The Great Canadian Skyline Thread! II - Page 406

Beedok · #**8101** Posted **Jan 13, 2014, 8:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

My biggest problem with TO's skyline is its most iconic feature, the CN tower. It's so disproportionately huge compared to everything else that you can't even really focus anywhere else. It makes what should appear to be a massive skyline appear small. Hopefully those Oxford twins get going to bring in a little more balance.

I'd say the grandeur of the CN Tower makes Toronto way more impressive, not less. You can tell those are large buildings beside it, so the CN just looks massive by comparison.

Chadillaccc · #**8102** Posted **Jan 13, 2014, 8:23 PM**

Yeah, I love the CN Tower. I wouldn't want it any other way!

I'm not sure if these have been posted... if so, they haven't been in years. They're oldies, but a goodies... before The Bow, EAP, or even Arriva! Things have changed so much!

http://peakexperienceimagery.com/keiths-favourites/keiths-favourites-always-changing/4313896

http://peakexperienceimagery.com/keiths-favourites/keiths-favourites-always-changing/4313866

losername · #**8103** Posted **Jan 13, 2014, 10:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Holy Buranby batman!!!

Burnaby?

Chadillaccc · #**8104** Posted **Jan 13, 2014, 10:27 PM**

Yep, Metrotown.

mistercorporate · #**8105** Posted **Jan 13, 2014, 10:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by logan5

Bitch slapping? Downtown Vancouver has a pretty good concentration of towers that are home to 100 000 people in a 2 sq. mile area. If Toronto has a higher density of towers/ population than that, it ain't by much.

Seems like Toronto's talking a bit of smack lately...

He's from Montreal, not Toronto...

But he's stating the obvious. Vancouver has one of the best settings in North America (and certainly competitive worldwide) for a major city, noone's going to take that away from you, so relax

losername · #**8106** Posted **Jan 13, 2014, 10:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Yep, Metrotown.

Which picture, the most recent one posted before your post can't be metrotown, the one between the rocks. Can the photographer confirm? And those buildings appear to be on the shore burnaby has no buildings along the water and no way close to that density.

Chadillaccc · #**8107** Posted **Jan 13, 2014, 10:47 PM**

The entire skyline in the background is Metrotown. The 3 Metrotowers + Metroplace + Sovereign.... it's Metrotown. The foreground appears to be the English Bay/West End skyline, but this photo uses an insane amount of telephoto... the tallest of the towers in the photo are all Metrotown buildings.

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Originally Posted by Dylan Leblanc

http://imgur.com/FQP5T1n

logan5 · #**8108** Posted **Jan 14, 2014, 12:56 AM**

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Originally Posted by mistercorporate

He's from Montreal, not Toronto...

OK he's from Montreal. What are you getting all worked up for?

mistercorporate · #**8109** Posted **Jan 14, 2014, 1:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by logan5

OK he's from Montreal. What are you getting all worked up for?

I'm not getting worked up. You made a comment about Toronto talking smack in reference to his statement, I was merely correcting you.

Martin Mtl · #**8110** Posted **Jan 14, 2014, 3:03 AM**

Vue de Montréal by MG&A. on Flickr

Montreal 44 by Hsin Chih Chen on Flickr

caltrane74 · #**8111** Posted **Jan 14, 2014, 4:25 AM**

I always agree, Vancouver has a beautiful setting. And has a surprising huge number of towers under construction, barely trailing New York City. But it seems over the past 11 years, Toronto has just been in another league when it comes to construction projects, condo sales, construction capacity and proposal pipeline. I remember 18 years back, when Vancouver held the lead, and Toronto was still in the depths of the last Real Estate downturn. I was in university back then, and remember getting excited over little 18 and 20 floor projects, if there was any construction back then. It was sad. Now the tides have shifted and Toronto has resumed the undisputed lead and it looks like it will take at least 4 years before everything in the pipeline is completed and other Canadian cities have a chance to equalize. Assuming all sales in Toronto stagnant or flat-line. Going back to the pipeline, there is / are construction bottlenecks due to shortages of labour and equipment in Toronto. And although the internal construction capacity has grown over the last decade, it seems there are always issues with excavation equipment as well as cranes, and some key skilled trades which can hold up projects that have already hit there sales targets or those projects which are currently underway but at critical steps in the development and construction timelines.

WhipperSnapper · #**8112** Posted **Jan 14, 2014, 4:38 AM**

The size of the towers in Toronto are also massive compared to the rest of Canada. Dozens of towers with 400 to 700 units with a fair number approaching densities of 15 to 25 FAR have been recently completed or are in development downtown.

Chadillaccc · #**8113** Posted **Jan 14, 2014, 6:56 AM**

I always noticed that the... I guess "girth" is the word... of towers in Toronto and Calgary was much greater than towers in other cities in Canada. Could that have to do with the height of the towers? Or the regulations in the other cities? I know Vancouver has strict regulations about floor plates, but what about Edmonton, Montreal, and Ottawa?

ue · #**8114** Posted **Jan 14, 2014, 7:09 AM**

^ Edmonton seems to be moving towards more large floorplates. I mean, have you seen how fat the EPCOR Tower is? It looks twice the width of every other prominent tower in the Edmonton skyline (unless it's a side profile).

Dylan Leblanc · #**8115** Posted **Jan 14, 2014, 7:28 AM**

TheSolution1 - http://imgur.com/oPbPvD9

Dmajackson · #**8116** Posted **Jan 14, 2014, 11:29 AM**

A recent one from Halifax. TD Expansion is the visible construction site. RBC Waterside Centre is just finishing up on the bottom (below the 1801 logo).

Source : SDewittPhoto on Flickr.com

Beedok · #**8117** Posted **Jan 14, 2014, 2:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

I always noticed that the... I guess "girth" is the word... of towers in Toronto and Calgary was much greater than towers in other cities in Canada. Could that have to do with the height of the towers? Or the regulations in the other cities? I know Vancouver has strict regulations about floor plates, but what about Edmonton, Montreal, and Ottawa?

I think most of Ottawa's towers are wider than they are tall. At least downtown.

WhipperSnapper · #**8118** Posted **Jan 14, 2014, 2:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

I always noticed that the... I guess "girth" is the word... of towers in Toronto and Calgary was much greater than towers in other cities in Canada. Could that have to do with the height of the towers? Or the regulations in the other cities? I know Vancouver has strict regulations about floor plates, but what about Edmonton, Montreal, and Ottawa?

I don't find Calgary's residential towers girthy at all.

Chadillaccc · #**8119** Posted **Jan 14, 2014, 6:14 PM**

I wasn't talking about residential towers, as I clearly have eyes

I didn't realize that's what you were referring to.

MTLskyline · #**8120** Posted **Jan 14, 2014, 6:21 PM**

cyul_cyrq-7.jpg by LASCAR35, on Flickr