Great Canadian Skyline Thread II

[harls]

Originally Posted by Harley613

I was making a very tongue in cheek comparison
The Holiday Inn in Gatineau is not a suburban hotel though, it's very central and right next to a massive casino.

Isn't this one of those ultra cheap modular builds? The one by the Slush Puppie Centre (shudder) went up in like a week. I'm not sure if this was built the same way, but probably.

I think there was a story in Le Droit gushing about how quick it was built.

[Rico Rommheim]

Originally Posted by harls

The one by the Slush Puppie Centre (shudder) went up in like a week.

I think there was a story in Le Droit gushing about how quick it was built.

The WHAT?

Edit: I've googled it. Hmm ok then.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

The WHAT?

Edit: I've googled it. Hmm ok then.

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.483545,-...kHdAwYyQ5woLniGz3cxTA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

[Rico Rommheim]

When I read it in Harls' post I almost gagged. But now I'm over it already. I guess it makes sense for a city like Gatineau. At first I thought that was the new name for the Corell Centre...or is it the Scotia centre? The Sens arena in Kanata.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

When I read it in Harls' post I almost gagged. But now I'm over it already. I guess it makes sense for a city like Gatineau. At first I thought that was the new name for the Corell Centre...or is it the Scotia centre? The Sens arena in Kanata.

The Centre Slush Puppie name is the type of thing that is so bad, that it's good.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by J.OT13

Ottawa-Gatineau shots from Harley.

From near the Casino du Lac-Leamy, south towards Ottawa.

DJI_0102 by harley613, on Flickr

The problem with this isn't so much the Rapibus access which isn't in this view, and isn't too bad from the Casino to the station itself.

It's more the horrid site-specific design of the hotel.

For example, just below the three large evergreen trees is a crosswalk that leads directly across the road to the Casino. There should be a walkway or stairs there. (Can't remember how steep the slope is.)

There should also be pedestrian markings at the very least between the hotel entrance and that walkway too.

Of course, nature always finds a way so wanna bet that if they don't put a walkway where I am suggesting, it won't take much time for a path to get worn into the grass and ground in the exact routing where it should be.

[Harley613]

Little Italy in Ottawa today with the Central Business District in the background

[Harley613]

The six new towers in this shot are really adding some density to the Southeastern portion of Ottawa's downtown. It's too bad they are all the same height and the tabletop is just getting bigger.

[Harley613]

Ottawa's Byward Market/Lowertown Skyline as seen from Centretown

[giallo]

From China Creek

[craner]

^ Loving how the Vancouver table top is getting pierced by some peaks.

Originally Posted by Harley613

Little Italy in Ottawa today with the Central Business District in the background

Dare I say it . . . “Shacks by the Stacks”.

[MolsonExport]

we don't see many shots of Van from that vantage point (China Creek). Nice.

[MolsonExport]

Ottawa packs a lot of density, but it is perhaps the boxiest skyline in the country (if not the continent). box, box, box, box, box.

[J.OT13]

Not quite as impressive as Harley's shots, but here's Hull from Radio-Canada's Twitter.


https://twitter.com/iciottgat/status/1511636367914250240?cxt=HHwWgMC5sZDRtPopAAAA

[Rico Rommheim]

Wow, Hull's skyline is really booming. I hadn't realized.

[Biff]

3 of Winnipeg from Dan Harper Photo (Twitter https://twitter.com/DanHarperPhoto)

[drizzo_613]

EDIT: Oops. Repost.

Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

Wow, Hull's skyline is really booming. I hadn't realized.

This is the view from the opposite side. Another great shot by Harley.

Originally Posted by Harley613

Today's progress.

[thewave46]

Originally Posted by craner

Dare I say it . . . “Shacks by the Stacks”.

It's such a reflection of modern Canada and modern building ethos.

There's just no middle. One gets towers or lives in a single-family home.

The walk-ups? The densely packed, teeming with people, but not towering neighbourhoods? A relic of history, an aberration against the modernity of zoning.

You get suburbia on the ground or suburbia in the sky. One can live in Vaughan, but it will be a SFH, or a 30-story tower at Highway 7 and the 400 next to a power centre. It's almost ghastly.

Anyway, cool to see how Ottawa is changing, I guess.

[biguc]

It feels like all my life Winnipeg's skyline has been the P&M cluster plus Saskatoon/London/Syracuse. A bunch of new buildings since, including a new tallest, and that hasn't changed.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

Wow, Hull's skyline is really booming. I hadn't realized.

There is actually more of it (and more construction) out of the shot to the east in the vicinity of Rue Laurier which is along the Ottawa River east of the Alexandra Bridge.