Great Canadian Skyline Thread II - Page 416

Chadillaccc · #**8301** Posted **Jul 31, 2018, 4:36 AM**

Fior sure, a higher bar is better for all of us.

craner · #**8302** Posted **Jul 31, 2018, 6:39 AM**

A skyline buiding contest between the two cities would be awesome!!
We must re-gain the title!

le calmar · #**8303** Posted **Jul 31, 2018, 12:25 PM**

Impressive angle. Calgary's skyline is definitely my favourite in the country. You couldn't get more balanced than that.

Coldrsx · #**8304** Posted **Jul 31, 2018, 1:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by speedog

Over 200 meters, Edmonton 1, Calgary 5.

Over 150 meters, Edmonton 3, Calgary 20.

Some catching up to do.

But it will be great to see Edmonton to finally start seeing some height in its skyline.

Calgary will likely always have those won, but what about buildings.

Cal 672
Edm 505
*emporis

This is the where I hope to see Edmonton close the gap.

But I do like this one and many would be surprised...

High-rise buildings:

Cal 293
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Edm 344

esquire · #**8305** Posted **Jul 31, 2018, 1:44 PM**

^ That is an interesting stat, and not altogether surprising considering that Calgary's population surpassed Edmonton's only relatively recently (late 90s or early 00s, maybe?). Calgary gets so much press that one could easily make the mistake of concluding that it dwarfs Edmonton when in reality they are very similar cities when it comes to population, size and built environment.

Coldrsx · #**8306** Posted **Jul 31, 2018, 1:47 PM**

Calgary was larger from the 1900s-1940s, then Edmonton until the 70s and then Calgary since the 70s.

esquire · #**8307** Posted **Jul 31, 2018, 1:54 PM**

^ Since the 70s? I thought it was more recent than that.

According to these stats it looks like Calgary's metro surpassed Edmonton's sometime around Y2K.

http://demographia.com/db-cancma.htm

Coldrsx · #**8308** Posted **Jul 31, 2018, 2:08 PM**

IG @melsays

Doug · #**8309** Posted **Jul 31, 2018, 4:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

^ Since the 70s? I thought it was more recent than that.

According to these stats it looks like Calgary's metro surpassed Edmonton's sometime around Y2K.

http://demographia.com/db-cancma.htm

Edmonton proper was larger than Calgary proper until ~1980. The Calgary metro didn't have significant population outside the city proper until around the late 90's.

It doesn't surprise me that Edmonton has a similar number of total highrises as it has far more commie blocks scattered throughout the city, something that afflicts all Canadian cities except Calgary. During the commie block boom of the 60's and 70's, the City of Calgary didn't participate in the MURB program, didn't build much public housing, lagged in multifamily construction and faced huge NIMBY pushback against suburban highrises.

Martin Mtl · #**8310** Posted **Jul 31, 2018, 5:17 PM**

Vieux-Montréal Vue du haut de la tour de Lévis, 157 marches by Diane Larocque on Flickr

Martin Mtl · #**8311** Posted **Jul 31, 2018, 5:22 PM**

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bl2zeyUDXNF/?taken-by=felixshots

Acajack · #**8312** Posted **Jul 31, 2018, 5:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by Doug

Edmonton proper was larger than Calgary proper until ~1980. The Calgary metro didn't have significant population outside the city proper until around the late 90's.

It doesn't surprise me that Edmonton has a similar number of total highrises as it has far more commie blocks scattered throughout the city, something that afflicts all Canadian cities except Calgary..

I am not sure if people will agree, but I don't find that Montreal and Quebec City have very many commieblocks. Neither does Halifax I am pretty sure.

mistercorporate · #**8313** Posted **Jul 31, 2018, 5:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

I am not sure if people will agree, but I don't find that Montreal and Quebec City have very many commieblocks. Neither does Halifax I am pretty sure.

Yeah but Quebec City has one huge commercial commie block right on it's most attractive stretch of skyline. That hotel is gross, they should at least renovate its outside to fit the late medieval architecture there.

someone123 · #**8314** Posted **Jul 31, 2018, 5:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

I am not sure if people will agree, but I don't find that Montreal and Quebec City have very many commieblocks. Neither does Halifax I am pretty sure.

Halifax has a lot of brick-clad highrises dating from 1950-2010 or so. I am not sure if those qualify as commie blocks, but they are architecturally similar (some nice, some not so nice, just like the brutalist buildings). There are relatively few slab-style buildings with exposed concrete, and some of those have been modified and reclad in recent years.

A lot of housing projects built in Halifax in the early postwar years were rowhouses rather than highrises.

The overall city development style in Atlantic Canada is quite different from Ontario.

Acajack · #**8315** Posted **Jul 31, 2018, 6:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by mistercorporate

Yeah but Quebec City has one huge commercial commie block right on it's most attractive stretch of skyline. That hotel is gross, they should at least renovate its outside to fit the late medieval architecture there.

Yup. In addition to the Bunker that houses the Premier of Quebec's office right across the street from the Assemblée Nationale, and the huge Complexe G/Marie-Guyart tower that's just a block or two away from the Grande-Allée.

craner · #**8316** Posted **Jul 31, 2018, 6:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

^ Since the 70s? I thought it was more recent than that.

According to these stats it looks like Calgary's metro surpassed Edmonton's sometime around Y2K.

http://demographia.com/db-cancma.htm

Yes - Metro wise Calgary didn't surpass Edmonton any earlier than the late 1990s

Coldrsx · #**8317** Posted **Jul 31, 2018, 8:01 PM**

Indeed, but Calgary proper started out, got passed and then regained a significant margin after the 70s.

softee · #**8318** Posted **Jul 31, 2018, 8:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

I am not sure if people will agree, but I don't find that Montreal and Quebec City have very many commieblocks. Neither does Halifax I am pretty sure.

Halifax has tons of commie blocks, it can almost give London and other sizeable Ontario cities a run for their money.

Chadillaccc · #**8319** Posted **Jul 31, 2018, 8:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by Coldrsx

High-rise buildings:

Cal 293
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Edm 344

I have no idea where you got that statistic, but Calgary has 368 high rises complete and UC (35 meters and up is the international classification of "high rise" by the way), and Edmonton has 285. The vast differences between the skylines tell the story, completely. For reference, as far as skyscrapers (100 meters and up) go, Calgary has 80, and Edmonton has 25.

Calgary source: http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=82038915
Edmonton source: http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=82038945

Annnd back to awesome skylines..

https://www.instagram.com/mikemaciaszek/

Acajack · #**8320** Posted **Jul 31, 2018, 8:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by softee

Halifax has tons of commie blocks, it can almost give London and other sizeable Ontario cities a run for their money.

That's interesting. I've become pretty familiar with the city over my lifetime and have been there scores of times. (I was there almost a year ago to the day.) And I've never noticed that. Not that I was looking for them.