Great Canadian Skyline Thread II

[Harley613]

Ottawa this afternoon:

[Harley613]

Looking East from the Ottawa Marriot Hotel

[Harley613]

Last one from today:

[Martin Mtl]

Photo: https://www.instagram.com/spotnikdrone/

[TorontoDrew]

Originally Posted by Harley613

Ottawa this afternoon:

Wow just zoomed in and saw cool little details I've never noticed before like the windows or structures in the cliff faces.

[giallo]

A few drone shots of downtown Vancouver today

[Martin Mtl]

Photo: @ oli_landry

[Razor]

Great pics of all 3 cities ^ .For the Ottawa one it was cool to scroll over.

[MolsonExport]

Montreal looking Wooty.

[J.OT13]

A different angle of the Dow's Lake Skyline,

Originally Posted by Urbanarchit

Took a photo of the cluster of towers, looking east from (I assume) the Civic Hospital area.

[Harley613]

Gatineau looking ominous on another rainy day today:

[Rico Rommheim]

Great shot.

Hull looks like a gritty run-down industrial town that has had big clunky soulless government buildings awkwardly plopped in.

Oh wait...

[Rico Rommheim]

Originally Posted by Harley613

Those are cancelled but the same developer, Brigil, has hinted that a building of 'up to 60 stories' will be proposed soon on the next lot over. I did a quick estimation of what that would look like below.




This is phase one of We 2. They are building one of the lower towers first. The taller towers were proposed at 33 floors but we are receiving mixed messages on that.



Le Colombia near the Casino is nearly finished


Le Viu 2 just wrapped up


In the foreground you have 401 Champlain at 12 floors u/c, in the back right you have 225 Laurier at 15 floors u/c and next to it is a proposal for 14 floors.


Aside from that there will be several towers built at Zibi in the near future and we are expecting a lot more proposals across downtown Gatineau as the market heats up.

Thanks for taking the time to compile this.

There's definitely construction happening there. Now, the question is, is it the right type. I was walking in Hull last week and I couldn't help but think that the best thing you could do for Hull is to build out all these empty lots on these small residential streets with plexes or houses, bring in more proximity commerces and repave the streets. Small interventions that woulds go a long way. Giant condo towers work well adjacent to the government buildings, but keep the rest of the development small scale. If they did that Hull would become a sort of Otttawa's Mile-End or Plateau.

[Acajack]

It has tremendous potential but it's the kind of area that has had tremendous potential for 50 years, but it hasn't materialized much yet.

I mean there are nice areas like here:

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.4269609,...ug10AUuom06mtSV2DLENQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

But they're small.

[Harley613]

A little blurry because it's a heavy crop from very far away, but I just got this shot of Ottawa-Gatineau flying the drone above my house.

[Denscity]

Wow lots of Ottawa skyline shots!
Its flat like Richmond BC's.

[Harley613]

Originally Posted by Denscity

Wow lots of Ottawa skyline shots!
Its flat like Richmond BC's.

It's because I have had a little bit of time off between my old job and my new job that I start on Monday and I have nothing better to do than fly drones and shoot panoramas

edit: And yeah, Richmond is like a half height Ottawa. Another depressing tabletop.

[biguc]

Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

Thanks for taking the time to compile this.

There's definitely construction happening there. Now, the question is, is it the right type. I was walking in Hull last week and I couldn't help but think that the best thing you could do for Hull is to build out all these empty lots on these small residential streets with plexes or houses, bring in more proximity commerces and repave the streets. Small interventions that woulds go a long way. Giant condo towers work well adjacent to the government buildings, but keep the rest of the development small scale. If they did that Hull would become a sort of Otttawa's Mile-End or Plateau.

Yeah, if they just narrowed some streets and planted trees, it would go a long way to making the area more inviting. Eddy st, for example, should be a nice high street, but it's a dump. Widen the sidewalks, replace every other parking spot with a tree, restore two-way traffic, then maybe people would see its potential.

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.4282155,...O7oUu6Vw-Yx4N_icaXB6Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Small surface parking lots in downtown-adjacent areas are a persistent problem in Canadian cities. Like I said in the Stacks by the Shacks thread, it's time for cities to wave the expropriation wand. Enough already. Sell these lots off to small developers to build plexes, walkups, and modest mixed-use buildings, and get on with it.

Other than that, Hull seems to be doing some nice stuff along Ruisseau de la Brasserie. That's good. They can keep building condo towers along the boulevards--they'll never be human scaled. And if the tramway fixes Laurier so it isn't a gaping wound between Zibi and the rest of Hull, downtown Hull might turn out pretty nice.

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by biguc

Small surface parking lots in downtown-adjacent areas are a persistent problem in Canadian cities. Like I said in the Stacks by the Shacks thread, it's time for cities to wave the expropriation wand. Enough already. Sell these lots off to small developers to build plexes, walkups, and modest mixed-use buildings, and get on with it.

I couldn't think of a worst idea. There's more important things than going bankrupt over force filling in the gaps in the urban built form. The market would be lining up to develop these lots with modest infill if it was economically feasible.

[biguc]

People who own these lots camp on them waiting to hit the lottery by selling out for millions. In the mean time, they get a small income from a property that usually doesn't pay much property taxes. Why wouldn't they wait? It is, therefore, not economically feasible to develop these lots with anything but towers.

I hardly see how a city would bankrupt itself by buying these lots at their assessed value, then selling them for the same price on the condition that the purchaser develop them. That would make a city money.