Great Canadian Skyline Thread II - Page 1195

giallo · #**23881** Posted **Aug 5, 2023, 4:08 PM**

It's a holiday here in BC, so I'm off to the island. I'll leave you with a video of one of my favourite angles of Vancouver (I posted a picture of it a few days ago).

This video shows it in a bit more of a dynamic light.

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Martin Mtl · #**23882** Posted **Aug 5, 2023, 9:34 PM**

Photo: https://www.facebook.com/francis.lemarquand

Photo: https://twitter.com/Montreal

Photo: https://www.facebook.com/vieuxportdemontreal

GeneralLea · #**23883** Posted **Aug 6, 2023, 7:18 AM**

Beautiful set Martin.

That industrial complex in the middle image is quite pretty.

This is Yonge and Eglinton, the literal middle of Toronto. I took this a few hours ago from the north:

A Dying Sun by Draulerin Photographics, on Flickr

Every highrise in this image was built and occupied in the last 8 years. Excluding the office tower of course.
If you exclude the highrise on the far right, that number drops to 5 years.

Martin Mtl · #**23884** Posted **Aug 7, 2023, 1:06 PM**

Photo: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1519204421738267

cranes · #**23885** Posted **Aug 8, 2023, 12:08 AM**

Kitchener-Waterloo

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https://youriguide.com/1513_181_king_st_s_waterloo_on/

https://youriguide.com/908_1_victoria_st_s_kitchener_on/

Martin Mtl · #**23886** Posted **Aug 8, 2023, 12:29 PM**

Photo: https://www.instagram.com/bernardbrault/

J.OT13 · #**23887** Posted **Aug 8, 2023, 12:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

Photo: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1519204421738267

Nice to see the colour and warmer tones with the park at the end of the pier and the red brick building. As much as I love Montreal's skylines, it's a lot of shades of grey.

I think most Canadian cities could stand to have a few more colourful/warm toned towers and fetures.

Nite · #**23888** Posted **Aug 8, 2023, 1:41 PM**

Toronto

https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/toronto-skyline.8967/page-171

TorontoDrew · #**23889** Posted **Aug 8, 2023, 1:46 PM**

That must have been last night. The sunset lit up the sky.

Harley613 · #**23890** Posted **Aug 8, 2023, 2:13 PM**

I had no idea Kitchener has their own mini version of the Stanley A. Milner Edmonton Central Library.

Googled it, it's the 'Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics'

WhipperSnapper · #**23891** Posted **Aug 8, 2023, 4:29 PM**

First I've seen this new addition to the Perimeter Institute too. No surprise the Stephen Hawking Center is by the same architect as Stanley A. Milner. It's a carbunkle next to Saucier and Perotte's original Perimeter Institute building.

Coldrsx · #**23892** Posted **Aug 8, 2023, 4:39 PM**

A lot of similarities both inside and out.

Nite · #**23893** Posted **Aug 9, 2023, 2:06 AM**

Nevermind

Martin Mtl · #**23894** Posted **Aug 9, 2023, 2:23 PM**

Photo: https://www.facebook.com/adrian.niculcea

kwoldtimer · #**23895** Posted **Aug 9, 2023, 2:33 PM**

[QUOTE=Harley613;10009224]I had no idea Kitchener has their own mini version of the Stanley A. Milner Edmonton Central Library.

Googled it, it's the 'Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics'

... /QUOTE]

Just to note, that's Waterloo, not Kitchener

MolsonExport · #**23896** Posted **Aug 9, 2023, 4:36 PM**

Montreal lookin' delicious as usual.

Rico Rommheim · #**23897** Posted **Aug 9, 2023, 5:41 PM**

I love what these handful of 200m towers have done for the skyline. As far as I'm concerned the skyline is "peak skyline", save for maybe one marquee 250m tower above central station, which will never happen. The 200m towers have enough distance from each other to stand out and act as landmarks, the hills remain visible and balanced with the towers and the layers of increasing density around the downtown core create a good aesthetic. I'd consider the skyline to be essentially complete. The rest is just filler.

O-tacular · #**23898** Posted **Aug 9, 2023, 6:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

Photo: https://www.facebook.com/francis.lemarquand

Vieux Longueuil?

Martin Mtl · #**23899** Posted **Aug 9, 2023, 7:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Vieux Longueuil?

The fire station at the bottom of the picture is more or less at the beginning of Vieux-Longueuil. Most of the old district would be down from there, out of the picture.

Martin Mtl · #**23900** Posted **Aug 9, 2023, 7:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

I love what these handful of 200m towers have done for the skyline. As far as I'm concerned the skyline is "peak skyline", save for maybe one marquee 250m tower above central station, which will never happen. The 200m towers have enough distance from each other to stand out and act as landmarks, the hills remain visible and balanced with the towers and the layers of increasing density around the downtown core create a good aesthetic. I'd consider the skyline to be essentially complete. The rest is just filler.

The thing is... 1 Square Phillips is build on a land roughly 40 meters above the St-Lawrence, so in effect it gives the illusion that the tower is a good 240 meters tall from any picture taken from the river. It is now the tallest tower in the city above the St-Lawrence.