Great Canadian Skyline Thread II

[lio45]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

The problem with that is I've never been a fool on here. Unlike Lio, when I have said something uneducated about a city/place in the past and was then presented correct information, I apologized and amended my views accordingly.

But that's the opposite of what actually happened. I was correct, you were wrong. I even had to use Google Streetview to prove that I was right, such was your bad faith. (The resulting "wooden shack" at 68 6A Street Northeast even became a Minor SSP Running Joke.)

[logan5]

Originally Posted by lio45

But that's the opposite of what actually happened. I was correct, you were wrong. I even had to use Google Streetview to prove that I was right, such was your bad faith. (The resulting "wooden shack" at 68 6A Street Northeast even became a Minor SSP Running Joke.)

When you taunt and antagonize someone who you know has certain personal challenges in their life, you are guilty of abuse and bullying. Don’t you have this “project” you should be looking after?

[MattBerryOfficial]

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[lio45]

Originally Posted by logan5

When you taunt and antagonize someone who you know has certain personal challenges in their life, you are guilty of abuse and bullying. Don’t you have this “project” you should be looking after?

I had important office work to do today, which always means SSP open in one of the browser windows, unfortunately for my productivity.

(Sometimes you won't see me here at all during days - that means I'm actually busier than average.)

I'm all for cutting slack to people who have certain personal challenges (for example, I've always been kinder than most forumers to LakeLocker, who is autistic). But there are limits to this. If LakeLocker calls me an idiot, or insists that 2+2=5, I reserve the right to do something other than "just immediately give up and agree with him in order to not upset him, poor little thing".

When you enter the playground that is this forum, you have to expect a certain amount of reaction to your posts. Don't dish it out if you can't take it.

[ue]

Jesus Christ you are all very annoying

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by logan5

When you taunt and antagonize someone who you know has certain personal challenges in their life, you are guilty of abuse and bullying. Don’t you have this “project” you should be looking after?

He’s a bully and a troll who gets off upsetting people. When it comes to track records of forumers contributing content (photos, project updates, knowledge of ongoing development) Chad actually contributes those things whereas lio gaslights and incites arguments.

FTR though I would never lump Molson Ex in with Lie-O, Chad. He’s made some jokes before which I understand upset you, but they couldn’t be further apart.

[Chadillaccc]

Thanks for that incite, OTac, I'll keep that in mind.


Now, for my favourite view. Fly-fishing, paddle boarding, kayaking, and tubing at sunset in September in the downtown core of a major city. I think Martin MTL used the word "bucolic" before for a similar daytime view. I love it.


A mid-September Adventure by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

[esquire]

^ Gorgeous view… you guys have been getting some exceptionally amazing sunsets lately.

Sidenote, I like how the colourful alt hotel logo was integrated into their building.

Lastly, I am a little jealous over your usable downtown river.

[Martin Mtl]

/\ Gorgeous shot indeed!

Speaking of Calgary, I saw this Instagram shot today which I think is a very interesting angle.


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

[someone123]

Halifax Harbour shots featuring departing navy ships:





Source

[lio45]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

He’s a bully and a troll who gets off upsetting people.

That's not true at all. A troll wants drama. I would say it's you and Chad who are the trolls in these conversations. I merely pointed out observable facts that could be discussed without escalation/drama. Other Western forumers agreed (without causing a shitstorm) that Calgary was essentially a boomtown, hence the striking and unusual and exotic contrast from the massive CBD to the other side of the Bow river.

I'm sorry, but I don't like being called an idiot, nor a troll. (That's the only reason we're still discussing this.) And I could definitely have done without all the drama you two generated.

Chad contributes more Calgary pictures, but I would point out I contribute a bunch of stuff too (more than him, in several categories). Opinions, discussions, etc. (Also, I did contribute updates for my hometown for years, but that stopped when our hometown community moved to another forum.)

[lio45]

Originally Posted by esquire

Lastly, I am a little jealous over your usable downtown river.

Probably the cleanest water to run through the downtown of a 1.5M+ city on the entire continent, judging by earlier daytime pics.

[Chadillaccc]

Halifax's dense historic bones gives me a dense bone Jesus those shots are fantastic. Have we launched the new HMCS Protecteur already? Or is that just the MV Asterix we're leasing?
Edit: it's still the damn Asterix. How the hell can the navy of an advanced middle power nation not have a combat-capable joint support ship?


Nice find Martin, that shot is a beaut! Definitely new too since Arris East is topped out in centre midground.

[lio45]

You see dense historic bones in the pic above? Sincere question. It's the opposite for me - it's almost all postwar stuff that's visible.

Halifax's actual historic bones (or what's left of them) are best seen at the street level, seems to me.

And yep, that ship to the right (the one that has weird-ish proportions) is the Asterix. (I got to see it being retrofitted at the Davie, a few years ago.)

[J.OT13]

Ottawa skyline from Vanier Parkway. This must be about 2-3 years ago.


https://twitter.com/LepineApartment/status/1160881560704434177

Part of Ottawa's skyline, east of the Rideau River. Not quite as dense as the west end.


https://twitter.com/LepineApartment/status/1108336687489433600

[someone123]

Originally Posted by lio45

Halifax's actual historic bones (or what's left of them) are best seen at the street level, seems to me.

It is true that bigger modern stuff shows up more in these pictures (and a bunch of postwar buildings have historic podiums, so they are a modern tower in a skyline shot but masonry at street level) but I think the older street network which is made up of relatively small blocks and narrow streets has an impact too. There are even some taller modern construction projects that have the width of 1 original lot. Nobody would use the same proportions in a modern greenfield development and those constraints are kind of interesting.

They're not without their drawbacks too e.g. few to no alleys in older parts of town. And it should be said that a lot of street network quirks in Halifax were systematically removed after WWII; weirdly shaped old buildings had an abnormally high fatality rate.

[rousseau]

Originally Posted by J.OT13

Ottawa skyline from Vanier Parkway. This must be about 2-3 years ago.


https://twitter.com/LepineApartment/status/1160881560704434177

Look at all those shacks. Tsk tsk...

[J.OT13]

Originally Posted by rousseau

Look at all those shacks. Tsk tsk...

East of the Rideau, there's a good mix of "shacks" and mid-century brick bungalows. Those types of houses are going way over asking these days, and many being replaced by infill condos and apartments.

[PortaPetee]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Halifax's dense historic bones gives me a dense bone

Why hello *bats lashes*

The downtown does look good and dense due to the tight old grid and narrow streets. It's getting modern and built up but it still feels pretty human scale and old at the street level.

[someone123]

Originally Posted by PortaPetee

The downtown does look good and dense dense due to the tight old grid and narrow streets. It's getting modern and built up but it still feels pretty human scale and old at the street level.

One thing I notice is that empty lots seem worse at street level in Halifax than they do in some other styles of city where there are lots of big monumental buildings with spaces around them, or where the streets are so wide there's always a roomy feeling everywhere. There is something jarring about having small blocks and streetwalls with the odd completely out of scale hole. One consequence of this is that I think some specific developments coming down the pipeline will have a big impact, e.g. Press Block.

It's a city with a lot of diffuse medium scale development, not one where you have specific grandiose views or a specific main intersection or commercial street. Downtown does not even have the tallest buildings and in a few years it might have 0 in the top 5. To me the stuff that makes Halifax feel like a bigger city is e.g. the rowhouses and midrises in the Hydrostone a few km outside of downtown or even the commercial development happening around Dutch Village Road which would be 100% suburban in most smaller North American cities. There are not many Canadian cities that have Quinpool Road or downtown Dartmouth type neighbourhoods.