Great Canadian Skyline Thread II - Page 424

Laceoflight · #**8461** Posted **Aug 10, 2018, 2:35 PM**

Québec, from Le Concorde.

02082018-J1801212 by Mathieu J., sur Flickr

Montréal, from Griffintown

reposted from reddit: Montreal Skyline from Griffintown [1080*1350] (source in description) by Patrick Lawe, sur Flickr

Coldrsx · #**8462** Posted **Aug 10, 2018, 2:37 PM**

Fun street.

suburbanite · #**8463** Posted **Aug 10, 2018, 2:45 PM**

Very few existing buildings and almost no new buildings in Toronto have above ground parking. For all of our faults that's one thing that has always been handled well, and it does have a significant impact.

Monolith · #**8464** Posted **Aug 10, 2018, 11:11 PM**

Vancouver by thetu2, on Flickr

GeneralLea · #**8465** Posted **Aug 10, 2018, 11:19 PM**

Nice skyline posts guys

mistercorporate · #**8466** Posted **Aug 11, 2018, 7:33 AM**

Canada House towers have been approved and sales are strong, sales office is being moved and construction will begin in the coming months...

By Logan on flickr

By playboy on UT.

Martin Mtl · #**8467** Posted **Aug 11, 2018, 3:10 PM**

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmTVXxHgNxC/?taken-by=vr0

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmRt8elAWNr/?taken-by=yuorme

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmRwryYjnu7/?taken-by=jonathan_brunet

yaletown_fella · #**8468** Posted **Aug 11, 2018, 4:30 PM**

Not looking forward to Canada House. Wish it would get canned. Would almost rather have a vacant lot for 5 more years.

GeneralLea · #**8469** Posted **Aug 11, 2018, 4:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by yaletown_fella

Not looking forward to Canada House. Wish it would get canned. Would almost rather have a vacant lot for 5 more years.

I agree. So much more could be done with the site.

O-tacular · #**8470** Posted **Aug 11, 2018, 4:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by yaletown_fella

Not looking forward to Canada House. Wish it would get canned. Would almost rather have a vacant lot for 5 more years.

It seems like the most blatant money grab for foreign Chinese investment.

yaletown_fella · #**8471** Posted **Aug 11, 2018, 5:17 PM**

10 York looks great in that aerial though. A solid addition to the financial district skyline.

10 years ago I wouldve never thought we'd be seeing higher quality large scale condo developments east of the CBD and projects like Canada House west of the CBD.

Chadillaccc · #**8472** Posted **Aug 12, 2018, 3:15 AM**

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Originally Posted by mistercorporate

Canada House towers have been approved and sales are strong, sales office is being moved and construction will begin in the coming months...

By Logan on flickr

That looks amazing..

Chadillaccc · #**8473** Posted **Aug 12, 2018, 3:17 AM**

Amazing 10-year comparison by J-man on SRC...

Hali87 · #**8474** Posted **Aug 12, 2018, 12:21 PM**

Would it be wrong to suggest that the Dog Fountain is more iconic than any single building built in Toronto during the current boom? Or maybe the TORONTO "letters"? The Regent Park redevelopment is one example of a development there that captures part of the current zeitgeist (for better or worse), although I'd hesitate to call it "iconic" in the sense of "recognizable structures".

In Halifax the current boom has resulted in the Central Library and the Nova Centre, both of which are actually pretty iconic in both the "recognizable building" and "captures part of the zeitgeist" ways. Before these buildings we had Purdy's Wharf and the Citadel/Town Clock, but that was about it as far as icons go. I'm not sure the Nova Centre would be considered iconic if we were starting with the kind of cityscape Toronto has, although I think the library still would be.

Across Canada, we've also got the CMHR and True North Square in Winnipeg, Remai Modern and River Landing in Saskatoon, new arena in Edmonton, The Bow, Peace Bridge, and Telus Sky in Calgary (not sure whether their new library and that big new music centre are considered iconic, but I'd lean towards yes), the BC Place overhaul, Vancouver House, and Woodward Building in Van, as well as a few others I'm probably forgetting. I'm sure some of these would be considered iconic if plunked down in Toronto but others would not. There are probably Toronto equivalents of some of these projects that get lost in the noise. The "highrise with a small Edwardian house as part of its podium" is what I think of as being iconic of today's Toronto as far as architecture goes, but more the general concept than any specific building.

Montreal has a disproportionate number of iconic buildings from the mid-century, like Habitat, the Olympic Stadium, and all the weird relics left over from Expo.

SkahHigh · #**8475** Posted **Aug 12, 2018, 12:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Amazing 10-year comparison by J-man on SRC...

Pretty amazing indeed. Our cities have grown quite a lot in the last ten years.

GeneralLea · #**8476** Posted **Aug 12, 2018, 1:36 PM**

Thanks for pulling up that comparison Chadillac, crazy to see how much Calgary's grown in this time frame.

north 42 · #**8477** Posted **Aug 12, 2018, 1:49 PM**

I find it pretty funny how some people on here say that nothing “iconic” has been built in Toronto during the current building boom, but then list a bunch of rinky dink developments in other cities as examples of great iconic buildings! Hilarious!!!

MonctonRad · #**8478** Posted **Aug 12, 2018, 2:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by north 42

I find it pretty funny how some people on here say that nothing “iconic” has been built in Toronto during the current building boom, but then list a bunch of rinky dink developments in other cities as examples of great iconic buildings! Hilarious!!!

There is no question that the Toronto skyline has changed incredibly in the last decade. The point is that most of the change is due to the construction of multiple pretty generic condo towers.

isaidso · #**8479** Posted **Aug 12, 2018, 3:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by MonctonRad

There is no question that the Toronto skyline has changed incredibly in the last decade. The point is that most of the change is due to the construction of multiple pretty generic condo towers.

Precisely. I don't think anything built during this Toronto boom would be recognizable outside the city, skyscraper geeks excluded. Being tall or nicer than the norm doesn't qualify a building as iconic imo. It has to be instantly recognizable and become symbolic of the place its from.

Toronto City Hall is such a building. As nice as Scotia Plaza is, it hasn't moved beyond just being a beautiful building. Toronto does have iconic things but none of them were built within the past 40 years. Surprisingly, that rather cheap plastic TORONTO sign might end up being the only thing we've built this century that is becoming iconic. Goes to show that something doesn't need to be tall, expensive, big, or even beautiful to be iconic.

TorontoDrew · #**8480** Posted **Aug 12, 2018, 4:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by MonctonRad

There is no question that the Toronto skyline has changed incredibly in the last decade. The point is that most of the change is due to the construction of multiple pretty generic condo towers.

So like every other Canadian city that has been booming?