Great Canadian Skyline Thread II

[LFC]

There’s a lot of tower cranes in Ottawa!

[Harley613]

Originally Posted by LFC

There’s a lot of tower cranes in Ottawa!

Record numbers right now, but they are about to more than double that record in the next few months, the amount of highrises in the pipeline in Ottawa is insane.

[LightingGuy]

Originally Posted by itom 987

Edmonton

Cloudy skyline by Matthew Melnyk, on Flickr

Is that the new LRT bridge?

[Rico Rommheim]

The skyline as seen from Habitat 67


Montreal Rising (3) by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr


Montreal Rising (2) by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr


Montreal Rising (4) by Foofoo MacShoe, on Flickr

[J.OT13]

Originally Posted by LightingGuy

Is that the new LRT bridge?

Yup, the Tawatinâ Bridge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawatin%C3%A2_Bridge

[Martin Mtl]

Impressive Calgary skyline pic by Harley Davis on Instagram

[J.OT13]

Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

Impressive Calgary skyline pic by Harley Davis on Instagram

yup, that's Harley613. Surprised you didn't post that Calgary pic yourself, Harley.

[GeneralLea]

Originally Posted by Harley613

Record numbers right now, but they are about to more than double that record in the next few months, the amount of highrises in the pipeline in Ottawa is insane.

More than double? — hell. Ottawa is just booming!

[Harley613]

Originally Posted by J.OT13

yup, that's Harley613. Surprised you didn't post that Calgary pic yourself, Harley.

I should have for sure! I'm glad the shot made it here though.

[harls]

Originally Posted by J.OT13

Whenever a city or town loses its church (Aylmer being another one), often the most prominent structure and best link to the past, the area loses a part of its soul.

Yep that was a sad day. You could see the spire of that church coming in from the Pontiac. Stupid arsonists.

[TorontoDrew]

141 Davisville by Jack Landau, on Flickr

York Quay by Jack Landau, on Flickr

Toronto Skyline by Jack Landau, on Flickr

Roundhouse Park by Jack Landau, on Flickr

South Core by Jack Landau, on Flickr

Roundhouse Park IV by Jack Landau, on Flickr

Toronto Financial District at Night by Dustin, on Flickr

CIBC SQUARE Park by Dustin, on Flickr

Looking up at CIBC SQUARE by Dustin, on Flickr

Massey Hall at Night by Dustin, on Flickr

Ripley's Aquarium walkway II by Worrawat Engchuan, on Flickr

Roy Thomson hall II by Worrawat Engchuan, on Flickr

Yonge street toward North York by Worrawat Engchuan, on Flickr

[Rico Rommheim]

Originally Posted by kool maudit

It really is such a great postwar giant. It makes me think of Lockheed L-1011s, skinny ties, plans to demolish whole neighbourhoods being confidently presented in its conference rooms.

(The latter wasn't great, of course, but that era had a kind of megalomania to it, and you can see this in PVM).

PVM reminds me of the 60's colossus the PAN-AM building, hulking over Park Avenue.

I kind of always thought PVM deserved to be 200m+ though. 188m seems a bit of a let down.

[Martin Mtl]

Photo: https://www.facebook.com/hidroneimagerienumerique/

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

PVM reminds me of the 60's colossus the PAN-AM building, hulking over Park Avenue.

I kind of always thought PVM deserved to be 200m+ though. 188m seems a bit of a let down.

I agree. It is too hulking but also too short for its breadth.

[TorontoDrew]

Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

Photo: https://www.facebook.com/hidroneimagerienumerique/

This makes it look like the city actually allowed them to install spires taller then 200m. It would look good of they did and would stop the table topping effect from taking over.

[kool maudit]

Yeah, PVM should have been 240-275m. Like a lot of height limit cities, Montreal doesn't really 'get' skyscrapers, and assigns all of their potentially overbearing qualities to that one metric, distorting the overall result.

[WhipperSnapper]

240 to 275 metres is a 2020 number. There was no China. There was no Middle East. There wasn't a Chicago. PVM was the largest or close to the largest tower when built. It was also one of the tallest. Montreal was ahead of the pack in the post war skyscraper boom. One wonders if they started five years later.

[MolsonExport]

Montreal was considered the world's second tallest skyline for a very short period in the mid 1960s, before Chicago went on a tear (and then, Toronto).

CIBC Tower (1962)
Place Ville-Marie (1962, 8 months after CIBC tower)
Tour de la Bourse (1964)

Each of these were the tallest buildings in Canada and the British Commonwealth when completed

[Acajack]

I think Place Ville-Marie was also the tallest building in the British Empire or Commonwealth and one point, and may have been the tallest building outside of the USA as well.

Will stand corrected if not true.

[WhipperSnapper]

Was the height limit established in part to the towers built in the early 1960s? I'm thinking these towers may have been over 200 metres were they designed around the mid 1960s (and the height limit wasn't established yet.