The Great Canadian Skyline Thread!

[phesto]

Financial District by Clayton Perry Photoworks, on Flickr

The Bell Tower by Clayton Perry Photoworks, on Flickr

The Residences At The Georgia Hotel by Clayton Perry Photoworks, on Flickr

[Calgarian]

Originally Posted by Acajack

If it's any consolation it's not much better on that front anywhere else in Canada.

Yeah TO probably only gets an extra half hour of sunlight in the winter. Well maybe not sunlight, overcast light

[Calgarian]

Not a huge fan of the Georgia Hotel, just looks awkward to me.

[Darkoshvilli]

Montreal used to have little streams running through the island but they're all underground now.

[MolsonExport]

This, friends and neighbors, is a river, the one that streams past (landlocked ) Montreal:

excruising.net

Just passing through:

boatnerd.com

We all surf in Montreal:

media.canada.com

Take that:

memorable montreal

coming soon?

mtlblog

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Darkoshvilli

Montreal used to have little streams running through the island but they're all underground now.

Ta-dam!


http://rivieresperdues.radio-canada.ca/fr/villes/montreal

[Ashok]

Originally Posted by Calgarian

Fair enough.

Fish Creek and Fish Creek park in Calgary would probably be the best comparison here.

^ Not really, Fish Creek is almost at the city limits. Don Valley and Mount Royal are smacked in the middle of the city and offer impressive views/setting.

Also, the St. Lawrence isn't just any river. It is the gateway to North America through the Atlantic.

[Ashok]

Don't forget skiing on mount royal!

[Chadillaccc]

Originally Posted by Ashok

^ Not really, Fish Creek is almost at the city limits. Don Valley and Mount Royal are smacked in the middle of the city and offer impressive views/setting.

And so are Calgary's Bluffs, hence the picture of the incredible view from them that I posted on the previous page

If you don't know about the geography/topography of a place, don't try to claim it has none Calgary's downtown is literally surrounded on all sides by hills which offer amazing views of the city.


From the north...


Calgary Skyline Panorama by Chadillaccc, on Flickr



From the northwest...


Calgary CBD by Chadillaccc, on Flickr



From the west...


Calgary Fall Skyline by Persuasion Photography, on Flickr



From the south...


http://www.erniegardy.com/local-info



From the southeast...


Calgary Skyline by Chadillaccc, on Flickr



From the East...


Calgary Summer Evening by Surrealplaces, on Flickr



Literally surrounded.

[Calgarian]

Originally Posted by Ashok

^ Not really, Fish Creek is almost at the city limits. Don Valley and Mount Royal are smacked in the middle of the city and offer impressive views/setting.

Also, the St. Lawrence isn't just any river. It is the gateway to North America through the Atlantic.

Fish Creek is just one of several large parks and green areas in Calgary. Fish Creek Park proper may be in the deep south, but it is an extension of a long park system that stretches along the river through and past downtown, running through pretty much the entire city!

Any picture you can post of a setting in the ravines in Toronto I could follow up with a very similar picture in Calgary. Not trying to start a Toronto vs Calgary thing here, just pointing out that the ravine system there isn't really anything unique, though it may be really nice and much beloved by Torontonians.

[Ashok]

^ But that is not really impressive by any measure. The only impressive picture is the one with the highway, but almost every Canadian city has a high way going next to a hill.

What is impressive about Calgary is that its skyline but only relative to the city's size (a bit more than 1million.)

[SignalHillHiker]

Agreed that Calgary was surprisingly hilly. Still flat by my standards, of course, but having visited there while living in Winnipeg, I was struck by the rolling hills and mountains on the horizon. It has that same sort of... flat but romantic roll of portions of Saskatchewan.

But b'ys... I think Vancouver is obviously tops of our largest cities. We don't have many big cities in interesting locations, like, say, Rio.

And don't forget us little guys have some lovely settings as well.

[Ashok]

Originally Posted by Calgarian

Any picture you can post of a setting in the ravines in Toronto I could follow up with a very similar picture in Calgary. Not trying to start a Toronto vs Calgary thing here, just pointing out that the ravine system there isn't really anything unique, though it may be really nice and much beloved by Torontonians.

I think you are underestimating the geographical features and extend of Toronto, and over estimating your own cities.

[Chadillaccc]

Originally Posted by Ashok

^ But that is not really impressive by any measure. The only impressive picture is the one with the highway, but almost every Canadian city has a high way going next to a hill.

What is impressive about Calgary is that its skyline but only relative to the city's size (a bit more than 1million.)

Not even one of those pictures has a highway in frame, and all of them are beautiful views. And since Calgary's skyline is consistently rated by many people on here as the 2nd best skyline in the country (obviously not a universal opinion though) I'd say it's just impressive in general, not just for a city of significantly over 1 million As it is constantly compared to cities of 3 - 5 million (Montreal, Denver, Dallas, etc), rather than other cities of 1 - 2 million.

You can certainly keep spinning though, it's funny to watch

[Ashok]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Agreed that Calgary was surprisingly hilly. Still flat by my standards, of course, but having visited there while living in Winnipeg, I was struck by the rolling hills and mountains on the horizon. It has that same sort of... flat but romantic roll of portions of Saskatchewan.

But b'ys... I think Vancouver is obviously tops of our largest cities. We don't have many big cities in interesting locations, like, say, Rio.

And don't forget us little guys have some lovely settings as well.

There you go, I think we got a winner!

[MolsonExport]

like death and taxes: "Yeah but, we...." "Yeah, but I can top that with..." "yeah but, look at this!"




cool shot from the Rock.

[Ashok]

Mount Royal! You know what is truly impressive of Mount Royal, we got canons full of NIMBYs pointed towards Calgary. So you keep talking, and we will launch.

[Calgarian]

Originally Posted by Ashok

I think you are underestimating the geographical features and extend of Toronto, and over estimating your own cities.

I think you are overestimating the features and extend of Toronto and underestimating the features in Calgary.

My point is both cities seem to have many places where you are in the middle of a large city, but are completely surrounded by beautiful nature and wildlife.

[Chadillaccc]

Originally Posted by Ashok

Mount Royal! You know what is truly impressive of Mount Royal, we got canons full of NIMBYs pointed towards Calgary. So you keep talking, and we will launch.

You've already been firing your trolls at us for years *cough GSMTL uncough* so why would we not be able to handle a few NIMBYs?

[Calgarian]

Vancouver wins this hands down, can't beat ocean and mountains.