Great Canadian Skyline Thread II - Page 803

Martin Mtl · #**16041** Posted **Jan 28, 2021, 11:54 AM**

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Originally Posted by megadude

Are there any other building topping signs beside FARINE FIVE ROSES that prominently add to the value of a skyline photo?

The Redpath wordmark logo sign is beautiful, but it's on the side of an unremarkable sugar refinery on Lake Ontario. What is that sign was much larger and actually stuck out from the roof and was lit up at night?

There is the Molson sign, which is featured in the photo above your comment.

Martin Mtl · #**16042** Posted **Jan 28, 2021, 1:44 PM**

Above Verdun borough in south-west Montreal

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

Martin Mtl · #**16043** Posted **Jan 28, 2021, 1:52 PM**

Ottawa

https://www.instagram.com/p/CKRqySPlHt9/

scryer · #**16044** Posted **Jan 28, 2021, 2:29 PM**

Montreal's walk-up game is just un-paralleled.

HomeInMyShoes · #**16045** Posted **Jan 28, 2021, 2:36 PM**

@Martin_Mtl: I love that view in the first one.

905er · #**16046** Posted **Jan 28, 2021, 2:44 PM**

Mississauga

Currently there are 5 new towers under construction taller than the tallest tower pictured here (absolute) plus an additional 3 proposals all of which are taller than absolute.. filling the gaps in the skyline!

Coldrsx · #**16047** Posted **Jan 28, 2021, 2:54 PM**

MTL just on another level.

isaidso · #**16048** Posted **Jan 28, 2021, 5:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by 905er

Mississauga

Currently there are 5 new towers under construction taller than the tallest tower pictured here (absolute) plus an additional 3 proposals all of which are taller than absolute.. filling the gaps in the skyline!

The last time I drove to MCC it was clear that the skyline is bulking up considerably. Mississauga went through its big growth spurt 1970-2010 but its big skyline growth spurt is happening now. Give it another 10-15 years and it will develop into a significant north American cluster.

isaidso · #**16049** Posted **Jan 28, 2021, 5:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by Coldrsx

MTL just on another level.

It could do with a bulked up downtown among other things. To become a top tier global city like Paris or Singapore there's considerably more work to be done.

MolsonExport · #**16050** Posted **Jan 28, 2021, 5:43 PM**

In Canada, only Montreal has that much of that sort of built environment. It radiates in every direction from the city centre, for many kilometers. The Brooklyn of Canada.

those photos are of Verdun but they could be of cote des neiges, or NDG, or Villeray, or Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, or Rosemont, or Mile End, or Montreal Nord, or St Michel, or Ahuntsic, or LaSalle, or Parc Extension, or...

MolsonExport · #**16051** Posted **Jan 28, 2021, 5:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by isaidso

It could do with a bulked up downtown among other things. To become a top tier global city like Paris or Singapore there's considerably more work to be done.

fair enough but I seriously doubt that Paris is a global city because of its skyscrapers (la Defense). Nobody cares about Paris's skyscrapers. I've been to Paris 6 times, and have yet to visit la Defense (although I did take in the rooftop view from Tour Montparnasse, and only because my hotel room was in striking distance from the latter, and only to see the light show on the Eiffel tower).

Montreal just doesn't have the population, nor concentration of global brand headquarters, nor critical mass in one of the command levers of the global economy that would allow it to become a "top tier global city". Almost by definition there will only be a few places worthy of such a designation (NYC, Paris, London, Tokyo, for sure, and possibly 5-10 other places, but these others would probably be disputed). I am not sure that Toronto would be included in the list of "top tier global cities". Certainly not ahead of Seoul, Shanghai, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and probably not ahead of Milan, Singapore, Beijing, San Francisco and Sao Paulo. On the same level as Sydney, however. In ten or twenty years, maybe it will be in that second grouping. Montreal, as much as I would like it to be, will probably not be.

Zeej · #**16052** Posted **Jan 28, 2021, 8:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

fair enough but I seriously doubt that Paris is a global city because of its skyscrapers (la Defense). Nobody cares about Paris's skyscrapers. I've been to Paris 6 times, and have yet to visit la Defense (although I did take in the rooftop view from Tour Montparnasse, and only because my hotel room was in striking distance from the latter, and only to see the light show on the Eiffel tower).

Montreal just doesn't have the population, nor concentration of global brand headquarters, nor critical mass in one of the command levers of the global economy that would allow it to become a "top tier global city". Almost by definition there will only be a few places worthy of such a designation (NYC, Paris, London, Tokyo, for sure, and possibly 5-10 other places, but these others would probably be disputed). I am not sure that Toronto would be included in the list of "top tier global cities". Certainly not ahead of Seoul, Shanghai, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and probably not ahead of Milan, Singapore, Beijing, San Francisco and Sao Paulo. On the same level as Sydney, however. In ten or twenty years, maybe it will be in that second grouping. Montreal, as much as I would like it to be, will probably not be.

Take these rankings with a grain of salt (though they are based on some empirical data), but currently Toronto is ranked Alpha, Montreal Alpha -, Vancouver Beta +. That Alpha + group is looking pretty ironclad with the possible exception of Dubai.

https://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/world2020t.html

Rico Rommheim · #**16053** Posted **Jan 28, 2021, 11:41 PM**

Day Three: Montreal #112 by Keith Michael, on Flickr

Metro-One · #**16054** Posted **Jan 28, 2021, 11:49 PM**

I really like the sea of 3 story walk ups at street level, but from the air it looks ugly and monotonous IMO. I think the perfect grid is the problem for me, if the road network was more deranged with the odd variation in height I think it would look much better.

As is comes off almost as the world’s shortest table top.

Just my opinion. I can understand how others can love it.

csbvan · #**16055** Posted **Jan 28, 2021, 11:54 PM**

I don't disagree. I like the built form a lot from the street level, lived in it for years! But from the air, there is something a bit rigid. If these were a sea of new townhouses in the same built form, people would talk about how bland and monotonous it is. It is very North American in a sense, as a result of that street grid.

megadude · #**16056** Posted **Jan 29, 2021, 12:02 AM**

How much would the monotony of the duplicate shaped structures be interrupted if it wasn't winter and the trees were in bloom?

But ya, kind of moot since this rare aerial angle doesn't affect anything since whatever feelings this evokes is not what translates onto ground level.

GreaterMontréal · #**16057** Posted **Jan 29, 2021, 12:05 AM**

In the winter it looks a lot worse. No leaves, it's very hard to see the trees from the air.

csbvan · #**16058** Posted **Jan 29, 2021, 12:06 AM**

The trees definitely help break it up, but it is also the neighbourhoods shown. I think that there is quite a bit more variation in the buildings in Plateau/Mile-End compared to Verdun, which has a lot of identical builds.

Rico Rommheim · #**16059** Posted **Jan 29, 2021, 12:08 AM**

Day Three: Montreal #111 by Keith Michael, on Flickr

Metro-One · #**16060** Posted **Jan 29, 2021, 12:13 AM**

No doubt it looks better in the summer when the trees add some greenery.