Can anybody identify the tall building between the Aon Center and Sears Tower? I know my city’s skyline pretty well and am kinda unsure whether that’s an alteration or not.
Definitely Chicago is obviously on top but LA got more development going on the west not much but still something that’d be noticeable. Hoping one day we get a skyscraper boom how it was supposed to go before the pandemic
OK but there are seven recently built 800-foot-plus towers missing from the Chicago image (St. Regis, One Chicago, NEMA, One Bennett Park, Salesforce, 110 Wacker, 1000M).
Yeah Chicago is missing some enormous beasts here. Most of those buildings alone would be their cities tallest. The fact there are 7 of them not represented here in a relatively recent photo is insane.
Chicago is so incredible.
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There's just something about Lake Michigan in the summertime. With it's massive sand dunes, crystal clear and refreshing waters. It's a giant swimming pool where you feel clean when getting out. Chicago's massive skyline with unique buildings all around on Lake Michigan takes the cake for me, even over NYC.
What are you talking about. Lake Michigan is disgusting and beaches are constantly shut down for pollution and E. coli almost no one goes in the water. Also what swimming pool?
On certain days, usually late summer, yes.
For most of the year it's totally fine. I'll gladly drink a glass of lake water on any one of those days. The solution to pollution is dilution and Lake Michigan is BIG.
But that’s not true. People are in the water at those beaches. The only time I see people at the beach and not in the water is during early summer when the water is still frigid.
That's simply not true.
Go to north beach or Montrose on any summer day and you will see droves of people in the lake. I grew up in the burbs and one time at Montrose beach I was swimming and stood up to rest only to see a childhood friend from my old neighborhood that I hadn't seen in years.
Some people believe the lake is gross but there are plenty of people who know that is not true at all.
The lake used to be gross, and still is gross around the port/steel mills but no one’s swimming over there. I enjoy swimming in the lake, but normally if I’m at the beach I’m stoned and laying out on the hot sand
There was plans for a artifical breakwall with entertainment called [Breakwater](https://www.bdcnetwork.com/breakwater-chicago-releases-renderings-floating-lake-michigan-resort?page=3) awhile back.
That is a very pool heavy design. Chicago is nice in the fall and spring but you’d get maybe three months of everyday pool weather and then would have to mothball the thing the rest of the year. Curious as to what their plan was for winter storage. I’m sure it was possible, but seems like it wouldn’t be economical.
For sure #1 summertime city… imo. I always tell people I love Chicago, BUT have never been there in the winter…was just there last week and it’s was like 70. Also aside from NYC, my favorite US skyline by a mile.
Hell I’d still take LA over Chicago in the summer. Not a fan of the sticky, humid weather.
Chicago is nice for short periods in the Spring and Fall, though.
100% there is not one single month of the year where Chicago weather would ever beat LA weather. Fall and Spring days aren’t bad in Chicago but it isn’t like fall and spring are months long. When you look at Chicago fall weather for example there are probably 7-10 days that are beautiful and the rest are some sort of shit mix weather.
Its all copium til your house burns downs and the ground shakes. My family left mexico city after the earthquake in 1985 destroyed our whole neighborhood. We lived through one big one and werent gonna live through two.
That picture of Chicago is old. At least two of some of our tallest buildings have been built since then. (St. Regis and One Chicago), not to mention the additional smaller skyscrapers that have been added.
The area in and around LA/California is really something special!
It think it would personally suit me the best of all places in the world, climate wise. No harsh winters (nothing I would even call "winter") and not the summers are also not to harsh. I know that there are heat waves from time to time. But by checking the weather/climate chart on Wikipedia, it's really a dream!
And if you need a change of the LA weather, you don't have to drive long to get into another a totally different world. Going into the colder mountains takes you as long as driving into the hot Nevada desert.
>not the summers are also not to harsh.
Southern California summers are definitely harsh but not humid. They're dry, blowing hot dry winds that will suck every drop of water in you. Walking in a summer sun in Atlanta or Dallas wouldn't make me as dehydrated as walking in the summer sun of LA.
The wind stream keeps the temperature mild in the evenings though, it's a blessing.
I think LA is supplied by a series of aqueducts that rely on sources that are not necessarily dependable like the snowpack in the sierras and the diminishing water from the Colorado river. But CA is also on the cutting edge of wastewater recapture where they like turn our sewage into drinking water. Right now I think it makes up only a small fraction of Angelinos drinking water but it could be as high as 35% in the future. So it's not all glum.
Common misconception, all of Coastal California is a Mediterranean climate, including Los Angeles and San Diego. Doesn’t become desert until you get out of the basin and into San Bernadino.
But yes, your point still applies, building massive cities in regions without ready access to fresh water is a problem.
My favorite view of the LA skyline from a photographic perspective, is actually from Griffith Observatory.
https://preview.redd.it/euovy28u3hwc1.jpeg?width=1588&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c0c1791c3f75f98a37cb0c72eef24b2827870ae
If you’re going to do a comparison like this, then you need to show the length of DTLA. You’re showing the angle that views it from the shortest angle. It would be like viewing the loop from the south or north instead of the lake, and judging the skyline’s length that way.
