Bing Bird's Eye View
 

I just noticed Bing has bird's-eye view of Halifax. Check it out:

http://www.bing.com/maps/default.asp...3363&encType=1

very neat. the timing of the photo is before they started on the new dal building beside the tupper bldg, and the sacred heart new building. Also, walmart in dartmouth is half down. The view of the kings wharf site is nice. JET

Excellent, I was wondering when they were going to finally add birds eye view data for Halifax.
Thanks for posting.

Wow, I've been having fun with this all night! :D

Does anyone know anything about this house at the foot of Oakland Road? I noticed it under construction a couple years ago, it's so weird and ostentatious.

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w81/Hurland/map2.jpg

The boathouse that is attached to this mansion would be considered to be a nice home to a lot of people. I think that I know the owner of this home, but I shouldn't be name dropping. Personally, I think this is an interesting design.

Apparently the owner is not a fan of tress. LOL.

This map is pretty amazing. How they take a 2D satellite photo (I assume) and turn it into an ortho projection like that is beyond me. Pretty cool.

Apparently the owner is not a fan of tress. LOL.

This map is pretty amazing. How they take a 2D satellite photo (I assume) and turn it into an ortho projection like that is beyond me. Pretty cool.

It might be taken from a satellite at different angle. As opposed to being directly overhead. Just a guess.

Having seen this from the water, it looks more like a mall, or like a strange collection of 80s "contemporary" architecture. I do not like it. However, the boathouse seems to be well proportioned, and pretty current.

this is how they shoot them.. at an angle from a plane. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictometry

It seems to be built like a fortress. Maybe they built it that way for security. This is one good reason for not being too rich (I don't need to worry).

I think its better quality than most residential developments in Halifax over the past 2 years.

I think people just don't like it because its modern, but Halifax needs these kind of stark contrasts between old and new. It does look very 80's, but so does most of the "modern" development in Halifax. Overall, I think Halifax is taking on a very european nature on aggregate, maybe Scandinavian or any northern euro city with a small population and similar natural setting.

Vancouver would be the opposite and seems very South-East Asian (esp. the residential towers) to me.

As long as we are talking about out of scale, intruding, and poorly designed homes along the peninsula side of the Northwest Arm, here is another:

http://i31.tinypic.com/13zzxxx.png

I believe - and someone please correct me if I'm wrong - that this is Armoyan's estate, complete with his own personal gym and oversized parking lot behind the house. Another one who doesn't seem to care too much for trees. When viewed from the water, the house seems to a patchwork of leftover materials from other projects. The design and construction of this entire lot is about as cheap as it gets.

I do consider it (Oakland Rd) a nice house; the architecture is interesting enough, it's just that I'd be a bit embarrassed to live there, myself. They kind tore up and dwarfed a nice public park/pathway area and wharf. Sitting on that dock now, looking towards the mouth of the Arm, you get a lovely view of a 12 foot concrete wall.

In terms of how the design fits into the neighbourhood overall and the...flashiness of it, it reminds me a bit of Michael Cowpland's home.

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...nd_mansion.jpg
(Wikipedia)

I know, I sound like a bit of a NIMBY :P nah, it is a neat design, it just strikes me as a little loud and egoistic.

Yuck - it's gross too. I can't help but feel like it's made from cardboard every time I see it. It looks like a little kid, trying to play grownup.

On the other hand, there is a Brian MacKay Lyons Sweetapple house for the Regans very close by that I think looks lovely from the water. It is modern without looking 80s (which isn't so much contemporary as dated), and the scale seems much better.

http://www.mlsarchitects.ca/portfoli...rojects/regan/

http://www.bing.com/maps/default.asp...20ns&encType=1

Couldn't agree more. That's because Brian is a real architect. Those other houses were designed by cake decorators.

Trying to figure out when the picture was taken. Maybe last summer. Founders Corner still had the crane up and kids are playing baseball outside. JET

I was going to say use Spice as a guage, but thought better of that :)

July 2008

Is that house for real?? In the south end of Halifax? It looks like - I don't know what - a museum of fine art or something.
In some cities, that house would BE the museum of fine art.
Who does it belong to? And didn't the fine folks in south end Haly get up in NW Arms about it