The Great Canadian Skyline Thread! II - Page 108

Coldrsx · #**2141** Posted **Aug 23, 2012, 5:05 PM**

Dvp dvp!

Surrealplaces · #**2142** Posted **Aug 23, 2012, 5:09 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Calgary still is on a roll too! It's crazy. Two office towers over 170 meters tall UC while the city's new tallest is being completed, only a year after the city's third tallest was completed haha. Crazy shit.

Who knows maybe even a new tallest to add to the pile

Nouvellecosse · #**2143** Posted **Aug 23, 2012, 5:16 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

I really want to like that thing because it is kind of unique and dramatic. But after growing up in NS, it reminds me too much of so many of our newer buildings that have this cheap pomo vibe to them where it seems like the design team had wanted a historical design that looks the same as everything else, but after hearing the cost quote to do an actual historical reproduction, decided to just use modern materials to get as close to a historical style as possible while still remaining within the meager budget, and figuring that would be "close enough" and people would "get what they were going for."

Yes, the building has a fun play on scale, but I also can't help but think the style would be really inexpensive to build. And the bland stucco colour gives off a sort of suburban image in contrast to the colours in town. Somehow I think if they changed the colour scheme and made it really intense lego colours I would actually like it. Like if the window glass was more clear or silver instead of tinted blue, and the walls were a vibrant blue, with the roof in a more intense red (or some other similar combination). That would make it seem less lazy/suburban and more avant-garde/modern.

SignalHillHiker · #**2144** Posted **Aug 23, 2012, 5:23 PM**

I started disagreeing with you but, by the end, I agreed. I think a colour change could give the building more impact. I agree with a previous commenter who said the reflective glass gives it an aged appearance.

I think they should have copied this colour scheme, with each of the fishing stage sections of The Rooms being a different colour, like these actual ones:

Colourful Sheds by bkidney, on Flickr

Nouvellecosse · #**2145** Posted **Aug 23, 2012, 5:41 PM**

Fortunately the colour wouldn't be that hard to change either. The hard part would be convincing them to do it lol.

Martin Mtl · #**2146** Posted **Aug 23, 2012, 5:45 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

I really want to like that thing because it is kind of unique and dramatic. But after growing up in NS, it reminds me too much of so many of our newer buildings that have this cheap pomo vibe to them where it seems like the design team had wanted a historical design that looks the same as everything else, but after hearing the cost quote to do an actual historical reproduction, decided to just use modern materials to get as close to a historical style as possible while still remaining within the meager budget, and figuring that would be "close enough" and people would "get what they were going for."

Yes, the building has a fun play on scale, but I also can't help but think the style would be really inexpensive to build. And the bland stucco colour gives off a sort of suburban image in contrast to the colours in town. Somehow I think if they changed the colour scheme and made it really intense lego colours I would actually like it. Like if the window glass was more clear or silver instead of tinted blue, and the walls were a vibrant blue, with the roof in a more intense red (or some other similar combination). That would make it seem less lazy/suburban and more avant-garde/modern.

But what is that thing anyway ? It sure ruins an otherwise lovely skyline.

SignalHillHiker · #**2147** Posted **Aug 23, 2012, 5:49 PM**

(Martin, you'd cry if you knew what used to be there. Fort Townshend, a large, star-shaped citadel fortification built by the British. Of course, it was long gone before they built this.)

By the way, all, here is what the rest of the building looks like.

Modern Architecture, The Rooms, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada by Bencito the Traveller, on Flickr

Opening at The Rooms in St. John's by John Guy2010, on Flickr

Interior, The Rooms, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada by Bencito the Traveller, on Flickr

PoscStudent · #**2148** Posted **Aug 23, 2012, 6:02 PM**

I've grown to love it.

Pavlov · #**2149** Posted **Aug 23, 2012, 7:21 PM**

^^ I really, really hate it.

Coldrsx · #**2150** Posted **Aug 23, 2012, 8:03 PM**

Reminds me of another 'beauty'...

(http://www.calgaryherald.com/6938312.bin)

Witty Nickname · #**2151** Posted **Aug 23, 2012, 8:19 PM**

Don't forget the giant pink "nugget".

Canada Place by wburris, on Flickr

PoscStudent · #**2152** Posted **Aug 23, 2012, 8:34 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Reesonov

^^ I really, really hate it.

Cool.

Martin Mtl · #**2153** Posted **Aug 24, 2012, 12:24 AM**

By Panamerikana on Flickr

drizzo_613 · #**2154** Posted **Aug 24, 2012, 12:30 AM**

Ottawa/Gatineau on August 22nd.
Sorry for the low quality, I'll try and link a high-res soon.

FrAnKs · #**2155** Posted **Aug 24, 2012, 12:52 AM**

Ottawa may lack the height, but not density for sure!

Ayreonaut · #**2156** Posted **Aug 24, 2012, 1:20 AM**

What a great perspective of the capital region!

Lenin · #**2157** Posted **Aug 24, 2012, 2:02 AM**

Wowzers! I dig that Ottawa shot like a priest digs confession: I'm all about it!

I would totally take that photo out for dinner and listen to its tedious stories about nationhood and francophone reconciliation just to get into one of those canyons.

Word.

drizzo_613 · #**2158** Posted **Aug 24, 2012, 2:10 AM**

I was really suprised at how big the skyline appeared when I got up there. It's actually almost double that (Tunney's Pasture, Westboro, Vanier, etc..) about half-length on each side, but trees kept blocking the view.

Hopefully someone with a better camera than my t3i can get up there and take a nice Panoramic shot of the whole thing because i'm stil pretty new at this lol.

SignalHillHiker · #**2159** Posted **Aug 24, 2012, 12:52 PM**

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Halifax_pano_001-pano.jpg by madmiked, on Flickr

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada by spitfireap, on Flickr

Beautiful Halifax by Johnna_Johnson, on Flickr

skyline panorama/2 by Ben, on Flickr

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

St. John's Panorama by ZachWheeler, on Flickr

St. John's Harbour Panorama by Chris Muggridge, on Flickr

St. John's Panorama by kearsian, on Flickr

St. John's at Lunch - Panorama by bonavistask8er, on Flickr

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

(Flickr didn't have much of a selection)

Charlottetown marina pano by davidecasteel, on Flickr

Fitzroy Street Panorama by reinvented, on Flickr

Fredericton, New Brunswick

(Flickr didn't have much of a selection)

Panorama Fredericton - New Brunswick by Poljus, on Flickr

Panoramania by lo3edia, on Flickr

Officers square flood by hayward home, on Flickr

Fredericton, New Brunswick by Яick Harris, on Flickr

Ayreonaut · #**2160** Posted **Aug 24, 2012, 1:11 PM**

Doesn't really showcase a great skyline, but that first Fredericton pano is great. I only drove through in 2010, but it looked like a beautiful city and region in general.