Future Canadian Skylines - Page 76

AB Born · #**1501** Posted **Aug 29, 2012, 4:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by Dylan Leblanc

I took one of AB Born's photos from the Calgary Tower and chopped-in Herald Square.

AB Born, I hope you don't mind

Original photo thread (really good too!) - http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show....php?p=5805263

No worries, and nice job with the picture.

Chadillaccc · #**1502** Posted **Aug 29, 2012, 9:34 AM**

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Originally Posted by PoscStudent

The east end of St. John's could potentially look like this after two 16 story residential high rises are constructed.

Wouldn't that make them, by far, the tallest buildings in St. John's? How unfortunate. Someone needs to do a good render of what St. John's will look like with Fortis, 351 Water, Deacon, and the Hilton all finished. Maybe add in the Fortis and TD reclads too

PoscStudent · #**1503** Posted **Aug 29, 2012, 2:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Wouldn't that make them, by far, the tallest buildings in St. John's? How unfortunate. Someone needs to do a good render of what St. John's will look like with Fortis, 351 Water, Deacon, and the Hilton all finished. Maybe add in the Fortis and TD reclads too

They'd be the tallest. I think there might be some renderings of what the skyline will look like in our main thread, I'll check.

isaidso · #**1504** Posted **Aug 29, 2012, 10:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Wouldn't that make them, by far, the tallest buildings in St. John's? How unfortunate.

Agree. You don't want your more significant buildings to be depressing commie blocks. If they were the size of a house few would have to look at them, but something that size in a city like St. John's should be pleasing to the eye.

I'm not very impressed with what I see coming out of St. John's. If Halifax can build good looking modern buildings, so can they.

PoscStudent · #**1505** Posted **Aug 30, 2012, 2:08 AM**

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Originally Posted by isaidso

Agree. You don't want your more significant buildings to be depressing commie blocks. If they were the size of a house few would have to look at them, but something that size in a city like St. John's should be pleasing to the eye.

I'm not very impressed with what I see coming out of St. John's. If Halifax can build good looking modern buildings, so can they.

They may not look like what Jeddy put in the render. The plan for the development has changed and all we know is that there will be two sixteen story condos, the first building constructed a few years back was brick.

Innsertnamehere · #**1506** Posted **Sep 24, 2012, 11:55 PM**

looks like Canadian Business has found my model, and deemed it article worthy

http://www.canadianbusiness.com/blog...-like-in-2020?

and here is the latest update, from the end of august

the entire model in one view:

the future CN Tower view:

my favourite view of the future skyline:

and the latest toronto mega-proposal:

SignalHillHiker · #**1507** Posted **Sep 24, 2012, 11:56 PM**

Oh wow, congratulations!

And SO much blue... that's nice to see.

Rico Rommheim · #**1508** Posted **Sep 25, 2012, 12:42 AM**

That is really impressive, I wish someone on here could do it for Montreal!

caltrane74 · #**1509** Posted **Sep 25, 2012, 1:17 AM**

Excellent work!

I bet now you wish you had a name to, ---> Insert Here.

Innsertnamehere · #**1510** Posted **Sep 25, 2012, 1:22 AM**

Ya I emailed the guy who wrote it my real name to be credited, he hasn't responded yet though.

Marty_Mcfly · #**1511** Posted **Sep 25, 2012, 1:53 AM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Wouldn't that make them, by far, the tallest buildings in St. John's? How unfortunate.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Floor wise they'd potentially be the highest, only matching Southcott Hall. But with the floor height differences between residential and office they may make the towers shorter. The tallest building downtown is at 63m.

In any sense, these buildings wouldn't be easily noticeable from downtown. And the design could actually be nice, nothing has been released about the buildings yet. The schematic was only really based on the existing building, which isn't all that attractive to begin with.

As for a future skyline image, I believe I may have posted one back a few pages. It's missing the Deacon Investments office building, it's just slightly left of the image. It doesn't have the TD reclad on it, though the two buildings may not be hugely different from afar. That image also includes a few other proposals: The Mirador (9-storey condo/parking on Duckworth Street), Compusult (5-storey office building next door to 351 at 349 water street), and an 8-storey hotel proposed at the corner of Prescott and Water (across the street from Fortis and TD)

EDIT: Okay, it was a lot of pages back. This was made by Architype. It should also be mentioned that the Hilton proposal has been completely redesigned apparently, though we still haven't seen the new renderings.

As well, there is another hotel proposal for the general area of new Fortis/Deacon/Hilton developments.

Chadillaccc · #**1512** Posted **Sep 25, 2012, 2:03 AM**

Cool. And actually the tallest building in DT St. John's is 59 meters (John Cabot Building), the tallest in the city is the 64 meter Legislative building outside of downtown. But you are right, a 16 storey residential building would probably still be a bit shorter than a 13 storey office building.

Marty_Mcfly · #**1513** Posted **Sep 25, 2012, 2:11 AM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Cool. And actually the tallest building in DT St. John's is 59 meters (John Cabot Building), the tallest in the city is the 64 meter Legislative building outside of downtown. But you are right, a 16 storey residential building would probably still be a bit shorter than a 13 storey office building.

Is that including the concrete base the office is sitting on? That adds considerable height to the building, making it look taller than it's neighbor Cabot building, even though that itself is only 50m

Chadillaccc · #**1514** Posted **Sep 25, 2012, 3:31 AM**

I am not certain. One side fronts on the 2 storey parking garage while on the other side, the parking garage is underground right? Because it's on a hill.

Marty_Mcfly · #**1515** Posted **Sep 25, 2012, 5:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

I am not certain. One side fronts on the 2 storey parking garage while on the other side, the parking garage is underground right? Because it's on a hill.

Yeah, going up Barters Hill allows you access to the parking garage, but it's completely underground at Barters Hill/Central Street, and the concrete base is more visible on New Gower Street due to the slope of the hill.

Metro-One · #**1516** Posted **Sep 25, 2012, 6:21 PM**

Again, I would love for someone to make such models for Metrotown in Burnaby, huge changes there, and in relative terms, it may be the skyline to go through the largest transformation over the next 5 to 10 years in Canada.

From having the old tallest at 111 meters to now potentially having several towers over 150 meters and many more between 110 and 150.