The Great Canadian Skyline Thread! II

[Beedok]

I looks really good when going in for a landing a the island airport too, but you can't see it on the ground. . .

[Chadillaccc]

Haha that would be awesome. "No, that's actually just a suburb."

[Bankview]

The perspective shown in this image has made me truly like the AGO/OCAD for the very first time.

http://www.canadianart.ca/

[Wigs]

Originally Posted by The_Architect

Crazy to think that for a while Hamilton was actually bigger than Toronto..

Actually given its setting that would make sesne.

Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

When? In 1816 Hamilton had 668 people, Toronto had 720 in 1813 (after the war); Hamilton had 1,000 in 1833, Toronto had 9,254 in 1834; in 1850 Hamilton had 10,248 and Toronto 30,000; in 1861 Hamilton had 19,096 and Toronto 65,085; in 1901 Hamilton had 51,561 and Toronto 238,080.

umm yeah, The_Architect: are you confusing Hamilton with Buffalo?

1850
Hamilton 10,248
Toronto 30,000
Buffalo 42,261
1861
Hamilton 19,096
Toronto 65,085
Buffalo (1860) 81,129
1901
Hamilton 51,561
Toronto 238,080
Buffalo (1900) 352,387 (city was at its peak of importance)
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@The_Architect: you've learned that a)you were incorrect and b)Buffalo was actually larger than Toronto once

To compare just how small Canadian cities were, see the following
List of Largest Canadian cities by Census
List of Largest US cities by Census

[Wigs]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Haha that would be awesome. "No, that's actually just a suburb."

a suburb of 750,000! glad to see 'Sauga finally getting some urbanism going on.

I remember being a kid when the City Hall was built and thinking it was cool to have a new, funky looking tall building (what I know now is PoMo) among the endless, ticky tacky sea of single family houses.

[Chadillaccc]

Mission!


Calgary's Mission district by Surrealplaces, on Flickr

[Chadillaccc]

Two incredible shots of the city, one from the east, the other taken during the flood... shot from the curb of Memorial Drive. From the Kofihugo Facebook page.



https://www.facebook.com/Kofihugo

[Rico Rommheim]

^That flooding one is A+



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Here's an angle from Pointe St-Charles

Originally Posted by leftimage

View from the Pointe, taken this morning.

[kool maudit]

i like how montreal's condos are not generally of the glassy, canadian sort. there's something chunky and northern european about a lot of them. we're going to end up feeling more like hamburg than vancouver.

[Razor]

^ Ya I just don't think that green or blue glass would fit well in a city like Montreal..There's been a big push on condos in the last few years in Ottawa as well, and I'm liking how they are starting to add some variety to the otherwise Lego block skyline that government buildings gave us..Ottawa could use anything ...Even green glass to spice it up!

Now as far as all this Hamilton/Calgary banter goes..All I'm going to say is that you really have to get your boots on the ground in Hamilton to appreciate it's urbanity and great stock of pre-war homes especially..This is Hamilton's best trait IMO..Calgary is a city of today not of before, and that's not a bad thing at all..Today's buildings will be tomorrow's historic buildings..Hamilton would love to have Calgary's fortune right now, so I'm hoping things turn around for it, because it really is a great city to walk around.

[ScreamingViking]

Originally Posted by Razor

Now as far as all this Hamilton/Calgary banter goes..All I'm going to say is that you really have to get your boots on the ground in Hamilton to appreciate it's urbanity and great stock of pre-war homes especially..This is Hamilton's best trait IMO..Calgary is a city of today not of before, and that's not a bad thing at all..Today's buildings will be tomorrow's historic buildings..Hamilton would love to have Calgary's fortune right now, so I'm hoping things turn around for it, because it really is a great city to walk around.

Especially to your last sentence.

That said, a few of the pics that have been shared of Calgary's older buildings have surprised me in a good way. Unless you've been there and walked around, all you usually see are the impressive skyline shots. Like Winnipeg, it's a city I'd like to explore.

[Chadillaccc]

I agree SV. When I moved here I just expected a brand new shiney city, not dozens of century old buildings right in and around the core.

[Chadillaccc]

An amazing Toronto skyline posted by MonkeyRonin.

Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

toronto skyline by Gregs_c, on Flickr

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by kool maudit

i like how montreal's condos are not generally of the glassy, canadian sort. there's something chunky and northern european about a lot of them. we're going to end up feeling more like hamburg than vancouver.

Building all glass condo towers is really an aberration and not a Canadian norm. In 10-20 years we'll see the folly in building all glass residential in a Canadian climate and return to our senses. Btw, lots of Canadian cities never built all glass or are already returning to traditional Canadian designs featuring solid walls.

We all notice the glass because its was a new trend, but looking out of my downtown Toronto building most of the condos aren't all glass.

[SignalHillHiker]

I just want ONE, SINGLE all-glass condo building in St. John's before the style fades from favour. I was in a coworker's condo in Calgary, floor-to-ceiling windows, and it was just... completely foreign. It's something you cannot get here in any capacity - which is rare because we can usually offer at least a limited, poor man's version of such urban things.

Just one. I won't live in it, but I want to know it's there.

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

I just want ONE, SINGLE all-glass condo building in St. John's before the style fades from favour. I was in a coworker's condo in Calgary, floor-to-ceiling windows, and it was just... completely foreign. It's something you cannot get here in any capacity - which is rare because we can usually offer at least a limited, poor man's version of such urban things.

Just one. I won't live in it, but I want to know it's there.

I wouldn't live in one either. The insulation factor in glass is terrible, you have far less privacy, and you wouldn't catch me spending any time on a balcony with glass sides. I'm fine high up as long as I can't see down, only over. I chose my condo precisely because it wasn't glass. Btw, how is having all glass walls urban? It's just a trend that will hopefully go the way of the Edsel.

[kw5150]

I would live in all-glass in a second....actually, a millisecond.

The views are freaking outstanding!!!!!!!! You can sit on your couch against the glass wall and feel like you are on the edge of a cliff. I love it.

I have to live in a floor to ceiling glass condo at least once in my life!! I love them. Vancouver and Toronto can pull it off because of the moderate climate.

"Montreal would not look good with glass" is the strangest thing I have ever heard. I think glass would fit in very nicely and will in the near future. Arent most of the the new buildings using glass......seriously, c'mon. As soon as they are built, everyone in Montreal will say "I love how they fit in." If Montrealer's cant make glass fit into the skyline, then there is something wrong with their designers!

[caltrane74]

I don't understand the whole harsh climate thing either. We have 2 months of very cold weather and 2 more months of moderately cold weather... 8 months of just regular weather.

Yes we live in Canada, but we don't all live in the artic circle.

[phesto]

Downtown Vancouver Panorama by Patrick Lundgren - AirTeamImages, on Flickr

[craner]

Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7438/9...d32548a6_b.jpg)
by brengt2.

The Pearl is like Edmonton's Aura the way it towers over it's surroundings.