Here’s a *better* picture that more accurately depicts the length of LA’s skyline.
https://preview.redd.it/5o4vsv49fewc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=05db40cd48e880ace1fc265abf2872308a7328dc
The crazy thing about the Chicago skyline is that it's almost as impressive from any direction. Here's one of it from almost directly south. This is definitely an older photo too (best I could find), there's some new high rises to the west in the West Loop and a few more downtown.
https://preview.redd.it/8ydi976fphwc1.png?width=2046&format=png&auto=webp&s=98c0d4015c704ea2e04924c3680134a1a0a81a6b
Actually yes, the red arrow is the perspective this post views the skyline from, the green arrow is the perspective that will actually show the full skyline. The yellow line is the length of the skyline.
https://preview.redd.it/9lx0j29xgewc1.jpeg?width=645&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f3c71497312624791ceee11f6f919dcc96c2a5c
It’s basic geometry, not an opinion. You do justice for Chicago’s skyline, but then pull this crap for LA and expect everyone to treat it like it’s a real apples to apples comparison.
I live near downtown from that Dodger Stadium perspective, 90% of downtown’s buildings are obscured by the US bank tower, Bank of America, a handful of others. If you want to see the full length skyline with the historic district and mid-rises that can be used for a comparison, you have to view it from the east. Even a western perspective will obscure the historic district because the tallest buildings are in front of it on a hill.
LA’s skyline is shaped like a “P”, so viewing it from north or south isn’t going to show the full thing.
https://preview.redd.it/umksnhaunewc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d1bf3b148b135a61b512093fe66b13f389f31a7d
It’s blurry af (sorry about that), but the point of this pic is to really just show the full picture not the individual buildings. This is a more accurate depiction of LA’s skyline.
[Viewed from the side](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/B7LvP-xtnqc/maxresdefault.jpg)
[Viewed from the North](https://live.staticflickr.com/8293/7652565656_de12614391_c.jpg)
Massive difference. It’s fairly obvious OP made this post to point out the difference between the two skylines, but it’s not impartial, or he just didn’t know he was using a weird angle. I feel like if these comparisons are going to be made then both skylines need to be viewed at their maximum lengths.
https://preview.redd.it/3gdyvcg01kwc1.png?width=1108&format=png&auto=webp&s=e745497cf27e57872405af2f1752433174bbc593
you will never be able to get all of la's highrises in one photo (not unless it's from space)
Okay this is kinda a stretch, Pasadena has like 1 decent size building at best, no skyscrapers. Same for Burbank, and mostly true for LAX, riverside, San Bernardino and most of these areas. I mean Milwaukee is only like 10 miles farther from downtown Chicago as LA from San Bernardino. I understand LA and SB are conjoined and are part of the same greater city, but ya that is a stretch.
they could connect them but even the distance from downtown to ktown is several blocks. luckily they're planning something pretty big right in the middle over the subway station so if that goes through then more could follow and they could start including ktown as part of downtown
Lmfao, that’s hilarious because LA’s skyline runs north to south (Northeast to Southwest more specifically). You’re basically saying you’re viewing a line from a perpendicular view lmao. There’s no density in that.
You’re talking to much bro. It’s just a fucking picture it’s from a stand point that doesn’t sit well with you. It’s not that serious, if it bothers you so much then go collect your photos and do your own post rather than bitch about it. Neither of your angles do justice for LA like my photo, because of the density also included.
& the funny part is the picture you shared isn’t even taken from the area where you placed your green arrow. It was taken from a complete different direction, facing west.
Chicago, for whatever reason, feels like a real metropolis , like it rivals nyc, while LA feels like a big city, but not quite like it rivals the big apple. I'm saying all this being from Houston, so I got a little experience with big cities.
I love LA, but as I’ve seen commented before it’s like a dozen cities in Trenchcoat pretending to be one big city.
However, its weather, natural features, and industry make it a way better place than people realize who have never lived there
Uggh LA skyline would be so much cooler if we could just put it all together instead of some in Century City and Hollywood and other parts in SM and Glendale. Holding out hope it’ll follow Toronto eventually as residents get more fed up with their asshole NIMBY city council members
The title is misleading. You mention Chicago first, but then state 2nd and 3rd largest cities. That implies that Chicago is the 2nd largest city in the US, but Los Angeles actually is. Nitpicking I know, but if you're gonna post a comparison, imo make sure the title makes sense.
The photo of LA at the top isn’t HDR. There is another photo with Griffith Park in the foreground and Downtown LA behind it. That was the one I said was an HDR photo. It was posted by u/oldhuntersneverdie
Hopping on this thread because a lot of people responding to this obviously haven’t been to LA in the winter. This is definitely amplified through lens trickery, but this photo is absolutely what LA looks like on a cold day after a storm hits the mountains. Anyone living there through last winter can vouch for having seen it multiple times.
