Great Canadian Skyline Thread II - Page 672

J.OT13 · #**13421** Posted **Jun 28, 2020, 7:36 PM**

Victoria's density is impressive for a city its size.

J.OT13 · #**13422** Posted **Jun 28, 2020, 8:36 PM**

ByWard Market, Hull and Gatineau Hills.

https://www.narcity.com/ca/on/ottawa/things-to-do-in-ott/11-reasons-move-ottawa-city

Downtown Ottawa. Ottawa River and Hull hidden by the thick fog.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ottawa/comments/9e4dg4/yesterdays_fog_seen_from_above/

ByWard Market and Downtown.

https://skyrisecities.com/news/2017/07/capital-view

Eastern Edge of Downtown.

https://regionalgroup.com/

Cold winters day, January 20, 2020.

https://globalnews.ca/news/6551840/extreme-cold-warnings-ottawa-area/

J.OT13 · #**13423** Posted **Jun 28, 2020, 8:39 PM**

https://twitter.com/NCC_CCN/status/1276154182475620359

Chadillaccc · #**13424** Posted **Jun 28, 2020, 8:43 PM**

Damn even I’ve never done 3 simultaneous first-page posts

haha *softly nudges* great pics though.

More from my own lens...

Calgary in Late June by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

Miscellaneous June Calgary by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

GeneralLea · #**13425** Posted **Jun 28, 2020, 10:20 PM**

Gorgeous images there of Ottawa. Byward Market and the adjacent area look great, although a lot of parts of Ottawa seem very interesting and almost eclectic at times...partly just based on how some of these images are taken over the last few pages.

Love those bridges of Calgary btw....the historic one with the lion statues is great. So is that new one crossing the Bow...it's very playful but had grace.

Monolith · #**13426** Posted **Jun 28, 2020, 11:26 PM**

Vancouver's False Creek 2020 by Gord McKenna, on Flickr

Downtown Vancouver at Sunset 2020 by Gord McKenna, on Flickr

The Great Scaper · #**13427** Posted **Jun 28, 2020, 11:43 PM**

Those are beautiful photos of Vancouver!

esquire · #**13428** Posted **Jun 29, 2020, 2:16 PM**

Some real glam shots of Vancouver...nice

J.OT13 · #**13429** Posted **Jun 29, 2020, 2:34 PM**

In no way the same quality as other recent Ottawa shots. Just a different angle.

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Originally Posted by IntoTheCore

This morning at the O-Train/Preston overpass:

MonkeyRonin · #**13430** Posted **Jun 29, 2020, 2:44 PM**

I was just streetviewing around Ottawa, and discovered this super cool building: https://goo.gl/maps/eBpBc2bJUkB7xQtt7

What the heck is this and why didn't I know about it sooner??

goodgrowth · #**13431** Posted **Jun 29, 2020, 2:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by Monolith

Aerial view of Vancouver B.C. Canada by Wolfgang Koehler, on Flickr

I think this photo sort of highlights the same complaints you get about other cities like Calgary where there is a very fine line between high and low density areas.

The zoning is too deliberate..

J.OT13 · #**13432** Posted **Jun 29, 2020, 3:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

I was just streetviewing around Ottawa, and discovered this super cool building: https://goo.gl/maps/eBpBc2bJUkB7xQtt7

What the heck is this and why didn't I know about it sooner??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Service_Alliance_of_Canada_Building

Public Service Alliance of Canada. In simpler terms, the union representing the majority of Federal public servants.

This one was built in 1968 believe it or not. Because of its location in the middle of Centretown instead of the traditional downtown office district, it lives in obscurity.

Calgarian · #**13433** Posted **Jun 29, 2020, 4:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by goodgrowth

I think this photo sort of highlights the same complaints you get about other cities like Calgary where there is a very fine line between high and low density areas.

The zoning is too deliberate..

I think Vancouver does the middle density quite well actually, you can see the density on the Broadway corridor, False Creek and the Chinatown / Gastown area.

Brizzy82 · #**13434** Posted **Jun 29, 2020, 6:59 PM**

Winnipeg

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scryer · #**13435** Posted **Jun 29, 2020, 8:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by Calgarian

I think Vancouver does the middle density quite well actually, you can see the density on the Broadway corridor, False Creek and the Chinatown / Gastown area.

Not at all. Vancouver should be doing circles around all of the other Canadian cities when it comes to midrises, especially considering that Metro Vancouver (and the COV) have an extremely small amount of land to work with, but actually over 70% of Vancouver's land is zoned for SFH's.

If anyone has a decent midrise quantity, it is Montreal IMO.

Calgarian · #**13436** Posted **Jun 29, 2020, 8:10 PM**

That last one is money! CMHR actually looks pretty good there.

905er · #**13437** Posted **Jun 29, 2020, 8:18 PM**

[QUOTE=Brizzy82;8966455]Winnipeg

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I never realized Golden Boy has such a nice ass!! Someone's been doing squats and lunges!

zahav · #**13438** Posted **Jun 29, 2020, 10:31 PM**

LOL I was going to say the same thing about Golden Boy haha! Lots of famous statues throughout time have been "shapely", but you never see this one up close or from behind haha, so never noticed

Kilgore Trout · #**13439** Posted **Jun 29, 2020, 11:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by scryer

Not at all. Vancouver should be doing circles around all of the other Canadian cities when it comes to midrises, especially considering that Metro Vancouver (and the COV) have an extremely small amount of land to work with, but actually over 70% of Vancouver's land is zoned for SFH's.

If anyone has a decent midrise quantity, it is Montreal IMO.

The new mid-rise buildings around the Olympic Village, Kits and Mount Pleasant are very nice. But anything built before the 2010s is lacklustre due to zoning restrictions. In Fairview you have a lot of densely packed 1990s townhouses with virtually no outdoor space, and in many neighbourhoods you have stubby 1970s apartment buildings with crappy low-ceilinged units and enormous setbacks that create a very suburban type of atmosphere. And then, as you mention, most of Vancouver's land area is reserved for single family houses.

Montreal is the opposite. Aside from enclaves like TMR, and parts of Westmount and Outremont, most of the inner city is zoned for multifamily dwellings that can occupy most of their lot, which results is a more consistently urban fabric than any other Canadian city.

Nouvellecosse · #**13440** Posted **Jun 29, 2020, 11:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by Kilgore Trout

The new mid-rise buildings around the Olympic Village, Kits and Mount Pleasant are very nice. But anything built before the 2010s is lacklustre due to zoning restrictions. In Fairview you have a lot of densely packed 1990s townhouses with virtually no outdoor space, and in many neighbourhoods you have stubby 1970s apartment buildings with crappy low-ceilinged units and enormous setbacks that create a very suburban type of atmosphere. And then, as you mention, most of Vancouver's land area is reserved for single family houses.

Montreal is the opposite. Aside from enclaves like TMR, and parts of Westmount and Outremont, most of the inner city is zoned for multifamily dwellings that can occupy most of their lot, which results is a more consistently urban fabric than any other Canadian city.

That sort of development is the thing that bothers me the most about cities here because they're the hardest thing to fix. When we add density to cities with that kind of lowrise fabric the main way to add density is a bunch of highrise downtown and select nodes while the rest of the urban landscape remains largely untouched. Remaking large swathes of overly low density urban fabric into just medium density is very difficult. The market incentive usually isn't there unless and instead you're forced to just switch small areas from low to high.