Looks great. Once the Brentwood Towers are live that area will look amazing.
It looks like Altus is almost at its peak. I would guess that there would be two to three more floors to go. Does anyone know how many more floors to go before the top is reached?
Now that the tallest tower is approaching topping out, I thought of providing an update from few fresh angles. These are all taken a week ago.
Approaching Brentwood on Willingdon Avenue is starting to be very impressive with towers starting feel really tall.
I had never checked out the view from behind the car dealership and the cluster appears very appealing from there!
Sunlight was against me from this traditional view, but there won't be too many chances to see Solo District from here anymore, as Amazing Brentwood towers will soon begin to go up.
Finally a really nice panoramic view of Brentwood as seen from the Forest Lawn cemetery. What a skyline in making!
Now that the tallest tower is approaching topping out, I thought of providing an update from few fresh angles. These are all taken a week ago.
Approaching Brentwood on Willingdon Avenue is starting to be very impressive with towers starting feel really tall.
I had never checked out the view from behind the car dealership and the cluster appears very appealing from there!
Sunlight was against me from this traditional view, but there won't be too many chances to see Solo District from here anymore, as Amazing Brentwood towers will soon begin to go up.
Finally a really nice panoramic view of Brentwood as seen from the Forest Lawn cemetery. What a skyline in making!
I hope you enjoyed.
Thanks Klazu. I especially like the second last panorama because it captures the whole span of Brentwood from Gilmore to Beta.
Once Triomphe, Escala, solo and Brentwood towers up , the mountain view will be obliterated into the background...from this angle anyway.
Sensible urban growth serenaded IMO
Driving into Vancouver from the east (assume someone from out of province) is becoming quite the dramatic affair: the new scale of Hwy 1, the Port Mann Bridge, skytrains zipping along, and of course all of the towers (the number and heights). Impressive experience.
Who remembers the four lane highway with grass medians, the old bridge, no millennium line and just a few aging stubby towers near Brentwood. It wasn't that long ago.
Aren't we all just so addicted to change and increasing scale?
Driving into Vancouver from the east (assume someone from out of province) is becoming quite the dramatic affair: the new scale of Hwy 1, the Port Mann Bridge, skytrains zipping along, and of course all of the towers (the number and heights). Impressive experience.
Who remembers the four lane highway with grass medians, the old bridge, no millennium line and just a few aging stubby towers near Brentwood. It wasn't that long ago.
Aren't we all just so addicted to change and increasing scale?
I remember those days. Especially that puny 4 lane highway with the grass medians.
How times have changed. If this is any indication of what's to come, our skyline will be so different in another 20 years.
Yah looks awesome. Thanks Klazu for the photos that area is starting to look awesome. Can't wait to see the Brentwood side start topping out. Will really look impressive, not that Brentwood already doesn't look impressive especially from the HWY1 corridor.
I really like that shot with Metrotown in the background. Metrotown is really starting to look great from a skyline perspective and I still think with its perch regionally, it is quite impressive from a regional standpoint.
Yah looks awesome. Thanks Klazu for the photos that area is starting to look awesome. Can't wait to see the Brentwood side start topping out. Will really look impressive, not that Brentwood already doesn't look impressive especially from the HWY1 corridor.
I really like that shot with Metrotown in the background. Metrotown is really starting to look great from a skyline perspective and I still think with its perch regionally, it is quite impressive from a regional standpoint.
Metrotown already looks like a separate city to tourists flying into Vancouver or when viewed from the Harbour Centre Lookout. All it needs is a 700-800 foot tower and people from outside the region would find it more of a metropolis (hence Metrotown) than Vancouver.
Metrotown already looks like a separate city to tourists flying into Vancouver or when viewed from the Harbour Centre Lookout. All it needs is a 700-800 foot tower and people from outside the region would find it more of a metropolis (hence Metrotown) than Vancouver.
When Station Square gets completed and the towers along Beresford (As well as the ones on the Nelson-Dunblane-Marlborough blocks) get done, then the view will really begin to fill the skyline.
And if Sears/Concordia ever get their project off the ground, then the city will have a true semblance of their desired "downtown" core of the Burnaby region.
I think Metrotown area need not wait till 2029 to resemble North York, it's already like that now. I think it would be more in the realm of Bloor and Yonge by 2029, if not sooner.
Well, this is getting off topic, but what really needs to happen is for virtually everything on the north side of kingsway across from Metropolis@Metrotown to be replaced by mixed use towers, and for not only the Sears/Concord project but for the other fronting lots to be developed as well. That could make Metrotown the 'real downtown' that people complain that it's not.
Driving into Vancouver from the east (assume someone from out of province) is becoming quite the dramatic affair: the new scale of Hwy 1, the Port Mann Bridge, skytrains zipping along, and of course all of the towers (the number and heights). Impressive experience.
Who remembers the four lane highway with grass medians, the old bridge, no millennium line and just a few aging stubby towers near Brentwood. It wasn't that long ago.
Aren't we all just so addicted to change and increasing scale?
Love the drive from Hope or Abbotsford west. Like you said, very dramatic, but also exciting, especially at Brentwood. However, crossing Boundary onto Prior street is just a total anticlimax, all the way until downtown comes into view.
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