HomeDiagramsDatabaseMapsForum About
     

Go Back   SkyscraperPage Forum > Regional Sections > Canada


Closed Thread

 
Thread Tools Display Modes
     
     
  #6841  
Old Posted Oct 22, 2013, 1:03 AM
davidivivid davidivivid is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Ville de Québec City
Posts: 3,075
__________________
"I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks" Joe E. Lewis
     
     
  #6842  
Old Posted Oct 22, 2013, 1:17 AM
ScreamingViking's Avatar
ScreamingViking ScreamingViking is offline
Ham-burgher
 
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Hamilton
Posts: 7,493
Nice! Love the third picture, with those spires. And the last one shares a similarity with some views of Hamilton from the west end... minus all the generic apartment buildings, with substantial office towers added.

Tour de la Bourse is one of my favourite buildings in Montreal... actually Canada. It looks great in black and white too.
     
     
  #6843  
Old Posted Oct 22, 2013, 2:30 AM
Beedok Beedok is offline
Exiled Hamiltonian Gal
 
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 6,797
Hamilton has stuff on it's mountain. That's got to count for something right?
     
     
  #6844  
Old Posted Oct 22, 2013, 3:40 AM
ScreamingViking's Avatar
ScreamingViking ScreamingViking is offline
Ham-burgher
 
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Hamilton
Posts: 7,493
Quote:
Originally Posted by Beedok View Post
Hamilton has stuff on it's mountain. That's got to count for something right?


Montreal needs a Ben Lomond Place atop Mount Royal's slope.
     
     
  #6845  
Old Posted Oct 22, 2013, 2:17 PM
isaidso isaidso is offline
North of Gilead
 
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: North of Gilead
Posts: 11,073
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ramako View Post
^^^

What a shame. That stuff always saddens me. The Great Depression also killed the original plans for College Park:



http://www.torontoghosts.org/index.php?/...ate-Business/College-Park-The-Carlu.html



http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2010/01/then-and-now-eatons-college-park


Only a corner of the podium was built, and stands at Yonge & College today, as seen here: http://goo.gl/maps/GCZEs
I'm hoping Toronto will one day finish building it. They'd have to take down the MacLean Hunter building, but I'm ok with that.
__________________
ELBOWS UP CANADA, ELBOWS UP UKRAINE, ELBOWS UP GREENLAND
CANADA, EUROPE, NZ, AUSTRALIA, JAPAN, MEXICO STRONG

US REPUBLICANS/MAGA/ICE NOT WELCOME HERE, STAY OUT
     
     
  #6846  
Old Posted Oct 22, 2013, 2:32 PM
Cyro's Avatar
Cyro Cyro is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 5,197
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim View Post
I wonder which new towers will be in that view. I see at least 1 crane.
A combo project. CentrePoint. A 15 storey Alt Hotel being built on a 5 storey office/commercial podium + 400 stall parkade 20 ~ storey.
Phase II GlassHouse Sky Lofts 21 storey same site.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=197745
__________________
♥ ♥
     
     
  #6847  
Old Posted Oct 22, 2013, 2:55 PM
kool maudit's Avatar
kool maudit kool maudit is offline
video et taceo
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Stockholm
Posts: 14,345
i find college park kind of overbearing, like a ceaucescu version of 40 wall street.
     
     
  #6848  
Old Posted Oct 22, 2013, 6:37 PM
Nouvellecosse's Avatar
Nouvellecosse Nouvellecosse is offline
Volatile Pacivist
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Nova Scotia
Posts: 11,366
Same here, but then again I don't tend to like large podiums on tall buildings anyway, whether they be modern or vintage. I'd rather see just the tower portion built right from street level.
__________________
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
Don't ask people not to debate a topic. Just stop making debatable assertions. Problem solved.
     
     
  #6849  
Old Posted Oct 23, 2013, 3:23 AM
haljackey's Avatar
haljackey haljackey is offline
User Registered
 
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: London, Ontario
Posts: 3,491
Toronto Skyline from the Gardiner Expressway

• Video Link
__________________
My Twitter

My Simcity Stuff
     
     
  #6850  
Old Posted Oct 23, 2013, 9:13 PM
kw5150's Avatar
kw5150 kw5150 is offline
Here and There
 
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Calgary
Posts: 5,807
Massive Pano re-post!!!!!!

