Great Canadian Skyline Thread II - Page 812

MonkeyRonin · #**16221** Posted **Feb 10, 2021, 9:22 PM**

Sunset and Dusk in Toronto II by Jack Landau, on Flickr

Bathurst & St Clair by Jack Landau, on Flickr

Martin Mtl · #**16222** Posted **Feb 10, 2021, 10:11 PM**

/\ That first pic is gorgeous! The financial district skyline still rules when it is featured in a pic.

Prometheus · #**16223** Posted **Feb 11, 2021, 12:53 AM**

West Vancouver (foreground):

Source:https://www.flickr.com/photos/garryjohns/50466193738/sizes/k/

isaidso · #**16224** Posted **Feb 11, 2021, 12:57 AM**

The 2nd Toronto photo is interesting in that it shows how the intensification of Toronto's arterial roads are changing the city. Those low rise residential neighbourhoods just south of St. Clair now feel central rather than the beginning of the periphery.

FrAnKs · #**16225** Posted **Feb 11, 2021, 1:01 AM**

LOVE this one!

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Chadillaccc · #**16226** Posted **Feb 11, 2021, 1:30 AM**

That first Toronto shot, and the Downtown Vancouver/West Vancouver pic are both exceptional. Yowza!

Here's a nice one taken from The Guardians on Reddit. This view is fabulous. I hope whatever gets built on the former Marriott Club Sport site (foreground) is fairly low-rise to preserve this beautiful view from The Guardians.

https://www.reddit.com/user/hmack87/

davee930 · #**16227** Posted **Feb 11, 2021, 3:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

That first Toronto shot, and the Downtown Vancouver/West Vancouver pic are both exceptional. Yowza!

Here's a nice one taken from The Guardians on Reddit. This view is fabulous. I hope whatever gets built on the former Marriott Club Sport site (foreground) is fairly low-rise to preserve this beautiful view from The Guardians.

https://www.reddit.com/user/hmack87/

Wow yeah! I love the warehouses in the foreground. It looks like a rendering

Chadillaccc · #**16228** Posted **Feb 11, 2021, 4:04 AM**

Yeah, about half of the buildings on the block between 10 and 11 Avenues for the 12 blocks from 4 Street SE to 8 Street SW are the surviving old railway warehouses. A good amount on the blocks between 11 and 12 Aves as well. One day they'll be a great opportunity for eclectic residential conversion. Presently only about a dozen or less are residential.

davee930 · #**16229** Posted **Feb 11, 2021, 4:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Yeah, about half of the buildings on the block between 10 and 11 Avenues for the 12 blocks from 4 Street SE to 8 Street SW are the surviving old railway warehouses. A good amount on the blocks between 11 and 12 Aves as well. One day they'll be a great opportunity for eclectic residential conversion. Presently only about a dozen or less are residential.

Yeah I just wish there were more. And taller. When I went to Chicago for the first time in 2008, I couldn't believe all the warehouse conversions with balconies attached.

Chadillaccc · #**16230** Posted **Feb 11, 2021, 4:24 AM**

Yeah, the tallest surviving warehouses we have are just one 8 storey and one 6 storey. The rest are just 2 to 5 storeys. Obviously we have a decent amount of surviving historic buildings taller than that (Palliser, Grain Exchange, Public Building, The Barron, Lancaster Building, etc all over 30 meters), just no warehouses over 30 m (100 ft) unfortunately. Still would make for a pretty cool public realm if they all got converted with excellent ground-level treatment one day.

davee930 · #**16231** Posted **Feb 11, 2021, 4:27 AM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Yeah, the tallest surviving warehouses we have are just one 8 storey and one 6 storey. The rest are just 2 to 5 storeys. Obviously we have a decent amount of surviving historic buildings taller than that (Palliser, Grain Exchange, Public Building, The Barron, Lancaster Building, etc all over 30 meters), just no warehouses over 30 m (100 ft) unfortunately. Still would make for a pretty cool public realm if they all got converted with excellent ground-level treatment one day.

