The Great Canadian Skyline Thread! II

[Chadillaccc]

Awesome man! Fall makes for great pictures. Here's a couple I snapped yesterday.



By Chadillaccc, on Flickr

[Innsertnamehere]

[Ramako]

Ice has now topped First Canadian Place from the lake:



Toronto Skyline by MafaldaBoy, on Flickr

[Chadillaccc]

That looks purdy! I wonder if any other Canadian cities will ever look so dense with tall residential towers like that.

[Martin Mtl]

Montreal , Canadá by Edwin Hernandez on Flickr

[MonkeyRonin]

The glowing city by Paul Hillier Photography, on Flickr


Chester Hill Lookout by Elie Dahdouh, on Flickr


Toronto Skyline from afar by Little Lebowski Urban Achiever, on Flickr



North York:


The City in the Clouds by Muhammad Ali, on Flickr

[caltrane74]

Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

The glowing city by Paul Hillier Photography, on Flickr

The Entertainment District is not exactly Manhattan, but this is probably what Manhattan looked like in the early 1900's. So in another 100 years or so, it will look like the Manhattan of today.

[Ramako]

Originally Posted by caltrane74

The Entertainment District is not exactly Manhattan, but this is probably what Manhattan looked like in the early 1900's. So in another 100 years or so, it will look like the Manhattan of today.

And Manhattan will look like Coruscant or New New York.

[caltrane74]

Yeah, probably.

I hope we can catch them sometime down the line.

[Chadillaccc]

Coruscant is badass. Though I hope Earth never turns out like that, especially with the Americans and Chinese at the helm :/

[caltrane74]

If the entire earth is a city, there will be no Rebublicans.

So there is a good side to it.

[Beedok]

Originally Posted by Ramako

And Manhattan will look like Coruscant or New New York.

No, it will look like Atlantis.

[kool maudit]

Originally Posted by caltrane74

The Entertainment District is not exactly Manhattan, but this is probably what Manhattan looked like in the early 1900's. So in another 100 years or so, it will look like the Manhattan of today.

100 years ago, manhattan was made up of tall, narrow mixed-use buildings interspersed with proto-skyscrapers. the pictured area of toronto has a lot of buildings that take up half a block, or even a block. in old manhattan, that block in the foreground — the one with that sort of divided building, whose flanks angle in toward the entrance, would have been occupied by four to eight buildings, with four to eight different designs and a huge plurality of signs, awnings, railings, and all of the rest of those nice little details.

that was just how the early 20th century rolled, and why manhattan was so lucky to grow so large during that period. i mean, that toronto building could be a pharmaceutical industry hq along the 401. we just don't build with such a fine grain anymore. pudong isn't manhattan either.

[Martin Mtl]

Originally Posted by Ramako

Ice has now topped First Canadian Place from the lake:



Toronto Skyline by MafaldaBoy, on Flickr

From that angle, Toronto looks impressive at night, but oh boy, during the day, it looks very bland, a display of banal generic towers. Too bad the best towers of the Financial District are hidden behind such a wall of mediocre projects.

[caltrane74]

The most awesome display of generic tall towers, however.

I must say.

[Ramako]

Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

From that angle, Toronto looks impressive at night, but oh boy, during the day, it looks very bland, a display of banal generic towers. Too bad the best towers of the Financial District are hidden behind such a wall of mediocre projects.

The sad thing is that, in the above picture, none of the new towers are significantly blocking any of the old bank towers, except for a slice of TD Centre. It's actually the bland condos that were put up decades ago doing most of the blocking, particularly Harbour Square.

[The_Architect]

Originally Posted by Ramako

The sad thing is that, in the above picture, none of the new towers are significantly blocking any of the old bank towers, except for a slice of TD Centre. It's actually the bland condos that were put up decades ago doing most of the blocking, particularly Harbour Square.

Harbour Square/Westin is pretty much a gigantic concrete wall blocking the waterfront from the city. Blegh.

[kw5150]

I love how Toronto looks and waterfront is the only thing that started the redevelopment of Toronto.

Get over it. Some building will be blocked eventually. Better than having the crap that was there before!

EDIT: Unless the development is literally a concrete barrier with no pedestrian access.......then yes, it is a bit of a disaster. Good thing that we have learned from those mistakes in newer developments.

[kool maudit]

toronto from a highrise in the west end is going to become the epic view, i think.

[SkahHigh]

Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

From that angle, Toronto looks impressive at night, but oh boy, during the day, it looks very bland, a display of banal generic towers. Too bad the best towers of the Financial District are hidden behind such a wall of mediocre projects.

I agree. Downtown Toronto's Financial District has some amazing skyscrapers such as Scotia Plaza, Royal Bank Plaza and Brookfield Place, but the towers near the lake all look generic and boring with brown and grey colors...
I mean, we barely see Scotia Plaza from that angle...