Suburban Skyscrapers?

[BrandonJXN]

Anyway, here is the Warner Center in the far western part of the San Fernando Valley (Woodland Hills) in LA.

[guachoninja]

Wilkes-Barre
Although they were mostly built from 1900-1950

[stormkingfan]

Originally Posted by ThreeHundred

Anyway, here is the Warner Center in the far western part of the San Fernando Valley (Woodland Hills) in LA.

Actually, that's the Williams Tower (Houston, TX) with the beacon. Although this tower seems like it's in a suburb, it's still in Houston. Uptown. 64 floors, 901', built 1983. Has a sky lobby on 32.

[mhays]

It can be suburban in form/function regardless of who administers its fire protection.

[STERNyc]

Not in the suburbs but you'd think it was if you didn't know any better. Especially five years ago:





North Shore Towers (actually in the suburbs):







Stony Brook (deep in the NY suburbs):

[KevinFromTexas]

Austin doesn't really have any suburban skyscrapers. San Marcos is south of Austin inside our metro, but isn't really a suburb. It has a handful of 10-story buildings at Texas State University. The tallest is 150 feet tall. San Marcos also has its 10-story Embassy Suites Hotel. It's probably the one true suburban highrise in Austin's metro. It serves a factory outlet mall in the southern part of San Marcos, and is the tallest hotel between Austin and San Antonio.

The tallest suburban building inside of Austin is the Tower of the Hills building in Northwest Austin. It is 10 floors and 161 feet tall.

San Marcos' skyline. They even have two tower cranes up right now. One is working on a dorm the other is for a performing arts hall.

My photo

[goodthings]

The best skyscrapers in any suburb in the world!

ABSOLUTE WORLD Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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PS: Pardon me, jason!

Originally Posted by Jasonzed

from today

Originally Posted by Jasonzed

Mississauga's skyline
By memphremagogness_monster of Photobucket

From Toronto
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...Duskordawn.jpg

From the east (Centennial Park)
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...ississauga.jpg

Double skyline photo with Toronto from jasonzed
From the west (Erin Mills?)
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...0101007017.jpg

[pj3000]

Martin Tower - Bethlehem, PA; Tallest building in Pennsylvania outside of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh... and not even in the downtown area of Bethlehem. Built as HQ for Bethlehem Steel Company.


http://www.personalpixels.com/defaul...r=2008&month=8


http://www.panoramio.com/photo/27985612

[Ayreonaut]

I remember seeing one while driving between DC and Baltimore. No idea what it was though.

[ColDayMan]

Originally Posted by pj3000

Martin Tower - Bethlehem, PA; Tallest building in Pennsylvania outside of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh... and not even in the downtown area of Bethlehem. Built as HQ for Bethlehem Steel Company.

Just a nerdy SSP moment: I believe the tallest building outside of the P's is actually the 341' 333 Market Street in Harrisburg, which edges this building by a whole 11 feet .

[pj3000]

Originally Posted by ColDayMan

Just a nerdy SSP moment: I believe the tallest building outside of the P's is actually the 341' 333 Market Street in Harrisburg, which edges this building by a whole 11 feet .

Yeah, you're likely correct. Now that I think about it, my source for that factoid is my drunkard friend who went to college in Bethlehem.

[Tower X]

there are lots of skylines in some australian suburbs.

Chatswood along the Sydney north coast


Parramatta in western Sydney They have plans for a skyscraper taller than any sydney one


There are plans for activity centres in melbourne suburbs to drive away some business from the CBD so melbourne doesn't turn out like New York.
one building from Dandenong close to the cities edge

[alps]

North York


(own photo)

Eglinton area in foreground, North York in the back


http://www.flickr.com/photos/phototo...n/photostream/

Mississauga



http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacing...n/photostream/

[stormkingfan]

Mississauga wins, hands down.

It drowns out this next example: Fresh Pond Apts. on the edge of Cambridge, MA. Three police state-type slabs from 1970. 22 floors each. They're near Alewife subway stop.

[stormkingfan]

Mississauga wins, hands down.

It drowns out this next example: Fresh Pond Apts. on the edge of Cambridge, MA. Three police state-type slabs from 1970. 22 floors each. They're near Alewife subway stop. My mother-in-law used to live there.

[Doady]

Mississauga
Ranked 1st among all North American suburbs in terms of high-rises, and 21st among all North American municipalities, ahead of Denver, Seattle, Minneapolis, etc.







That said, Mississauga isn't the king of suburban high-rises in North America. That honour goes to Toronto: the former municipalities of North York, Etobicoke, and Scarborough, and the Thornecliffe Park neighbourhood of East York, combined for a whopping 1000 or so suburban high-rise buildings, around 500 of which are located in the former municipality of North York alone.

Imagine if Toronto de-amalgamated, these suburbs would dominate the North American rankings. Toronto itself would fall to 3rd place below Chicago, but North York would be around 10th place, ahead of San Francisco, while Scarborough and Etobicoke would probably be at least 20th and 21st place. And of course Mississauga would be pushed down to 24th place.

[Aaamazarite]

Guttenberg, NJ

There's also some suburban towers off of Exit 9 of the nj turnpike.. couldn't find any pics.