Great Canadian Skyline Thread II - Page 715

Chadillaccc · #**14281** Posted **Sep 16, 2020, 10:05 PM**

I present you the fabulous Milan, capital of Lombardy!

Another mid-September Adventure by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

lio45 · #**14282** Posted **Sep 16, 2020, 10:15 PM**

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I present you the fabulous Milan, capital of Lombardy!

Looks bigger than Paris* and London** combined!

*Ontario.

**Ontario.

Chadillaccc · #**14283** Posted **Sep 16, 2020, 10:17 PM**

Bigger than Montreal* even!

*Quebec.

lio45 · #**14284** Posted **Sep 16, 2020, 10:19 PM**

Depends by which metric. By most of them, it's not.

lio45 · #**14285** Posted **Sep 16, 2020, 10:20 PM**

(In other words, if you wished to challenge me to provide Montreal pics where Montreal looks like a bigger city than what's been shown in your post, it would not take much of my time to meet that challenge.)

Chadillaccc · #**14286** Posted **Sep 16, 2020, 10:21 PM**

But by some, including number of skyscrapers over 100m and height of the 5 tallest towers, it is. Thankfully this discussion is happening in a skyline thread

lio45 · #**14287** Posted **Sep 16, 2020, 10:23 PM**

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But by some, including number of skyscrapers over 100m and general height of towers, it is.

And, surprising as it may be to some, having this pointed out to me does not ruin my day at all

Chadillaccc · #**14288** Posted **Sep 16, 2020, 10:25 PM**

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And, surprising as it may be to some, having this pointed out to me does not ruin my day at all

Good to see a post where you're not trolling or grasping at straws to make a futile argument. You might be close to taking the training wheels off your bike. It's nice to see lil biscuit growing up.

J.OT13 · #**14289** Posted **Sep 16, 2020, 10:37 PM**

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To follow up on my example from earlier, I would be interested if anyone (really just out of sheer curiosity) would take the time to submit a skyline pic of one of the following four: Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, London (Ontario). Make it as tricky as you can. I'll try to see if I can guess which one it is, without cheating, and without having any reference point

(well, I just saw Cal/Edm pics, but that's not really that helpful, since any of these four will be quite a bit smaller.)

For the sake of this experiment, I'm not providing references. Sorry moderators. Trying to post the most generic pics (fewest landmarks possible) for each.

Throwing in random cities to throw people off.

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lio45 · #**14290** Posted **Sep 16, 2020, 10:44 PM**

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Good to see a post where you're not trolling or grasping at straws to make a futile argument. You might be close to taking the training wheels off your bike. It's nice to see lil biscuit growing up.

You know as well as I do that I'm always right when we're having those conversations. The one thing that's different now that you grew up a bit, is that I'm not on your ignore list anymore. (I'd have said that's progress, but now I'm not even sure anymore. I find the conversations totally unproductive. As drizzo_613 said last page, it's surprising this is even a debate - Calgary from the angles where none of the typical landmarks are visible can easily be confused with the other Albertan city. Yet you refuse to admit that, despite having pretty much admitted it in a post that you then deleted (I was about to reply pointing out that I wondered why we were even having a disagreement, since you agreed that from some angles Calgary can be confused with Edmonton.)

Hackslack · #**14291** Posted **Sep 16, 2020, 11:00 PM**

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You know as well as I do that I'm always right when we're having those conversations. The one thing that's different now that you grew up a bit, is that I'm not on your ignore list anymore. (I'd have said that's progress, but now I'm not even sure anymore. I find the conversations totally unproductive. As drizzo_613 said last page, it's surprising this is even a debate - Calgary from the angles where none of the typical landmarks are visible can easily be confused with the other Albertan city. Yet you refuse to admit that, despite having pretty much admitted it in a post that you then deleted (I was about to reply pointing out that I wondered why we were even having a disagreement, since you agreed that from some angles Calgary can be confused with Edmonton.)

That can be said for any city, in general, in my opinion. It's not just specific to the 2 Alberta cities. The 2 Alberta cities, without the standout landmarks visible, can, at first glance, be mistaken for other large metropolitans

Nouvellecosse · #**14292** Posted **Sep 16, 2020, 11:17 PM**

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Man im bad at this. Quebec city I assume. But could pass for Halifax. I'm probably way off.

