Vote: http://www.strawpoll.me/10408643
Battle of Skylines Group F
Doha - Los Angeles - Miami - Shenzhen
Doha, Qatar
The results of the Group F:
1. Frankfurt: 25
2. Seoul: 13
3. Taipei: 8
4. Manila: 3
>>60413982
>>60414025
>Shenzhen has 100% of all votes
G-d bless :^)
Los Angeles, USA
>>60414632
>>60414692
Miami, USA
>>60414774
>>60414814
Shenzhen, China
>>60414906
TINY
EUROPEAN
SKYLINES
>>60414950
I feel like Shenzhen may not make it due to burgers voting for their cities.
can someone post the pic with the groups/cities competing?
danke
>>60415547
Busan was replaced with Brisbane though
>>60415054
Wrong. LA has a notoriously shitty skyline and no one gives a fuck about Miami.
>>60415750
Isnt LA generally hated (at least by people who would post on le 4chinz), because it is illegal Mexicans central?
>>60415750
>shitty skyline
>recognizable by many people around the world
you are just jealous you don't live in LA my midwest friend.
>>60415750
>giving chinks another victory
are you a cuck
>>60413891
Look at the geographic proximity of Hong Kong, Macau, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
It's fucking crazy how close these huge cities are to each other.
>>60417169
Soon they'll grow into a single gigacity
God bless Shenzhen
>mfw all of these >>60410065 people will never post in /urban/
I'm out of new pics.
>>60417351
Well, it's quite a boring thread. People will just post images without bothering looking at the rest, then they'll wait for their juicy (You) about how butifel their town is, and proceed to move on with their life until the next circlejerk ensues.
1. Shenzhen
2. Doha
3. LA
4. Miami
agreed?
>>60417479
This, also they probably hate cities and just want to fight over who has more history.
>>60417479
and how is that different from /urban/
>>60417524
This too. It's pretty much just a contest.
>>60417558
At least we try to talk in here, not only about our own countries, but also faraway ones.
>>60417558
We can enjoy all architecture.
>>60417638
>This too. It's pretty much just a contest.
the entire "battle of skylines" is a fucking contest
>At least we try to talk in here
/urban/ has 4 regular posters: me, you, nycfag, and this chinkboo german
ebin :D
also this korean poster was qt ;_;
korean posters are rarity ;_;
>>60417703
>the entire "battle of skylines" is a fucking contest
Yes, but it's a fun contest. Not a "muh town is better than yours, look how white it is" type contest.
>/urban/ has 4 regular posters: me, you, nycfag, and this chinkboo german
Quality over quantity, as my wife's son tends to say.
We're just kind of like a portable SSC.
>>60417703
I need to start posting consistently enough to be a regular.
>>60417836
>Yes, but it's a fun contest. Not a "muh town is better than yours, look how white it is" type contest.
but they are just having a comfy thread and civil conversation
meanwhile in /urban/
"hahaha I voted Frankfurt because it's the only European city"
"hahaha Germanic architecture>>>>>>>>>>>everything"
>>60417836
And we post images to keep the threads alive. They post images to stroke their inflated ego.
BUT I DIGRESS.
>mfw this city won't make it out of the groups
If you get the chance, please come visit us.
>>60418063
will never go to the US, fly too expensive kek
>>60418097
>tfw flying to Europe is prohibitively expensive
>tfw it costs nearly $1300 for a ticket to visit family in Germany
I know that feel, anon.
>>60418141
and now imagine that you are Pole and it basically costs like twice more compared to your income
>>60418235
Study computer science and make STEMbux in Western Europe/USA.
More Miami
>>60418141
It's not that expensive from here. I can get a flight to NYC next week for 300 burgerbux.
>>60418265
>implying I'm capable of any maths/programming or anything STEM actually
>>60418277
300 for both ways, that is
>>60418277
Damn, that's an amazing price. I hear about my East Coast friends going to London/Paris/Berlin/Oslo for around the same price. I'm on the opposite coast. Conversely, it's very cheap for me to fly to Asia. Recently booked a roundtrip ticket to Ho Chi Minh City for $600 and flew to Seoul for $400 last year.
Do you have a favorite city, Polish Koreaboo?
>>60418355
It is more expensive travelling to the westcoast, yes. Not by too much, though. I guess it also depends on time of the year.
>>60418421
favorite city in general? I dont know lol
>>60418434
Time of week as well. Cheaper to fly out during the middle of the week.
>>60418537
Berlin would look pretty cool with some skyscrapers.
>not living in such comfiness
>>60418573
Berlin is my favorite city in Europe 2bh. It'd be cool to see it develop a sort of highrise central business district like La Defense.
>>60418637
S H E N Z H E N
H
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N
Z
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wow Wuhan has a terrible skyline
Xian has some cool things
>>60418824
Xi'an is baller af
going to sleep good night : 3
>>60418991
Night.
