I disagree. Viewing buildings from a distance is entirely different and is at the mercy of variables like weather and one's vantage point; depending on where you are standing in the city, there's an infinitude of skylines to behold. But how a building looks up close, in direct relation to the street and its neighbours - that's very important. I don't even weigh one over the other, though; they are all considerations. But surely no one save skyline junkies could seriously argue that how a building comes across in its immediate area is less important than how it looks from some distant vantage point, however slick or romantic that point might be.