NO THEY COULDN'T! How dare you. This post was so traumatic for me.

As lovely as both cities are, neither of their skylines bear any resemblance to Halifax. Well, maybe Dartmouth.

I feel like SHH after someone mistakes a picture of Halifax for St. John's.

someone123 · #**14293** Posted **Sep 16, 2020, 11:34 PM**

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NO THEY COULDN'T! How dare you. This post was so traumatic for me.

This is a tangent but the Quebec City view is kind of like the views around the bridges in Halifax. And both areas are a growing "uptown" although the Quebec City version is what you'd get if the Young Street were farther north on a bigger peninsula and the 50's malls were built there.

In Halifax you could also get a metal tower in the frame for the high tension lines crossing the water from a different angle.

(I think whether these seem the same or not are 100% dependent on the knowledge of the viewer. If you know what the buildings or geography are they look different, and if you don't they look the indistinguishable. Also interesting to note that many older or smaller buildings are more distinct from the highrises which are mostly not building in a style that is strongly associated with a place.)

Source

That shot of Saint John reminds me a lot of a small American city with the one dominant office tower, lack of residential highrises, and the highways. It is like a blend of Nova Scotia and New England, which makes perfect sense geographically.

suburbanite · #**14294** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 12:15 AM**

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For the sake of this experiment, I'm not providing references. Sorry moderators. Trying to post the most generic pics (fewest landmarks possible) for each.

Throwing in random cities to throw people off.

Funny enough, we talk about new twin tower developments being generic and uninspiring, and I agree, but the first thing that I'm drawn to differentiate every Canadian city there is each of their paired office towers. Saskatoon with the ones by the water and the Scotia Centre, Hill Centre in Regina, and Talbot Centre in London. Winnipeg has Portage and Main which is iconic enough in its own right.

The Americans ones are completely generic though. I found Lincoln, Nebraska after 10 minutes because I remember seeing the blue alien-looking antenna thing in a photo thread. It's right next to the Capitol which is the only distinct building in the city and not shown here.

I love guessing skylines though. The first American one before Lincoln is definitely in the South/Southwest. The beige and white buildings, and the colour of the landscape in the distance scream Texas or Oklahoma.

The last one I have no idea unless I spend some time looking for that angled white building. The foliage and the historic building on the left say more East Coast to me, but the smaller scale of the prewar structures compared to the 60s-80's office towers leans towards Midwest frontier town. I'm also pretty comfortable naming any skyline of this size on the East Coast, so when I see one that I can't recognize I immediately think flyover country somewhere between Chicago and California.

MolsonExport · #**14295** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 12:31 AM**

St. John NB and St. Foy. Dead Ringers.

MolsonExport · #**14296** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 12:33 AM**

No biscuit selfies?

Nouvellecosse · #**14297** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 12:35 AM**

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This is a tangent but the Quebec City view is kind of like the views around the bridges in Halifax. And both areas are a growing "uptown" although the Quebec City version is what you'd get if the Young Street were farther north on a bigger peninsula and the 50's malls were built there.

I know, but people in the earlier discussion argued that it can be hard to tell cities apart if you can't see their recognizable landmarks, and from that perspective both the bridges in Halifax (two of the cities major landmarks) are so different from the Pierre-Laporte (Canada's longest suspension bridge). I mean, ours are not only a completely different colour (green with orange cables vs white) , but are both narrower and have diagonal cross bracing in the towers whereas the PL bridge towers are basically big arches. Yes if you don't know anything about a topic it's possible to draw associations based on the crudest most superficial similarities (like, "is a suspension bridge"), but really...

Pavlov · #**14298** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 12:43 AM**

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i know, but people in the earlier discussion argued that it can be hard to tell cities apart if you can't see their recognizable landmarks, and from that perspective both the bridges in halifax (two of the cities major landmarks) are so different from the pierre-laporte (canada's longest suspension bridge). I mean, ours are not only a completely different colour (green with orange cables vs white) , but are both narrower and have diagonal cross bracing in the towers whereas the pl bridge towers are basically big arches. Yes if you don't know anything about a topic it's possible to draw associations based on the crudest most superficial similarities (like, "is a suspension bridge"), but really...

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