Skylines are the artificial horizon that a city’s overall structure creates. Skylines serve as a kind of fingerprint of a city, as no two skylines are alike. For this reason news and sports programs, television shows, and movies often display the skyline of a city to set location. The Sky Line of New York City was a new term in 1896, when it was the title of a color lithograph by Charles Graham for the color supplement of the New-York Journal.
Paul D. Spreiregen, FAIA, has called a skyline “a physical representation [of a city’s] facts of life … a potential work of art … its collective vista.”
1 | Atlanta
2 | Baltimor
3 | Boston
4 | Cleveland
5 | Dallas
6 | Fort Worth
7 | Houston
8 | Las Vegas
9 | Los Angeles
10 | New York
New York (World Trade Center) Skyline Before 9/11
11 | Orlando
12 | Philadelphia
13 | Pittsburg
14 | Portland
15 | San Francisco
16 | Tampa
Photos by: Architecture & Design (via Google)
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