The Great Canadian Skyline Thread!

[kw5150]

I've lived in London, Hamilton and Ottawa. They're all pretty nice, but Ottawa and Hamilton are quite a bit bigger and denser.
Ottawa's skyline would be amazing if not for the height restriction.
I wish London had a better vantage point to view the skyline, I've never gotten any good pics.


Ottawa:

WOW......I have never seen a shot of Ottawa like this...... It keeps going and going and going.....thanks!

[kw5150]

I've lived in London, Hamilton and Ottawa. They're all pretty nice, but Ottawa and Hamilton are quite a bit bigger and denser.
Ottawa's skyline would be amazing if not for the height restriction.
I wish London had a better vantage point to view the skyline, I've never gotten any good pics.


Ottawa:

WOW......I have never seen a shot of Ottawa like this...... It keeps going and going and going.....thanks!

[davidivivid]

http://darlyne1980.centerblog.net/1261-montreal

[caltrane74]

Mississauga from jasonzed at UT

[haljackey]

Absolute World

jasonzed at UT

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Absolut Vodka




They had to be drunk when they designed this thing.

[Delirium]

agreed on the Ottawa shot. Very cool!

here's a couple aerials taken Tuesday after a light snowfall

[Darkoshvilli]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shiftychunk/5203360440/in/set-72157625331269903/


http://www.flickr.com/photos/shiftychunk/5202766189/in/set-72157625331269903/

[Calgarian]

Great Vancouver shots, I love how dense it looks.

That Ottawa pano is probably the best I've seen yet.

[mike474]

Very nice Ottawa, Vancovuer, and Montreal shots. That last Montreal shot is so cool. The justice palace is such a monstrosity

[Darkoshvilli]

Originally Posted by mike474

Very nice Ottawa, Vancovuer, and Montreal shots. That last Montreal shot is so cool. The justice palace is such a monstrosity

Its so out of place its ridiculous. Gotta wonder what they were thinking building it where they did.

[whiteford]

holy density batman. Vancouver is quickly becoming the king of density for north america. all those short apartments are going to be gobbled up by glass tower's, at break neck speed. these are exciting time's indeed, for us Canadian skyscraper lovers. for those of us living in Vancouver, it will be utopia. lucky bastards.

[someone123]

Originally Posted by whiteford

Vancouver is quickly becoming the king of density for north america.

Manhattan has 1.6 million people in 60 square kilometres. This is almost as many people as there are in all of metro Vancouver. Brooklyn has another 2.5 million people in 250 square kilometres - this works out to a density of 14,000 per square kilometre or so, which is about the same as downtown Vancouver. Actually the density of the whole City of New York with its 5 boroughs and 8 million people is not too far off from this (10,000 per square kilometre).

[whiteford]

ya i know that, but lets face it after that there is little room for future growth. In time Vancouver will approach some of these numbers. i should restate that is is the new, and up and coming prince of density. it has a long way to go but it sure seems to be on the right path. some time in the future i can see it getting very close to being the king.

[Coldrsx]

^no they will not... higher yes, but not to that level...

[caltrane74]

This is Density



Ben West Photography

[Traynor]

Cal... I am sorry but I have to be the voice of reason here. We all know you love Toronto and are very proud, as am I. I was born there and lived most of my life downtown. However, I still hold an objective view and know the reality that Toronto is.

Toronto may be massive... It may be very populated... It may have more highrises than any other Canadian city, but that does not equate to density.

You are overwhelmed with pride and your opinions hopelessly subjective. The spread out nature of Toronto's sprawl negates the true density it would have, if it's landmass was as restrictive as, say, Vancouver's.

You mind's eye knows all the projects built and under construction and it sees them all together. Your mind groups Hulmark Centre and Absolute World in with the CBD even though it's miles away.

If you could move all of Toronto's highrises in from the suburbs (I mean every building over 12 floors in Scarborough, North York, Etobicoke etc..) and place them all in the CBD then yes, we would have Vancouver type density. Dare I say even at the levels of Manhattan, but this is not the case.

Just take a long look at the recent Vancouver aerial and then the one you posted of T.O. Use a real OBJECTIVE eye, Cal. Look at all the space between Toronto's stuff below Bloor. Not even mentioning the vast distance between there and perhaps North York or Scarborough.

[The_Architect]

Traynor,
Though I agree we are incredibly sprawled, I believe Cal was referring to the density within the core, which we do have. We may not have a very high overall density, and the areas east of Church and west of Spadina may be lacking density, but overall in the CBD, especially between Spadina and Church and the lake to Bloor, the buildings are very densely located.

[Traynor]

^Yeah, I knew what he meant and I still disagree. I don't think the area bounded by Bloor, Church, Spadina and the Lake is nearly as dense as the peninsula that Vancouver sits on.

I mean dense with buildings over 20 floors. Because of course there are buildings next to each other in the downtown area of T.O., (which technically equals density) but not tall buildings.

Have you walked up Spadina North of Dundas lately and glanced to your right? Look at a map of that area. Stand at the intersection of Huron and D'Arcy and tell me how "Big City" it feels.

http://maps.google.ca/maps?ie=UTF8&hl=en&ll=43.65425,-79.396729&spn=0.00118,0.003803&t=h&z=18

[The_Architect]

^ The area of Spadina north of Dundas is one of lesser dense tower areas, but a good chunk of it is the UofT campus, which is actually pretty dense for a university campus.
But I do get what you mean, when you look at the Vancouver CBD peninsula it's a sea of highrise condo towers, but it also has a lot of single houses as you go further north on the peninsula, so it has its lower density areas too.

[caltrane74]

That does it. Traynor that is crazy!

Toronto does not have density? No tall towers, in the core? —?

Those tiny, tiny towers at the top of the picture are St.Jamestown, I have a funny feeling they could swallow most Vancouver Condo towers.