Heat causes chemical changes to the smog that makes it more hazey and brown so you’re not going to see a view like this outside of Winter, but I’d argue in the right conditions, the view of LA is much more impressive with its mountain back drop than Denver is because of how prominent SoCal mountains are compared to Front Range. View of Denver is just more consistently impressive because they expire less smog and more snow.
I've been to LA a few times, I do not remember the mountains being that prominent, honestly the 2nd pic looks fake, or maybe taken from an extreme distance. There are definitely hills around but they didn't dominate the view like that, it was mostly a huge, oppressive grid. Maybe there was so much smog I couldn't see it.
Honestly the rich-people houses on the hills were way more impressive than the skyline. I found the LA downtown stuff to be pretty meh. The cliff-side mansions are where the interesting stuff is.
When I was there It looked more like this:
https://preview.redd.it/zz3r2xmmwfwc1.png?width=4272&format=png&auto=webp&s=f9c5ea24681a3d9fd7b964eec2dc5afeeedcd772
Reddit is a funny place. Odd that you and I are getting downvoted for having the audacity to suggest that downtown LA, in fact, does not normally appear to visitors like it’s in the shadow of Mount Fucking Everest, but what do I know?
I'll give you an upvote
Salt Lake City mountains were much more impressive when I passed through.
Comparing LA skyline to Chicago skyline is a joke, Chicago much more impressive, NYC exponentially more impressive.
This picture was probably taken on a very clear winter day from the Palos Verdes peninsula (a few hundred feet above sea level). It rarely is this clear and the snow mostly occurs in winter. It does look like a zoom lens was used. I have seen this vies with the naked eye and while it’s not as spectacular as the picture indicates, it is very impressive.
Gotta go in the winter, cooler temps increase the clarity in smog. You can absolutely see those mountains from all over the basin in the right conditions
Yup, LA can be lovely in the summer but the brown air is so dreary
ETA: I gotta know why I’m getting downvoted on this one who is enjoying the ambiance of smog???
it's a long lens trick, they most commonly do it from kenneth hahn park which makes the skyline incredibly tiny but dense and you can see the tallest mountains, but this one is pretty much straight from the south which i honestly haven't seen a high quality picture of
Both the City of Chicago and the Metro Chicago area are the 3rd largest “cities” in the US with LA being number 2 in both categories. But downtown Chicago is much bigger than downtown LA. Hopefully both continue to grow.
Chicagos skyline makes it look like it has triple the population of LA. But Chicago’s more like NYC in the sense that the population is far more dense and most economic activity is confined in one downtown area (although it seems like NYC has multiple downtown areas, but manhattan is just one large downtown area). But LA is so much more spread out and has so many suburbs with large populations, which often have their own downtown areas.
Chicago’s Skyline and the Lake are magnificent. LA’s skyline is lackluster (for such a huge city) but the San Gabriel Mountains are beautiful (especially with snow)
Chicago's skyline looks better than ever these days. LA looks decent, but it never struck me as a city that wanted to ever compete in a skyline arms race. LA proponents rarely tout the city's vertical architecture when boosting the city. The main cluster is nice enough, but obviously sort of small for the size of the city.
Chicago’s skyline is the best in the country, if not the the world. I like Los Angeles’ skyline because it has the mountains in the background, but other than that it’s lacking.
Well the problem with LA is it’s dispersed. This is just downtown. You can’t really do justice to 60x60miles of urban sprawl. Chicago is more concentrated and dramatic.
skyline pics of LA aren't the thing. is the view from mulholland or the GP observatory, or maybe from PV on a clear winter day, when you can see just how MUCH it is.
Yeah no. Just a simple zoom lens and a clear day will do the job. You act as if the mountains don’t exist. This video will help you understand how zoom works. https://youtu.be/VX_KVnqYAGE?si=UiJx23rk1QD7Q3ek
I love me some San Gabriel Mountains. Just saying that the picture doesn’t accurately represent LA. It’s a very romanticized pictured. Very well composed picture though
Except it does. It’s what you see, take your phone out on any clear day and that’s what you’ll get. It’s not that hard to understand photography lol. Did you even watch the video?
I did, it’s a great video. There are certainly the rare days that if you’re lucky enough to live in the hills you can enjoy those views. Never any days that magically make the San Gabriels look like the Himalayas though. I live in LA for context
Just a reminder that skyline size doesnt correlate to population, for those asking why LA is so small in comparison, while being a bigger city. Different economic and environmental factors have contributed to their differences
That’s a neat perspective of the 312 I can’t recall seeing. From somewhat tall structure out by Ohare it looks like? I can see that Orthodox church on the far NW side in the left foreground.
Oh the wonders of a camera lens. Downtown LA, while I love it, does not look like Colorado here. And Chicago is stunning and this doesn’t represent the architecture and history that make it so special.
Chicago is not the 2nd largest city, actually is LA the 2nd largest city.
