Future Canadian Skylines

[RyLucky]

Looks great! ... it also looks like a lot of squarefootage.
What's going on with that highway through the podium?

[Innsertnamehere]

I think its an exit ramp for the 720.

It looks like a large floorplate largely because its got a floorplate of a much taller building without the additional height. If it were 250 meters instead of ~200, it would look much less out of place I would think.

[RyLucky]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

I think its an exit ramp for the 720.

Seriously? It looks like a glitch in SimCity.

[franktko]

Originally Posted by RyLucky

What's going on with that highway through the podium?

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

I think its an exit ramp for the 720.

The exit ramp is west and can be seen between the Windsor towers. It's the entrance to the underground parkings. Not sure why they need 5 lanes and have the traffic going UK directions...

They're stuck with the brown structure (just right of the entrance in the middle of the lot) which is an exhaust for the Ville-Marie tunnel.

[Gresto]

Ooh, that is nasty!

[mistercorporate]

I like it!

[Black Star]

Very sexy proposal

[kwoldtimer]

Looks like an enormous portable air conditioner.

[Wooster]

Ooooh, very sexy. Hope it happens.

[FrAnKs]

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

looks like an enormous portable air conditioner.

lol

[Beedok]

I figured out what use Quebec stretching a little west of Toronto. It lets Calgary claim the tallest building east of Quebec (probably).

[middeljohn]

Originally Posted by Beedok

I figured out what use Quebec stretching a little west of Toronto. It lets Calgary claim the tallest building east of Quebec (probably).

Well done sir, well done.

[travis3000]

Gorgeous Montreal proposal , I love it. Any chance it'll get built ?

[SkahHigh]

Originally Posted by travis3000

Gorgeous Montreal proposal , I love it. Any chance it'll get built ?

In my opinion, the people at CF probably evaluated the Montreal market and have come to the conclusion that this could work. I believe they are currently looking for tenants.

What might make this work is the incredible design of both proposals (the 200m+ tower or the two 150m towers), which makes other office proposals like 900 de Maisonneuve (114m) and QdS Tower (145m) look boring as hell. Companies who want to move into a new tower often look for prestige office space, like this project.

I have a lot of confidence in Cadillac Fairview. They succeeded in building the first 100m+ office tower in Montreal in a while, attracting two big tenants, Rio Tinto Alcan and Deloitte, while other big office proposals were already on the market for some time. And the Deloitte Tower is looking very, very sharp.

[RyLucky]

Originally Posted by SkahHigh

In my opinion, the people at CF probably evaluated the Montreal market and have come to the conclusion that this could work. I believe they are currently looking for tenants.

What might make this work is the incredible design of both proposals (the 200m+ tower or the two 150m towers), which makes other office proposals like 900 de Maisonneuve (114m) and QdS Tower (145m) look boring as hell. Companies who want to move into a new tower often look for prestige office space, like this project.

I have a lot of confidence in Cadillac Fairview. They succeeded in building the first 100m+ office tower in Montreal in a while, attracting two big tenants, Rio Tinto Alcan and Deloitte, while other big office proposals were already on the market for some time. And the Deloitte Tower is looking very, very sharp.

I really doubt construction will begin without a presigned tenant, but I bet talks are in the works. I wonder who's looking for space. What's the square footage?

[ssiguy]

Simple yet elegant, and like Montreal herself, sexy.

[caltrane74]

Originally Posted by ssiguy

Simple yet elegant, and like Montreal herself, sexy.

Hey, Wait! Isn't this the time for you to complain/whine tiresomely about blue glass?
Or you just reserve those nauseating posts for special occasions?

[ssiguy]

Originally Posted by caltrane74

Hey, Wait! Isn't this the time for you to complain/whine tiresomely about blue glass?
Or you just reserve those nauseating posts for special occasions?

Actually I like some blue glass buildings. It's when there block after block after dreary block of them like CityPlace/Southcore. Variety is the spice of life and I like variety of architectural designs, heights, construction materials, density, colours, and shapes. It's when create endless building of the same basic buildings over and over all right up against each other that it's goes from dynamic and novel to banal and sterile.

Even when it comes to skylines, too much of anything isn't necessarily good.

[G.S MTL]

Future MTL I included TDC, Roccabella tower 1 and 2, icone towers, l'avenue, and yul and also deloitte


Before and after

[SkahHigh]

^ nice G.S! Great work