The Great Canadian Skyline Thread!

[ssiguy]

One thing I really like about Calgary's skyline that Toronto and Vancouver lack it that many of the newer buildings have quite unique designs and equally important, colour.

In Toronto and Vancouver everything built in the last 20 years has had one thing in common.....they are all blue glass. The blue glass of this age have become the new concrete bunkers of the 60s. Toronto's Southcore looks more like a solid wall than it does a bunch of individual buildings.........blue glass and nothing but. Vancouver at least has either blue or green glass. Not much of an improvement but still better than Toronto's monotony. Conversely, Vancouver buildings are all the same height and same size footprint making the colours the only thing distinguishing one from the other.

Calgary has new skyline but has not fallen in this trap. It has many varieties of styles and lots of different colours even in it's new buildings. This is a good chunk of the reason why Calgary's skyline is so dramatic..........not only does it have height but also variety. You can actually see the different buildings as opposed to Vancouver and Toronto where everything built in the last 20 years is more like a big blob of glass.

Montreal's skyline is similar in this way to Calgary's. Much older of course but you don't have this numbing blue glass wall that makes the skyline look unappealing and sterile.

Variety is the spice of life and that saying is equally true of skylines.