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[itom 987]

Here are some new pics.
http://www.wamdevelopment.com/projects/ead-office-tower/
http://www.wamdevelopment.com/projects/edmonton-arena-district/

[SkahHigh]

Excavation has officially started for Tom Condos - 122m

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[Darkoshvilli]

Originally Posted by SkahHigh

Excavation has officially started for Tom Condos - 122m

Yay!!

Too bad about another bulky podium though. Don't understand this obsession. I understand the need for a podium at street level, but it makes the tower look shorter.

[SkahHigh]

^ I agree the podium is massive, but I kinda like this project. Another modern-looking tower in our Downtown! Plus some density.

[MTLskyline]

I still prefer the previous version:


http://www.montreal2025.com/projet.php?id=331&lang=fr

[Innsertnamehere]

68 Main street in the historic downtown of Markham is nearing completion:

Photos by Malfadaboy on UT






Upper Village 2 (UV2) now has a crane up in north eastern Markham

Also by MalfadaBoy at UT



It will be an exact clone of Upper Village 1:

[caltrane74]

St. Nicolas Residences Yorkville

[caltrane74]

Markham looks like Disneyland or a cartoon. Lol!

[esquire]

Originally Posted by caltrane74

Markham looks like Disneyland or a cartoon. Lol!

It isn't bad for faux historic, but there's no getting around the fact that it's still faux historic.

[Beedok]

Originally Posted by esquire

It isn't bad for faux historic, but there's no getting around the fact that it's still faux historic.

Yep, just like Washington DC is filled with 18th and early 19th century faux historic buildings. (Of course now we call them Neo-Classical. )

[esquire]

IMO there's a difference between taking your cues from classic styles and building what looks like a movie set for a period piece.

Still, it's 100% better in terms of built form than what we typically see in suburbia, so full credit for that.

[Martin Mtl]

Originally Posted by Beedok

Yep, just like Washington DC is filled with 18th and early 19th century faux historic buildings. (Of course now we call them Neo-Classical. )

There is a spectacular difference between erecting a neo-classical building in 1800's Washington and erecting po-mo commercial buildings today in a suburb. The White House doesn't scream "Disney!" like those Markham pic does.

[Beedok]

Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

There is a spectacular difference between erecting a neo-classical building in 1800's Washington and erecting po-mo commercial buildings today in a suburb. The White House doesn't scream "Disney!" like those Markham pic does.

That's because the White House is about 200 years old, when it was first built I'm sure if there were a skyscraperpage.com people would have been critiquing all the neoclassical buildings as annoying faux nonsense.

Plus they're not just tossing up a faux-historic building in the middle of subdivisions, it's going up along the historic main street.

[Martin Mtl]

Originally Posted by Beedok

That's because the White House is about 200 years old, when it was first built I'm sure if there were a skyscraperpage.com people would have been critiquing all the neoclassical buildings as annoying faux nonsense.

Yes it's 200 years old, wasn't that you point originally ? And I'm sure nobody in 1800 thought that the White House architecture was "faux nonsense".

[SignalHillHiker]

She's done, b'ys, she's done!



CFS St. John’s officially opened

The massive new home for Canadian Forces Station St. John’s was officially opened Saturday afternoon.

The 35,000-square-metre Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander W. Anthony Paddon Building will serve as the working home for personnel previously stationed in 17 older buildings spread throughout the Pleasantville area.

“Certainly it’s dominating the landscape here in Pleasantville,” said Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy. “From a national perspective, there is no other building like this in Canada.”

Norman was in St. John’s along with federal Natural Resources Minister Greg Rickford, who appeared on behalf of Defence Minister Rob Nicholson.

The new building cost $156 million to construct and has been seven years in the making. The Department of National Defence first announced in 2007 the purchase of 6.4 acres of land in Pleasantville for the eventual relocation of CFS St. John’s. At that time, the estimated cost of the building was projected to be $101 million.

It is named after William Anthony Paddon, a former lieutenant-governor of Newfoundland and Labrador who also worked as a physician. He served as a surgeon with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War and moved back to Labrador once it ended.

His son David Paddon said the family was honoured to have the building named after his father.

http://www.thetelegram.com/News/Local/20...St.-John%26rsquo%3Bs-officially-opened/1

[Beedok]

Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

Yes it's 200 years old, wasn't that you point originally ? And I'm sure nobody in 1800 thought that the White House architecture was "faux nonsense".

In 200 years, if they're still standing, those Markham buildings will probably be seen a dignified neo-victorian architecture or something. As for not many people complaining, that's because it was the era of Neo-Classical and Gothic Revival and all that, they were a bit obsessed with trying to look older than they were. They also didn't know what they were doing. At least our neo-victorian stuff actually looks like the Victorian stuff. The neo-classicals were trying to get the stark elegance of classical design not realising the buildings had been painted all sorts of colour patterns.

[SignalHillHiker]

June 22, 2014

Waterford Valley High School - the new high school in the West End of St. John's. The neighbourhood in the background is Cowan Heights. It's build up on both sides of Topsail Road. To the left of this photo is the border between St. John's and Mount Pearl. In this particular area, there's no break. One house is in St. John's, the next in the Pearl. When I was growing up, the phrase "twin cities" was very common. No one says it anymore. Now they (the radio, CBC News, etc.) just says "the capital" for St. John's and names the municipality for the rest.

The red buildings in the foreground are the old and new wings of the Waterford Hospital, which opened in 1854 to take some of the strain off the St. John's Public Hospital (1813). The Waterford was known as the Lunatic Asylum when opened before eventually being renamed.

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

June 22, 2014

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The red buildings in the foreground are the old and new wings of the Waterford Hospital, which opened in 1854 to take some of the strain off the St. John's Public Hospital (1813). The Waterford was known as the Lunatic Asylum when opened before eventually being renamed.

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I'm surprised that St John's had a lunatic asylum.

[SignalHillHiker]

Dare I ask why?