>tfw ywn live on the top floor of a cozy 5-storied pagoda in the middle of literally where only surrounded by wilderness and probably some rice fields
>tfw you will never work on the top floor of sleek Toranomon Hills in the middle of Tokyo surrounded by suicidal salarymen and probably some rice fields
>tfw ywn ever die by leaping off Shanghai Tower surrounded by smog, more smog and then probably some rice fields
why even live
>>60419393
>>60419550
>>60419688
Feels bad senpai.
>tfw you will never be Spider-Man and see views like these every night
>you will never be a pilot and see views like these every morning
Final bump
>>60418716
man shenzhen really feels like it's changed in the past decade.
Bump
>>60420538
>you will never be a pilot and the last to see both towers standing
Why live
>>60422483
Imagine if it lasted until today, imagine if 1893 exhibition lasted until today. Does anything even happen at the modern expos? Might as well just attend CES I guess
>>60422526
Is anything good even happenning at the expos these days? The media here never seems to talk about it
Why did society lost the sense of grandieur?
Is Shenzhen the ultimate cyberpunk city?
>>60423681
That tower on the left alone makes it more cyberpunk than 99% of cities.
>>60422483
this exposition is, aside from the moon landing and ratifying the constitution, arguably the greatest moment in American history. it ushered in the modern world....too bad they didn't build it to last.
>>60423739
That and having a totalitarian ultra capitalist government, cheap residential megablocks squished together with huge skyscrapers and tech everywhere.
Man I really have to go there sometime.
>>60424793
Nice contrast.
>>60415925
Did they really need a bridge like that at that time
>>60427056
Americans seem to have the eternal need to compensate for something.
>>60423816
What tech
>>60418703
Maybe, but I doubt it will happen. Most Internet-related companies are located in Berlin (probably because filthy hipsters everywhere) but Internet business isn't that big here so I doubt they have the money to build high-rises
>>60422620
Uh, I was there once
>>60417703
there's actually multiple nycfags
>>60428062
>>60428087
>>60428117
>>60428166
>>60428191
>>60428261
I love how many trees there are in Shenzhen.
Great thing about new cities, there's been no reason to to cut them down.
>>60428062
>>60428087
>>60428368
What's that Tower called?
>>60428495
Ping An Finance Center
>>60428368
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXyHAqSb56c
>>60428368
Eh, if this >>60428191
is an indication of what it looks like on the ground it seems pretty drab
>>60428545
Well compared to most large cities.
Fuckin chinks and their giant imposing watermarks.
>>60428649
>>60428668
>>60427583
Is this OC? Incredibly nice if so.
>>60428649
>watermark right in the middle of the fucking photo
>>60428690
MAN, Shenzhen looks cool as fuck from above.
Wish there were more shots of it like pic related, and in higher res. Would make a baller wallpaper.
FROM THIS
>>60433885
TO THIS
What happened, /a/?
>>60433957
woah...
>>60434150
so this...
>>60434183
is the power...
>>60434229
of Japanese...
>>60434293
urbanism™... damn...
>>60434414
®
>>60417218
Pretty much.
Though I do expect it to not be very contiguous.
Guangzhou's demographic growth is slowing dramatically because a lot of migrants are returning to the interior.
Shenzen, Guangdong, Chongqing, and Hanzhou are the for cities weathering the economic slowdown the best.
Amazing how removing Bo Xilai has saved Chongqing and made it the fastest growing province.
But ANONNNN he was an enemmyyyyyv of Xi!!! He wasn't corrupt or it was all politicalllyyyyyyy motivateddd!!!!
Nope. The guy was killing Chongqing. But since he was a powerful conservative Maoist, Xi needed the uncovered murder by Bo's wife Bo's friend in 2011 to get the backing to remove him.
>>60417703
I'm the resident sinologist American.
Both me, and I believe the German, go around dispelling memes about China and Taiwan.
>>60433885
We didn't firebomb that??
>>60419393
you will never live in a pagoda because it's not habitable
>>60435634
Unless you're a snake
>>60435480
Edo experienced a lot of change by itself during the transition to become Tokyo, so it looked completely different even before the war. Though what remained, you sure bombed the living fuck out of.
But to be fair, Edo/Tokyo experienced complete destruction by either fire or earthquakes every 50 years or so, so it's not like one more time really mattered all that much.
>>60434919
Switch Guangzhou to Guangdong because one is a city and the other the province.
Also, for = four.
Whoopsie daisy.
To expand on this topic, the anti-corruption campaign of Xi and Wang Qishan has chased a lot of corrupt money out of China.
It has also made a lot of bureaucrats wary of doing anything large and impressive. This has made Li's economic reforms more difficult, and is part of the reason managing the transition from manufacturing and exports to services and consumption has been so up-and-down.
