Great Canadian Skyline Thread II

[Brizzy82]

Originally Posted by WpG_GuY

@DanHarperPhoto
Just got off a helicopter for @Cavalia their tent may look small from the air compared to the #Winnipeg skyline but it’s HUGE inside!

Man, D Condo is a breath of fresh bluey green air in a sea of beige on the right side of this picture. Need a lot more of those. True North Square helps too.

[suburbanite]

It's hard to capture the full breadth of Winnipeg's skyline in one pic. Great angle that shows how much there is beyond the downtown cluster.

[Monolith]

By Dan Earles, on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/31216832@N02/40636102555/in/dateposted/


By Dan Earles, on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/31216832@N02/26572127627/in/dateposted/

[Franco401]

Originally Posted by Monolith

By Dan Earles, on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/31216832@N02/26572127627/in/dateposted/

What are those in the foreground?

[mcminsen]

Originally Posted by Franco401

What are those in the foreground?

Dragon Boat club storage and club houses.

[Monolith]

Originally Posted by Franco401

What are those in the foreground?

It's the Vancouver Park Board paddling centre. Those huts are used to store
non-motorized boats.

https://www.straight.com/news/688291/new-32-million-paddling-centre-opens-false-creek

[The Macallan]

Originally Posted by mistercorporate

Yeah, Montreal looks great there, especially that morning shot. A very "complete city". Vancouver also feels quite complete too. Toronto should hit that milestone in another 3-4 years when the East Bayfront gets going.

That’s an odd last sentence. What do you mean by a “complete cty”? Why should the commencement of construction in yet another section of Toronto make it a complete city when it is already more extensively built out than the other cities?

(This is not at all a criticism of either Montreal or Vancouver both of which are lovely, IMO.)

[GreaterMontréal]

Originally Posted by The Macallan

That’s an odd last sentence. What do you mean by a “complete cty”? Why should the commencement of construction in yet another section of Toronto make it a complete city when it is already more extensively built out than the other cities?

(This is not at all a criticism of either Montreal or Vancouver both of which are lovely, IMO.)

to me, Montréal is not complete, Montréal has to have the largest built-up footprint in Canada, we need more sprawl to achieve that. Toronto you've been warned.

[The Macallan]

Originally Posted by GreaterMontréal

to me, Montréal is not complete, Montréal has to have the largest built-up footprint in Canada, we need more sprawl to achieve that. Toronto you've been warned.

It’s hard to recognize irony at tmes. You are probably aiming in that direction but it’s difficult to be sure. In case your post is not intended to be ironical, why would sprawl be something to be desired? The best thing to be said about all the construction in Toronto is that it is mostly increasing density. Density is an antidore to sprawl in a growing city.

[GreaterMontréal]

Originally Posted by The Macallan

It’s hard to recognize irony at tmes. You are probably aiming in that direction but it’s difficult to be sure. In case your post is not intended to be ironical, why would sprawl be something to be desired? The best thing to be said about all the construction in Toronto is that it is mostly increasing density. Density is an antidore to sprawl in a growing city.

people want to live in houses, not condos, so you give them houses. Even if there has been less SFHs sold since 2015 than in the 2000-2010 period, the CMA now has 3rd ring suburbs. Joliette is as far from Trois-Rivières than it is from downtown Montréal. The thing is, Joliette is a ''real'' city, it was not intended to become a suburb of Montréal.

[Martin Mtl]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BhvS9NyAkfR/?taken-by=mjmantis

[suburbanite]

Love the density. Montreal already felt like it had a very "full" skyline before, but the new projects are adding even more bulk. The majority of them are quality buildings too.

[SkahHigh]

Originally Posted by GreaterMontréal

people want to live in houses, not condos, so you give them houses. Even if there has been less SFHs sold since 2015 than in the 2000-2010 period, the CMA now has 3rd ring suburbs. Joliette is as far from Trois-Rivières than it is from downtown Montréal. The thing is, Joliette is a ''real'' city, it was not intended to become a suburb of Montréal.

Not everything is a competition.

[Laceoflight]

Originally Posted by SkahHigh

Not everything is a competition.

Surtout pas l'étalement. @GreaterMontreal, Montreal is sprawling as far as St-Sauveur or Marieville / Ste-Madeleine because the agricultural land is mostly protected. Thus, the maximal urbanization perimetres close to downtown MTL are gradually saturated with low-density developments (Ste-Julie, Repentigny, Vaudreuil), forcing middle-class people to move out to the fringes in order to become homeowners. Instead of inducing an increase in density, those "white zone" perimetres associated with the Loi de protection du Territoire et des Activités agricoles (1979) simply pushed sprawl even farther.

Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

https://www.instagram.com/p/BhvS9NyAkfR/?taken-by=mjmantis

WOW.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by Laceoflight

Montreal, March 25, 2018
Early morning...


Montréal, 7AM par Charles Rumsey, sur 500px

February 22, 2018
In the evening...


Montréal par Nicolas Vivaudou, sur 500px

Damned that place is so land-locked.

[KnoxfordGuy]

Great shot of a chunk of downtown Halifax.

Originally Posted by KnoxfordGuy

Great shot of a piece of downtown Halifax.



Source

[someone123]

A couple years old but I like this mid-reno shot of Fenwick in Halifax:



That picture arguably looks like something out of a bigger city than most of the downtown office building photos.

Same photographer from Purdy's Wharf:



Not a skyline but Cape Split, 100 km north:



More here

[Martin Mtl]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BhwP-JsgV8m/?taken-by=mjmantis

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by The Macallan

That’s an odd last sentence. What do you mean by a “complete cty”? Why should the commencement of construction in yet another section of Toronto make it a complete city when it is already more extensively built out than the other cities?

(This is not at all a criticism of either Montreal or Vancouver both of which are lovely, IMO.)

When you significantly increase the scale of buildings and density in new areas it instantly makes an area that once looked finished look the complete opposite. The eastern end of downtown now looks like it's at the very beginning of its intensification, and a long way from looking complete.

One could say the same thing for downtown Toronto in general. Toronto started building tall outside the traditional CBD in places like Yorkville, Queen's Quay, and now west of Spadina. Today that entire geographic footprint bounded by the lake, Yorkville, the Don, and Liberty Village looks incomplete.

I differ with mistercorporate on how long it will take before it looks complete. He says 4 years. I'd argue it will take 20-30 years before it builds out.

[WhipperSnapper]

That's hinges on the perspective of downtown Toronto becoming a solid sea of 50 to 200 storey towers. In reality, Toronto is a lot more complete than it has ever been since industry started vacating the downtown in the 1950s. The infiltration of taller heights at key places in a number of downtown neighbourhoods is not going to pave the way for block busting and new shiny skyscraper districts. On the other side, Southcore or Cityplace didn't exist 30 years ago and will look virtually the same 30 years from now.