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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
I'm not sure I follow. We're talking about skyline comparisons, so people shouldn't need any background knowledge just to look at the skyline pictures and notice whether anything stands out as iconic or interesting. If there were elements of the skyline that stood out to them in that way, they could still say, "Wow that looks pretty cool! I wonder what that is?" But if that isn't happening and these buildings aren't standing out and reading as interesting when people look at the skyline then I don't see how reading about the buildings after being given their names can improve the skyline.
I think a lot of it comes down to the height limits combined with the large quantity of buildings in a similar height range preventing most from standing out (or even being visible from many angles) even if some have unique designs. Plus the tendency for many to be very similar colours and materials.
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Well, from the track record of most the forum members saying such comments they have long had obvious biases against Vancouver (hence using a pic from nearly 20 years ago, for example).
And there are a lot of towers across skylines around the world that I like / stand out, but have no idea what their names are.
A lot of these comments are zombie lies, talking about a Vancouver skyline from two decades ago.
If you don't think Vancouver House or the Butterfly stand out, then I don't know what else to say.
For example I don't know a single tower's name off by heart in Philadelphia, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Miami, etc... but that's because of my ignorance, and I wouldn't say because of that ignorance that there aren't any towers that stand out / are interesting.