Canada's 50 Tallest Proposals

[Chadillaccc]

One of Calgary's big rumours about another new tallest was just squashed. Husky just re-signed their lease to continue as anchor tenant of the Husky Towers for another 25 years. We still have two rumours for a new tallest left though! Fingers crossed

[Ramako]

I'm dying for Montreal to get a new tallest (not include 1250's spire). Something slick and modern. Any rumours out there?

[Chadillaccc]

A nice sleek 220 meter mixed- use tower with the design of 2 WTC would work well in the Montreal skyline, I think. Or perhaps something more understated, like the Transbay Terminal Tower, as to not overwhelm the other signature towers.

[Ramako]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

A nice sleek 220 meter mixed- use tower with the design of 2 WTC would work well in the Montreal skyline, I think. Or perhaps something more understated, like the Transbay Terminal Tower, as to not overwhelm the other signature towers.

I'm definitely thinking along the same lines. Something like New York's Bank of America Tower or Toronto's Ernst & Young Tower.

[Chadillaccc]

Oh man, as soon as you said Bank of America Tower, I salivated a little. Lose the tacky spire, and it would fit perfectly as the signature ultra-modern tower of Montreal's skyline! It has the right look and the bit of dark colour that is part of Montreal's signature. However, with its gorgeous angles and everything, I come back to that "overwhelming the other towers" issue, but I definitely see what you mean.

And when you say Ernst and Young Tower, do you mean 100 Adelaide West? Because if so, *salivate* make the floor plate a bit less slim, but keep it rectangular (as to make it appear more dominant) and I think we have a winner!

[GreaterMontréal]

No building can be taller than 210m in Montréal.

[Martin Mtl]

Originally Posted by Ramako

I'm dying for Montreal to get a new tallest (not include 1250's spire). Something slick and modern. Any rumours out there?

Won't happen.

[RyeJay]

Originally Posted by Ramako

I'm dying for Montreal to get a new tallest (not include 1250's spire). Something slick and modern. Any rumours out there?

I'd appreciate something slick and modern in Montréal, but not in the form of one tall tower. I'd like to see clusters of towers being developed -- like a highrise version of something like Dockside Green, in Victoria: organised urban communities that strive to be carbon-neutral.

I don't care if the towers are supertalls or not.

[vanatox]

Originally Posted by Ramako

I'm dying for Montreal to get a new tallest (not include 1250's spire). Something slick and modern. Any rumours out there?

There is no rumours of any projects higher than L'Avenue at the moment in Montreal. The projects announced this week are again similar in height to other recent projects (Evolo 3, 100m; Cadillac Fairview TDC 2 and 3, 120m). Lowrise and mid rise U/C are really more common (they are everywhere).

While the height limit is about 210 m in downtown, there is only a few place where you can built at that height. Most of downtown has a height limit of 65m or 120m (or lower).

[vegeta_skyline]

Originally Posted by yaletown_fella

I hope so. The window-wall going up on Emerald Towers in North York is pretty frightening lol.

Not saying curtain wall wouldn't be better, but they don't look all that bad to me. I actually kinda like the texture created by the mullions.

Originally Posted by drum118

Dec 28
lot more up on site

http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showthread....pia-Plazacorp-42-33s-Varacalli%29/page77

Besides, curtain wall wouldn't make much of a difference visually on 1 Yorkville anyways, look at how small the window sections are. The window wall system they used on ICE would do fine there.

[Chadillaccc]

I am in love with those two

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by vegeta_skyline

Not saying curtain wall wouldn't be better, but they don't look all that bad to me. I actually kinda like the texture created by the mullions.


http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showthread....pia-Plazacorp-42-33s-Varacalli%29/page77

Besides, curtain wall wouldn't make much of a difference visually on 1 Yorkville anyways, look at how small the window sections are. The window wall system they used on ICE would do fine there.

Curtain wall isn't just glass and it's not the glass on One Yorkville that has me worried. I hope the direction Toronto is heading is that the hybrid system used on Ice and others becomes the bare minimum. Window-wall needs to go. The installation is too complicated.

[uzi]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

A nice sleek 220 meter mixed- use tower with the design of 2 WTC would work well in the Montreal skyline, I think. Or perhaps something more understated, like the Transbay Terminal Tower, as to not overwhelm the other signature towers.

something like this
http://www.architectureanddesign.com.au/news/melbourne-s-tallest-skinny-skyscraper-by-bkk-archi

[Urbannizer]

63-Floors

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

Well hello there. HELOPAD!


(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3731/11405022426_d764fe384e_b.jpg)


(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7419/11405022755_3407b332d6_b.jpg)

[Coldrsx]

~210-220m

[GernB]

Originally Posted by Urbannizer

63-Floors

Not sure whether I loathe this or love it.

[caltrane74]

I think for the time being, this one has as much chance as Oxford Place (Oxford Properties), at least in it's current configuration.

Thankfully for the Edmonton Forumers, I don't make the decision on that.

[WhipperSnapper]

It's a rendering. I don't see anything related to a proposal.

[Spring2008]

Edmonton development community meet feasibility study!

[DrNest]

Originally Posted by vegeta_skyline

Not saying curtain wall wouldn't be better, but they don't look all that bad to me. I actually kinda like the texture created by the mullions.

I first read that as being created by minions. And had an image of hundreds of those little things from Despicable Me constructing a skyscraper.