Great Canadian Skyline Thread II
 

Previous thread is found here.

And proceed.

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promising beginning to a new edition of this thread.

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In The Stillness Of The Night by Clayton Perry, on Flickr Taken on April 16, 2016

With future developments around Viger station, around the CBC tower and the (possible) redevelopment of the Molson brewery lands, the skyline could one day stretch all the way to the Jacques-Cartier bridge, which will itself be illuminated next year.

Promising times for the eastern skyline.

From a friends facebook page

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The 6ix

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Prelude by Empty Quarter, on Flickr

Instagram

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fresh off the camera from this eve

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What a breathtaking picture.

Yorkville Skyline

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https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1575/...c74e338c_h.jpgL'arrivée du printemps by Alex Bernard, sur Flickr

Interesting VIMEO hyperlapse of Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto & Montreal:

Fantastic.

Gorgeous, MonctonRad.

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https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1646/...962ff3c5_b.jpgToronto Skyline by Sky Zhou, on Flickr

That's pretty nice. The shots closer in and more from the west give a pin-cushion effect with all the condos, but not so much from this angle.

Condé Nast has a list of the world's 10 best skylines. Vancouver is the only Canadian city to make the list. The pic they've chosen is odd though, as the mountains are partially covered in fog and it's not a current view.

Condé Nast

CBD

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It's not odd at all, it was chosen because of it's scenic beauty, same goes for Hong Kong, Rio, and Capetown.

Cape Town? Budapest? Yeah, that list is odd :P

Hong Kong actually does have a magnificent skyline, though. But yeah, like most lists, it's ridiculous. Shanghai, Capetown and Vancouver have no business being in a skyline top ten, and Budapest and Paris are eccentric choices but still kinda silly. Dubai isn't beautiful per se, though it is interesting in a crazy way. But most importantly, you cannot make a list of beautiful skylines without including Chicago. Ever.

That's like drawing up a list of the top ten ethnic groups that make matzo ball soup and not including Jews. It's pointless, and not even amusing as some kind of bizarre joke. But we clicked on the link. Or at least, I did. So they win. And we lose.

I should go into the business of making top ten lists. There must be money in it.

Obviously, they clearly stated that some were chosen for natural beauty. What was odd is that they didn't choose a picture which highlighted that very well.

Shanghai is insane...

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Southcore skyline:
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Humber Bay skyline:
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I wasn't sure where to put this, but as this is a popular thread I thought it semi pertinent to throw it here. Thought it was pretty funny...

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Paris on that list, that's ridiculous. The city has essentially no skyline to speak of -- let alone a global top ten skyline.

It has nice attractions and a good urban fabric, but it's not a "skyline" city at all. I don't need to see more to already declare this list to be complete BS.

I learned on SSP (some years ago) that Yellowknife was Canada's sunniest city.

The rest of Canada must have even less sun than no sun ever, whatever that means :P

Shanghai has every reason to be on a top ten. Any top ten without Shanghai would be suspicious to me, unless you're working on a metric that ignores both height and quantity.

What people are missing with regard to the skyline rating is that each was chosen based upon distinction, not comparative features. For example, the drama of the Parisian skyline is the Eiffel Tower, as almost a standalone sculpture. Vancouver is modern glass towers against a rugged mountain backdrop. Rio is exotic, unparalleled, natural features. Each city on that list excels at their own specific category. That's why there is no Chicago, because it is surpassed by New York, in its category. No reason to be pissy about something that is so obvious, folks. Vancouver is standout on a worldwide scale. Toronto and other Canadian skylines are standout on a national level based upon those categories. Trust me, talk to pretty much any tourist in Vancouver and they will validate that sense of awe and appreciation of that which is exceptional on a worldwide level. I'm sorry but Vancouver has some tail-feathers to shake. If y'all can't take it, it's your own problem.

Wait, you're saying that a lame tower that was designed and built to be temporary (and ended up getting kept mostly because it was useful as a radio transmission tower), if erected in the middle of nowhere, would single-handedly propel the aforementioned middle of nowhere to the world's top ten global skylines?

If that's your perception of Paris and the Eiffel Tower, well... I can't even... I know you support some ridiculous conservative shit on this forum, but this is perhaps your worst post.

this sub forum must be the only place in the world where what Lio posts could be considered "some ridiculous conservative shit"

It's not "my perception" of the Eiffel Tower, it's fact -- look up the tower's history if you don't want to take my word that it was originally meant to be temporary.