But, like Chongqing in 2011, removing the corrupt officials will hurt the economy and reforms for a few years... Yet eventually leads to new talent rising to the occasion and reforming the province/city.
We can already see that happening in Hanzhou, Guangzhou, Chongqing, and Shenzen.
The other provinces will likely follow with some but less success.
>>60435852
My grandma tells me it did matter. She had nowhere to go back to when they returned the children from the countryside.
Over 90% of the city was burned. Even the earthquakes and fires of the past didn't destroy that much to that severity.
>>60431300
it is
>>60435634
What a ruse. Those totally look like actual rooms.
>>60436081
Generally the room for space is smaller than they look.
>>60436007
I guess Tokyo being at its largest and most important at that time did make a huge difference, as there was a lot more to the city this time around than just wooden houses that were easy to replace. The American bombing was awful, but that's war for you.
>>60436805
Different times, different morality.
Nowadays Obama gets on his knees to deepthroat those who oppose America.
It's not even worth complaining about anymore. The guy is a giant liar who puts on one political pony show after another.
>trust us Japan, we're totally going to get rid of nuked
Meanwhile we continue expanding our arsenal and are deploying them abroad more often.
Japs are retarded and brainwashed.
>>60437097
Well, I never wanted to go all political about this. The past is the past, and I appreciate it for what it was.
>>60437097
what's wrong about having the nukes
>>60437650
Nothing. But it's hypocritical of leftists who tell their voters that they support some complete disarmament fairytale, then go and do the opposite.
Seems like Shenzhen is overwhelmingly winning and Miami is 2nd.
>>60415925
its meme hated on 4chan for the mexicans but in reality its a souless sprawl of a city with no real culture where everyone is self absorbed and annoying. The city is impossible to get around by anything other than car and as a result is full of traffic and smog in the air at all times. It takes about an hour and a half to travel across town
>>60417660
what church is that
>>60417703
I lurk most of these threads
I'm from new orleans so most of our good architecture is in houses, not towers.
>>60418355
try flying to iceland first. I looked and flights directly to europe were like $1000 a pop but flying to iceland was like $500 and flying to europe from iceland was like $100
>>60439107
Trinity Church on Manhattan
>>60439249
>protestants
>>60439327
only Catholicism
the only one true religion (and the one with easily the best architecture)
>>60413891
Aren't you that bitch faggot who's pic is floating around /int/?
>>60439451
that's a very problematic eurocentric view you have this mosque is the pinnacle of culturally rich muslim north african architecture
>>60439509
no why would I ever post my pic on /int/
>>60439559
there are some good mosques like Sultan Ahmed Mosque but they are largely influenced by the Byzantine architecture
What are the full standings thus far? Who won Groups A-E?
>>60439655
wait I'll make some picture
>>60439559
He would be proud
>>60439451
It's a shame, but damn. Most of the best protestant churches in the Germanic realm are in the end of day just former catholic ones.
>>60439559
Europeans:
>Extremely beautiful classic and historic architecture
>the inventors and masters of modern architecture
East Asians:
>Beautiful and complex traditional architecture
>In recent times developing modern european-inspired architecture in fascinating ways
South East & South Asians:
>Also have stunning native architectural styles
>Catching up with the First World in modern architecture as well
Sub-Saharan Africans:
>Didn't build anything remarkable for 5000 years
>Still arent constructing anything worthwile
>>60440377
>implying this isn't the pinnacle of architecture
Apply yourself
>>60418097
what?
a two way ticket to new york from riga costs 400 euros.
flying has gotten dirt cheap anon.
>>60439655
Ok fuck the picture.
Group A:
1. Hong Kong: 37
2. Singapore: 8
3. Vancouver: 6
4. Melbourne: 5
Group B
1. Guangzhou: 18
2. Sydney: 16
3. Kuala Lumpur: 13
4. Bangkok: 4
Group C
1. Shanghai: 25
2. Panama City: 9
3. London: 7
4. San Francisco: 4
Group D
1. New York City: 25
2. Chongqing: 12
3. Santiago: 11
4. Brisbane: 1
Group E
1. Frankfurt: 26
2. Seoul: 14
3. Taipei: 8
4. Manila: 3
>>60440978
400 euro = 1750 zł = 75% average polish monthly wage
>>60441067
WE WUZ SKYSCRAPER KANGS N SHIET
Is there any doubt that Dubai and Chicago win the next two groups in blowout fashion?
>>60441848
>Dubai
Judging by last skyline battle, I wouldn't be so sure.
>>60441848
I think Dubai won't make it out of the groups
This
>>60442783
or this one
discuss
>>60442783
>>60442836
both pretty gaudy
>>60442836
>>60442783
I like the aesthetic of Moscow much more.
The only towers I like in the Marina are 101 and 23
>>60442988
I absolutely love these two towers in particular.
