The Great Canadian Skyline Thread! - Page 14

Chadillaccc · #**261** Posted **Aug 21, 2014, 9:21 PM**

Calgary Skyline by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

From Okotoks by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

isaidso · #**262** Posted **Aug 21, 2014, 9:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by Calgarian

Yeah that is pretty rare, probably just something you get in NYC. Atlanta has some towers outside their downtown, don't know if they approach that height though.

I think tall buildings in Vancouver are gravitating to Burnaby due to excessive height restrictions. Burnaby is supposedly getting a 200m+ building.

Calgarian · #**263** Posted **Aug 21, 2014, 9:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by isaidso

I think tall buildings in Vancouver are gravitating to Burnaby due to excessive height restrictions. Burnaby is supposedly getting a 200m+ building.

I was thinking more within a city proper. Burnaby would compare better to Mississauga building towers. So maybe False Creek would be more accurate of a comparison for Vancouver.

vanman · #**264** Posted **Aug 21, 2014, 11:30 PM**

Mississauga has a lot more in common with Surrey than Burnaby. Burnaby and North York are much more similar. If Vancouver's suburbs ever amalgamated Burnaby would be the first to be absorbed into a Vancouver megacity.

caltrane74 · #**265** Posted **Aug 21, 2014, 11:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by Calgarian

Yeah that is pretty rare, probably just something you get in NYC. Atlanta has some towers outside their downtown, don't know if they approach that height though.

Even NYC, with the exception of Jersey City which is really just Manhattan west. Houston, maybe is a better comparison.

Calgarian · #**266** Posted **Aug 21, 2014, 11:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by vanman

Mississauga has a lot more in common with Surrey than Burnaby. Burnaby and North York are much more similar. If Vancouver's suburbs ever amalgamated Burnaby would be the first to be absorbed into a Vancouver megacity.

Surrey has very few highrises though.

GlassCity · #**267** Posted **Aug 22, 2014, 12:31 AM**

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Originally Posted by Calgarian

Surrey has very few highrises though.

For now.

logan5 · #**268** Posted **Aug 22, 2014, 3:52 AM**

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Originally Posted by GlassCity

For now.

It's been 20 years since Skytrain's been in Surrey and not a whole heck of a lot has happened. Now with the Evergreen Line being built, a lot of focus is going to be on Port Moody and Coquitlam, which have waterfronts, lakes, and mountains. Even without Skytrain, Coquitlam Center has built a pretty decent node of density, so I think it'll end up being Coquitlam that gets compared to Mississauga.

Klazu · #**269** Posted **Aug 22, 2014, 4:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by Calgarian

Surrey has very few highrises though.

For now indeed. This is the future.

ssiguy · #**270** Posted **Aug 22, 2014, 5:30 AM**

How much housing for Surrey's prostitutes, drug dealers, pimps, and gangsters does Surrey think they need?

Whalley is the largest Alabama trailer park outside of Alabama.

A few oldies but goodies..........
Why are people in Richmond so happy?......because they never have to say they're Surrey
What does a Surrey girl call safe sex..............a bus shelter
What does a Surrey girl call unsafe sex?........Surrey Central SkyTrain Station
What do you get when there is a party in Whalley?......a full set of teeth
What does the Surrey mom and her daughter have in common?.....They're in the same grade.

Everyday · #**271** Posted **Aug 22, 2014, 5:42 AM**

hm..you don't seem very smart

Delirium · #**272** Posted **Aug 22, 2014, 1:22 PM**

CNBC had an article today on the 'world's worst cities for travel' and oh look, they put a shot of Toronto and trash as the headline photo. hmmmm...
i guess they couldn't find a picture of mumbai or caracas who were on the list? (Toronto was not)

link to article: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101911587

MexiQuebecois · #**273** Posted **Aug 22, 2014, 1:41 PM**

^^^

I sent them an email complaining about it.

That's pretty fucking dumb and offensive (and I'm not even from Toronto)

Chadillaccc · #**274** Posted **Aug 22, 2014, 1:42 PM**

Agreed. Not to mention the photo is like 15 years old.

travis3000 · #**275** Posted **Aug 22, 2014, 1:43 PM**

^ That's stupid. They used an old photo too. Toronto is actually such a fun city. The traffic is bad, but that's what happens when you jam 7 million people into a small space with a huge lake hugging the entire area.

MexiQuebecois · #**276** Posted **Aug 22, 2014, 1:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Agreed. Not to mention the photo is like 15 years old.

LOL. That's definitely only something someone from SSP would complain about.

Chadillaccc · #**277** Posted **Aug 22, 2014, 1:47 PM**

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LOL. That's definitely only something someone from SSP would complain about.

haha yeah I guess!

But the changes are so obvious now, with Ice, Ritz, CityPlace, etc, I think a general Torontonian would probably recognize that it's really old.

Brizzy82 · #**278** Posted **Aug 22, 2014, 3:24 PM**

Winnipeg - Exchange District -Lindsay Building by Christopher Allard, on Flickr

Calgarian · #**279** Posted **Aug 22, 2014, 3:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by Klazu

For now indeed. This is the future.

That looks great! gotta say I'm not really a fan of Surrey / Langley area, they have such a different vibe than Vancouver / Richmond / Burnaby. Hopefully this will change all that.

Calgarian · #**280** Posted **Aug 22, 2014, 3:31 PM**

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Winnipeg - Exchange District -Lindsay Building by Christopher Allard, on Flickr

Exchange district looks gorgeous! For a smaller city Winnipeg really punches above it's weight with the Skyline, Exchange district and the Forks. May have to take a trip out there someday soon.