Great Canadian Skyline Thread II

[O-tacular]

Vancouver does actually have lots of colour and architectural variety. It seems it's only from the most photographed angles showing the ocean that all you see is the seafoam green glass condos. I'd love a non window wall building to get built on the periphery by the water with some texture like brick or stone or even wacky coloured metal panels. Vancouver House should help a little bit with this.

[Ramako]

Toronto from the Jack Darling Park by Konrad Glogowski, on Flickr


Toronto Skyline by bwilliamp, on Flickr

[Marshal]

Originally Posted by Klazu

The entire Downtown peningsula during a downpour. Taken from the The Mark's (tallest building in Yaletown) 40th floor sub-penthouse. What a dense Downtown with many architectural layers we have and our two tallest buildings are even hidden from the view by One Wall Centre!

Klazu, please take this kindly, but I am going to scold you. Stop it. STOP IT! Your rate of posting your beautiful photos seems to have gone down. The old ones are cool enough, but "what have you done for us lately?" (Hope you get the reference.) Get out there and show us all what's going on. I will speak for the Vancouver crowd: we miss it. mcminsen can't do it all.

Also: Toronto from Jack Darling Park just gets better by the year.

[caltrane74]

Originally Posted by Ramako

cityfromabove-2 by Len Lim, on Flickr

Yonge St. Clair to Eglinton Corridor is getting bulkier.

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Vancouver does actually have lots of colour and architectural variety. It seems it's only from the most photographed angles showing the ocean that all you see is the seafoam green glass condos. I'd love a non window wall building to get built on the periphery by the water with some texture like brick or stone or even wacky coloured metal panels. Vancouver House should help a little bit with this.

There's some colour but, not a lot of architectural variety. To be fair, architectural variety is hard to come by when 80% of the towers are less than 20 year old. There could be more variety in form though. Each one appears a slim point tower on a podium with a penthouse/crown

I don't find these angles particularly dense. It's like a post modern Brazilian city

[Laceoflight]

Ramako's 2nd picture of Toronto is... spectaculaire!


Montreal from above!

Vol Seneca by Bernard Fighiera, sur Flickr

[MolsonExport]

Whole lotta love for that Zeppelin over Toronto.

[Rico Rommheim]

Wow what a rare, awesome Montreal view!

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Whole lotta love for that Zeppelin over Toronto.

Actually, it's neither a blimp or a Zeppelin but, it was awesome to see. (wish I could of rode in it)

[koops65]

It's a semi-rigid airship...

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

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by Laceoflight

Ramako's 2nd picture of Toronto is... spectaculaire!


Montreal from above!

Vol Seneca by Bernard Fighiera, sur Flickr

What island is that? Is it farmed or something?

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

What island is that? Is it farmed or something?

Those are the Îles de Boucherville. Off to the east of the city in the St. Lawrence between the island of Montreal and the upper portion of the south shore. The Lafontaine tunnel passes there.

[LeftCoaster]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Vancouver does actually have lots of colour and architectural variety. It seems it's only from the most photographed angles showing the ocean that all you see is the seafoam green glass condos. I'd love a non window wall building to get built on the periphery by the water with some texture like brick or stone or even wacky coloured metal panels. Vancouver House should help a little bit with this.

There are a couple more upcoming that should help ease the seafoam glass look as well:

Grosvenor's new development on Pacific:

Originally Posted by officedweller

http://grosvenorpacific.com/171-2/


http://grosvenorpacific.com/171-2/

One Burrard's concrete lattuce should look sufficiently different:

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/640/22007156038_ae577b4faa_b.jpg

http://www.vancouver-real-estate-direct.com/blog/images/burrard-new-upclose.jpg

And though parq is all glass, the colour is pretty unique for the area:


http://parqvancouver.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/gallery8.png

Originally Posted by mcminsen

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Those are the Îles de Boucherville. Off to the east of the city in the St. Lawrence between the island of Montreal and the upper portion of the south shore. The Lafontaine tunnel passes there.

Yes I thought that looked familiar from my visits to see family in Boucherville over the years. Is it near that nature preserve island? It almost looks like there's no bridge connecting to it. How do they cultivate the fields? Who owns that land? Many years ago my cousin apparently was growing some pot plants somewhere in there. Doesn't seem like it sees very much human activity.

[O-tacular]

Nice to see Vancouver getting some texture with this new round of development.

[LeftCoaster]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Nice to see Vancouver getting some texture with this new round of development.

If the city can ensure the tall towers are more architecturally unique it will be a big win for the city. New York has a lot of very similar looking smaller towers, but it's signature towers are unique and punctuate the skyline, making the smaller canvas of 30 storey brownstones less of an issue.

The issue is whether or not they will follow through with it, often the city suffers from a bit of a bait and switch where something more unique is proposed but the materials used at the end are substituted for a more generic look. Biggest offender there is the Telus Garden tower:

ORIGINAL PROPOSAL:


http://westbankcorp.com/sites/default/fi...059_c5_portrait_EXPORT.jpg?itok=EZ-O6mUL

COMPLETED PROJECT:

Originally Posted by mcminsen

July 26 '16, my pics

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Yes I thought that looked familiar from my visits to see family in Boucherville over the years. Is it near that nature preserve island? It almost looks like there's no bridge connecting to it. How do they cultivate the fields? Who owns that land? Many years ago my cousin apparently was growing some pot plants somewhere in there. Doesn't seem like it sees very much human activity.

There is an exit for the islands just before or after the tunnel depending on the direction. There used to a hotel there but it closed. Most of the islands are parkland but parts are privately held and there were plans to turn the hotel into a seniors' residence, and for more housing units too. Not sure how far that got.

There is also a golf course on the islands. I think there are short ferries between some of the islands.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

If the city can ensure the tall towers are more architecturally unique it will be a big win for the city. New York has a lot of very similar looking smaller towers, but it's signature towers are unique and punctuate the skyline, making the smaller canvas of 30 storey brownstones less of an issue.

The issue is whether or not they will follow through with it, often the city suffers from a bit of a bait and switch where something more unique is proposed but the materials used at the end are substituted for a more generic look. Biggest offender there is the Telus Garden tower:

ORIGINAL PROPOSAL:


http://westbankcorp.com/sites/default/fi...059_c5_portrait_EXPORT.jpg?itok=EZ-O6mUL

COMPLETED PROJECT:

Sea foam green glass needs to be banned in Vancouver. It's like Toronto and blue glass boxes.

[WhipperSnapper]

"architecturally unique"

pretty scary considering the broad definition of "unique".

[vanman]

Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

ORIGINAL PROPOSAL:


http://westbankcorp.com/sites/default/fi...059_c5_portrait_EXPORT.jpg?itok=EZ-O6mUL

COMPLETED PROJECT:

The Telus condo tower is an abomination. I'm shocked that Westbank would build something so ugly, especially considering their track record (Shaw Tower, Woodwards, Shangrila etc.)