The Great Canadian Skyline Thread! II - Page 494

koops65 · #**9861** Posted **Jul 25, 2014, 4:51 AM**

OK, I've been counting pix for a while now... I went back 50 pages (to page 444), which brings us back to March 8, 2014. Here are the results of the first 25 pages (up till June 3, 2014), and I included the number of re-posting of images. Also, there were a fair number of images no longer available, so I did not include them, even if the text said which city they were from.

Fort McMurray - 1, no re-posts
Victoria - 1, no re-posts
Halifax - 2, no re-posts
Mississauga - 2, no re-posts
London - 3, 1 re-post
Quebec City - 3, no re-posts
Burnaby - 7, 3 re-posts
Hamilton - 15, 3 re-posts
Edmonton - 17, no re-posts
Winnipeg - 20, 3 re-posts
Ottawa - 24, 5 re-posts
Vancouver - 50, 8 re-posts
Calgary - 53, 9 re-posts
Montreal - 66, 10 re-posts
Toronto - 68, 18 re-posts

So... Toronto has the most, but Montreal has the most distinct images (56 to Toronto's 50) and Calgary seems to take the most images per capita. Go ahead and try to make sense of it all... My next post will show the numbers from the whole 50 pages.

Chadillaccc · #**9862** Posted **Jul 25, 2014, 4:57 AM**

Thanks for all that work. Seems pretty spot on to what I'd expect.

dleung · #**9863** Posted **Jul 25, 2014, 5:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by 1overcosc

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Originally Posted by dleung

North Vancouver, New Westminster and Richmond, are all more urban than both Metrotown and NYCC.

The closest thing metro Vancouver has to 905-style suburbs is Surrey or Coquitlam.

Ya, but they're pre-war centres, analogous to, say, Yonge & Eglinton. What makes Metrotown and NYCC so incredible is that they are post-war. Its (relatively) easy to intensify something that already has urban bones, much harder to create new urban bones out of suburbia.

cont....

Richmond is totally post-war. This is downtown in 1977, when Square One Mall in Mississauga was already open for 5 years.

http://www.richmond.ca/cityhall/archives/search/datasearch/images/1977-0001-00105.gif

Richmond today

http://graham.ca/Projects/Commercial/Aberdeen.aspx

photo by SVLT

Greenfield development is virtually unheard of in metro Vancouver. Almost all new construction requires demolition.

TallBob · #**9864** Posted **Jul 25, 2014, 5:48 AM**

Great photos!! Liked the Calgary and the Capitol buildings!

Delirium · #**9865** Posted **Jul 25, 2014, 1:04 PM**

speaking of Richmond

Photo by A204G https://www.flickr.com/photos/103957875@N05/13397391334/sizes/h/
and bigger sister

Photo by TakenbyGabi https://www.flickr.com/photos/takenbygabi/14736151984/sizes/h/

Chadillaccc · #**9866** Posted **Jul 25, 2014, 1:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by Calgarian

Wow, one of the best Calgary shots I've ever seen.

It is amazing. Here is the closeup.

http://www.stockaerialphotos.com/-/galleries/cities/calgary

DarthMalgus · #**9867** Posted **Jul 25, 2014, 1:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by koops65

OK, I've been counting pix for a while now... I went back 50 pages (to page 444), which brings us back to March 8, 2014. Here are the results of the first 25 pages (up till June 3, 2014), and I included the number of re-posting of images. Also, there were a fair number of images no longer available, so I did not include them, even if the text said which city they were from.

Fort McMurray - 1, no re-posts
Victoria - 1, no re-posts
Halifax - 2, no re-posts
Mississauga - 2, no re-posts
London - 3, 1 re-post
Quebec City - 3, no re-posts
Burnaby - 7, 3 re-posts
Hamilton - 15, 3 re-posts
Edmonton - 17, no re-posts
Winnipeg - 20, 3 re-posts
Ottawa - 24, 5 re-posts
Vancouver - 50, 8 re-posts
Calgary - 53, 9 re-posts
Montreal - 66, 10 re-posts
Toronto - 68, 18 re-posts

So... Toronto has the most, but Montreal has the most distinct images (56 to Toronto's 50) and Calgary seems to take the most images per capita. Go ahead and try to make sense of it all... My next post will show the numbers from the whole 50 pages.

Those numbers seem to make plenty of sense to me...the 4 cities with the most skyscrapers, have the most photos

That said, it would be nice to see more gems from other cities like those great Winnipeg aerials - but its sort of up to the people that live in those places to step it up...

connect2source · #**9868** Posted **Jul 25, 2014, 1:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by dleung

Richmond is totally post-war. This is downtown in 1977, when Square One Mall in Mississauga was already open for 5 years.

http://www.richmond.ca/cityhall/archives/search/datasearch/images/1977-0001-00105.gif

That is not Richmond in 1977. Richmond was far more developed in 1977, you can see Lansdowne Racing Track in the photo which was Lansdowne Park Mall by 1977, also YVR in the background already had the 1969 terminal and many other buildings, I'd guess this photo is late 1940's or early 1950's at the very latest.

