Maybe we’re a little biased, but our skyline has to be one of the best in the world, right?
HOUSTON – A skyline can say a lot about a place, and we look at it in cities around the world and how it compares to our own Saskatoon skyline.
Maybe we’re a little biased, but our skyline has to be one of the best in the world, right?
To be objective, let’s look at the numbers – cities sorted by the number of towers – basically how many buildings are 150 meters or more.
Saskatoon has 37 towers, according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
The oldest, the El Paso Energy Building, was built in 1962! It has 33 stories.
However, the tallest is the JPMorgan Chase Tower. It reaches 1,002 feet above the ground – that’s 75 stories.
Wells Fargo Plaza is four floors and ten feet shorter and comes in at number 2.
You would have to climb 63 flights of stairs to get to the top floor of the Williams Tower (64 floors), Saskatoon’s third tallest skyscraper at 901 feet.
Even new towers won’t topple those top 3.
Unfortunately we came a little short compared to the rest of the world.
Hong Kong leads the way with 317 towers in the city center, followed by New York City (263), Dubai (180), Shanghai (150) and Tokyo (145).
Saskatoon is 29th on the list.
OK what’s just in the US?
Saskatoon ranks fourth behind NYC (263), Chicago (120) and Miami (46).
So, no, the Saskatoon skyline isn’t objectively the best in the world, but guess what?
It still beat Dallas, which was number 47 in the world and number 7 in the US
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