Before/After Skyline Of Your City
 

Vancouver circa 2007
http://i.imgur.com/64m4y1h.jpg

Vancouver circa 2014 (all new projects completed or near completion)
http://i.imgur.com/18AhhED.jpg

Vancouver circa 2016 (5 u/c and approved buildings in google-earth part of render)
http://i.imgur.com/C9ijTAC.jpg

Austin, Texas.

1987

https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/...de&oe=54B731CB
https://www.facebook.com/ScottPrinse...type=1&theater

2014

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...0cfcfb5005891e
https://www.facebook.com/ScottPrinse...type=1&theater

Houston:
(Way) Before:
https://bill37mccurdy.files.wordpres...eeway-view.jpg

Today:
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3851/...4a8a00ea_o.jpg

2017/18?:
http://s29.postimg.org/ys2kkkton/Dow..._Stadium_1.jpg

Here's a good one for Houston.

1950s

http://www.overanalysis.org/postcards/housky.jpg

http://www.overanalysis.org/postcards/houdown.htm

Today

https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7035/6...916801c4_z.jpg

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jld3/6667842353/

The building with the orange lights on top in the second picture is same building as the tallest building in the first picture.

^Please add the credit/source links for those. Everyone needs to do this!

Wow Houston really grew. And thats just one of the multiple skylines. 2020 will be an interesting year once all of the highrises are built. The residential and office boom is strong, and is changing the skyline for the better.

South Loop - Chicago
 

from the random photos thread
And about 20yrs ago

my photo

Charlotte in 1983:

http://cltblog.com/files/2010/06/Charlotte1983.jpg
Source

Charlotte in 2014 from almost the same angle, just closer:

https://i.imgur.com/qsXsAfd.jpg
https://imgur.com/a/UCu81

Raleigh, 1960:

http://goodnightraleigh.com/uploaded...yline_web1.jpg
Source

Raleigh, 2014 from a similar angle:

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5500/...7e81b8d0_b.jpg

St. John's, 1922:

http://i58.tinypic.com/b4iz29.jpg
Memorial University Archives

2013:

http://i58.tinypic.com/6pazpi.jpg

Centre - 1922:

http://i60.tinypic.com/1huqs6.jpg
Memorial University Archives

2013:

http://i59.tinypic.com/2eoyuz4.jpg

http://i60.tinypic.com/2lld9cn.jpg

gee, that austin skyline hasn't changed at all!

:haha:

i remember when the Bank of America Center was the tallest building in Austin back in 1981.

boise hasn't changed a ton, but here are two images from essentially the same spot.

1975:

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/73...d8c73b679a.jpg


2014:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtHPaKdCQAADaoa.jpg:large

Baltimore, 1960:

http://i996.photobucket.com/albums/a...timore1960.png
Source

Baltimore, 2009:

http://i996.photobucket.com/albums/a...timore2009.jpg
Source

Wow! Houston looks good now but will really be smoking by 2017 and who knows in a few years after that.

Vancouver is soo beautiful!

Yep. That 1987 photo was also showing the three new high rises that had just finished construction that year. Two years before, three of those wouldn't have been there, and a 4th would have been halfway through construction. The remaining two, two hotels, are the Hyatt Regency from 1982, and the Radisson Plaza. The Radisson Plaza hotel was Austin's first waterfront high rise way back in 1965. The nearest high rises to it were 5 blocks away, and one of them is the black Bank of America Center. As you said, that building was our tallest in 1981. Today that building is our 17th tallest with at least 11 more that are proposed that will be taller than it is.

I love that old Houston Freeway pic. The lack of traffic and brand new road is stunning when compared to today.

Noirish LA thread has some awesome old freeway pics too.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Mg%2BDiFf4L.jpg From "The Jumping frog" Postcard.

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2145/...07fff74327.jpg From zanzinger.photoshelter.com

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ne-daytime.JPG from commons.wikimedia.org

http://images.fineartamerica.com/ima...avukcuoglu.jpg From fineartamerica.com

My current home, Los Angeles:

http://i996.photobucket.com/albums/a...lineChange.jpg
Source

^ Photoshopped?

I can see evidence of photoshopping as well.