I just wish I could go back in time to see all the old buildings in downtown Calgary before they were destroyed. Think of Stephen ave but everywhere.

Chadillaccc · #**16232** Posted **Feb 11, 2021, 5:19 AM**

Same man. The Herald Building, Southam Tower, CP Station, the Burns Mansion, Burns Block, the Bijou, St. George's Bandstand, the Hotel York, Department of Natural Resources Building, Beveridge Block, Wales Hotel, The Central Market (very similar to St. Lawrence Market).

Something not many people know is that Exhibition Park (now Stampede Park) had buildings very similar to those at Toronto's Exhibition Place.

The worst part is, virtually every building listed in this post was replaced by some soulless 70s/80s office insular office nightmare. Or even worse, today's Stampede Park.

Denscity · #**16233** Posted **Feb 11, 2021, 8:10 AM**

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It could be bigger. I was just there last summer and went to Privato (winery) and Woodward Cidery before they closed. It was an excellent experience very comparable to my experiences in Kelowna. It has lots of potential to grow.

Overall, Kamloops really impressed me. Lots of soul in that city when I was expecting there to be hardly any. The Riverside park with its walking paths, Peterson Creek Park, and its charming downtown were really impressive to me. I can't say enough good things about Kamloops the one time I visited

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Nice that's awesome.
Ya I like Kamloops and find it a refreshing alternative to Kelowna.
About 4.5 hrs from here.

J.OT13 · #**16234** Posted **Feb 11, 2021, 2:33 PM**

Dow's Lake Skyline. Tower crane is for SoHo Italia, a 30 storey apartment building. Eight more towers (9 to 30 floors) have been proposed and are expected to be completed within 10 years, with another five or so (12 to 55 floors) proposed, but on hold.

https://twitter.com/Ed_Photographer/status/1359524594932215811

J.OT13 · #**16235** Posted **Feb 11, 2021, 3:37 PM**

https://twitter.com/LeDroitca/status/1359506794247192577

Coldrsx · #**16236** Posted **Feb 11, 2021, 3:39 PM**

https://www.linkedin.com/company/westrich-pacific/posts/?feedView=all

esquire · #**16237** Posted **Feb 11, 2021, 3:54 PM**

^ Cool pic of Edmonton. A nice side of density in the foreground to go along with the skyline.

Prairiedawg · #**16238** Posted **Feb 11, 2021, 7:26 PM**

Edmonton has not only broke it's glass ceiling since Centre Airport closed but really upped it's density, great to see.

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Originally Posted by isaidso

And it's not a question of whether Regina has buildings as tall as one sees in Halifax. It's a question of when metros start to build that way. Both Regina and Halifax started building vertically when they breached 200,000 people.

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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

Regina had many tall buildings before 200,000. Regina didn't reach 200,000 until around 2014, only one building of any height is newer than 2013. Most of downtown was built prior to 180,000. Government town and some family named Hill created the circumstances for Regina's tall buildings.

Wiki has a good listing of timeline of cities highrise development.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Regina,_Saskatchewan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Halifax,_Nova_Scotia

Interesting, Halifax looks to have rose past it's 20 story office building glass ceiling in the early 1970's when the city was around the 250,000 population.

Regina did the same in the late 1970's when it was about 150,000.

rousseau · #**16239** Posted **Feb 11, 2021, 7:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

Sunset and Dusk in Toronto II by Jack Landau, on Flickr

Skyscrapers everywhere! And not a beautiful one to see. From this angle Toronto looks like a mishmash of the nondescript verging on the garishly ugly. Really hard on the eyes.

Yet another outcome of missing out on the growth that northeastern cities saw in the 19th century up to the Second World War, I guess. Thankfully there are better angles of the city than this one.

kool maudit · #**16240** Posted **Feb 11, 2021, 7:56 PM**

Oh no. You're right and I can't unsee it. A little chunk of Midtown Manhattan, as drawn by a five-year-old or rendered by an ancient computer.

It is... undetailed, somehow. But we all have our funny angles.