The Great Canadian Skyline Thread! II - Page 145

dleung · #**2881** Posted **Nov 17, 2012, 9:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by The_Architect

Agreed. Looks like a city instead of a small town.

Fyi... they're planning to restore the natural shoreline of the Don River. Better rally up some of the fanboys to stop them if you want to save your 20th century big-city pastiche and don't want Toronto to turn into a "small town". God forbid the waters become clean enough for fish to inhabit!

FrAnKs · #**2882** Posted **Nov 17, 2012, 9:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by vegeta_skyline

lol someone's sure relieved.

hope you're on the same boat

vegeta_skyline · #**2883** Posted **Nov 17, 2012, 10:15 PM**

Definitely! Even though I'm from Toronto, Montreal is my favorite city to visit and I'd love to see the skyline expand. Hopefully this is just the tip of the iceberg for you guys

FrAnKs · #**2884** Posted **Nov 17, 2012, 10:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by vegeta_skyline

Definitely! Even though I'm from Toronto, Montreal is my favorite city to visit and I'd love to see the skyline expand. Hopefully this is just the tip of the iceberg for you guys

I personally think that Montreal is actually one of the Metro area in Canada with the biggest potential !

... You guys could only share a couple of your thousand glass towers under-construction and I'll be glad

Because I do compare Toronto to the ''Canada's Miami''

Nite · #**2885** Posted **Nov 18, 2012, 3:34 AM**

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronnieyip/8190169271/

Symz · #**2886** Posted **Nov 18, 2012, 6:51 PM**

Windsor & Detroit

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FrAnKs · #**2887** Posted **Nov 18, 2012, 9:06 PM**

I've never seen that angle! Thanks to you

The_Architect · #**2888** Posted **Nov 18, 2012, 9:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by dleung

Fyi... they're planning to restore the natural shoreline of the Don River. Better rally up some of the fanboys to stop them if you want to save your 20th century big-city pastiche and don't want Toronto to turn into a "small town". God forbid the waters become clean enough for fish to inhabit!

Oh look, it's you again.

Does the Don go through downtown? Didn't think so. Thank you, come again.

Rico Rommheim · #**2889** Posted **Nov 18, 2012, 9:28 PM**

Shadowy Sunlight or Bad Aperture

http://www.flickr.com/photos/89161677@N08/with/8188004711/#photo_8188004711

Robertpuant · #**2890** Posted **Nov 19, 2012, 1:14 AM**

Gotta love Victoria Square!

isaidso · #**2891** Posted **Nov 19, 2012, 9:48 AM**

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Originally Posted by FrAnKs

I've never seen that angle! Thanks to you

Same here. Love it. Windsorites certainly get big city views.

Hali87 · #**2892** Posted **Nov 19, 2012, 10:51 AM**

Source

north 42 · #**2893** Posted **Nov 19, 2012, 3:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by isaidso

Same here. Love it. Windsorites certainly get big city views.

Yup, it's one of the best things about living in DT Windsor for me.

Cowtown_Tim · #**2894** Posted **Nov 19, 2012, 11:18 PM**

The view from Vantage Pointe, with Eighth Avenue Place 2 under construction, with some other sites visible.

isaidso · #**2895** Posted **Nov 20, 2012, 12:27 AM**

I wish they'd turn those parking lots along the belt line into a big downtown park. If they buried those tracks, you could expand the park right over top and over to the parking lots on the other side. Calgary's very own 'Central Park'. It would look fabulous!

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Originally Posted by north 42

Yup, it's one of the best things about living in DT Windsor for me.

You're developing a decent skyline of your own these days. Looking at that photo, I wouldn't think Detroit was 14 times bigger. 3-4 times bigger perhaps.

Allan83 · #**2896** Posted **Nov 20, 2012, 1:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by isaidso

I wish they'd turn those parking lots along the belt line into a big downtown park. If they buried those tracks, you could expand the park right over top and over to the parking lots on the other side. Calgary's very own 'Central Park'. It would look fabulous!

I’ve wondered if they could build over top of them. I’m sure there are complications to doing that. The Gulf Canada building has a parkade that goes over the tracks, so clearly it can be done. That’s the CP main line, however, so disturbing traffic on it wouldn’t be easy. Can you place beams over top while they’re running trains underneath? Another idea might be to build essentially a +15, or higher, platform that you would turn into a park, something like the Highline Park in New York. You’d need tall buildings on either side first, of course. This would muffle the sound and soak up the CO2 from the trains.

isaidso · #**2897** Posted **Nov 20, 2012, 1:56 AM**

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Originally Posted by Allan83

I’ve wondered if they could build over top of them. I’m sure there are complications to doing that. The Gulf Canada building has a parkade that goes over the tracks, so clearly it can be done. That’s the CP main line, however, so disturbing traffic on it wouldn’t be easy. Can you place beams over top while they’re running trains underneath? Another idea might be to build essentially a +15, or higher, platform that you would turn into a park, something like the Highline Park in New York. You’d need tall buildings on either side first, of course. This would muffle the sound and soak up the CO2 from the trains.

It's far better to bury the tracks than to build on top of it. Building on top means every crossing has to rise about 30 feet then fall again on the other side. Not only would that ruin a park, but it maintains the barrier psychologically.

Calgary should bury the tracks now before more buildings like Gulf go up.

Allan83 · #**2898** Posted **Nov 20, 2012, 2:10 AM**

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Originally Posted by isaidso

It's far better to bury the tracks than to build on top of it. Building on top means every crossing has to rise about 30 feet then fall again on the other side. Not only would that ruin a park, but it maintains the barrier psychologically.

Calgary should bury the tracks now before more buildings like Gulf go up.

I don’t know how you could take the main line out of service long enough to do that. Not my area of expertise at all, but I can’t think of how they would do it. There are also a number of underpasses under the tracks connecting the beltline with downtown, including a brand new one on 4th St. SE. I’m guessing that the plan is to build overtop somehow, but I haven’t heard any plans, other than Railtown that is.
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Chadillaccc · #**2899** Posted **Nov 20, 2012, 2:40 AM**

Not to mention that Calgary already has the most expensive downtown parking in North America other than Lower Manhattan... though I think we have even surpassed them.

Eliminating more parking, especially such a substantial amount, is out of the question. A park between the beltline and the core is a great idea though.

dleung · #**2900** Posted **Nov 20, 2012, 2:59 AM**

Buring 2 tracks is far easier than say, buring the dozen or so next to the Gardiner expressway.