The Great Canadian Skyline Thread! - Page 109

wco · #**2161** Posted **Aug 2, 2009, 7:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by fatboy

Edmonton has a skyline? 480 ft tower? WOW like it is impressive compared to what ??? Winnipeg, Hamilton?, Regina?

Well yeah, considering we can't build taller buildings here.

Nite · #**2162** Posted **Aug 3, 2009, 3:19 AM**

a couple more Toronto aerials

http://www.flickr.com/photos/-the-curious-oyster-/3725253430/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vitodens/3716828344/

sammo · #**2163** Posted **Aug 3, 2009, 3:34 AM**

ahhhhhhhhh, beautiful!

now i can die. -or just sleep for a hundred years.

PhilippeMtl · #**2164** Posted **Aug 3, 2009, 1:20 PM**

very impressive shots, the first one is the best.

Witty Nickname · #**2165** Posted **Aug 3, 2009, 1:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by Coldrsx

call me when your city doesn't have an airport overlay, with a max height of 500' at its zenith with much of it around 200', over its entire CBD

I've always wondered who decided that having an airport so close to Edmonton's CBD was a good idea, is it running at full capacity?

bulliver · #**2166** Posted **Aug 3, 2009, 3:43 PM**

^ Probably not. The airport is used only for private planes, general aviation, and a few commercial flights with 14 seats or less. About a month ago Edmonton City Council voted for a staged closure. One runway is closed already, and the other...no hard date but folks are thinking 3-5 years, so it is going, it will just take a while longer...

Pavlov · #**2167** Posted **Aug 3, 2009, 4:04 PM**

Those Toronto aerials are epic.

caltrane74 · #**2168** Posted **Aug 3, 2009, 11:40 PM**

from Bryan Ardnt at flickr.com

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryanarndt/3784070967/sizes/l/

Surrealplaces · #**2169** Posted **Aug 4, 2009, 4:22 AM**

I took this last night. It was a beautiful calm evening out.

entheosfog · #**2170** Posted **Aug 4, 2009, 7:51 AM**

Vancouver, earlier today (Monday):

ue · #**2171** Posted **Aug 4, 2009, 8:08 AM**

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Originally Posted by Regulator75

I've always wondered who decided that having an airport so close to Edmonton's CBD was a good idea, is it running at full capacity?

No it's running far from capacity. I don't know exactly why, but I think the location has to do with the former Hudsons' Bay Reserve. The reserve also included Downtown and Oliver, but those areas along with areas immediately north were obtained by the city, but it took a little longer for the areas north to become part of a city, making it the outskirts of the city for a while. So I think they wanted to keep it close enough to the city, so this location was a win win. It also helps when it originally opened people didn't really think of skyscrapers in Edmonton. You'll note most of Edmonton's old neighbourhoods go Northeast, if not for the reserve, it probably would have been at least somewhat north.

Wooster · #**2172** Posted **Aug 4, 2009, 2:16 PM**

By "Farreth"

Daveography · #**2173** Posted **Aug 4, 2009, 3:17 PM**

^ Wow, great photo, and great angle, too.

Coldrsx · #**2174** Posted **Aug 4, 2009, 6:05 PM**

^skyline looks massive in that angle.

Wooster · #**2175** Posted **Aug 4, 2009, 7:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by Coldrsx

^skyline looks massive in that angle.

I think its length, varying and stepped up heights from the river give it a pleasing and balanced appearance from this angle. Calgary definitely has a skyline that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Coldrsx · #**2176** Posted **Aug 4, 2009, 9:11 PM**

^which is an interesting problem (if you want to call it that) for Edmonton... in that it is almost impossible to get our skyline into one shot for it runs from 82st in the east to 124st in the west.

sammo · #**2177** Posted **Aug 4, 2009, 10:54 PM**

the little pretty skyline of quebec city. by me a week ago.

ok,bottom right is a space filler but i saw it in quebec.

Dylan Leblanc · #**2178** Posted **Aug 4, 2009, 11:57 PM**

hey nice! it's rare to see the entire Quebec City skyline in one photo.

0773|=\ · #**2179** Posted **Aug 5, 2009, 2:21 AM**

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Originally Posted by Wooster

I think its length, varying and stepped up heights from the river give it a pleasing and balanced appearance from this angle. Calgary definitely has a skyline that is greater than the sum of its parts.

It's balanced, yes, but I feel as if it has lost its identity now that the Calgary Tower is dwarfed and/or noticeably absent from the skyline when viewed from some angles. I wish there was a way to keep it more visible or prominent. I guess if it had been built much further away from the CBD kind of like the Space Needle in Seattle or the Hillbrow Tower in Johannesburg, although that would've looked funny up until today. I've always appreciated the Calgary Tower's contribution to the overall Calgary skyline, maybe you guys need a new (larger) one of those now!

UrbanPlannerr · #**2180** Posted **Aug 5, 2009, 4:46 AM**

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Originally Posted by 0773|=\

It's balanced, yes, but I feel as if it has lost its identity now that the Calgary Tower is dwarfed and/or noticeably absent from the skyline when viewed from some angles. I wish there was a way to keep it more visible or prominent. I guess if it had been built much further away from the CBD kind of like the Space Needle in Seattle or the Hillbrow Tower in Johannesburg, although that would've looked funny up until today. I've always appreciated the Calgary Tower's contribution to the overall Calgary skyline, maybe you guys need a new (larger) one of those now!

nahhh, from a tourist perspective, as long as it has a pretty good view (from inside it) than its fine, it'll likely always be a neat attraction. Seriously though you guys are becoming a Manhattan of the prairies, I dig it.