Construction Sites In your City II

[Harley613]

Odenak in Ottawa this week

[koops65]

Canada House - 230 - 201 metres, 69 - 59 floors, U/C

Both towers topped out, soon to be complete.

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[jc_yyc_ca]

Another non-highrise one from Calgary. This one is Arts Commons.



Source AlexYYC @ SRC

[giallo]

Concord Metrotown, Metro Vancouver's future tallest at 65fl/230m, seen from Brentwood.

[EnvisionSaintJohn]

Construction at Americold finishing at Port Saint John. It will be the largest cold storage facility on Canada's east coast.

The speed at which this gargantuan facility went up was very impressive to see.


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Thanks to the best drone photographer in New Brunswick, jorgenrique217! Please check out his instagram @jorgenrique217

This guy should be running the Saint John Region and Port's Departments, because his videos basically already do. No one sees this city better than he does!

Truly, the guy is one of this city's most valuable tourism assets, and he's also been a huge help to the port in getting their message out about the incredible opportunities at in Port Saint John port with his excellent videography.

[jc_yyc_ca]

Kit at Kensington. Not a really tall one, but at 15 floors will be a new tallest for Calgary's Kensington neighborhood. The neighborhood is mostly low rise buildings in the 6-11 floors range, so this is a departure from the norm, but might be the beginning of a trend. Another developer is also looking at a zoning change to allow for a 16 floor building in the area.





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Originally Posted by EnvisionSaintJohn

Construction at Americold finishing at Port Saint John. It will be the largest cold storage facility on Canada's east coast.

The speed at which this gargantuan facility went up was very impressive to see.


Thanks to the best drone photographer in New Brunswick, jorgenrique217! Please check out his instagram @jorgenrique217

This guy should be running the Saint John Region and Port's Departments, because his videos basically already do. No one sees this city better than he does!

Truly, the guy is one of this city's most valuable tourism assets, and he's also been a huge help to the port in getting their message out about the incredible opportunities at in Port Saint John port with his excellent videography.

This video by him has a cool time lapse and shows the currents in a dramatic way.

That's often the case, amatuer enthusiasts are more passionate and dedicated than people who's job it is to do the same thing.

Another example I think of is Stainer, who does incredible explainer videos on rapid transit line construction. There's no way someone working for Translink in Vancouver or the relevant transit authority in Edmonton could/would do the same. Maybe because they wouldn't be alloted the time to create something this good, or they may not care as much. Here's a recent Edmonton example:

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[MonkeyRonin]

Dramatic view of construction happening on the Ontario Line subway:


https://www.blogto.com/city/2025/11/...t-next-summer/

[Innsertnamehere]

Some Hamilton updates:

"The Point" is advancing quickly on the west end:


https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/forums...5/?prefix_id=2



Construction hoarding up in preparation of construction start for 188 Cannon:


(my own image)



Gold glass is going in on Hamilton's new bus garage:


https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/thread...s.35591/page-3



405 Main St E continues to slowly move along:


https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/thread...e.33967/page-4



Royal James has absolutely flown up, with the building nearly enclosed and fully topped off after starting construction only 7 months ago:


https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/thread...i.34757/page-2

[Maldive]

Pinnacle Lakeside (Phase 1) | 174.86m | 54s | Pinnacle | Hariri Pontarini l u/c

Filling a big hole in the East Bayfront waterfront skyline (and helping to obscure the Daniels tower blight to the west).


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[Maldive]

8 Elm | 218.2m | 69s | Reserve Properties | Arcadis l u/c


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[KnoxfordGuy]

Saint John 99 King development. Photos not mine. Creators name embedded in photos.




The rendering. It is controversial in not just Saint John but across New Brunswick haha

Originally Posted by bingun

The third level started today.

[Innsertnamehere]

easily the ugliest project in the country right now, and it's not even close.

[WhipperSnapper]

The brick and stone (?) embedded precast panels aren't great but, I don't think they are the worst cladding in the country. From there, everything else is leading to one of the ugliest buildings in the country. The windows are horrid. You couldn't have picked a worst mullion colour, white and, window design for a traditional designed building. I can't wait for the shaft of the building which is either bland beige pre-cast or EIFS panels.

