Future Canadian Skylines

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by Gresto

Several mega-proposals are missing: The three huge Mirvish towers, which are almost a certainty because of their cachet, 10 York, which is a certainty, and 90 Harbour (1 office, residential of 66s and 62s), which has started excavation (or will shortly) despite the residential component not being on the market yet.
If anything, I would say the Oxford twins (by the CN Tower) and the casino hotel towers to their left are less likely to be built than those missing from the picture, but someone with insider knowledge might correct that possible misapprehension.

The Mirvish towers are a certainty?!? What has Caltrane given you? Nothing is a certainty until the occupation permits are released.

The shoring and digging at 90 Harbour relates to remediation; not construction.

[caltrane74]

The Snow has kept me a little homebound, won't stop me from heading to the clubs tonight to smooze with the honies, though.

Here are the fruits of my labour! lol!

[caltrane74]

I dropped in Ten York last night, will work on One York and Harbour Plaza, before I head out today.

The angle that I took the picture from makes it appear the CN Tower is crooked, will have to work that out somehow.

[caltrane74]

Will look for a different rendering on Harbour Plaza, this one is a kind of bright white...

CN tower still needs to be fixed

[Metro-One]

OK, I have become so tired of every future rendering being of only Toronto, I asked many times for one of Metrotown to be made, nothing happened, so I did what I should have done in the first place, made my own

Here are some renders I made of Metrotown, present and future, in Sketchup.

The new towers shown are The Sovereign (156 meters), Metroplace (141 meters), Silver (127 meters), Metrotower 3 (109 meters) and Station Square 5 towers (shortest 119 meters, tallest estimated at 183 meters).

Looking North:









Looking South





Looking West





http://www.flickr.com/photos/30634635@N03/?saved=1

[Dylan Leblanc]

right-on M-1!

[someone123]

I wonder if the new towers will substantially change the character of the Metrotown area. It's already fairly built up, but it is unattractive and has a very bland, suburban feel. New Westminster is more attractive despite being farther away from Vancouver's inner neighbourhoods. It has the advantage of some older buildings and a more pedestrian-friendly layout. The New Westminster SkyTrain station is also much better than Metrotown Station, which has zero amenities despite being one of the busiest stations in the whole system.

[red-paladin]

One good thing, in a way, is all the parking space on the north side of metrotown. It makes it a lot easier to one day built out to Kingsway. To be honest, the Metropoint tower with th e two pedestrian overpasses, and the buildings on the other side of the overpass are great. But yes, 90% of the scuzzy little buildings need to eventually go, even if they are the authentic, street life area right now. I do love Crystal Mall and the Crystal Lane inside.

[vegeta_skyline]

Originally Posted by caltrane74

Will look for a different rendering on Harbour Plaza, this one is a kind of bright white...

CN tower still needs to be fixed

Sick renders Cal, glad you could find some time away from the honies to make them
Though I'm a little worried about how much of a plateau effect ICE, One York and Harbour Plaza will have in the traditional island's view. We could really uses something down there to go well beyond the 235m barrier.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Nothing is a certainty until the occupation permits are released.

Indeed. Even with construction, nothing is completely certain. Exhibit A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Adelaide_Centre

[Ramako]

Originally Posted by vegeta_skyline

Sick renders Cal, glad you could find some time away from the honies to make them
Though I'm a little worried about how much of a plateau effect ICE, One York and Harbour Plaza will have in the traditional island's view. We could really uses something down there to go well beyond the 235m barrier.

From that perspective, Ten York would appear directly in front of Ice.

[caltrane74]

Yeah, I thought about that, I need a little time to update the rendering, and add in a few more buildings while I'm at it.

[red-paladin]

Metro-One, thanks so much for doing those projections of Metrotown!!

[Chadillaccc]

Yeah great job metro!

oh and I see you used some of my building diagrams as a face for some of the buildings! Yay I feel special How does that work though? What program?

[Metro-One]

Thanks guys! Something needed to break the Toronto monopoly on this thread (though i almost thought my renders had already been passed over with the last few comments above rad-paladin and Chadillaccc.

Outside of Toronto Metrotown IMO is the skyline going through the greatest transformation in Canada over the next few years.

Chadillaccc, yes I used some of your building diagrams for the textures, hehe, don't worry I did give you credit in their metadata!

I used SketchUp to create all the 3D buildings, and then screen shot your textures from the diagram page and then applied them to the surfaces.

[Chadillaccc]

haha I'm not concerned with the credits, I'm just happy you used them I feel special

Oh right on dude. Is sketchup free?

[Metro-One]

It sure is!

Originally Posted by someone123

I wonder if the new towers will substantially change the character of the Metrotown area. It's already fairly built up, but it is unattractive and has a very bland, suburban feel. New Westminster is more attractive despite being farther away from Vancouver's inner neighbourhoods. It has the advantage of some older buildings and a more pedestrian-friendly layout. The New Westminster SkyTrain station is also much better than Metrotown Station, which has zero amenities despite being one of the busiest stations in the whole system.

These new towers will substantially change Metrotown, the podium / street front retail they are all adding will be a huge game changer. Centrepoint is a good example, for that little stretch of Kingsway (on the North side) is actually quite nice. It was completed about 5 years ago. Also, Translink plans to completely re-building the Metrotown Skytrain station by 2016. Kingsway west of Willingdon is actually not that bad, and has quite a lot of nice street front restaurants, including the best bubble tea spot in the entire Metro!

It is really hard for any suburb to compare to New West, because IMO it is the best suburb in Canada regarding true urban feel with a nice mix of older and new buildings, and the TOD mall built around New Westminster Station is amazing IMO, and feels like it was taken right out of Asia.

[Chadillaccc]

Yeah man New West freakin rocks! I lived there for a year and it really is a lovely town. So walkable and lots of great restaurants, even a gay bar with live music and smoking on the covered patio! It was the original capital of Mainland BC when the colony was first created. My old apartment was literally like 20 feet from where the original capitol building was. It is now an old age home.

[logan5]

Originally Posted by someone123

I wonder if the new towers will substantially change the character of the Metrotown area. It's already fairly built up, but it is unattractive and has a very bland, suburban feel. New Westminster is more attractive despite being farther away from Vancouver's inner neighbourhoods. It has the advantage of some older buildings and a more pedestrian-friendly layout. The New Westminster SkyTrain station is also much better than Metrotown Station, which has zero amenities despite being one of the busiest stations in the whole system.

Thousands of more residents coming to Metrotown in the next 10 years should change the character of the neighborhood, as well as quite a bit of parking lot facing Kingsway will be filled in - Old Orchard, parking lot/Esso station, Metrotown parking. I imagine Metrotown will look very similar to North York City Centre in 10 years or so, except Metotown looks much denser than NYCC, which could make it more vibrant.

[red-paladin]

Yeah to be fair, New West is not a suburb, it's a legitimate city as it there so long ago. It did squander a few decades but it's one of the most interesting urban places right now.