Canadian Skyline Thread III

[J.OT13]

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10161625981270807&set=a.143539020806

From SL123:


https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=10496755&postcount=505

From AuxTown:


https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=10494965&postcount=2279

Originally Posted by rocketphish

A couple of panoramas from today:

(click for larger versions)





Photos by me
Oct. 12, 2025

[Coldrsx]

Nice update and SO odd to see that skyline look after all of these years.

[J.OT13]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

Nice update and SO odd to see that skyline look after all of these years.

The last 10-20 years has been transformational, in particular the last 5. Hull is getting a whole new look with reclads of major Federal office complexes (individually nice, but heavy on the blue glass when put together). We're seeing a significant slow down now, but three towers on the Ottawa side currently u/c should have a huge impact when complete, to the point where a slow down isn't too much of a blow.

[someone123]

Originally Posted by Drybrain

This is a neat one because it contains none of the downtown itself, nor any of Dartmouth (which has been filling up recently and creating a modest but legitimate secondary skyline across the harbour). Instead it’s facing outward, away from the traditional core. It demonstrates a bit how the city is developing a sort of 360-degree skyline from certain vantage points, with high-rise nodes popping up well beyond downtown.

Halifax had a certain kind of small-city feel in the 90's and 2000's that is pretty much gone now. There were many prominent parking lots on or just off the main streets. The post urban renewal "downtown" had shrunk to a comparatively small area you could walk around in 15 mins or so (smaller than it was in the 50's, when Gottingen was also considered part of downtown). There were things to see around the rest of the urban core but it was sparse and disconnected. Today you can start downtown and walk 45 mins north through mostly pedestrian-friendly mixed-use urban fabric, ending in a pre-war rowhouse neighbourhood.

Part of why the new development is so impactful is that it's tying previously degraded urban areas back together. You don't just get a new tower in an isolated suburban pod but a new tower on a parking lot with rowhouses and old previously half-empty storefronts around it that spring back to life with new businesses as the density increases.

I liked this view of the far south end of Barrington:


Source

It's still a mixed bag but seems to be improving a lot lately and has some historical architectural gems as well as "missing middle density" from old apartments and rowhouses. It could be a great area with a few more developments. For example, I expect that 3 storey office building surrounded by parking near the foreground will be redeveloped eventually. Same with the Tim Horton's between 2 condos that dates from the bad old days when heritage buildings were demolished for parking lots and suburban box stores.

[Martin Mtl]

Photo: https://www.facebook.com/photobro2020

[Coldrsx]

Edmonton's University of Alberta and Garneau skyline.

[G.S MTL]

So a friend of mine went on a plane ride and recorded a little video of downtown Montreal today. He’s supposed to send me more photos, but he hasn’t yet but this is what I have so far.

[Pavlov]

Originally Posted by G.S MTL

So a friend of mine went on a plane ride and recorded a little video of downtown Montreal today. He’s supposed to send me more photos, but he hasn’t yet but this is what I have so far.

Wow. Beefy.

[Wigs]

Montréal: voilà le boeuf!

[TorontoDrew]

Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

Photo: https://www.facebook.com/photobro2020

Took me a minute to figure out where this was taken from. Nice zoom lens. Also what is the St. Helen’s Island Pavilion being used for? It seems like a golden opportunity for something cool if it's not currently in use.

[TorontoDrew]

Marina Quay by Jack Landau, on Flickr

The Well III by Jack Landau, on Flickr

Canada Life Building by Jack Landau, on Flickr

[J.OT13]

Hull, Quebec. Terrasses de la Chaudière being reclad in glass (from reddish-brown brick), W/E II.II topped out and Ottawa's new 1040 Somerset tower, 2 kilometers away, prominently visible in between.



This one from hoggytime on Skyrise.
https://ottawa.skyrisecities.com/forum/threads/ottawas-skyline.10479/page-8

[KnoxfordGuy]

That grocery store needs redevelopment and placed into the base of a new high rise neighbourhood. Such a huge footprint.

Originally Posted by someone123

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by KnoxfordGuy

That grocery store needs redevelopment and placed into the base of a new high rise neighbourhood. Such a huge footprint.

Agree 100%. For many years I lived just a few blocks away. It's undeniably convenient but auto-centric suburban big box stores have no place in an urban centre. It, along with another Superstore on Joseph Howe, should never have been approved. Hopefully, these scars on the urban fabric of Halifax can removed. These stores will do just fine with no surface parking and 1000s of new residential units built in their place.

[Nouvellecosse]

Originally Posted by KnoxfordGuy

That grocery store needs redevelopment and placed into the base of a new high rise neighbourhood. Such a huge footprint.

It's one of the things that bothers me the most about downtown currently along with the surface lot beside the library. There are other surface lots near downtown that bother me such as by the Victoria General hospital complex and along the east coast navy but they're not right downtown.

[Drybrain]

Originally Posted by isaidso

Agree 100%. For many years I lived just a few blocks away. It's undeniably convenient but auto-centric suburban big box stores have no place in an urban centre. It, along with another Superstore on Joseph Howe, should never have been approved. Hopefully, these scars on the urban fabric of Halifax can removed. These stores will do just fine with no surface parking and 1000s of new residential units built in their place.

This whole part of town, down below South Street, is pretty interesting, because it obviously used to be very important, even a gateway to the city. Gradually turned into something more like the city's back door, which is probably why so many dodgy, anti-urban land uses appeared there. The main train station is there, and though it only handles three trains a week now, in the past would have handled many per day. One of the big railway hotels is there, and Peace and Friendship Park as well, which is a significant, ceremonial-feeling green space.

There's some good new development around there now though, and Peace and Friendship Park has turned a corner from feeling pretty sketchy to being well-used. I'm sure that redeveloping the grocery store and the parking lot will happen eventually, and when it does it'll be a big turning point for the area.

[someone123]

It's hard to get across just how bad city council was in the 90's when they allowed that suburban stuff while letting heritage buildings crumble away due to neglect. They had no vision at all and would squabble about cat bylaws and the evils of 7 storey buildings. In the 90's, that north side of the park was a lovely streetscape with the brick Maritime Command building (which played a role in the Battle of the Atlantic), Elmwood hotel, and a row of brick rowhouses partly converted to house restaurants. Now at least the Elmwood is getting restored; I think that development will be a huge step up for the area.

[Cowtown_Tim]

Great shot. Really does a good job of capturing the density in and around Montreal's skyline, and would even be more badass if the whole skyline was captured. Hopefully he gets you the rest of the photos!

Originally Posted by G.S MTL

So a friend of mine went on a plane ride and recorded a little video of downtown Montreal today. He’s supposed to send me more photos, but he hasn’t yet but this is what I have so far.

[Harley613]

I caught this cool pano of a good chunk of the Centre and West end of Ottawa-Gatineau's skyline today.

For anyone not familiar with Ottawa, this encapsulates the north end of Downtown, Downtown Gatineau, Little Italy in the centre back, Tunney's Pasture and Westgate to the far right, and some of Westboro to the extreme right.

It excludes a huge chunk of the skyline to the East and South of Parliament and many smaller clusters interspersed around the region.

The new second and third tallest buildings U/C (Odenak Tower 1 and Marriott Renaissance) will both be visible in this image in one year's time (the current tallest is dead centre, the 143m Claridge Icon in Little Italy)

[cranes]

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