How often have you been to Paris? Just curious.

A skyline is a bunch of skyscrapers. That's what it is.

If it's not about the skyscrapers then I am declaring this Wyoming barn to have a grander skyline than Manhattan. Doesn't that sound ridiculous to you? Not even a little?

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And yet the SSP Albertans find me anti-conservative as I'm not a big fan of extracting and burning fossil fuels for energy.

I guess I'm a centrist, all things considered... ;)

I've been to Paris 8 times.

Great City, wonderful neighbourhoods, endless things to see and do, fantastic food and culture and museums, almost unparalleled history....

Skyscrapers and skyline? Meh. Not really. There is La Defense...which I haven't felt compelled to visit.

Cape Town isn't even the best skyline in South Africa, much less one of the best in the world. It is however one of the most beautiful cityscapes in the world. But I think there's a difference. Which I think kind of goes along with what lio is saying.


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That pic is pure Hyperbole 101.

I've only been to Paris once, admittedly.

As for this "perception", your understanding is autistically literal.

It's already been noted that the criteria was not purely "a bunch of skyscrapers" but rather the overall effect, natural features included.

Way to omit all of the natural features and pic the worst possible angle.:notacrook:

In your opinion, congratulations!

Give me a break. It is just a list someone at conde nast produced. It doesn't make them an expert at skylines of distinction or are not open to criticism. The list is all over the place. Seriously, Dubai over a Great Lake city like Chicago? How many hilly/mountainous backdrops does one list need? San Francisco over Sydney? Paris over Toronto? Sorry, I don't think romance and one of the world's most famous landmarks overtakes a city with an actual skyline that also includes a well known tower.

Paris doesn't belong on a "world's best skylines list" at all.

Paris without the Eiffel Tower would still very much be Paris. That tower doesn't make or break the city. It has grown to become a symbol of Paris by itself so it's probably why that listmaker chose to lend so much architectural importance to it (the power of that metal structure's reputation as a cliché is so extreme that the city of Paris, Texas has its own stupid imitation Eiffel Tower with a cowboy hat on top of it -- did you know that? The place is also the second biggest Paris in the world, slotting right after the one that's the capital of France, and somewhere before the one in Ontario.)

Edit: I just found out online that Paris, Tennessee also has its Eiffel Tower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris,_Tennessee

Though it seems that Paris, Ontario, does not (yet?).

Categories. Such as romance. Toronto wins no such categories. Period. It will always have a comparative better.

It's a stupid list, but the criteria are beauty and iconic vistas. Perhaps if you looked at the link (and, on this forum, ever had a clue what you were talking about) you would have known that.

Shanghai's skyline is not beautiful or iconic. It's more a scifi fantasy with components of awkward weirdness surrounded by a bleak, dystopian sea of cement high-rises.

Vancouver is impressive-looking because of the mountains, but the skyline itself is alright-looking from some angles and really ugly from others. It's obvious to anyone with even a modicum of interest in skylines and/or architecture who isn't from Vancouver that it doesn't belong on a list of beautiful, iconic skylines (but of course this is a controversial thing to say because it hurts people's feelings and most people on this site are amateur chamber of commerce boosters with no interest in reality).

Paris is an eccentric choice for a list like this. It's really the Eiffel Tower itself that is beautiful and iconic, not the skyline per se, as La Defense itself looks more like Atlanta or Kansas City plopped down into the City of Lights. Then again, it was one of the first structures in a modern European city to, ahem, tower over everything at such a great height, so maybe it's not such a bad choice.

Still, though, thumbs down on a stupid trolling list slapped together by some silver spoon-fed idiot spending her early twenties in Manhattan working an unpaid internship thanks to Daddy's cash and connections.

Well yeah, but that's the actual skyline. It's actually quite difficult to get a good view of the skyline with the natural features well proportioned. From most vantage points it's completely overwhelmed by Lionshead and/or Table Mountain. Not to mention that 80% of the city's population lives on the other side of those.

Vancouver pride on this forum is met with derision. Period.

If I'm too conservative for some and not conservative enough for others, what other possible conclusion could you reach?

To me, that is the category, scifi realness. That is its beauty and why it is on the list. All lists are subjective, but not all are inherently nonsensical.