Canadian Skyline Thread III

[TorontoDrew]

Sky Tower now the tallest (looking) skyscraper from the waterfront.

Skyline sunset view from Tommy Thompson Park - Leslie Street Spit, Toronto by Phil Marion (241 million views), on Flickr

[MolsonExport]

love that shot. even the worn bricks.

[Gresto]

Yeah, I know it's supposed to be reuse and recycle, but I'm not really digging that garbage dump in the foreground.

[DavidK93]

Originally Posted by James Bond Agent 007

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Calgary is a great example of the bigger city downtowns I was talking about before: All it needs is maybe another dozen or so towers like these and they will start to dominate the skyline and make it look like Mississauga, particularly from certain angles:
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0478...oASAFQAw%3D%3D

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I agree about Surrey, Coquitlam and Kelowna looking like clones of Mississauga, but to me Calgary seems like a city that won’t ever really have that look, even with a dozen or two more condo towers. There are too many tall offices towers in the skyline. Personally I think a dozen more condo towers would give Calgary’s skyline a great mix.

[Nouvellecosse]

Originally Posted by Gresto

Yeah, I know it's supposed to be reuse and recycle, but I'm not really digging that garbage dump in the foreground.

Yeah the eroded and weathered bricks look pretty but not so much some of the other stuff. Plastic bottle, pipe segments, etc.

[Repthe250]

Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

Lifeless? I agree that condo towers are often not great aesthetically, but I don't see how anyone can claim that the cities are lifeless at all given that they're busier, denser, and more vibrant than ever before. Sure there are certain districts where you get noise complaints now that you didn't before, but you don't need music loud enough to rattle nearby window panes to in order to be lively.

I was referring to aesthetics. I obviously know Vancouver isn’t lifeless.
Metro Vancouver suburbs, victoria and Kelowna are all building uninspired ugly-ass buildings en masse and it’s ruining the vibe of the cities. Like, all grey, or black and white. No colour. No thought. No soul. It’s becoming a trend and I seriously miss the 90’s of seafoam green. At least there was colour.

[MolsonExport]

Toronto's 70's bank tower beauties are being covered up.

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by Repthe250

I was referring to aesthetics. I obviously know Vancouver isn’t lifeless.
Metro Vancouver suburbs, victoria and Kelowna are all building uninspired ugly-ass buildings en masse and it’s ruining the vibe of the cities. Like, all grey, or black and white. No colour. No thought. No soul. It’s becoming a trend and I seriously miss the 90’s of seafoam green. At least there was colour.

Lifeless is a terribly low standard anyways. Anything above a sea of parking lots will have life including a crush of people carrying you down Bay Street to Union Station eventhough you live at Bloor and Yonge. It doesn't delineate quality.

[MonctonRad]

Drone shot taken yesterday by Infinity Aerials to show the major infrastructure work being done on East Main Street in Moncton (bridge refurbishment, major repaving and new storm sewer outfall). It nicely shows what downtown currently looks like as seen from the east.

The lot in the foreground being used as a marshalling area for the infrastructure work is where the Infinity Tower will be built. Construction will hopefully begin this fall once the roadwork is done. This will be a 30 storey mixed use building (residential tower on a commercial podium), and will be the tallest building in the city (the tallest structure at 450 ft will remain the Bell Aliant Tower).

The vacant block right next door was recently consolidated by JD Irving. No one knows what is planned, but, now that Irving owns the entire block, people are in full speculation mode. A nice development here to complement the Infinity Tower would be a powerful one-two punch for the eastern entry into the downtown core.

[Coldrsx]

https://www.linkedin.com/company/tra...lF7wLaDA%3D%3D

[James Bond Agent 007]

Photos from condos and apartments on real estate websites are a real goldmine of skyline shots.


https://www.rew.ca/properties/2503-1...ck=map_sidebar

[logan5]

Originally Posted by Repthe250

I was referring to aesthetics. I obviously know Vancouver isn’t lifeless.
Metro Vancouver suburbs, victoria and Kelowna are all building uninspired ugly-ass buildings en masse and it’s ruining the vibe of the cities. Like, all grey, or black and white. No colour. No thought. No soul. It’s becoming a trend and I seriously miss the 90’s of seafoam green. At least there was colour.

