The Great Canadian Skyline Thread! - Page 77

kool maudit · #**1521** Posted **Oct 16, 2014, 3:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

Quebec has a fantastic skyline. Completely unique.

quebec's skyline is one of the best in canada. you have a chateau-hotel, a fragment of '70s madness, an art deco beauty, a sort of fortified hill, some spires and domes, and a few boxes for weight... and they're all lit up. it's wonderful.

Daveography · #**1522** Posted **Oct 16, 2014, 4:05 PM**

Cellphone snap of the slightly foggy Edmonton skyline this morning.

Martin Mtl · #**1523** Posted **Oct 16, 2014, 4:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by kool maudit

quebec's skyline is one of the best in canada. you have a chateau-hotel, a fragment of '70s madness, an art deco beauty, a sort of fortified hill, some spires and domes, and a few boxes for weight... and they're all lit up. it's wonderful.

Yes ! It's a romantic skyline.

Ashok · #**1524** Posted **Oct 16, 2014, 5:25 PM**

^ Though, it does need a new tall shiny tripled glazed glass building smacked in the middle.

Ashok · #**1525** Posted **Oct 16, 2014, 5:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

Sears/Willis Tower is about 150m taller than its closest neighbour yet Chicago skyline is often considered one of the best in the world. Why does everything have to fit so neatly together? A sense of awe and grandeur isn't created by everything being proper and predictable. Its created by being bold dynamic.

Yes, but don't forget the Willis Tower is a good 450m (550 if you consider is spire.) So, its neighbours it actually 200m.

Also, I don't think Chigaco is considered one of the best skylines in the world. We are no longer in the 1990s.

Chadillaccc · #**1526** Posted **Oct 16, 2014, 5:31 PM**

My first Regina skyline shot...

Capitol View by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

The_Architect · #**1527** Posted **Oct 16, 2014, 8:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by Ramako

Give it about five years there will be a wall of skyscrapers from the CBD to Yorkville, similar in shape to the skyline of Midtown Manhattan (though far less dense). Aura will still appear as one of the taller peaks, but it will eventually fit in much better. Massey Tower and the Residences of 488 University, for example, are two 200+ metre towers that will soon fill in the gap between Aura and the CBD, and Wellesley on the Park and YC Condos are two 190+ metre towers that will fill the gap between Aura and Bloor. There will also be a handful of 150-175 metre towers sprinkled throughout.

Not to mention Murano and Burano are already there, U Condos not too far, and Karma is going up.

koops65 · #**1528** Posted **Oct 16, 2014, 8:05 PM**

And FIVE...

Chadillaccc · #**1529** Posted **Oct 16, 2014, 8:50 PM**

I didn't take this one, but here's another recent and beautiful shot taken from the shores of Wascana Lake...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wascana_Centre

isaidso · #**1530** Posted **Oct 16, 2014, 9:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by SkahHigh

Aura really looks good and well-integrated from that angle. However, I just don't undertand how city planners allowed a 272m tower to be built outside of the CBD. Viewed from the East and West it just looks really lonely and random...

The CBD is close to built out. People (and some planners as well) realize that the whole core from the lake to Yorkville, Bathurst to the Don Valley will be home to tall towers eventually. What we're seeing is just the tip of the iceberg. AURA isn't going to be alone for very long.

There are 60+ floor buildings proposed in the Distillery District and south of it. 78 floors planned at Bathurst and stuff that tall planned for Yorkville. Historic low rise sections will be built around and/or incorporated, but 30 years from now we'll likely see a sea of 150-400m buildings throughout the core.

SteelTown · #**1531** Posted **Oct 17, 2014, 1:02 AM**

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Razor · #**1532** Posted **Oct 17, 2014, 1:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by kool maudit

quebec's skyline is one of the best in canada. you have a chateau-hotel, a fragment of '70s madness, an art deco beauty, a sort of fortified hill, some spires and domes, and a few boxes for weight... and they're all lit up. it's wonderful.

QC is always postcard perfect.

Unfortunately a city's credo is all too often hinged on how tall it's skyscrapers are and not the whole picture. Having tall buildings makes them bonafide "real cities". Neighbourhoods and architectural variety doesn't count in a lot of people's eyes. Understandable though, because even though the lines are blurred, sites like this are for skyscraper enthusiasts and not urban enthusiasts.

L.A, Istanbul, Washington and on a smaller scale QC, Halifax and Ottawa are all SOL.

Chadillaccc · #**1533** Posted **Oct 17, 2014, 1:07 AM**

Gah!! Best shot of Hamilton ever!!!

It's so dramatic and intense!

lio45 · #**1534** Posted **Oct 17, 2014, 1:11 AM**

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Originally Posted by Razor

Unfortunately a city's credo is all too often hinged on how tall it's skyscrapers are and not the whole picture. Having tall buildings makes them bonafide "real cities". Neighbourhoods and architectural variety doesn't count in a lot of people's eyes.

L.A, Istanbul, Washington and on a smaller scale QC, Halifax and Ottawa are all SOL.

In the case of Quebec I would say that about half the skyline is in Ste-Foy, which I personally consider a good thing -- the positives mentioned about Quebec's downtown skyline would be diluted if all those newer glass towers were there instead.

The Ste-Foy skyline is also quite colorfully lit up at night and it seems to me that it's grown lately (I've been a few years without any reason to go to Quebec, and now I find that it's bigger than I recalled).