken_main Member Username: Broken_main
Post Number: 1066 Registered: 06-2005 Posted From: 69.222.11.226
| Posted on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 3:15 am: | |
Just today, I looked at the Detroit city skyline from two different perspectives(1 is my favorite, the other was a new perspective.) The view off of the NB I-75 bridge over the Rouge is a very spectacular view including the Ambassador in it. This is one of my favorites to look at. The second was caught today while driving on SB I-75 at about the Comerica Park area. Its not the skyline but you get a great view of the older building tops without the street. They look like small giants towering over you. I may try and get a few snaps of the view tomorrow. |
The_rock Member Username: The_rock
Post Number: 1128 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.42.251.225
| Posted on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 8:36 am: | |
I will vote for the bow of the WINSOME approaching/just under the Ambassador Bridge around 4 PM on a sunny summer's day coming from downriver. Now there is a view that most folks don't see. Spectacular while hugging the middle of the channel, but stay clear of the freighter traffic. And while the skyline was quite different way back then, the same view from the same location from the old steamer PUT-IN-BAY was quite memorable too. |
The_rock Member Username: The_rock
Post Number: 1129 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.42.251.225
| Posted on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 8:53 am: | |
Should also mention that some of those pictures that Mikem has shot and put on the Forum taken from the cockpit of his beloved NW planes are really awesome. Speaking of mikem , where has he been? |
Cassie1717 Member Username: Cassie1717
Post Number: 35 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 152.163.100.8
| Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 9:49 pm: | |
I vote for the Detroit skyline from the west-facing Lafayette Tower apts!! |
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed
Post Number: 25 Registered: 04-2006 Posted From: 141.213.67.45
| Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 4:38 pm: | |
Good job folks. Detroit is at 68 now... |
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku
Post Number: 170 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 68.43.107.72
| Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 4:58 pm: | |
how about his one, without the ugly ren cen |
Fury13
Member Username: Fury13
Post Number: 1035 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.222.11.226
| Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 7:13 pm: | |
Better. |
Goat Member Username: Goat
Post Number: 8349 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 67.71.59.252
| Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 7:50 pm: | |
It wouldn't let me vote. I'm not going to register so that I can vote for some stupid site. BTW: T.O's skyline though quite large, is garbage at best. |
Umstucoach Member Username: Umstucoach
Post Number: 7 Registered: 04-2006 Posted From: 141.211.222.47
| Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 8:49 pm: | |
Great skyline perspective: Dive down I75 south past the Davison. If you are in the far left lane you St. Josaphat's line up perfectly with the RenCen with the two smaller spires line up with outer buildings and the main spire lines up with the center tower. You won't get the broad outline of the skyline but driving dead on it looks pretty neat. (Message edited by umstucoach on April 21, 2006) |
Hysteria Member Username: Hysteria
Post Number: 87 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 152.163.100.8
| Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 9:12 pm: | |
Here is one of my favorites. This site has tons of great pics. http://www.emporis.com/en/il/i m/?id=325020 |
Jdkeepsmiling Member Username: Jdkeepsmiling
Post Number: 93 Registered: 01-2006 Posted From: 69.19.14.27
| Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 10:17 pm: | |
Well it looks like our hard work has paid off. The page showed Detroit as rated 60th in the world when I pulled it up...good job people. |
Gmich99 Member Username: Gmich99
Post Number: 83 Registered: 11-2005 Posted From: 24.208.240.225
| Posted on Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 2:25 am: | |
Chitaku- great picture of the skyline |
Darwinism Member Username: Darwinism
Post Number: 485 Registered: 06-2005 Posted From: 69.209.140.165
| Posted on Monday, April 24, 2006 - 1:31 am: | |
After 1 full week, Detroit had moved up the rankings to #63. Thanks to the few DetroitYes votes, the city can now be better represented on the global stage. |
Gmich99 Member Username: Gmich99
Post Number: 84 Registered: 11-2005 Posted From: 24.208.240.225
| Posted on Monday, April 24, 2006 - 11:48 am: | |
Detroit was ranked as high as 60 yesterday. |
Jimelnino Member Username: Jimelnino
Post Number: 398 Registered: 06-2005 Posted From: 69.214.180.214
| Posted on Monday, April 24, 2006 - 12:06 pm: | |
A week later, I'd just like to say that the photo Andyguard posted was the one I was referring to |