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Originally Posted by Prometheus (Post 7236894)

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Shots from Downtown Vancouver and a few from English Bay, Vancouver Canada by David Rose, on Flickr

These hoverboards must have really caught on in Vancouver... when I visited last month I was walking down a street when a young guy who looked like one of the guys in the photo rolled by, holding a boom box that was belting out a Celine Dion ballad from the 90s of all things. A very Vancouver moment :haha:

Spectacular series of photos, though. It's amazing how much light there is in these nighttime shots.

^ Those are so weird. I can't understand why people are so desperate to avoid any form of exercise.

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Originally Posted by esquire (Post 7239503)

They're starting to catch on in Halifax too. I saw some hipsters absentmindedly rolling uphill, trying to see how many bus stops they could pass before the next bus came. They weren't going very fast.

Cool Lethbridge set! I have a friend from Lethbridge and while he describes the city as a bit stifling and mundane, the landscape and architecture always fascinated me (I've never been there myself). UofL is one of my favourite modernist buildings.

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Originally Posted by FrAnKs (Post 7239253)

Quebec city, my love.

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That's like the Battersea of pulp mills! I wish ours looked cool.

Also, do the grain elevators improve conditions at the marina, or make them worse? Seems like they could really either block or accelerate winds..

Even though I now live in London (Ont), Montreal will always be my city. However, it has warts, particularly in the suburbs. In Laval, north of the city:

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Originally Posted by O-tacular (Post 7237777)

Even uglier...

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Splendid QC pictures, FrAnKs

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Originally Posted by Hali87 (Post 7239644)

That's like the Battersea of pulp mills! I wish ours looked cool.

This has been posted a few times on here, but this mural in Vancouver is pretty neat:

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Presumably something similar could be done on a grain elevator.

Mega-Man is in the 8th pic as well!!

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport (Post 7240093)

Even though I now live in London (Ont), Montreal will always be my city. However, it has warts, particularly in the suburbs. In Laval, north of the city:

Is this real??

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc (Post 7253562)

Mega-Man is in the 8th pic as well!!

Wow, good eye! :cheers:

Fun fact: if you can't tell, he's made from post-it notes. It's been a trend here for a couple years (there are several other pixelated characters in random windows downtown - you probably noticed Mario as well)

This could be a "thing" elsewhere but I've never heard of it.

In the background of the photo with the Fireworks sign you can see how the streetwall along Barrington is evolving. I like the stretch of narrow 5-8 storey buildings. The narrow and tall buildings with storefronts are one of the cooler features you find in cities that developed prior to about 1910 or so. Even newer development sometimes features this look because of lot sizes inherited from the distant past.

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Originally Posted by someone123 (Post 7254167)

That's one thing I admire about Melbourne.

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Originally Posted by Hali87 (Post 7253551)

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Untitled by Hali87, on Flickr

Didn't you just say that this is getting demolished?!?

Amazing shots of Toronto, Halifax, and Vancounver, guys! Wow!

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Originally Posted by lio45 (Post 7254668)

Didn't you just say that this is getting demolished?!?

Unfortunately, yes. :(

Unless the developer/city/heritage associations can find some way of preserving (at least part of) the building. But so far no preservation has been proposed, all parties have just been passively-aggressively blaming each other. Demolition is supposed to be sometime before the end of the month.

Edit for context:

The building in question, along with the rest of the block, is being demolished for an ~8 storey mixed-use building. This is at the corner of Spring Garden and Queen, across from the Central Library.
One of the viewplanes (height restrictions protecting views to/from the Citadel) passes over the site and I believe the current proposal is at its max viewplane/post-density-bonus height (I'm not sure if density bonusing applied here) and will already be blocking views between the Citadel and new library, ironically. The developer claims that without any extra height, they can't afford to preserve any of the structure or work the facade into the new design. The Heritage Trust unhelpfully pointed out that the developer should have known what they were getting themselves into when they chose to develop the site, but didn't really offer any support, guidance, funding, etc. The city doesn't seem able to do anything about it because none of the buildings are registered as heritage properties (or if they are the developer has waited out long enough to get a demolition permit). There's a lot of public dissatisfaction with the whole thing, but as usual we fatalistically accept it. There's also the unfortunate "we should never be turning down new things ever" crowd.

There are probably less than a dozen other Art Deco buildings in Halifax, and actually another one is currently being torn down. I'm not sure what's happening with the old Central Library (across the street from this site, the other way) but I'm not really optimistic.

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That's a gorgeous building!! How could they tear that down?!

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