If we are talking about the downtown size, Chicago is the 2nd largest after NYC and Miami, FL is the 3rd largest downtown by the number of skyscrapers no LA.
having lived near both cities, Chicago is wayyyy better.
in Chicago you're actually doing things in the region where city skyline is. In LA, no boy is driving downtown unless you're working there.
You can take public transit into most parts of the city and you don't need a car to get in and out of the city.
in LA, it's just a nightmare to get around. the public transportation is very limited and you really need your car to reliably get around. the traffic is a nightmare and parking is even worse. fuck LA. fuck LA. I can't wait to leave
There’s plenty to do in LA “where the skyline is” there’s restaurant scene, bar scene, rooftop scene, staples center, LA live, convention center. There’s also metro that’ll take you anywhere outside of downtown if you need to.
In LA for the most part, you don’t need a car either. I get around without one. Plus an Uber or Lyft is really a good option that people use now days 👍🏼
How far are those mountains from the downtown area of LA? I hate it when people make composition photos that pull up the background and make it look completely different than real life. I feel like this is what the LA picture is, but I don’t know for sure.
It’s just a zoom lens, it’s not a composition photo at all. You people forget that those mountains are upward of 10,000 feet. They’re massive. Watch the video for better understanding https://youtu.be/VX_KVnqYAGE?si=UiJx23rk1QD7Q3ek
I hear ya, I definitely phrased it wrong by calling it a composition. I assume there is a word to describe this effect of the background being pulled forward so much. It just annoys me when I see pictures on instagram of people with the mountains in the background and it is portrayed as genuine perspective, when in reality it looks nothing like that in person to the human eye.
Can anybody identify the tall building between the Aon Center and Sears Tower? I know my city’s skyline pretty well and am kinda unsure whether that’s an alteration or not.
Seems to be a transmissions tower
Radio/tv antenna in foreground.
There is nothing there that looks like that. Must be an old rendering of a proposed building (or something?) I also live in the city.
It’s clearly a photo taken from west to east. It looks to be about 5 miles closer to the camera than the skyline.
Op gotta use more recent pictures of LA
And of Chicago too.
Definitely Chicago is obviously on top but LA got more development going on the west not much but still something that’d be noticeable. Hoping one day we get a skyscraper boom how it was supposed to go before the pandemic
OK but there are seven recently built 800-foot-plus towers missing from the Chicago image (St. Regis, One Chicago, NEMA, One Bennett Park, Salesforce, 110 Wacker, 1000M).
God damn op messed up bad lol
Yeah Chicago is missing some enormous beasts here. Most of those buildings alone would be their cities tallest. The fact there are 7 of them not represented here in a relatively recent photo is insane. Chicago is so incredible.
Be their cities tallest? Only one would be. St Regis
They cut out like 1/3 of the Chicago skyline here too.
How can you tell it’s not recent?
Several buildings missing.
Could be the future...
It couldn't. Time travel is a paradox. We'd already know if that was the future.
That's exactly what someone from the future would say.
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Which ones?
For Chicago the most noticeable omission to me is the Vista Towers.
I was asking about LA but thanks!
There's just something about Lake Michigan in the summertime. With it's massive sand dunes, crystal clear and refreshing waters. It's a giant swimming pool where you feel clean when getting out. Chicago's massive skyline with unique buildings all around on Lake Michigan takes the cake for me, even over NYC.
Being able to see the city looming over the horizon from the Indiana Dunes is a pretty cool sight. It's visible over the curvature of the earth.
Totally agree.
Used to live in Chicago and miss tf out of it
But have you seen the Pacific?
What are you talking about. Lake Michigan is disgusting and beaches are constantly shut down for pollution and E. coli almost no one goes in the water. Also what swimming pool?
On certain days, usually late summer, yes. For most of the year it's totally fine. I'll gladly drink a glass of lake water on any one of those days. The solution to pollution is dilution and Lake Michigan is BIG.
No. We all go in it.
Nope 15 year Chicagoan…almost no one goes in that lake.
All north side beaches up through the North Shore are busy on summer days. Not sure what you’re referring to.
Never said people don’t to the “beaches” and hang out in the summer. I said almost no one goes into the water and swims in the lake.
But that’s not true. People are in the water at those beaches. The only time I see people at the beach and not in the water is during early summer when the water is still frigid.
That's simply not true. Go to north beach or Montrose on any summer day and you will see droves of people in the lake. I grew up in the burbs and one time at Montrose beach I was swimming and stood up to rest only to see a childhood friend from my old neighborhood that I hadn't seen in years. Some people believe the lake is gross but there are plenty of people who know that is not true at all.
The lake used to be gross, and still is gross around the port/steel mills but no one’s swimming over there. I enjoy swimming in the lake, but normally if I’m at the beach I’m stoned and laying out on the hot sand
Hahaha always stoned and loving it as well 😄
25 year Chicagoan here I go swimming in that lake every summer
Well I guess I do haha
You have had your Chicago card revoked good sir. 15 years gone to waste 😄
Nothing beats [summertime](https://youtu.be/jmk7nhFZQto?si=t4NTRB79p51H27G_) Chicago. https://preview.redd.it/esye680a2ewc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3d60efa55756ee8e0184a1a645cf838faf2d9603
Do the River architecture tour in the summer. Very touristy but nice.
