Post some pictures of your city! II

[Chadillaccc]

Regina - pt 2



Mosaic Tower Regina by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

Street Detail by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

Market Towers by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

Old City Hall by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

Old by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

Hotel Saskatchewan by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

Park Path by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

Victoria Park by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

PreWar by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

City Hall by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

Graffiti by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

Wascana Park by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

Capitol Lake by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

[Calgarian]

Great Regina sets Chad!

[esquire]

^ Echo that. I like the Mosaic Tower... they did a really nice job with it. Good proportions and the base looks great.

[SignalHillHiker]

Filmed a lovely drive through the Old West End today in the RDF (rain, drizzle, and fog) - but the camera was out of focus the entire time. But did get four quick and dirty shots of some changes in my neighbourhood, Rabbittown. As the show Slattery Street Crockers famously put it: "Poverty with 200 channels."

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Here's where these four shots are taken:



Some new in-fill beside Tony's, across the street from the superette and Leo's Fish & Chips. Saigon, a new Vietnamese place, is right there as well.



The new Kimchi & Sushi Place. It still cracks me up no end how this neighbourhood is changing. Right next door to the Peter Easton, where it's still possible to see a very pregnant woman out having a smoke with her beer on the front step at 9 a.m. on a Tuesday. You can't see them behind the truck but you can see, at noon, the door is already open and there were people out having a smoke break. Lots of halfway houses and a food kitchen fill out the rest of the block. The first green house, right next to the pub - I almost bought it. Saw it, was ready to put in an offer the next day, Mom phoned me at like 3:30 a.m., couldn't sleep. "I'm not having it, Ryan, sorry. You're an adult now, and I know I can't tell you what to do, but you are not living in that house. Please don't put me through that." I was just moving back from Winnipeg, having left a job that regularly sent me into the North End and Elmwood. If anyone tried anything, I would've laughed in their faces. Certainly lost whatever fight resulted. But I would've laughed in their faces anyway. Not afraid of skeets anymore.



Formosa Tea House at the top of Cookstown Road, leading down into what was once the Central Slum of St. John's. Yes, when that area (about three square city blocks worth, with a population density higher than London, U.K.) was destroyed in the 1950s, they saved Rabbittown because it was exponentially NICER.



A couple of businesses in this little cluster. Includes another superette, pizzeria, fish n chips place, bike shop, yoga studio, art galleries, etc. And a handsome lad.

[SignalHillHiker]

Uh oh. Official organizations in St. John's are just now discovering what I learned last year through SSP. Watch out, b'ys. They're likely to be angry about this in the end.

[Nouvellecosse]

Halifax and other parts of NS have had brightly coloured houses as long as I can remember. That anyone thought this is something new or that it was somehow a unquiely St. John's thing is rather surprising.

Although that's more characteristic of the North End than in downtown which is where that picture was taken.

[SignalHillHiker]

Well, I can't laugh at them because I totally didn't know either until... it might've even been you, but probably Someone123... last year posted a picture of colourful rowhouses in Halifax.

So I'm not surpised it's still completely unknown here that anything even remotely similar exists elsewhere.

[Nouvellecosse]

I'm just surprised as I thought it was widely known that there isn't really anything in any part of the Atlantic that's completely absent in every other part (at least that I can think of). Really only minor differences.

I think flar's North and South End thread from 2010 really shows the colour of the inner city neighbourhoods well. Anyone who hadn't joined the site until later likely would have missed it.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=184091

[Martin Mtl]

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[Brizzy82]

some random shots from around downtown Winnipeg


IMG_0485 by wonderbeard44, on Flickr

Winnipeg - Portage & Main scene - 2013-07 by Mike Budd, on Flickr

There's something about Winnipeg. It's like a bijou NYC. Is that crazy talk? by MandyJoLeith, on Flickr

The Fairmont Hotel Winnipeg by Nilo Manalo, on Flickr

Bank of Montreal by Oscar Reimer, on Flickr

Manitoba Hydro Building in Winnipeg by manitobaphotos.com, on Flickr

Canwest Building by bryanscott, on Flickr

[Dr Awesomesauce]

^Hot. Keep it comin'!

[Brizzy82]

Rainy Sunset by aa440, on Flickr

hydro by Adrian stoness, on Flickr

Exchange District by bryanscott, on Flickr

The Cube in Old Market Square by MBCultureDays, on Flickr

Winnipeg Grain Exchange, Rorie and McDermot by wintorbos, on Flickr

Donald Street by joshuadavidreid, on Flickr

Winnipeg |ˈwinəˌpeg| a city in southern central Canada, the capital of the province of Manitoba, at the confluence of the Assiniboine and Red rivers, south of Lake Winnipeg; pop. 633,451 (2006). by Jeannette Greaves, on Flickr

[Monolith]

Excellent Winnipeg shots!

[Rico Rommheim]

Awesome Winnipeg.

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Uh oh. Official organizations in St. John's are just now discovering what I learned last year through SSP. Watch out, b'ys. They're likely to be angry about this in the end.

Bright coloured shacks, disintegrating asphalt, massive overhead wiring issues. Seems an understandable error, no?

[someone123]

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

Bright coloured shacks, disintegrating asphalt, massive overhead wiring issues. Seems an understandable error, no?

Actually that stretch is probably unique in the city in terms of how modest the buildings are and how upscale their surroundings have become. The eye-bleeding colours are also unusual. I've figured for a while that this is one of those cases where a developer or speculator is sitting on the properties and eventually plans to tear them all down and redevelop them.

Here's a more typical colour palette, scale, and level of ornamentation for that part of the city. That red on the corner is pretty similar to what you might have seen used in the 1950's or earlier:



I wish I had better photos of the South End houses. There are lots of colourful wooden ones but they tend to be more heavily decorated (I would guess these ones are from the 1870's).

[someone123]

Reposting from the Halifax local:

Originally Posted by MeEtc

Ariel photography taken for a project for ViewPoint Reality and Vision Air Services. Photos were taken the morning of September 25, 2014. http://www.viewpoint.ca/aerials

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[Martin Mtl]

Who said that Sainte-Catherine is a dying street ?!?


IMG_20141025_160231~2 by Jean Marois on Flickr

[Robertpuant]

Man I hate HDR.

[MolsonExport]

WinningPeg shots.