The Great Canadian Skyline Thread! - Page 263

Villaggio · #**5241** Posted **Apr 1, 2015, 12:33 AM**

Hugh...(CHUM)

NetMapel · #**5242** Posted **Apr 1, 2015, 2:17 AM**

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Vancouver today

Chadillaccc · #**5243** Posted **Apr 1, 2015, 2:26 AM**

More Ottawa

http://www.stockaerialphotos.com/media/2...rev=fe49518c-1e77-42d2-aa5b-4b83c1026087

http://www.stockaerialphotos.com/media/f...rev=4a070587-751c-40d0-95e6-20e3b1d2370b

#**5244** Posted **Apr 1, 2015, 3:56 AM**

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MolsonExport · #**5245** Posted **Apr 1, 2015, 4:07 AM**

Interesting shot. But who the hell got away with the decision to have the power pylons right next to the lake? I mean, there has got to be better, less intrusive way to deliver power.

#**5246** Posted **Apr 1, 2015, 4:24 AM**

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Martin Mtl · #**5247** Posted **Apr 1, 2015, 12:39 PM**

Downtown Montréal by Axel Drainville on Flickr

Griffintown

Griffintown - Montréal by Axel Drainville on Flickr

Rico Rommheim · #**5248** Posted **Apr 1, 2015, 4:33 PM**

^ Good work by AX, who has over the years become quite a great photographer.

The first picture confirms something that I noticed a while ago, that the downtown skyline is in fact made up of a number of smaller independent clusters of highrises. The one running along Sherbrooke and Maisonneuve West as this picture shows along with the cluster I can think of like the one around PVM, and the one around Tour de la Bourse, the Quartier Concordia and the Bell Centre node, Westmount Square. These separate clusters explain why our skyline can look so fragmented from so angles.

The second photo shows that Griffintown now has its own true skyline and will soon become one of downtown's highrise clusters.

GreaterMontréal · #**5249** Posted **Apr 1, 2015, 5:07 PM**

900 de Maisonneuve will be a nice addition to the skyline.

Prometheus · #**5250** Posted **Apr 1, 2015, 7:28 PM**

Photo by Alex Costin: https://www.flickr.com/photos/alexcostinphotography/17000143202/in/photostream/lightbox/

Photo by Alex Costin: https://www.flickr.com/photos/alexcostinphotography/16766017471/in/photostream/lightbox/

Dr Awesomesauce · #**5251** Posted **Apr 2, 2015, 12:27 AM**

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They're supposed to be burying the power lines within the next decade. I never understood why someone thought it was a good idea to ruin the beach with all of the towers.

Or to have heavy industry so close to the city - in the city, essentially.

Dr Awesomesauce · #**5252** Posted **Apr 2, 2015, 12:31 AM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Interesting shot. But who the hell got away with the decision to have the power pylons right next to the lake? I mean, there has got to be better, less intrusive way to deliver power.

Those hydro pylons are literally on the beach. It's pretty much the equivalent of BC Hydro planting towers all the way around Stanley Park and along the beaches of Kitsilano etc. It's bad...

Beedok · #**5253** Posted **Apr 2, 2015, 12:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by Dr Awesomesauce

Or to have heavy industry so close to the city - in the city, essentially.

People don't like long commutes. Heavy industry builds new cities about as often as cities build new heavy industry.

VivaPhysicality · #**5254** Posted **Apr 2, 2015, 12:38 AM**

^ Nice Ottawa pics. Impressive density, and I like all the forested areas.

Biff · #**5255** Posted **Apr 2, 2015, 1:27 PM**

Around the Jets home

from Downtown Peggy ‏@DowntownPeggy 15h on Twitter

Rico Rommheim · #**5256** Posted **Apr 2, 2015, 1:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by Prometheus

Photo by Alex Costin: https://www.flickr.com/photos/alexcostinphotography/16766017471/in/photostream/lightbox/

Love it. The Hotel vancouver looks great.

isaidso · #**5257** Posted **Apr 2, 2015, 2:01 PM**

Best building in the city imo.

Cowtown_Tim · #**5258** Posted **Apr 2, 2015, 7:24 PM**

Calgary by CalCon8, on Flickr

Blader · #**5259** Posted **Apr 2, 2015, 7:38 PM**

^^^
I like that Calgary aerial - I've never seen that vantage point before.

O-tacular · #**5260** Posted **Apr 2, 2015, 7:53 PM**

It's weird because that angle is reminiscent of a common helicopter shot from the flood in 2013. They repaired the banks quite well. Any non-Calgarians look at the areas along the banks of grey stone. That was all done post flood to stabilize the areas that got carved out. Would be more interesting to see an aerial of that part by Inglewood where the river shifted 100 feet closer to the neighbourhood.