Winston Salem at night with streaming traffic
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Downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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Wachovia Building crown, Winston Salem
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17 Responses to “Winston-Salem, North Carolina”
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March 9th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Great pictures
April 5th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Looking at these great pictures I can say, Salem had changed sometime ago and really evolded into a place to live. Congratulations for this site, I’ll tell about this – good work
best regards
August 25th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Great pictures as always, Matt. Is it me, but does the Wachovia Building look like it could open up and deploy some kind of weapon? I guess I’ve seen too many movies…
Peace
September 8th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Oh man….Winston Skyline looks better than Raleigh I think, maybe you should get the capital on here next…….oh yeah good job on Norfolk/Va Beach area too..
February 4th, 2010 at 7:07 pm
Winston-Salem is nice, but no Raleigh has been NCs capital for more than 200 years. Checkout Raleighskyline.com
YOU R going to change your mind!!!
February 8th, 2010 at 11:18 pm
The winston and Raleigh skyline are actually about the same. Nice pics of Pilot mountain. And I think you need to get more pics of greenboro and the GMAC building on 5th st.
April 26th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
Winston-Salem’s skyline is still more impressive than Raleigh’s (though that will probably change in the next 5 yrs). The former Wachovia building is STILL tallest in NC outside Charlotte and has 34 floors.
Sorry Raleigh fans…..spires don’t count as rooftops and two more floors counts for something!!!
July 2nd, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Where are all the people? Talk about some empty streets……
July 5th, 2010 at 1:55 am
Architecturally speaking ….yes it does count………sorry Winston…….second largest city, second tallest skyline…..hmmmmm.
September 5th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
Ive lived here my whole life..im 20 now…u aint missin nothin…it sux here…i hate it…its nice lookin but thats bout it…and there arent any people in downtown
January 12th, 2011 at 10:56 pm
Love my hometown and
Winston does look way better then Raleigh on the stand pt and floors does count not spirals and plus Winston has a better history then Raleigh any day
March 12th, 2012 at 8:29 pm
Its great hearing the Winston people defend a city that died 50 years ago! Winston is a has been… sorry it’s a great place to visit and and look at all the history but thats it..
July 30th, 2012 at 10:56 am
Your previous comment (below) on Greensboro really puts this comment in perspective. I feel like you’re completely mixed up on what makes a good city and place to live. Winston has culture, arts, plenty of festivals and activities, and plenty of things to do for its size. Gboro has suburban sprawl and strip malls.
“I notice you have great pictures of Winston, Charlotte, and of course Raleigh, but why not some Greensboro pictures? It’s a real nice city I think it would be great to look at in this collection of cities you have.”
October 17th, 2012 at 8:40 pm
the spire is 40ft, so you still have 498ft left, compared to the Former Wachovia which is 460ft..hahah, the Raleigh PNC is the tallest
December 9th, 2012 at 9:27 pm
Raleigh clearly has more density and three buildings over 400 ft to Winston’s two. The height of the tallest building doesn’t matter much when they’re closely matched. PNC is 78 ft taller on paper. If it were a 38 floor building, instead of a 33 floor building with a spire, it probably would look noticeably taller than 100 N Main Street. In person they look about the same though.
Winston-Salem has a couple architectural gems in its downtown, and the distribution of buildings is pretty good too. Overall, Raleigh has a better skyline, but relative to the city’s size, Winston beats Raleigh. Raleigh is nearly twice as large as Winston-Salem and while its downtown feels much more alive at night than W-S, its skyline is small for a city of its size and importance. This is likely to change. With the RTP nearby, they could potentially snag towers for many international tech corporations. IBM-Lenovo, GlaxoSmithKline, Cisco, Bayer, RTI… the city has the potential to explode like Charlotte and Austin did, but it has to find a way to convince these companies to set up their HQs there, and not just have them build office parks sitting next to the R+D divisions out in RTP.
December 6th, 2013 at 7:41 pm
A very honest and correct assessment of the 2 cities. I am a liofelong resident of Winston Salem andd I have always been proud of our skyline. The only negative I have of raleigh is the traffus but that’s a given withsuch a large population
December 6th, 2013 at 7:45 pm
Looking at the skylines of the 2 cities you would never know Raleigh is twice the size of Winston Salem. In fact until PNC was built Raleigh looked smaller than Winston. You guys have just recently caught up with us LOL