Chadillaccc · #**9869** Posted **Jul 25, 2014, 2:06 PM**

His info may have been incorrect, but his point is still valid. Richmond is pretty much entirely a post-war suburb.

Martin Mtl · #**9870** Posted **Jul 25, 2014, 2:07 PM**

Love that. Winnipeg really seems to have some of the best urban backbones west of Montreal.

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Originally Posted by Brizzy82

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Winnipeg_From_Above_9718 by Anthony Fernando, on Flickr

beatlesque · #**9871** Posted **Jul 25, 2014, 2:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

Love that. Winnipeg really seems to have some of the best urban backbones west of Montreal.

I agree Martin (and love Montreal).

For a different perspective (from the south) of the above shot of downtown WPG, I just posted a before and after thread of the ongoing transformation of the Forks area here: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=200395&page=53

Also, from what I can tell there were two skyline threads created - less than 1 million, etc. so thought people would only put Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver here.

vegeta_skyline · #**9872** Posted **Jul 25, 2014, 9:41 PM**

Whats that large complex in the background?

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Originally Posted by Delirium

speaking of Richmond

Photo by A204G https://www.flickr.com/photos/103957875@N05/13397391334/sizes/h/

Metro-One · #**9873** Posted **Jul 25, 2014, 10:10 PM**

Do you mean n the top left corner? Thats Delta Port.

middeljohn · #**9874** Posted **Jul 25, 2014, 10:55 PM**

Mountains

SkahHigh · #**9875** Posted **Jul 25, 2014, 11:35 PM**

You can see Deloitte going up on the left

Sans titre de par Chris Forsyth, sur Flickr

Tone · #**9876** Posted **Jul 25, 2014, 11:47 PM**

Love that shot! Great added value by Deloitte, Altoria, Le V and Le Complexe Desjardins new lighting scheme. The four squares of light on top of Tour de la Bourse are news to me!

vegeta_skyline · #**9877** Posted **Jul 25, 2014, 11:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by Metro-One

Do you mean n the top left corner? Thats Delta Port.

Yup, thanks.

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Originally Posted by middeljohn

Mountains

Oh I didn't know humans could build mountain complexes, interesting...

dleung · #**9878** Posted **Jul 25, 2014, 11:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by connect2source

Quote:

Originally Posted by dleung

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1overcosc

Quote:

Originally Posted by dleung

North Vancouver, New Westminster and Richmond, are all more urban than both Metrotown and NYCC.

The closest thing metro Vancouver has to 905-style suburbs is Surrey or Coquitlam.

Ya, but they're pre-war centres, analogous to, say, Yonge & Eglinton. What makes Metrotown and NYCC so incredible is that they are post-war. Its (relatively) easy to intensify something that already has urban bones, much harder to create new urban bones out of suburbia.

cont....

Richmond is totally post-war. This is downtown in 1977, when Square One Mall in Mississauga was already open for 5 years.

http://www.richmond.ca/cityhall/archives/search/datasearch/images/1977-0001-00105.gif

Richmond today

http://graham.ca/Projects/Commercial/Aberdeen.aspx

photo by SVLT

Greenfield development is virtually unheard of in metro Vancouver. Almost all new construction requires demolition.

That is not Richmond in 1977. Richmond was far more developed in 1977, you can see Lansdowne Racing Track in the photo which was Lansdowne Park Mall by 1977, also YVR in the background already had the 1969 terminal and many other buildings, I'd guess this photo is late 1940's or early 1950's at the very latest.

I stand corrected; it's actually 1953. Weird, cuz the image file name starts with 1977. Backwards searching the photo took me here:
http://www.richmond.ca/cityhall/archives/exhibits/schools/early/rsc.htm?PageMode=HTML

Infrequent Poster · #**9879** Posted **Jul 26, 2014, 12:34 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Delirium

speaking of Richmond

Photo by A204G https://www.flickr.com/photos/103957875@N05/13397391334/sizes/h/
and bigger sister

Photo by TakenbyGabi https://www.flickr.com/photos/takenbygabi/14736151984/sizes/h/

In your picture of downtown Vancouver (nice picture by the way), I find myself imagining bentall 5 with 15 more floors. I would say even taller, but 15 floors for a total of 50 would not throw it out of scale with the rest of downtown. Right smack in the middle of the cbd, would that ever look good, standing somewhere north of 650 feet making it the tallest in vancouver. As it is the building is a stunner imho, such a clean simple design. Just dreaming I guess.

giallo · #**9880** Posted **Jul 26, 2014, 1:14 AM**

^I feel ya. Bentall 5 is a building that could easily be 30-50m taller. I feel the same way about the yet-to-be-completed MNP Tower.