Great Canadian Skyline Thread II - Page 717

MolsonExport · #**14321** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 12:48 PM**

oh fer fux sakes. what a shitty thread all of a sudden.

Anyways, since anything goes in this thread, my sort of eye candy...

Pavlov · #**14322** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 12:52 PM**

I'm as guilty as anyone for the derail of this thread so I apologize for that. Need to pick my battles better.

J.OT13 · #**14323** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 1:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by suburbanite

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.

Well done!

The first U.S. city is Wichita Falls, TX. The last one is Wichita, KS.

Winnipeg is quite distinctive because of Portage and Main, as you pointed out, but also the Museum for Haman Rights (which I tried avoiding). I do get mixed up with the two Saskatchewan cities at times, unless the Bessborough and/or Broadway Bridge is in the shot. I honestly thought for a moment that the London image I posted was Regina because of the somewhat similar glass twins. One London Place is the only dead ringer for London Ontario, which is why I deliberately used an image that does not include it.

For fun, I went through a bunch of images with my partner who does not follow city developments. She can only identify Ottawa, Montreal, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Quebec City (not St-Foy) and Toronto (all places we've been to, except Toronto), with some difficulty at times. She was able to identify Alberta cities, but mixed up Edmonton and Calgary.

esquire · #**14324** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 2:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by Marshal

This forum is careening into the ditch with all the nonsense. Skylines or fighting?

Please, can't we reign things in a bit.

The threads in this subforum have been at least 10% catty drama since the very beginning. It's part of the charm.

O-tacular · #**14325** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 2:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

This place is so weird. I've got to get out of here.

At least you and Molson got new avatars out of it.

stevanford1 · #**14326** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 2:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

At least you and Molson got new avatars out of it.

stevanford1 · #**14327** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 2:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by lio45

It's cute that you think "being a century old" suffices in and of itself to render any building automatically interesting. Maybe that's true on the Prairies...

I've actually demolished a building that was over a century old... and don't even feel that bad. (It was far from the oldest or nicest in this downtown.)

For another example, my hometown acquired through eminent domain then razed a few buildings that were a century old, a few months ago. They were utilitarian buildings built after WWI to lodge factory workers in a semi-industrial inner city neighborhood, and they were no great loss architecturally.

So, yep, I'm an architecture enthusiast. I should know what I am, it's me that we're talking about.

Them being pretty is no matter, those buildings have historic value, a link to our past if you will. Raising them removes that link.

O-tacular · #**14328** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 2:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by Pavlov

I'm as guilty as anyone for the derail of this thread so I apologize for that. Need to pick my battles better.

Same. I genuinely did nor care about the anonymous skyline angle argument but then after pages of derailment the pompousness of He Who Drinks Coffee With His Feet got to me.

Hackslack · #**14329** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 2:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

oh fer fux sakes. what a shitty thread all of a sudden.

Anyways, since anything goes in this thread, my sort of eye candy...

Bahah.... I actually googled what Solar Gard is and visited the website

stevanford1 · #**14330** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 2:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by Hackslack

Bahah.... I actually googled what Solar Gard is and visited the website

Any more eye candy

?

Coldrsx · #**14331** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 2:33 PM**

https://twitter.com/RuthBlakely/status/1306583612234461184

logan5 · #**14332** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 2:34 PM**

How does a person have so much time to troll all day and all night, when they supposedly have a project going in Vancouver that is so large that it requires the hiring of hundreds of people? It doesn’t add up.

Pavlov · #**14333** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 2:35 PM**

Great photo of Edmonton. One of the best we've seen in this thread, I think.

Hackslack · #**14334** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 2:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by stevanford1

Any more eye candy

?

No, but if there was outside your window, Solar Gard provides 99% UV protection, and reduces glare up to 95%.

TorontoDrew · #**14335** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 2:45 PM**

Toronto by udo schuklenk, on Flickr

Beach Days by A Great Capture, on Flickr

Spot the Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster)! by Gavin Edmondstone, on Flickr

Toronto Union Station & CN Tower by udo schuklenk, on Flickr

TKY029 by Nicholas Ruddick, on Flickr

Toronto Morning. by Paulo Osorio, on Flickr

esquire · #**14336** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 2:50 PM**

Nice shots. I still can't believe how much the area between Union Station and the lakefront has grown up. Also, what is that apparatus in the lake in the third pic?

suburbanite · #**14337** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 2:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

Nice shots. I still can't believe how much the area between Union Station and the lakefront has grown up. Also, what is that apparatus in the lake in the third pic?

It's a platform used to study waves. I think it feeds data back to the nearby Water Institute in Hamilton Harbour and they study the relationship between wind speeds and subsequent size of waves on the Lake.

esquire · #**14338** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 3:01 PM**

^ Interesting...thank you!

suburbanite · #**14339** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 3:09 PM**

When most people see these platforms their first reaction is "Are they drilling for oil in Lake Ontario?"

There's recently been another one that I've seen from my balcony off of Woodbine Beach. It generated a bit of buzz online as well with some people immediately outraged that they're looking for black gold near Downtown Toronto.

A quick google search tells you its a jack up barge being used for the construction of a new higher capacity outflow pipe for the Ashbridges Bay water treatment facility.

O-tacular · #**14340** Posted **Sep 17, 2020, 3:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by stevanford1

Them being pretty is no matter, those buildings have historic value, a link to our past if you will. Raising them removes that link.

Exactly!