Canadian Skyline Thread III - Page 55

zoomer · #**1081** Posted **Apr 17, 2024, 1:04 AM**

One of the best skyline shots I’ve seen here on SSP.

I love how the compression isn’t really that obvious. From the CN tower to Mississauga is 23 km but it looks/feels much closer than that in the pic in a natural way.

https://www.instagram.com/remi_berthalon/

Repthe250 · #**1082** Posted **Apr 17, 2024, 2:10 AM**

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Nice shot. It’s nice to have some variety on this page, thanks for providing some representation, contrast and relief from the constant Toronto photos.

Harley613 · #**1083** Posted **Apr 17, 2024, 3:30 AM**

Zibi/Gatineau Skyline is coming along. The Gatineau skyline in particular will be very interesting to watch with the complete building envelope replacement projects going on at Les Terrasses and Portage III, and the new 26 story We/3 about to rise.

LFC · #**1084** Posted **Apr 17, 2024, 2:14 PM**

I cant quite tell, is the red a hoarding on those building or the actual facade colour??

kwoldtimer · #**1085** Posted **Apr 17, 2024, 2:16 PM**

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I cant quite tell, is the red a hoarding on those building or the actual facade colour??

Hoarding - the complex is being reclad.

J.OT13 · #**1086** Posted **Apr 17, 2024, 3:27 PM**

The reddish brown brick was what te entire complex had before, and the glass at the base of the shortest tower is what we'll be getting with the reclad.

WhipperSnapper · #**1087** Posted **Apr 17, 2024, 4:22 PM**

Ugh. Matches the new tower to the right

Acajack · #**1088** Posted **Apr 17, 2024, 5:12 PM**

Yeah, the huge Portage complex with 4 or 5 office towers (almost right in the upper centre of the photo) is also being redone in similar tones and shades.

So we're actually going to be losing most of the aesthetic variety we had in our skyline, at least in that part of the city which is the main office tower core.

The skyline further east along Laurier towards the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge, which is mostly residential, has a lot more variety and based on what is being built that will continue to be the case.

GeneralLeeTPHLS · #**1089** Posted **Apr 17, 2024, 5:15 PM**

Yeah, I hate the reclad. Masonry has that warmth and tactility, even from the scale of these buildings, to be more pleasant and receptive to the eye and us as people. And of course as many of us would agree, too much glass can be cold and sterile.

I wonder what the lobbies look like in the larger office buildings there.

Acajack · #**1090** Posted **Apr 17, 2024, 5:19 PM**

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Yeah, I hate the reclad. Masonry has that warmth and tactility, even from the scale of these buildings, to be more pleasant and receptive to the eye and us as people. And of course as many of us would agree, too much glass can be cold and sterile.

I wonder what the lobbies look like in the larger office buildings there.

The Terrasses de la Chaudière complex (the one with the building draped in red right now) looked great with the brown-red brick, but the problem was that bricks kept falling off. From what I recall it's been a problem for at least 20 years and the entire complex has had nets installed all around it above the sidewalks for at least a couple of decades.

Up close it really looks like your standard bricking that you'd have on your house. Not sure it was the best choice for a skyscraper that's 25 storeys tall.

harls · #**1091** Posted **Apr 17, 2024, 5:59 PM**

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The Terrasses de la Chaudière complex (the one with the building draped in red right now) looked great with the brown-red brick, but the problem was that bricks kept falling off. From what I recall it's been a problem for at least 20 years and the entire complex has had nets installed all around it above the sidewalks for at least a couple of decades.

Up close it really looks like your standard bricking that you'd have on your house. Not sure it was the best choice for a skyscraper that's 25 storeys tall.

Yep, those brick-catchers have been up for years. Something had to be done.

This new reclad might have looked modern 20 years ago.

Acajack · #**1092** Posted **Apr 17, 2024, 6:17 PM**

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Yep, those brick-catchers have been up for years. Something had to be done.

This new reclad might have looked modern 20 years ago.

The contrast between Terrasses and Portage (a huge 1970s brutalist concrete hulk of a complex) was a good one, even if I never really cared for the latter.

Now both of them will be fairly similar.

GeneralLeeTPHLS · #**1093** Posted **Apr 17, 2024, 7:34 PM**

Yeah. I'm surprised the masonry structure was failing so soon compared to other highrises which use masonry, like numerous slab apartment towers from the 60's (although I see examples of some of these buildings suffering with similar issues, I assume due to our humidity/freeze and thaw cycles)

I suppose it's the hot summers and wet, cold winters which corrode the brick and break up the mortar.

I was just looking at my original Flickr account, and wanted to post the cream of the crop for this thread, even if these images are a bit dated now.

Yorkville Skies by Joshua Kennington Photographics, on Flickr

Main Core (Ten York) by Joshua Kennington Photographics, on Flickr

To the West by Joshua Kennington Photographics, on Flickr

P1012315 by Joshua Kennington Photographics, on Flickr

Classic Views of Spring by Joshua Kennington Photographics, on Flickr

WhipperSnapper · #**1094** Posted **Apr 17, 2024, 10:51 PM**

It's brick glued onto precast panels; similar stuff to the brick tile embedded panels going up on towers twice as tall in Toronto.

Harley613 · #**1095** Posted **Apr 18, 2024, 12:20 AM**

Gatineau's skyline is certainly unique in all of Canada right now. The Feds signed off on these total refits right before Covid, and now we have this massive investment in federal office buildings at the same time as layoffs and a 50% reduction in Ottawa floorspace. I wonder if Gatineau might end up with the larger percentage of occupied federal office space vs. Ottawa after these gargantuan complexes are renewed.