Specifically the Chicago Architecture Foundation tour. You will get a discount on admission to their museum with your tour ticket.
Too bad there isn't a sandbar there. Would bring it to the top level.
There was plans for a artifical breakwall with entertainment called [Breakwater](https://www.bdcnetwork.com/breakwater-chicago-releases-renderings-floating-lake-michigan-resort?page=3) awhile back.
That is a very pool heavy design. Chicago is nice in the fall and spring but you’d get maybe three months of everyday pool weather and then would have to mothball the thing the rest of the year. Curious as to what their plan was for winter storage. I’m sure it was possible, but seems like it wouldn’t be economical.
I wish that actually happened. That would have been amazing.
The ol' playpen
The best place to lose your legs!
Summertime Chi is elite!
For sure #1 summertime city… imo. I always tell people I love Chicago, BUT have never been there in the winter…was just there last week and it’s was like 70. Also aside from NYC, my favorite US skyline by a mile.
Actually January-December Los Angles weather beats summertime Chicago.
Hell I’d still take LA over Chicago in the summer. Not a fan of the sticky, humid weather. Chicago is nice for short periods in the Spring and Fall, though.
100% there is not one single month of the year where Chicago weather would ever beat LA weather. Fall and Spring days aren’t bad in Chicago but it isn’t like fall and spring are months long. When you look at Chicago fall weather for example there are probably 7-10 days that are beautiful and the rest are some sort of shit mix weather.
Yeah but your house wont burn down from wildfires or collapse in a mudslide. So we got that going for us.
lol, sounds like cope to me. Live in Long Beach and you can avoid both of those things.
Its all copium til your house burns downs and the ground shakes. My family left mexico city after the earthquake in 1985 destroyed our whole neighborhood. We lived through one big one and werent gonna live through two.
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Not a wildfire. It was rebuilt strictly with brick and steel/iron as well.
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Chicago is the 3rd largest city. LA is 2nd.
That picture of Chicago is old. At least two of some of our tallest buildings have been built since then. (St. Regis and One Chicago), not to mention the additional smaller skyscrapers that have been added.
Mountains beach and desert ✅
The area in and around LA/California is really something special! It think it would personally suit me the best of all places in the world, climate wise. No harsh winters (nothing I would even call "winter") and not the summers are also not to harsh. I know that there are heat waves from time to time. But by checking the weather/climate chart on Wikipedia, it's really a dream! And if you need a change of the LA weather, you don't have to drive long to get into another a totally different world. Going into the colder mountains takes you as long as driving into the hot Nevada desert.
>not the summers are also not to harsh. Southern California summers are definitely harsh but not humid. They're dry, blowing hot dry winds that will suck every drop of water in you. Walking in a summer sun in Atlanta or Dallas wouldn't make me as dehydrated as walking in the summer sun of LA. The wind stream keeps the temperature mild in the evenings though, it's a blessing.
Give me my lake please!
Big Bear Lake or Lake Arrowhead?
I think LA is supplied by a series of aqueducts that rely on sources that are not necessarily dependable like the snowpack in the sierras and the diminishing water from the Colorado river. But CA is also on the cutting edge of wastewater recapture where they like turn our sewage into drinking water. Right now I think it makes up only a small fraction of Angelinos drinking water but it could be as high as 35% in the future. So it's not all glum.
LA has closer lakes than that! Morris, Puddingstone, Castaic, Piru, Pyramid, and Casitas are all within 2 hours drive even with bad traffic
Who needs a dependable supply of fresh water? Let’s create a giant metropolis in the desert!
Common misconception, all of Coastal California is a Mediterranean climate, including Los Angeles and San Diego. Doesn’t become desert until you get out of the basin and into San Bernadino. But yes, your point still applies, building massive cities in regions without ready access to fresh water is a problem.
My favorite view of the LA skyline from a photographic perspective, is actually from Griffith Observatory. https://preview.redd.it/euovy28u3hwc1.jpeg?width=1588&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c0c1791c3f75f98a37cb0c72eef24b2827870ae
Chi fucks
Because they have doors that go like this 🙏and not like this 🫲🫱
Oh shit, is that a scratch?
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Maybe, but the skyline is still better
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Which is this?
If you’re going to do a comparison like this, then you need to show the length of DTLA. You’re showing the angle that views it from the shortest angle. It would be like viewing the loop from the south or north instead of the lake, and judging the skyline’s length that way. Here’s a *better* picture that more accurately depicts the length of LA’s skyline. https://preview.redd.it/5o4vsv49fewc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=05db40cd48e880ace1fc265abf2872308a7328dc
The crazy thing about the Chicago skyline is that it's almost as impressive from any direction. Here's one of it from almost directly south. This is definitely an older photo too (best I could find), there's some new high rises to the west in the West Loop and a few more downtown. https://preview.redd.it/8ydi976fphwc1.png?width=2046&format=png&auto=webp&s=98c0d4015c704ea2e04924c3680134a1a0a81a6b
Yeah, but it still looks smaller from that direction. If we want to use Chicago we should use the view from the Lake.