I think there's a clear winner for the ugliest building(s) in the country which is a feat in itself. Baydo Towers in Saskatoon; tall twin people warehouses from a post Soviet era factory town.

[Innsertnamehere]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

The brick and stone (?) embedded precast panels aren't great but, I don't think they are the worst cladding in the country. From there, everything else is leading to one of the ugliest buildings in the country. The windows are horrid. You couldn't have picked a worst mullion colour, white and, window design for a traditional designed building. I can't wait for the shaft of the building which is either bland beige pre-cast or EIFS panels.

I think there's a clear winner for the ugliest building(s) in the country which is a feat in itself. Baydo Towers in Saskatoon; tall twin people warehouses from a post Soviet era factory town.

What makes it the worst isn't what's built - it's what is to come.

Well, what is built is pretty terrible too. It replaces a former block of street-fronting retail on the main retail street of Saint John with a blank wall and a parking ramp. The colour isn't insufferable.. but as you move up the building you get the odd gargoyle type corners, EIFs coloured cladding.. it's just bad, bad, comically bad.

The Baydo towers are rough, but they are simpler and don't read as actively incompetent like this one does. They make a nominal effort to make street fronting retail, introduce some relatively tasteful colour, introduce a podium to reduce the oppressiveness of the built form..



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[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

What makes it the worst isn't what's built - it's what is to come.

Well, what is built is pretty terrible too. It replaces a former block of street-fronting retail on the main retail street of Saint John with a blank wall and a parking ramp. The colour isn't insufferable.. but as you move up the building you get the odd gargoyle type corners, EIFs coloured cladding.. it's just bad, bad, comically bad.

The Baydo towers are rough, but they are simpler and don't read as actively incompetent like this one does. They make a nominal effort to make street fronting retail, introduce some relatively tasteful colour, introduce a podium to reduce the oppressiveness of the built form..





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I'm confused how a 4 storey, 500 foot or more long podium built right up to the lot line for parking reduces oppressiveness particularly on a tree lined residential street.

I remember the building 99 King is replacing having a giant ass wall on King. The new building has more windows for sure. I assumed the main floor is commercial with the basement parking jutting above ground because of the large gradient. I totally agree if the main floor is all parking.

[Hawrylyshyn]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

easily the ugliest project in the country right now, and it's not even close.

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[Wpg_Guy]

Construction has wrapped up at 127 Bannatyne in Winnipeg's Exchange District.

127 Bannatyne
Location: 127 Bannatyne Ave
Developer: Alston Properties Ltd. | Concord Projects Ltd.
Architect: AtLRG
Status: Completed July 2025
Documents: Appeal – Variance DAV 106976A/2022B–April 25, 2022
Media:

• New highrise labour of love; Alston Properties, Concord Projects making ‘emotional investment’ with 10-storey building in east Exchange-Winnipeg Free Press
• New mixed-use tower joins renovated heritage buildings in Winnipeg’s Exchange District-Journal of Commerce
• Hello, 127 Bannatyne-Winnipeg Free Press

Description: A 10 storey infill in the historic Exchange District replaces a surface parking lot with underground parking, main floor commercial space, 2nd floor office space which will be the new headquarters for Concord Projects, and 80 residential apartments above with a roof terrace amenity. The podium portion interfaces with the heritage qualities of the streetscape through scale and materiality; the tower portion is set back and subservient.
Permits: #21-242920 MU–2022-08-19, Construct New. 127 Bannatyne- Construct a 111,805 sq.ft 10 storey 80- Unit multi- family dwelling building with 3 CRUs on the main floor, office on the second floor and underground parking











Bannatyne Mixed-Use Development Concord Projects

[ScreamingViking]

Nice. Our cities need more of this (mainly the scale, but I love the cladding

Originally Posted by Wpg_Guy

Construction has wrapped up at 127 Bannatyne in Winnipeg's Exchange District.

Bannatyne Mixed-Use Development Concord Projects

[giallo]

I looked up the Baydo Towers, and woof. Those are some bland-ass towers.