Quote:
Originally Posted by kw5150 View Post
__________________
Renfrew, Calgary, Alberta.
     
     
  #6851  
Old Posted Oct 23, 2013, 9:24 PM
Ramako's Avatar
Ramako Ramako is offline
Moderator
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Toronto
Posts: 4,415
Brookfield will look great from that angle.
     
     
  #6852  
Old Posted Oct 23, 2013, 10:31 PM
Chadillaccc's Avatar
Chadillaccc Chadillaccc is offline
ARTchitecture
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Cala Ghearraidh
Posts: 22,842
It really will. Once Brookfield and Telus Sky are up in 2018, there will be a nice cluster across those 2 blocks. Suncor in front of the Bow, Brookfield directly beside Telus Sky.
__________________
Strong & Free

Mohkínstsis — 1.6 million people at the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains, 400 high-rises, a 300-metre SE to NW climb, over 1000 kilometres of pathways, with 20% of the urban area as parkland.
     
     
  #6853  
Old Posted Oct 23, 2013, 10:38 PM
caltrane74's Avatar
caltrane74 caltrane74 is offline
gettin' rich!
 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Toronto
Posts: 34,204
Quote:
Originally Posted by haljackey View Post
Toronto Skyline from the Gardiner Expressway

• Video Link
I counted something like 16 to 17 cranes right next to the Gardiner, including the 3 massive cranes for Harbour Plaza and One York at :32 and 1:12.

Awesome video, gives you a real perspective on the construction behemoth.
     
     
  #6854  
Old Posted Oct 23, 2013, 10:55 PM
jodelli's Avatar
jodelli jodelli is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Windsor, ON
Posts: 1,277
A few days ago. with Aura nearing to.
__________________
No NIMBYs
     
     
  #6855  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2013, 1:23 AM
Dylan Leblanc's Avatar
Dylan Leblanc Dylan Leblanc is offline
Website Manager
 
Join Date: Dec 1999
Posts: 9,598
     
     
  #6856  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2013, 1:25 AM
ScreamingViking's Avatar
ScreamingViking ScreamingViking is offline
Ham-burgher
 
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Hamilton
Posts: 7,493
It's Cloud City Nice.
     
     
  #6857  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2013, 1:58 AM
caltrane74's Avatar
caltrane74 caltrane74 is offline
gettin' rich!
 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Toronto
Posts: 34,204
Kinda looks like San Francisco.....
     
     
  #6858  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2013, 2:22 AM
G.S MTL's Avatar
G.S MTL G.S MTL is offline
MTL♥
 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Montreal
Posts: 2,496
Majority of the video you see the skyline

April 2013
• Video Link
__________________
Montreal, Pearl of Canada.
Population: 4.6 Million

Last edited by Dylan Leblanc; Oct 24, 2013 at 4:20 AM.
     
     
  #6859  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2013, 6:34 AM
TallBob TallBob is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 3,135
Man, Aura is a monster!! I love that shot of Calgary. Looking to the east like that makes the buildings look the height that they really are! Some of the other angles, not so!
     
     
  #6860  
Old Posted Oct 24, 2013, 11:09 AM
isaidso isaidso is offline
North of Gilead
 
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: North of Gilead
Posts: 11,073
Quote:
Originally Posted by kool maudit View Post
i find college park kind of overbearing, like a ceaucescu version of 40 wall street.
It would look better if the podium were smaller, and/or the tower fatter and taller.
__________________
ELBOWS UP CANADA, ELBOWS UP UKRAINE, ELBOWS UP GREENLAND
CANADA, EUROPE, NZ, AUSTRALIA, JAPAN, MEXICO STRONG

US REPUBLICANS/MAGA/ICE NOT WELCOME HERE, STAY OUT
     
     
This discussion thread continues

Use the page links to the lower-right to go to the next page for additional posts
 
 
Closed Thread

Go Back   SkyscraperPage Forum > Regional Sections > Canada
Forum Jump



Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 2:21 PM.

     

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2026, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.