Towers are nice as a sort of exclamation point in already dense, vibrant areas; but development of this scale will go a lot farther in filling out vacant land and bringing life back into disused spaces.

Agreed, but just purely for aesthetic purposes I'd like to see some gaps filled South of Portage and West of Main St. It's too bad about the SkyCity ponzi scheme, the tower would have actually been lovely.if built.

That's amazing! Great work. I'd want that built in my city! :tup:

Towers have large servicing area and few Winnipeg developers have chosen to put it underground throughout the entirety of the modernist era. The required multi-level basement can be offset by expanding outward. For example, a signature tower among mid rise blocks. The majority of taller towers going up in respective Canadian cities aren't adding or creating quality urbanism because that signature tower becomes two or three with minimal spacing and on a podium encompassing half to the entire development block over separate mid rise blocks with landscaped interior corridors.

Same!

Who wouldn’t want to add new masonry and arches in their city!

I will also heap on the adoration. It's lovely. What area is this for?

A new development adjacent to downtown and the Forks National Historic Site. It's called Railside, it's car free and there is a couple posts above about it. Phase 1 is ten mid rise centred on alleyways and squares with lots of ground floor CRU.

https://i.postimg.cc/x1fVBf9t/railside-map.jpg

As per the orientation of this map, Winnipeg's grand Union Station is to the N of that central promenade, the Red River and Forks Market is to the W, the Forks park and Esplanade Riel is to the S and the Canadian Human Rights Museum is SE.

Actual directions are different but that's not relevant haha.

Design concepts, but as far as I know not yet concrete proposals for two prominent sites in Saskatoon:

Top of the Broadway Bridge (Nutana)

https://i.ibb.co/k2jRwHrr/Falcon1.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/600w2qbt/Falcon3.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/vRbB15o.jpeg

https://m-rad.com/project/falcon/

Parcel G, River Landing (Riversdale)

https://i.ibb.co/35ZyStK6/The-Bridgeof-Time.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/ZzydBd9b/THe-Bridge-Of-Time2.jpg

Wow, those are slick proposals for Saskatoon!

I like the arches, but those twisty corkscrew things are dated and gimmicky (and too stumpy to actually get the effect anyway). Bit of a throwback to the post-2005 Turning Torso clone era. That was a rough time for a while.

Vancouver’s Turn AKA Trump Tower AKA Paradox is a good looking tower and came out well from that fad.

A much more refined example, for sure. Likewise the Absolute World towers in Mississauga - not all were bad; but like any trend inspired a multitude of uninspired pretenders. Either way, it's a style that really requires a certain sense of verticality as a prerequisite to work successfully. Shorter and/or bulkier towers come off less gracefully.

Haven't seen this one yet - wacky CreateTO (city-owned land development) proposal for Scarborough, designed by Vancouver's Henriquez Partners: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/2444...ers-architects

https://i.imgur.com/vdNbEzc.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/HONN5pW.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/yRjisHc.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/KJXbQGq.jpeg

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WTF?

Looks like Lego buildings, or something.

oh great.. Connect 4

one ugly proposal.... Waterloo student houseing-esque.

I kind of love that last one. Looks like a real place with unique character, colour, and whimsy rather than some bland, colourless cookie cutter tower that we typically see.

I agree, I think it’s great. It has great texture and is much more visually stimulating than a monotonous glass tower.

Not sure how realistic it is but I’m kinda into it!

That last one reminds me of one of those off the grid homes you see on tv that they make from mud and straw and place used glass soda bottles for colourful light penetrations.

Nope to round holes with square windows. The coloured filler between the precast and windows probably will be a stucco veneer or aluminium composite that will age discolour with sun and pollution. One thing it won't be is glazed brick or tile. Again, giant podiums and multiple towers that look the same. The vision is a complete bore. Of course, the justification for up to 40 storey towers is a multi-nodal transit hub. There's nothing else in the area that says that this is a good spot for maximum residential densities or will these developers provide even a fraction to create a very high density, amenity rich neighbourhood.

Arches are as hot of a trend as wavy balconies were at their peak. At least, they seem to be more practical. Those balconies in the Saskatoon proposal cover a ton of square footage however, a major portion is dead space. From memory, Trump/Paradox twists without heavy reliance on balconies is rare for twisty towers in Canada.