Future Canadian Skylines

[steveve]

Future Downtown Toronto:

[Maldive]

Incredible model (as always) @steveve... both us here at SSP that are oddly interested in skyscrapers appreciate your skills!

[J.OT13]

Originally Posted by Maldive

Incredible model (as always) @steveve... both us here at SSP that are oddly interested in skyscrapers appreciate your skills!

Totally agree. Great visual. Almost look like there's more proposed than what's already been built over the last 100 years + u/c.

[WhipperSnapper]

not 100. Could be approaching 50 years (for all of Toronto)

[koops65]

Toronto Proposals: https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=105601669

There are over 750 now...

289 are over 150 metres: https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=105601676

[koops65]

88 Queen:

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[J.OT13]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

not 100. Could be approaching 50 years (for all of Toronto)

The tallest towers were built over the last 50-some years, starting with the Toronto Dominion Centre in 1967. But before that, a few notable "skyscrapers" were built, like the Royal York and Commerce Court North, although they are both well hidden behind much more imposing structures today.

[WhipperSnapper]

Toronto has 1.3 to 1.4 million homes and there's probably around 650,000ish proposed units. The bulk of those homes are 100 (125ish) years old or younger. Of course rate of growth isn't a constant.

[koops65]

CIBC Square:

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[koops65]

The One:

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[koops65]

The Whitfield: 39 floors, 130 metres, U/C

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[koops65]

Pinnacle One Yonge, with possible future towers of 95 and 90 floors:

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[koops65]

83 Bloor W:

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[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by Maldive

Incredible model (as always) @steveve... both us here at SSP that are oddly interested in skyscrapers appreciate your skills!

Steveve's extreme accuracy does create a dilemma. Skyscraper nerds do not like low rise single family neighbourhoods and there's a ton of those in the image. Cabbagetown is sacred however, Baldwin Village and Grange Park's existing low slung densities are often mentioned as expendable.

[Nouvellecosse]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Steveve's extreme accuracy does create a dilemma. Skyscraper nerds do not like low rise single family neighbourhoods and there's a ton of those in the image. Cabbagetown is sacred however, Baldwin Village and Grange Park's existing low slung densities are often mentioned as expendable.

I'm not sure there's much of a dilemma for skyscraper nerds unless they're also a fan of other aspects of urbanism. Otherwise there wouldn't be any reluctance toward redevelopment. But for people in my situation it's a big dilemma. While I'm not a skyscraper fan specifically, I do prefer cities with a high density core and lower (but still fairly high) density inner city. But I'm also a fan of historic preservation since it gives cities character, texture and variety while too much redevelopment threatens that. It just makes me wish that somehow some of the lower density stuff could just be moved a little farther out, since I still want it but I just don't want it displacing denser-inner-city stuff because that stuff ends up not existing. I'm greedy - I want a city with lots of everything. Well, other than car-centric sprawl.

[WhipperSnapper]

There will be both adoration and anger looking at this drawing.

[koops65]

8 Elm:

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[Maldive]

@Natika33 posted a great skyline pano at UT looking S-W over the Don Valley and they were kind enough to let me do a quick future scribble. Low rez because the photo was only 300k.

I extended the pano (as well as the viewing pov) a couple of blocks north for one last look(?) at the 91 storey The One just for giggles.

Original:
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/attach...dr-jpg.576779/
Natika33

Future:


3D

[MonkeyRonin]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Steveve's extreme accuracy does create a dilemma. Skyscraper nerds do not like low rise single family neighbourhoods and there's a ton of those in the image. Cabbagetown is sacred however, Baldwin Village and Grange Park's existing low slung densities are often mentioned as expendable.

The UrbanToronto skyscraper fanboys might hate them, but those low-rise inner city neighbourhoods like Grange Park, Trinity Bellwoods, Palmerston-Little Italy, etc. still manage to pack in ~10,000+ people/sqkm. Could get a fair bit higher with laneway houses and "gentle", low-rise multiplex intensification.

[J.OT13]

Future Centretown Skyline, Ottawa.

Green is built and u/c, yellow is approved and red is proposed.