Great Canadian Skyline Thread II

[Chadillaccc]

Well, it's been 4 hours since the last post and I'm sick of waiting, so I'mma take the first post of the page From a long walk this Monday.


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[MonctonRad]

Interesting drone view of a portion of downtown Moncton by Moncton forumer BlackYear.



The photo is of a lot being cleared for a new mixed use development by Ashford Properties, but I like the shot because the perspective is unique, and shows a lot of visual layering in the background.

[rousseau]

Those Toronto pics make my heart sing. Kudos to the photographers and TorontoDrew for the great selection.

Not to gripe, and I know this is beating a dead horse for me, but:

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

Dang it, if Toronto had been a large and mature city 150 years ago the curve of Davenport Road here would have been lined with majestic 5+ story residential buildings.

Oh well. Maybe it'll get there if Toronto keeps building decent midrise stuff and fills in enough gaps.

[Martin Mtl]

Montreal, march 17th 2020


MONTREAL - CANADA by Daniel Richmond on flickr

[Rico Rommheim]

From this angle, the Victoria and BNC towers (200m), the hypothetical central station redevelopment and the 200m project next to Bonaventure will finally close the gap in the middle. Very pleased.

I've also heard rumours of a major development on the OACI site at Victoria square that could go as high as 200m.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

From this angle, the Victoria and BNC towers (200m), the hypothetical central station redevelopment and the 200m project next to Bonaventure will finally close the gap in the middle. Very pleased.

I've also heard rumours of a major development on the OACI site at Victoria square that could go as high as 200m.

Though will they hide the view of Sun Life from the river and old town?

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by rousseau

Dang it, if Toronto had been a large and mature city 150 years ago the curve of Davenport Road here would have been lined with majestic 5+ story residential buildings.

Oh well. Maybe it'll get there if Toronto keeps building decent midrise stuff and fills in enough gaps.

That view still looks pretty good to me - both above and down below.

[le calmar]

Originally Posted by rousseau

Those Toronto pics make my heart sing. Kudos to the photographers and TorontoDrew for the great selection.

Not to gripe, and I know this is beating a dead horse for me, but:


Dang it, if Toronto had been a large and mature city 150 years ago the curve of Davenport Road here would have been lined with majestic 5+ story residential buildings.

Oh well. Maybe it'll get there if Toronto keeps building decent midrise stuff and fills in enough gaps.

Based on its irregular alignment, I assume Davenport Road predates the rest of the city. Road networks tell interesting stories when you start paying attention to details. Stories that often go back hundred of years here in North America, and sometimes thousands of years in Europe. Sometimes you can find traces of a pre-colonial past when looking at the road alignments, even in the most boring cookie-cutter suburbs. A road close to my place was at some point a trail used by the local Natives before the area was even settled by Europeans.

[suburbanite]

It is one of my favourite areas of the city, but Rousseau is right in that there are certain corridors that have blueprints for "grand avenue" that don't play out that way. A result of Toronto's provincial pre-war stature, where SFHs line streets that today have huge potential.

[suburbanite]

Originally Posted by le calmar

Based on its irregular alignment, I assume Davenport Road predates the rest of the city. Road networks tell interesting stories when you start paying attention to details. Stories that often go back hundred of years here in North America, and sometimes thousands of years in Europe. Sometimes you can find traces of a pre-colonial past when looking at the road alignments, even in the most boring cookie-cutter suburbs. A road close to my place was at some point a trail used by the local Natives before the area was even settled by Europeans.

Urban legend that I've always heard (maybe it's true, not sure if there's any way to definitively say) is that Davenport roughly traces the historic shoreline of Lake Ontario before the receding of the last Ice Age. It follows an old Native American trail that would have been "Lakeshore Boulevard" hundreds of years before our modern iteration.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by le calmar

Based on its irregular alignment, I assume Davenport Road predates the rest of the city. Road networks tell interesting stories when you start paying attention to details. Stories that often go back hundred of years here in North America, and sometimes thousands of years in Europe. Sometimes you can find traces of a pre-colonial past when looking at the road alignments, even in the most boring cookie-cutter suburbs. A road close to my place was at some point a trail used by the local Natives before the area was even settled by Europeans.

I'm not sure that I've ever been down that way to Davenport. It looks cool in that picture that Drew posted... it reminds me a bit of Sydney where they have a more irregular street network with bends and curves. It's something that isn't all that common in Canada's cities, at least once you get west of the Maritimes.

For what it's worth, it looks pretty cool even as it is. That cream-coloured curved building makes a pretty good impact on its own.

[Acajack]

If you crop out the skyline, it almost looks London-esque. UK, not Ontario.

[J.OT13]

Ottawa. Image is clearer on the source website.


https://mainandmain.ca/montreal-north-river

[le calmar]

Originally Posted by suburbanite

Urban legend that I've always heard (maybe it's true, not sure if there's any way to definitively say) is that Davenport roughly traces the historic shoreline of Lake Ontario before the receding of the last Ice Age. It follows an old Native American trail that would have been "Lakeshore Boulevard" hundreds of years before our modern iteration.

I read a bit about it since I thought it was intriguing, and the escarpment in the area really is the old shoreline of Lake Iroquois, which existed 12,000 years ago. The Native trail eventually followed that escarpment but that was probably thousands of years later, after the water had receded. I don’t think the trail ever ran along the water as that would mean it is 12,000 years old.

[905er]

the city is just begging for some height... seriously

[kool maudit]

Originally Posted by Acajack

If you crop out the skyline, it almost looks London-esque. UK, not Ontario.

Good eye! It does. That City/East End border zone.

[niwell]

I enjoy cycling along Davenport as it has decent bike lanes and long distances between lights for the most part (part of my quarantine bike loop). That area in particular has changed massively over the recent years and is starting to come together. The entirety of the street is quite interesting in the various areas it goes through.

[rousseau]

Originally Posted by Acajack

If you crop out the skyline, it almost looks London-esque. UK, not Ontario.

Originally Posted by kool maudit

Good eye! It does. That City/East End border zone.

I once received flak on SSP for suggesting that Toronto had certain affinities with London. Though I probably didn't word it quite so congenially, and given that it was in one of those threads comparing Toronto to Chicago, I almost certainly would have overstated my case.

Still, though...vindication.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by rousseau

I once received flak on SSP for suggesting that Toronto had certain affinities with London. Though I probably didn't word it quite so congenially, and given that it was in one of those threads comparing Toronto to Chicago, I almost certainly would have overstated my case.

Still, though...vindication.

That's not why I wrote it, but I knew you'd like that.

[phesto]

The Blue Hour Magic by Stephen Tam, on Flickr

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