The Great Canadian Skyline Thread!

[kool maudit]

was feeds is on a continual basis. philly or phoenix?

[caltrane74]

Brutal Skyline from -R.Williams at www.flickr.com

[Witty Nickname]

Courtesy of me.

[Coldrsx]

unreal pic of Edmonton



from
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3658/3387757942_09876d9b4b_b.jpg

[Doug_Cgy]

Originally Posted by Regulator75

Courtesy of me.

Great shot Reg! With Keynote & Nuera quickly rising, that gap between Vetro and the CBD is going to fill in quite nicely

[Witty Nickname]

Thanks Doug! I can't wait till that gap is filled in.

[yyzer]

westend skyline pic by brett.electrician, posted in the City Photo subforum, part of a nice selection of Toronto pics...

[caltrane74]

nice!!

[Jeff]

[Boris2k7]

Flickr Find!

Calgary from the sky
Taken on 2009.01.30 -- Uploaded on 2009.03.25

Courtesy of tralia.geo

Click for Original (3072x2304)

[G.S MTL]

.... i will edit this in a min

[Wooster]

Originally Posted by G.S MTL

lol

I wasn't trying to compare or argue that these areas surrounding the business core were as dense as Montreal, merely that despite what some people were saying there are relatively dense mid-rise areas that don't often show up in skyline photos.

thanks for laughing though. No need to be so condescending.

[G.S MTL]

Originally Posted by Wooster

I wasn't trying to compare or argue that these areas surrounding the business core were as dense as Montreal, merely that despite what some people were saying there are relatively dense mid-rise areas that don't often show up in skyline photos.

thanks for laughing though. No need to be so condescending.

why you soo frustrated for? am i insulting ?..... im just trying to educate you people about the difference of Montreal and Calgary...thats all.... many of you are happy about YOUR skyline whoopti doooo you got a 230m tower so what? forget height for a min.... come to Montreal and then maybe you'll agree with me.... im sick of you calgarians saying Calgary is going to surpass mtl in population going to "beat" our skyline bla bla bla grow up!.....learn the facts and be realistic.....Calgary is like still baby i mean still breast feeding....and i never bashed Calgary's skyline! ive always said its skyline is impressive for a city its size... Montreal is Montreal period! oh and i seee that you removed "—" thought twice didnt ya? silly boy

[Metro-One]

I am glad Vancouver has stayed out of this one! haha. Now now everyone, while Montreal is obviously more developed than Calgary people do have to remember that this is a SKYLINE thread, not a livability thread, not an urban street scape thread, not an art & entertainment thread, etc... So while Montreal does have an overall denser urban fabric and arguably nicer streets scapes than Calgary, I personally would rate Calgary's skyline better than Montreal's. So while Montreal may win in almost every other category between it and Calgary, Calgary does win in the regards of skylines. People do not need to start bringing up other aspects and facts about their city that has nothing to do with the skylines. Vancouver also has a very large mid rise district to the east of downtown and a decent sized mid rise district to the south, but when talking about "skylines" those areas do not count, for the majority of those building are under 12 stories, only the "skyline" counts when talking about "skylines."

[Boris2k7]

Originally Posted by G.S MTL

why you soo frustrated for? am i insulting ?..... im just trying to educate you people about the difference of Montreal and Calgary...thats all.... many of you are happy about YOUR skyline whoopti doooo you got a 230m tower so what? forget height for a min.... come to Montreal and then maybe you'll agree with me.... im sick of you calgarians saying Calgary is going to surpass mtl in population going to "beat" our skyline bla bla bla grow up!.....learn the facts and be realistic.....Calgary is like still baby i mean still breast feeding....and i never bashed Calgary's skyline! ive always said its skyline is impressive for a city its size... Montreal is Montreal period! oh and i seee that you removed "—" thought twice didnt ya? silly boy

He removed it? Well I'll say it then. You are acting like a total —. Grow up. This is the skyline thread, read the letters: S K Y L I N E. If you really feel the need to be an — and guffaw over how anyone could ever compare Calgary in any way to Montreal, then there are other threads where you can post lots of streetscape photos that have NOTHING to do with your skyline.

[Tone]

Oh man, i just hope this weird Montreal/Calgary comparaison dosen't exist anywhere else in the real world... How people dare to compare anything between the two blows my mind. Montreal is a dense urban celebration with rich history and one of the best collection of architecture while Calgary is ''just'' a young and small low-density prairie town but topped with oil companies HQ's bunched together surrounded by bungalows. Stop the comparaison please, even skyline-wise, there will never be any. No?
How is G.S. Mtl a —? How old are you guys????

[flar]

Is there a city vs city thing going on here?

[samne]

toronto has nowhere near the sense of history that montreal does.

and of the top 50 residential streets in canada, probably 40 are in montreal.

(it's hard developing that brooklyn swagger when you're stuck with buffalo duplexes.)

and Paris has nowhere near that of Rome.

but hey, even Montreal looks like Phoenix to someone from the old continent.

[kool maudit]

true dat

[wild wild west]

Tone and G.S., I typically have found the Montrealers on SSP to be a good bunch in the past...you two appear to be glaring exceptions. Grow up.

Seriously, there is no need to be insulting. This is a skyline thread. Houston may have nowhere near the urban fabric or density of say, Boston, San Fran or Philly but I think it is very comparable, and probably better, than those cities in the skyline department. Similarly, Calgary is very much comparable in terms of its skyline - the height and number of tall buildings - with Montreal. Statistics prove that. There is no need to run us down or be an — about it.