Victoria has a high proportion of historic building, so it has a ton of soul. It beats out bigger cities like Edmonton and Calgary, by quite bit actually.

And at ground level, Vancouver isn’t nearly as bland looking as you would expect if you judged the city by looking at a skyline full of green condo towers. The podiums are usually in a townhouse style using brick veneer. Richard’s Street and Seymour Street are excellent examples of this.

[O-tacular]

Took this a couple weeks ago:

[Repthe250]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Lifeless is a terribly low standard anyways. Anything above a sea of parking lots will have life including a crush of people carrying you down Bay Street to Union Station eventhough you live at Bloor and Yonge. It doesn't delineate quality.

Lifeless was a bad choice of words and I thought I made that clear in my last comment. I was referring to skyline, and not street life. This is the Great Canadian Skyline thread.

[Repthe250]

Originally Posted by logan5

Victoria has a high proportion of historic building, so it has a ton of soul. It beats out bigger cities like Edmonton and Calgary, by quite bit actually.

And at ground level, Vancouver isn’t nearly as bland looking as you would expect if you judged the city by looking at a skyline full of green condo towers. The podiums are usually in a townhouse style using brick veneer. Richard’s Street and Seymour Street are excellent examples of this.

I guess I’m the only Canadian dissatisfied with the quality of the quantity of condo towers going up across Canada. We as a people have just accepted substandard quality I suppose. I’ll keep my opinions to myself, going forward. I didn’t realize this forum, skyscraperpage wasn’t the place to air grievances on this genre.

[Nouvellecosse]

Originally Posted by Repthe250

I guess I’m the only Canadian dissatisfied with the quality of the quantity of condo towers going up across Canada. We as a people have just accepted substandard quality I suppose. I’ll keep my opinions to myself, going forward. I didn’t realize this forum, skyscraperpage wasn’t the place to air grievances on this genre.

There's nothing wrong with airing grievances. I just misunderstood since, as you said, it wasn't the clearest choice of words. Yes it's a skyline thread but people say stuff that isn't directly on topic all the time and people don't normally refer to skylines as lively or lifeless. But you clarified so now we know.

[logan5]

Originally Posted by Repthe250

I guess I’m the only Canadian dissatisfied with the quality of the quantity of condo towers going up across Canada. We as a people have just accepted substandard quality I suppose. I’ll keep my opinions to myself, going forward. I didn’t realize this forum, skyscraperpage wasn’t the place to air grievances on this genre.

I agree that Vancouver's skyline is bland or lifeless, and in general condo towers are terrible architecturally. I was just adding a bit to the topic of condo towers. The podiums tend to use higher quality materials, as opposed to the soulless spandrel glass that is used on the tower itself.

It wouldn't cost all that much extra to elevate things. The Woodwards tower in Vancouver is just another bland glass tower, except they bolted on red metal panels that can made easily and cheaply on a plasma cutter, and they install easily as well. The Woodwards tower is one of the nicest looking towers in dt Vancouver as a result of those panels.

[James Bond Agent 007]

Originally Posted by James Bond Agent 007

Photos from condos and apartments on real estate websites are a real goldmine of skyline shots.

Another one:





https://www.apartments.com/two-park-...4l60l-0-photos

[James Bond Agent 007]

[hipster duck]

People often say that a scene looks like something out of Sim City, and they're usually exaggerating, but Mississauga really looks like something out of Sim City in that pic.

I think it's the fact that each building is like its own little tile with no cohesion with the neighbouring tiles.

For example, the condo tower in the centre has an attractive, wide sidewalk that only extends along the edge of that property before turning into dirt on the right.

Or how there's an LRT line under construction but the sidewalk on that road looks like a splash of ashphalt.