The phrase "alter the skyline" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes to a city's architecture or landscape, often in the context of new buildings or developments.
Example: "The new skyscraper is set to alter the skyline of downtown, making it a more modern and vibrant area."
Alternatives: "change the skyline" or "transform the skyline".
Any decision to alter the skyline so radically deserves more time and more public consideration.
The development would alter the skyline just east of Downtown Brooklyn with a basketball arena and 16 buildings with nearly 7,000 units of housing.
All these new people will surely alter the skyline, and create demand for growth in pockets of the city that still have room to be developed.
Many activists still see this as a defeat, since the Gazprom tower will nonetheless alter the skyline that is visible from the promenades that line every river and canal.
The French architectJean Nouvel has been selected to design a high-rise building that will strikingly alter the skyline in La D nse business district on the outskirts of Paris, officials announced on Tuesday.
An economic boom has altered the skyline with gleaming skyscrapers.
The land was cleared more than 30 years ago as part of urban renewal efforts, and the steel framing of the 12-story building has altered the skyline in the southern end of the city's central business district.
At the time, the twin towers were controversial among architects and urban critics, many of whom objected to the oversize, blocky structures that had so radically altered the skyline.
The New-York Historical Society wants to begin a $20 million renovation of its landmark building at 170 Central Park West that would also allow a developer to build a 23-story glass apartment tower behind the society's museum and library, altering the skyline.
Since 1989, modern skyscrapers and glass-fronted buildings have altered the skyline of Cluj-Napoca.
Cranes will rise in Barcelona, New York, Jerusalem, Las Vegas, Abu Dhabi, Paris and other world centers to construct glass sails, wavy monoliths, bristly multiheaded towers and other alter-the-skyline-forever structures designed by a spectacled, white-haired 78-year-old working out of a bullpen with cardboard furniture in West Los Angeles.
