BronsonShore
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The interesting thing about Philly is that it has notably less buildings over 500'/150m, as well as a few less over 400' than Boston, yet the skyline makes your jaw drop and the whole downtown feels like an absolute powerhouse any way you experience it.
Just nothing like either Comcast building please. The new one in particular is just.... Not.... Good..... Undeniably huge, but why did it have to look like that? Give me those Liberty Place siblings any day. Our cities are close to the same size, yet Philly has this in-your-face big city feel to it that's lacking here, and those handful of huge statement buildings are a major reason why.
By the way, that brownish building in the middle between Mellon Bank (white with triangle) and 1st Comcast (darker glass top with dark square near the top) is 738', almost 50' taller than Winthrop Square which will top downtown. The tip of Mellon Bank's triangle comes in at 792', so you can visualize the Hancock there and the Pru/1 Dalton about 1 floor taller than that brown building. For top level firepower, we are completely outclassed and just a couple buildings can make a city feel substantially bigger.
20210806027 by Joseph Schmitt, on Flickr
Wow, a massive sea of parking lots and an elevated highway just two miles from downtown. What a thing for Boston to aspire to...