The Great Canadian Skyline Thread!

[Martin Mtl]

Originally Posted by north 42

I can see Guvernment in this shot, RIP!

I can't believe they closed that place. What a shame.

[north 42]

Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

I can't believe they closed that place. What a shame.

Yup, and for more condo's!!! I can't imagine having Revival Party during Pride anywhere else!

[Martin Mtl]

Originally Posted by north 42

Yup, and for more condo's!!! I can't imagine having Revival Party during Pride anywhere else!

Indeed. Going out on the roof at dawn with the sun rising on the bank towers... that was sooooo amazing!

[SkahHigh]

Nun's Island skyline with Brossard in the foreground

Montréal vue de Brossard by -AX-, on Flickr

[Chadillaccc]

Twin Shot by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

Western Giants by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

Central Core by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

[Rico Rommheim]

Nice Calgary shots. And interesting Nun's island angle.

[MolsonExport]

Quite a select part of Brossard. My wife's cousin lives in one of the McMansions displayed in that photograph.

[shappy]

Here's a shot by flar similar to the one posted above from a different angle and showing more of the eastern side of downtown.

Originally Posted by flar

From flar's thread: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=215270

[rousseau]

Originally Posted by shappy

Here's a shot by flar similar to the one posted above from a different angle and showing more of the eastern side of downtown.



From flar's thread: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=215270

Christ almighty, that is awesome.

[Ramako]

Originally Posted by rousseau

Christ almighty, that is awesome.

Indeed. It's worth noting that it's a couple years old. Lots of big towers missing.

[SignalHillHiker]

Fascinating how you could crop out just about any section of the skyline and it'd still look like a big city.

[Innsertnamehere]

[Mrs Sauga]

Incredible Toronto shots. I like how the cityplace and cityplace-like condos are absent!

[TorontoDrew]

Posted by the Toronto Star, taken 3 years back I think?

www.thestar.com

[SignalHillHiker]

Is that area in the foreground what people are talking about when they say North York?

Also, is it just perspective, or does that street heading downtown get narrower immediately after the towers in the foreground?

[SkahHigh]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

Posted by the Toronto Star, taken 3 years back I think?

www.thestar.com

That is what I could call the skyline of a metropolis.

[Beedok]

That's some pretty serious compression no? Hanging out around Eglington North York looked way further than that (as did Downtown).

[MonkeyRonin]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Is that area in the foreground what people are talking about when they say North York?

Also, is it just perspective, or does that street heading downtown get narrower immediately after the towers in the foreground?

Yeah, that's North York. Specifically, North York Centre. Before being amalgamated into Toronto it covered some 176 sqkm and 655,000 people, but now when someone says "North York" it's usually meant to refer to just that little area there. Scarborough and Etobicoke on the other hand are still meant to mean the same thing in people's minds as they did before on the ground - probably because their boundaries are a little less ambiguous, but also because they've always just been a little less connected to the core, physically and culturally.

And yeah, the road (Yonge St.) narrows. Not immediately after the towers, but slightly further down. As can be seen there it's 6 lanes + turning lane through NYCC, while south of that it becomes a more typical 4 lane pre-war street.

[TallBob]

Looking at those Calgary photos, I can't help but think after looking at FCCI what the 64 story FCCII would have been! That would have been something.

[Chadillaccc]

Agreed. It would have been a monster, a perfect peak right in the middle of the skyline.