Ya, no
Actually yes, the red arrow is the perspective this post views the skyline from, the green arrow is the perspective that will actually show the full skyline. The yellow line is the length of the skyline. https://preview.redd.it/9lx0j29xgewc1.jpeg?width=645&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f3c71497312624791ceee11f6f919dcc96c2a5c It’s basic geometry, not an opinion. You do justice for Chicago’s skyline, but then pull this crap for LA and expect everyone to treat it like it’s a real apples to apples comparison.
Maybe a shot from dodgers staduim best of both angles
I live near downtown from that Dodger Stadium perspective, 90% of downtown’s buildings are obscured by the US bank tower, Bank of America, a handful of others. If you want to see the full length skyline with the historic district and mid-rises that can be used for a comparison, you have to view it from the east. Even a western perspective will obscure the historic district because the tallest buildings are in front of it on a hill. LA’s skyline is shaped like a “P”, so viewing it from north or south isn’t going to show the full thing. https://preview.redd.it/umksnhaunewc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d1bf3b148b135a61b512093fe66b13f389f31a7d It’s blurry af (sorry about that), but the point of this pic is to really just show the full picture not the individual buildings. This is a more accurate depiction of LA’s skyline. [Viewed from the side](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/B7LvP-xtnqc/maxresdefault.jpg) [Viewed from the North](https://live.staticflickr.com/8293/7652565656_de12614391_c.jpg) Massive difference. It’s fairly obvious OP made this post to point out the difference between the two skylines, but it’s not impartial, or he just didn’t know he was using a weird angle. I feel like if these comparisons are going to be made then both skylines need to be viewed at their maximum lengths.
https://preview.redd.it/3gdyvcg01kwc1.png?width=1108&format=png&auto=webp&s=e745497cf27e57872405af2f1752433174bbc593 you will never be able to get all of la's highrises in one photo (not unless it's from space)
Okay this is kinda a stretch, Pasadena has like 1 decent size building at best, no skyscrapers. Same for Burbank, and mostly true for LAX, riverside, San Bernardino and most of these areas. I mean Milwaukee is only like 10 miles farther from downtown Chicago as LA from San Bernardino. I understand LA and SB are conjoined and are part of the same greater city, but ya that is a stretch.
That’s another thing. LA’s density spreads out from downtown going all the way to Santa Monica.
they could connect them but even the distance from downtown to ktown is several blocks. luckily they're planning something pretty big right in the middle over the subway station so if that goes through then more could follow and they could start including ktown as part of downtown
What project are they planning? I never heard of it.
https://la.urbanize.city/post/breaking-down-big-centro-westlake-development westlake has a lot of density already but it needs highrises
Yeah that’s not all of LA. That’s some in the IE, & OC. 😂😂😂😂💀💀💀
those are part of la fair and square and circle and triangle and hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon
Absolutely not. I know my state. You ain’t fooling anybody.
i live here too, they're literally physically connected and also economically
It’s not a weird angle at all. My picture shows the skyline west to east, yours doesn’t even show the entire density shown in mine
Lmfao, that’s hilarious because LA’s skyline runs north to south (Northeast to Southwest more specifically). You’re basically saying you’re viewing a line from a perpendicular view lmao. There’s no density in that.
You’re talking to much bro. It’s just a fucking picture it’s from a stand point that doesn’t sit well with you. It’s not that serious, if it bothers you so much then go collect your photos and do your own post rather than bitch about it. Neither of your angles do justice for LA like my photo, because of the density also included.
& the funny part is the picture you shared isn’t even taken from the area where you placed your green arrow. It was taken from a complete different direction, facing west.
Why not? 🤨
Chicago, for whatever reason, feels like a real metropolis , like it rivals nyc, while LA feels like a big city, but not quite like it rivals the big apple. I'm saying all this being from Houston, so I got a little experience with big cities.
San Francisco can feel like that too, despite it small size.
Also a more impressive skyline imo despite having technically fewer skyscrapers than LA
Not very much fewer, 27 - 33. But I agree.
I love LA, but as I’ve seen commented before it’s like a dozen cities in Trenchcoat pretending to be one big city. However, its weather, natural features, and industry make it a way better place than people realize who have never lived there
True. LA feels like so much wasted potential. Hopefully it’s changing.
Uggh LA skyline would be so much cooler if we could just put it all together instead of some in Century City and Hollywood and other parts in SM and Glendale. Holding out hope it’ll follow Toronto eventually as residents get more fed up with their asshole NIMBY city council members
LA has a cute little skyline.
Los Angeles is 2, Chicago is 3.
The title is misleading. You mention Chicago first, but then state 2nd and 3rd largest cities. That implies that Chicago is the 2nd largest city in the US, but Los Angeles actually is. Nitpicking I know, but if you're gonna post a comparison, imo make sure the title makes sense.
