Great Canadian Skyline Thread II - Page 781

TorontoDrew · #**15601** Posted **Dec 2, 2020, 1:04 AM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Empress Flora I by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

Cute puppy Chad.

BariasEC · #**15602** Posted **Dec 2, 2020, 3:33 AM**

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Originally Posted by 🌳🌱🌿🌴🍁

Agreed, nice angle of Telus Sky and the relationship/interaction of the three buildings.

Aerial photo of Winnipeg below is credited to Tracey Goncalves, published in Western Living Magazine a few years ago. At least this building is too big to demolish, unlike a beautiful old mansion just razed there.

Stunning! Shows an often missed part of Winnipeg’s skyline.

craner · #**15603** Posted **Dec 2, 2020, 4:18 AM**

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Originally Posted by Razor

I stumbled on this, so I thought I would post it here..It's basically highlighting Toronto's skyline throughout the decades.

https://www.blogto.com/city/2014/09/a_bi...e7559ydFK6Q1a-bXjfgEXKwZ2fLr456uT_1GiSsY

I love chronologies like this - thanks for posting.

Metro-One · #**15604** Posted **Dec 2, 2020, 5:29 AM**

A couple great shots showing how much more dramatic the west end / False Creek portion of the Vancouver skyline has become.

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Originally Posted by vanman

My pics from Jericho Beach today.

MolsonExport · #**15605** Posted **Dec 2, 2020, 2:40 PM**

glad to see the tabletop gone

Chadillaccc · #**15606** Posted **Dec 2, 2020, 4:54 PM**

Chinook Panorama by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

The Watchful Eye by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

Rideau Cliffs Skyline by Chadillaccc, on Flickr

Pavlov · #**15607** Posted **Dec 2, 2020, 4:55 PM**

^ Outstanding (especially the last skyline shot - probably the best recent Calgary skyline photos I've seen).

Coldrsx · #**15608** Posted **Dec 2, 2020, 7:03 PM**

https://twitter.com/ExploreEdmonton/status/1333967421091106816
@danschyk

Martin Mtl · #**15609** Posted **Dec 2, 2020, 8:31 PM**

/\ nice pic. There’s something about northern skylline.

WhipperSnapper · #**15610** Posted **Dec 2, 2020, 11:52 PM**

Wow. Some of the best pages ever!

🌳🌱🌿🌴🍁 · #**15611** Posted **Dec 3, 2020, 11:29 AM**

Undoubtedly posted before but this is an interesting shot of Calgary for those who hadn't seen it yet...

– AceYYC https://commons.wikimedia.org

Brizzy82 · #**15612** Posted **Dec 3, 2020, 8:02 PM**

Winnipeg

source

J.OT13 · #**15613** Posted **Dec 3, 2020, 8:15 PM**

Love that last shot of Winnipeg. Looks far larger than it's actual population. Great layering with various building heights and time periods.

905er · #**15614** Posted **Dec 3, 2020, 11:10 PM**

gorgeous Winnipeg shots. beauties!!

Martin Mtl · #**15615** Posted **Dec 4, 2020, 2:20 AM**

Montreal from the South Shore with the illuminated Samuel-de-Champlain bridge.

https://instagram.fymy1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/...1d0a02e42b44f9ab970ee94c0cfc&oe=5FF20396

Monolith · #**15616** Posted **Dec 4, 2020, 4:54 AM**

Downtown at Sunset by Rick Deacon, on Flickr

esquire · #**15617** Posted **Dec 4, 2020, 1:43 PM**

Nice west coast glam going on there...

SkahHigh · #**15618** Posted **Dec 4, 2020, 3:09 PM**

Great shot.

I gotta say, One Wall Centre looks cheap from that angle IMO.

TorontoDrew · #**15619** Posted **Dec 4, 2020, 3:49 PM**

Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada by 9Block Productions, on Flickr

J.OT13 · #**15620** Posted **Dec 4, 2020, 4:40 PM**

Some observations on the Skylines of the Past thread that could be relevant in the general skyline thread.

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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The TO skyline of the late 60's -late 70's
is my personal favourite TO skyline. Those big boxy bank towers, the still observable pre-war stock of beaux-art and art deco skyscrapers and the eventual CN tower. Maybe it wasn't ideal at street-level, but from a purely aesthetic seen-from-afar POV its perfect.

The TO skyline today is one of the biggest in the world, but it just doesn't do it for me.

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Originally Posted by J.OT13

That's one thing that's great with Montreal. Many of its pre-war towers are at the foreground of the skyline near the St-Laurent, in Le Vieux, with the mid-century and modern towers in the background. Winnipeg (with the Exchange) and Ottawa (Parliamentary Precinct) are similar.

Edmonton (Legislator and Hotel Mcdonald) and Vancouver (Gastown) have a few pre-war buildings still visible, but not quite as prominently as the aforementioned.

In Toronto, every single one of its classical towers are hidden behind countless glass condo towers, even the Royal York at this point. Calgary is the same.

Quebec City is in a class of its own, with the vast majority of the city dating back to the the 1600s-early 1900s. Only a handful of mid-century and modern towers are visible, but still enough to make a good impact.

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Originally Posted by niwell

While Toronto does have a surprising number of pre-war towers downtown, they are largely hidden from view except at street level. And we could have had a lot more. Unlike Montreal (and many other cities), the heart of Toronto's CBD never really shifted from the existing focal point of King/Bayish and many of the existing bank towers replaced former bank or other buildings. Some of which were quite opulent in their own right - just look at the remains in Guild Park.

I always wonder what Toronto would look like if the modern CBD would have been built adjacent to the old. That being said, the intense concentration of bank towers is quite unique.