Your outer buildings on the first one are inwards, I suspect you were using a wide angle lens, taller building on the right especially
It’s not even so much the wide lens it’s the aiming it upwards that does this.
Thanks for the comments guys, regarding the exposure I think it's always hard to show a night-time scene without it looking too dark, something I need to work on.
Thoughts on this?
7O4A0906-2.jpg by Robert Clark, on Flickr