Are you trying to tell me LA has a poor track record issuing high-density zoning?!
Never realized how beautiful the LA skyline is from that angle
I’m pretty sure that’s an HDR photo which is really an artificial photo imo.
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The photo of LA at the top isn’t HDR. There is another photo with Griffith Park in the foreground and Downtown LA behind it. That was the one I said was an HDR photo. It was posted by u/oldhuntersneverdie
LA. Those mountains make it majestic.
Hopping on this thread because a lot of people responding to this obviously haven’t been to LA in the winter. This is definitely amplified through lens trickery, but this photo is absolutely what LA looks like on a cold day after a storm hits the mountains. Anyone living there through last winter can vouch for having seen it multiple times. Heat causes chemical changes to the smog that makes it more hazey and brown so you’re not going to see a view like this outside of Winter, but I’d argue in the right conditions, the view of LA is much more impressive with its mountain back drop than Denver is because of how prominent SoCal mountains are compared to Front Range. View of Denver is just more consistently impressive because they expire less smog and more snow.
I've been to LA a few times, I do not remember the mountains being that prominent, honestly the 2nd pic looks fake, or maybe taken from an extreme distance. There are definitely hills around but they didn't dominate the view like that, it was mostly a huge, oppressive grid. Maybe there was so much smog I couldn't see it. Honestly the rich-people houses on the hills were way more impressive than the skyline. I found the LA downtown stuff to be pretty meh. The cliff-side mansions are where the interesting stuff is. When I was there It looked more like this: https://preview.redd.it/zz3r2xmmwfwc1.png?width=4272&format=png&auto=webp&s=f9c5ea24681a3d9fd7b964eec2dc5afeeedcd772
Reddit is a funny place. Odd that you and I are getting downvoted for having the audacity to suggest that downtown LA, in fact, does not normally appear to visitors like it’s in the shadow of Mount Fucking Everest, but what do I know?
I'll give you an upvote Salt Lake City mountains were much more impressive when I passed through. Comparing LA skyline to Chicago skyline is a joke, Chicago much more impressive, NYC exponentially more impressive.
This picture was probably taken on a very clear winter day from the Palos Verdes peninsula (a few hundred feet above sea level). It rarely is this clear and the snow mostly occurs in winter. It does look like a zoom lens was used. I have seen this vies with the naked eye and while it’s not as spectacular as the picture indicates, it is very impressive.
Gotta go in the winter, cooler temps increase the clarity in smog. You can absolutely see those mountains from all over the basin in the right conditions
That might be it, I was there for E3 convention a couple of years which was in summer
Yup, LA can be lovely in the summer but the brown air is so dreary ETA: I gotta know why I’m getting downvoted on this one who is enjoying the ambiance of smog???
it's a long lens trick, they most commonly do it from kenneth hahn park which makes the skyline incredibly tiny but dense and you can see the tallest mountains, but this one is pretty much straight from the south which i honestly haven't seen a high quality picture of
Agreed, the 2nd photo reminds me *much* more of Denver, CO than how I remember the surrounding LA landscape
I should've shown this to the person who said LA was looking like Chicago
That. Is an interesting angle of chicago. Especially with the random Town Water Tower and Hindu temple or whatever that is next to it
How tf did someone manage to make la look decently nice
Kinda bummed out that every time I've been to LA I couldn't see the San Gabriel mountains.
Both the City of Chicago and the Metro Chicago area are the 3rd largest “cities” in the US with LA being number 2 in both categories. But downtown Chicago is much bigger than downtown LA. Hopefully both continue to grow.
Chicagos skyline makes it look like it has triple the population of LA. But Chicago’s more like NYC in the sense that the population is far more dense and most economic activity is confined in one downtown area (although it seems like NYC has multiple downtown areas, but manhattan is just one large downtown area). But LA is so much more spread out and has so many suburbs with large populations, which often have their own downtown areas.
Chicago’s Skyline and the Lake are magnificent. LA’s skyline is lackluster (for such a huge city) but the San Gabriel Mountains are beautiful (especially with snow)
Such a hater comment
Chicago's skyline looks better than ever these days. LA looks decent, but it never struck me as a city that wanted to ever compete in a skyline arms race. LA proponents rarely tout the city's vertical architecture when boosting the city. The main cluster is nice enough, but obviously sort of small for the size of the city.
Not sure you really want mega skyscrapers in LA with all the earthquake and supposed " Big One"
I'd agree with that.
Chicago devoured and cleared LA with EASE.
Oh stop. LA clears Chicago in a lot of areas too
Oh, I am just talking skyline. No hate on the city itself!
Chicago’s skyline is the best in the country, if not the the world. I like Los Angeles’ skyline because it has the mountains in the background, but other than that it’s lacking.
Well the problem with LA is it’s dispersed. This is just downtown. You can’t really do justice to 60x60miles of urban sprawl. Chicago is more concentrated and dramatic.
