Great Canadian Skyline Thread II - Page 954

Coldrsx · #**19061** Posted **Feb 9, 2022, 4:39 PM**

https://twitter.com/leroyschulz/status/1491274910240735237

Martin Mtl · #**19062** Posted **Feb 9, 2022, 5:57 PM**

Photo: https://www.instagram.com/photography.freed/

Rico Rommheim · #**19063** Posted **Feb 9, 2022, 6:06 PM**

Great photos, the last one in particular is one of the best skyline shots of downtown I've seen in a while.

I love the progression from old colonial urban to 21st century urban.

O-tacular · #**19064** Posted **Feb 9, 2022, 6:13 PM**

I like Montreal's many buildings with courtyards in that first shot. Feels very European and is rare in our cities.

Vin · #**19065** Posted **Feb 9, 2022, 8:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

I mostly agree, but lately I've reversed my opinion on that and I've come to accept those towers as part of the city's natural evolution.

What would Qc look like without them though is a great question. Pardon my lack of Photoshop skills, but something like that:

photoshop test_01 by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

I love the 2nd picture much better!

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Originally Posted by zahav

I have never been to Quebec City (I'd love to) and so I have no concept of the feel those towers gives the city (heft, urbanity, etc.). But just by looking at the skyline photos, I don't think they look good, but that's just my opinion. I haven't looked at many other pics of gotten used to seeing them so maybe I can't speak to it, but as an outsider looking at it with fresh eyes, I prefer those photoshop renderings without the towers. I don't think anyone would accuse it of lacking urban heft without those couple off towers, just by the sheer nature of the cityscape and density it wouldn't lose urban heft. But again, just my opinion, don't want to start anything, I know how these threads can blow up over nothing

Those concrete bunker towers are truly ugly. How can one tell? No tourist in the right mind would photograph any of them to start. The old town is so beautiful but these towers are just a brutal contrast. I won't shed a tear if they are demolished.

WhipperSnapper · #**19066** Posted **Feb 9, 2022, 8:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

I like Montreal's many buildings with courtyards in that first shot. Feels very European and is rare in our cities.

Jardins Windsor looks like its transplanted from Laval.

Nouvellecosse · #**19067** Posted **Feb 9, 2022, 9:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by Vin

I love the 2nd picture much better!

Those concrete bunker towers are truly ugly. How can one tell? No tourist in the right mind would photograph any of them to start. The old town is so beautiful but these towers are just a brutal contrast. I won't shed a tear if they are demolished.

I don't think not being a tourist attraction means something is ugly. It just means it isn't historic or otherwise notable. The only way you can be sure that someone thinks something is ugly is if they tell you.

Rico Rommheim · #**19068** Posted **Feb 9, 2022, 9:39 PM**

I continue to be torn up by these towers. I do agree that the second picture is a "nicer" urbanscape, but it kind of looks like Rimouski, or Saguenay, or Sherbrooke, it looks like it could be anytown-Quebec. The towers tell you that this is actually a large city, the capital city of a nation.

I tinkered with this one too (that I lifted from the LRT thread)

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Originally Posted by davidivivid

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Screen Shot 2022-02-09 at 4.34.44 PM by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

Now, we know that government-specific highrise development on capital hill was inevitable. It had even started in the 30's with these:

https://images.omerlocdn.com/resize?url=....jpg&width=1024&type=jpeg&stripmeta=true

https://www.patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca/rpcq/document/rpcq_bien_93579_199121.JPG?id=199121

I'm not sure how people thought about these back then, did they object to them like they hated the "modern" and comparatively tall Price building?

I won't dare imagine if Quebec had built 100m+ art deco skyscrapers in the 30's and 40's instead of those concrete bunkers, which I'm certainly not a fan of, despite my prolific defense of them on this platform haha.

O-tacular · #**19069** Posted **Feb 9, 2022, 10:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Jardins Windsor looks like its transplanted from Laval.

That’s not what I was referring to, but agreed.

LFC · #**19070** Posted **Feb 10, 2022, 12:06 AM**

WhipperSnapper · #**19071** Posted **Feb 10, 2022, 2:57 AM**

The black and white colour block trend has got to stop!

J.OT13 · #**19072** Posted **Feb 10, 2022, 1:28 PM**

I wish Quebec City would build two or three modern 15-35 storey towers to balance out the 70s architecture. There's a pretty new 10 storey office building a block south of Marie-Guyart (the tallest behind Parliament) which would have been 15-20, though I assume they did not want to overshadow La Grande Allée.

All around though, there's little opportunity to build anything new in central Quebec City outside St-Roch and the waterfront.

Here's one of Ottawa from Hull:

https://www.ledroit.com/2022/02/10/manif...n-otage-bad7950b7d2e7b8e5ae74d693e02d9b3