Breathtaking Skyline of Amazing Cities of the World

Anywhere in the world, most people are crowding into cities. Cities are, undeniably, the life pulses of a nation. Mention New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo and so on, the forests of futuristic skyscapers surely flourish in your minds. No matter where we live or where we wander, cities touch everything we do. They excite us, define us and too, captivate us. So, welcome to a section of this blog that celebrates world's great cities with fantastic skylines.

Hong Kong has the greatest skyline in the world!At night, the skyline glimmers with lighting and reflections. This city exemplifies the post-modern skyscraper and skyline. The mountainous backdrop makes this skyline the greatest on the planet.

Chicago

Chicago is the birthplace of the modern skyscraper.Chicago has some of the finest mid-century architecture and examples of modern skyscrapers. This skyline has many distinctive views, changing it's pattern ever so subtly at each angle you choose to look at it from. Like Hong Kong and New York, Chicago's skyscraper's really do create a line, stacked up along the shoreline, creating a true, skyline effect.

New York has one of the densest and most diverse skylines, with a huge collection of buildings and building styles. Thanks to artists' and Hollywood’s obsession with the city, it is also the most easily recognizable skyline in the world. New York's skyline probably has the most compact and overwhelming collection of architecture from almost any point in the city.

Shanghai  - Not to be mistaken for a space station, Shanghai is a real city! China's biggest and most advanced city, Shanghai was said to be one of the most modern cities at the turn of the 21st century. Shanghai is becoming a showcase of modern architecture and is quickly amassing a collection of sky reaching buildings decked along the edges of the semi-circular shoreline in Pudong district.

Singapore  is one of the best planned and cleanliest metropolitan cities in the world, Singapore looks like an architectural city model come to life. The buildings cannot be higher than 280 metres due to air traffic control restrictions, but that has added a tall (but not too tall) and consistent building height and space pattern that makes this skyline unique: Three buildings are exactly 280 metres tall.

Tokyo is the world's most populated city and considered by many to be the capital of the Eastern world.But because of the density and vast size of the city, every corner appears to have its own skyline.Tokyo is filled with neon lighting and unique, contemporary architecture, and like New York City is also often portrayed in movies for its aesthetic and eye-catching cityscapes.

Toronto
Toronto is a meeting place, a crossroad of many cultures and ethnicities. Currently, the CN Tower possesses the world's highest observation deck, making this city's skyline one of the most immediately identifiable. Toronto, also contains a diverse collection of renowned architecture, including it's City Hall. Toronto also has one of the densest financial districts in North America .

Kuala Lumpur

Surprisingly, this is our nearest metropolis-cum-capital.It is probably the most impressive city worldwide that has about 2 million residents. Marvelous modern buildings reach the sky here, and while the skyline is not exactly the densest, it does allow buildings to soar and stand out.

Shenzhen

What was a tiny fishing village on the border of Hong Kong is now a buzzing metropolis of over seven million people!Shenzhen is a spectacle of lights and neon signs after sunset, you can’t help but ask yourself- if you are in a video game or in a real city.

Seattle

Seattle is the commercial, cultural and advanced technology hub of the Northwest USA and a major port city for Pacific and European trade.Seattle is surrounded by mountains and water and offers some picture-perfect views. Seattle is commonly referred to as the Emerald City and renowned as a great social and corporate city with infrastructure. The planning is spectacular, as it helped create the hill-like effect on the skyline's silhouette, add the mountain backdrop and this city is almost a picture perfect.

Have had enough of an eye feast? Give a pause, more coming up in the shortest time frame possible.

All pictures maybe copyrighted and showcase world's finest cities in terms of skyline and architecture.

Drooping saliva? Fret none, fly to any of these and you'll be truly amazed!

Jasper Ng

Feb 2010