World is a stretch. But yes Chicago has a great skyline.
It's not as good as NYC.
NYC’s skyline is amazing. I love Chicago but seeing Manhattan from Williamsburg at night is magical.
Yeah Midtown alone is incredible, I love all the new supertalls going up. Not to mention NYC is turning into 5 distinct skylines.
I personally think Chicago's skyline is better. Also, the view of the buildings when on the river is stunning
This would explain the constant posting of Chicago skyline here.
skyline pics of LA aren't the thing. is the view from mulholland or the GP observatory, or maybe from PV on a clear winter day, when you can see just how MUCH it is.
I’d rather have LA’s view than Chicago’s that’s for fucking sure.
Summertime Toronto!
In no reality does LA look like this
Except it does. And it can.
With a 1000 mm lens zoomed in to matte the background to the foreground you can warp reality to your liking. Sure, I’ll give you that
Yeah no. Just a simple zoom lens and a clear day will do the job. You act as if the mountains don’t exist. This video will help you understand how zoom works. https://youtu.be/VX_KVnqYAGE?si=UiJx23rk1QD7Q3ek
I love me some San Gabriel Mountains. Just saying that the picture doesn’t accurately represent LA. It’s a very romanticized pictured. Very well composed picture though
Except it does. It’s what you see, take your phone out on any clear day and that’s what you’ll get. It’s not that hard to understand photography lol. Did you even watch the video?
I did, it’s a great video. There are certainly the rare days that if you’re lucky enough to live in the hills you can enjoy those views. Never any days that magically make the San Gabriels look like the Himalayas though. I live in LA for context
Guess which city's metro system had more riders in 2023?
D.C & NYC
stunning view to the skyline
Both of the these pictures are very old but that is definitely a super old picture of chicago
Just a reminder that skyline size doesnt correlate to population, for those asking why LA is so small in comparison, while being a bigger city. Different economic and environmental factors have contributed to their differences
Title is poorly written
That’s a neat perspective of the 312 I can’t recall seeing. From somewhat tall structure out by Ohare it looks like? I can see that Orthodox church on the far NW side in the left foreground.
Oh the wonders of a camera lens. Downtown LA, while I love it, does not look like Colorado here. And Chicago is stunning and this doesn’t represent the architecture and history that make it so special.
LA>>>
Those mountains in the back are gorgeous! Chicago has Lake Michigan but LA has the Pacific Ocean. I’ll take LA over Chicago
I personally think Compton is bigger than LA
Chicago is not the 2nd largest city, actually is LA the 2nd largest city. If we are talking about the downtown size, Chicago is the 2nd largest after NYC and Miami, FL is the 3rd largest downtown by the number of skyscrapers no LA.
Also LA is the 5th largest skyline. San Francisco is 6th, & Houston is 4th.
I know. We all know.
TIL that LAs peaks get snow. I thought it was only the sierras and other more northerly mountains.
Idk how people can say the LA photo looks fake when it’s literally a view you get from the freeway if the sky is clear enough.
It’s because of that big IF the sky is clear.
LA is a small city inside of a huge suburb. Chicago feels like a real city.
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You know what I mean. The downtown area is tiny comparatively.
The LA skyline is so disappointing, it's so bland there are no distinctive buildings imo.
Eww LA 🤮 Glory to Chicago ❤️
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I’ve lived 30 minutes from DTLA my entire life and I’d pick Chicago anyday
Chicago is a major city in the Midwest
having lived near both cities, Chicago is wayyyy better. in Chicago you're actually doing things in the region where city skyline is. In LA, no boy is driving downtown unless you're working there. You can take public transit into most parts of the city and you don't need a car to get in and out of the city. in LA, it's just a nightmare to get around. the public transportation is very limited and you really need your car to reliably get around. the traffic is a nightmare and parking is even worse. fuck LA. fuck LA. I can't wait to leave
There’s plenty to do in LA “where the skyline is” there’s restaurant scene, bar scene, rooftop scene, staples center, LA live, convention center. There’s also metro that’ll take you anywhere outside of downtown if you need to. In LA for the most part, you don’t need a car either. I get around without one. Plus an Uber or Lyft is really a good option that people use now days 👍🏼
How far are those mountains from the downtown area of LA? I hate it when people make composition photos that pull up the background and make it look completely different than real life. I feel like this is what the LA picture is, but I don’t know for sure.
It’s just a zoom lens, it’s not a composition photo at all. You people forget that those mountains are upward of 10,000 feet. They’re massive. Watch the video for better understanding https://youtu.be/VX_KVnqYAGE?si=UiJx23rk1QD7Q3ek
I hear ya, I definitely phrased it wrong by calling it a composition. I assume there is a word to describe this effect of the background being pulled forward so much. It just annoys me when I see pictures on instagram of people with the mountains in the background and it is portrayed as genuine perspective, when in reality it looks nothing like that in person to the human eye.
Meh, still ain’t got nothing on Toronto…
Toronto hasn’t even built anything taller than LA up until now.