Great Canadian Skyline Thread II

[ue]

Nice Kelowna shots above... good to see its skyline developing.

Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

https://www.instagram.com/p/CESc3GQHmsX/


https://www.instagram.com/p/CEScoiYn5WN/

These are beautiful, but the more I look at Montreal's core skyline (PVM, Gauchetiere, 1250 Rene Leveseque, Tour CIBC, etc) the more the buildings look shorter than when I first laid eyes on them. From this view, there is a nice layering between the commercial core, the apartments of Golden Square Mile, and the leafy homes on the slope of Mount Royal. But I can't help but feel like that commercial core would've been better if, say PVM was like the height of the Bow or Stantec. I think that now that the Griffintown condos have proliferated, its really causing a tabletop effect for Montreal's skyline.

[Martin Mtl]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CESv7_eHi9K/


https://www.instagram.com/p/CERmU3VAEzm/


https://www.instagram.com/p/CERLwpFHf27/

[WhipperSnapper]

It's weird to me how towers are literally taller or shorter depending on your standing. I guess its more common than the flat pancake that is downtown Toronto.

Love those vibrant green shots.

[Chadillaccc]

Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

A biscuit is a cute, sweet, or pretty girl (think cookie.)

Calling a guy (probably a guy because this is skyscraperpage) a biscuit is pretty much equivalent to calling them a dumb blonde. I expect better out of forumers, but the quality of posting has gone way down hill the last while.

Nah it's just a nicer way of calling him a dumb b*tch (obviously in a gender neutral sense, same way as I, many others, and Australians use the word c*nt) after the years of nonsense he's tried to screw me around with. Beyond justified, especially when he posts shit he has no clue about (the post I was responding to).

Originally Posted by J.OT13

I don't have a source. It was based on a quick Google Streetview tour of a few neighborhoods around downtown Calgary. The architectural style is different from what I know in Quebec and Ontario so I can't be sure, but a few areas seemed to be early post-WWII in Calgary.

The City of Ottawa has a website called geoOttawa. On the website, you can see zoning, parks, public facilities, current and future transit lines... But the coolest part are the satellite images that go all the way back to 1928, so we can see the development of Ottawa and Gatineau over close to 100 years.

Does any other city have this type of website?

Lol that would be because the building materials used early on out here (wood) are much different than the materials used out there (stone). Just because a house is a wooden bungalow doesn't mean it's post-war. If it is anywhere in the inner city of Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Regina, and even Vancouver, it means it was built a century or more ago when all of these cities were considered part of the frontier, especially the Prairie cities sans Winnipeg. The explosive population growth early on meant that houses need to be thrown up fast. This is why in a lot of early photos of Calgary (1880s/90s), half the city lived in tents because they couldn't build the houses fast enough. Cheap, quick materials.

[Coldrsx]

https://twitter.com/ITCatherine/status/1298308693910462466

[shappy]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

I wonder what street that most resembles that is distance wise from FCP in Toronto. Once the One goes up It will be easy to walk to aside street like that kind of.

I think this is the worst one. Steps from Yonge street.

https://goo.gl/maps/LTBjQXThjHimexw37

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Nah it's just a nicer way of calling him a dumb b*tch (obviously in a gender neutral sense, same way as I, many others, and Australians use the word c*nt) after the years of nonsense he's tried to screw me around with. Beyond justified, especially when he posts shit he has no clue about (the post I was responding to).

I'll back you up. He has been a homer with an eye on belittling Calgary at every opportunity. There's nothing that hasn't been covered many, many times in regards to wood sided houses in close proximity to the Calgary CBD This is just another poke under false pretenses.

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by shappy

I think this is the worst one. Steps from Yonge street.

https://goo.gl/maps/LTBjQXThjHimexw37

More suited for Scarborough, North York or, Etobicoke. I would still hate for this to be redevelop into 2020 era towers.

[Martin Mtl]

Originally Posted by shappy

I think this is the worst one. Steps from Yonge street.

https://goo.gl/maps/LTBjQXThjHimexw37

I wonder what was there before; the rest of the street has beautiful old houses.

[Coldrsx]

Mine

[Black Star]

Mmmmm...thats an angle you don't see everyday. Nice.

[TorontoDrew]

Originally Posted by shappy

I think this is the worst one. Steps from Yonge street.

https://goo.gl/maps/LTBjQXThjHimexw37

Nice little street. If those are privately owned I think that street is safe. At least that section of it.

[Wpg_Guy]

[Sonog]

https://www.instagram.com/jefrosonic/

[Monolith]

Vancouver Sunset and Crane by Lee Rosenbaum, on Flickr


Vancouver Sunrise on Terminal Avenue by Lee Rosenbaum, on Flickr

[Masoliantekw]

Québec


@steven.davignon, sur Instagram

[HomeInMyShoes]

Possibly the greatest ten square blocks in North America.

[MolsonExport]

Quebec City is a bit like Margot Robbie. No matter how good looking the other girls (cities) look, they become dogs when she (QC) enters the room.


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[kool maudit]

We talked about this a little bit in the tourism thread, but the thing about Quebec is that it marries European city form with American scale. The Saint-Lawrence is just a beast, the valley vistas are enormous. Some say that in Europe, QC would be unremarkable, but it isn't true. Like the over-heavy blocks of Buenos Aires, the QC vista is totally outscaled, totally New World.

[kool maudit]

You can just sort of feel how the hills mean other languages, other guys, other cities.

Whereas QC edges onto eternity.