>>60442783
>>60442836
Hmmm, I prefer Moscow City over Dubai Marina.
The composition and individual towers are more to my liking there, though Dubai as a whole vs Moscow is another story.
I don't like Moscow
>flat roofs
>>60443106
The weird roofs are the gaudiest shit
>people are complaining that modern architecture is way too bland and "international"
>Dubai comes with really ornate shit and derives motives from traditional Middle-Eastern architecture
"Dubai is the most disgusting piece of kitsch I've ever saw!!!!"
>>60443654
It's just a matter of taste, bruh.
I don't care what it takes inspiration from when the execution (imo) is bad. The only tower I can properly digest there is the spiraling one.
>>60437650
They lead to more nations wanting to get them.
>>60443792
The spiral one is by far the worst tower in Dubai.
>>60443654
Mudslimes have shit taste 2bh
>>60443830
What can I say, I have a huge hard-on for spiraling towers.
Though the crown looks weird and unfinished, which really bothers me.
And what's the best?
>>60443654
It's hard to describe exactly what my issue is with Dubai.
The best way I can put it, is it just feels cheap. It's like the Las Vegas of Europe and the Middle East.
>>60443905
who does have a good taste then?
>>60443915
Looks like it is unfinished
also go visit Malmö then
>>60443915
>What can I say, I have a huge hard-on for spiraling towers.
Typical Scandinavian taste
>>60444001
Unfortunately it was finished years ago.
And I did actually visit Malmö a few months ago.
>>60443983
well, a lot of the towers, especially the early ones are really cheaply made, but the quality is improving
skylines are stupid and i hate skyscrapers.
>>60444037
ebin
>>60444136
>>60444191
BIG
>>60444237
>>60444136
>>60444191
mudslimes have a great taste
>>60442836
Moscow...
Close though
>>60444131
Muh construction
>>60440860
looks like bread
>>60444651
>>60444304
A shame Mode Gakuen doesn't commission more towers.
They really wanted for Japanese architects to get outside their comfort zones.
>>60444950
That building definitely stuck out like a sore thumb in Tokyo.
no taste
>>60444999
I can imagine, lol.
But in a way, it also compliments the other towers
>germany
>yes
>>60445238
>this monstrosity in the middle of Tokyo
What was NTT thinking?
>>60445367
is that bad
>>60445367
Looks like it belongs in New York
>>60445367
>implying futuristic ESB rip-off isn't rad
>>60445527
Well, it is based on a New York landmark
>>60445527
it's bland, Tokyo's architecture is bland = it fits in
>>60445691
Oh, I didn't even see that clock
idk man, but windowless, bare concrete floors just look weird
>>60443654
I don't like them, too many deails on them. they don't look futuristic nor majestic
>>60445827
thats racist
![se_view_from_432_park_avenue_apartments[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/8BDCZVi.png "se_view_from_432_park_avenue_apartments[1].png")
>this triggers the pole koreaboo
>>60446010
432 avenue triggers everyone here
>>60445943
I prefer specist
>>60446090
nope
It's beautiful.
>>60446145
u srs?
>>60446145
>>60446145
It looks so fragile
100% neat
>>60446194
>>60446145
lanklet shit
>>60445805
I guess it's not that visible from ground level.
It's kind of dumb how it faces away from the Gyoen, which is where most people would see the tower from in the first place.
>>60446251
>>60446351
Man I really want to visit Hong Kong, it looks crazy.
Also does anyone have a clue where the old airport was located before they built this huge artificial island?
>this won't make it out of the groups
>>60446251
I'm sorry, but it is honestly the single worst tower built in New York since the very foundation of the city.
>>60446535
>sand colored skyscrapers in a sandy desert
>>60446592
kekd
>>60446592
Not to mention,
>inspired by a literal fucking trashcan
>>60446592
Just pretending the 60's and 70's didn't happen?
>Miami will advance instead of Doha
>>60446685
This is worse than any of that.
It's like a building that was never even cladded, as if they just built the skeleton and called it a day.
>>60446731
miami is cool. sandnigger cities are lame.
>>60446815
miami is as lame as any of sandnigger cities and basically looks the same
posting more based doha. Such a sleek and sexy city.
![hk12[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ABwz2cr.jpg "hk12[1].jpg")
These supertall highrise apartment complexes in Hong Kong are crazy
>>60448110
>abortion dildo tower
wew
>>60448081
They're neat to look at but I couldn't imagine living there.
>>60448183
yeah
I wonder what the population density per vertical meter is in hong kong
>>60448081
>tfw chingchongese living in hongkong with apartment on the 60th floor
>half of my commute to work is the elevator ride downstairs
fugg
HOW DOES DUBAI EVEN COMPETE?
Seattle, WA
>>60448359
>spooky sandnigger ghosts
FUCKING DELETE THIS
>>60448508
nice innit
>>60448081
gross
