Great Canadian Skyline Thread II

[megadude]

Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

I don't necessarily mind annexing Austin, but there are probably closer candidates. Buffalo might be a good fixer-upper.

I actually didn't know it was Austin. I was intrigued and started guessing some mid sized cities and googling them. Like 10 cities. Even though I was sure half of those were not it since I had been to them but I was running out of ideas. Then I realized you can do an image search with google just by outlining the image with the mouse and letting google do its thing. It would probably be another 5-8 guesses before I landed on Austin. And this isn't the best angle either. There are better ones the city looks even bigger.

I have worked with several people at Starlight on deals over the years and for the next one I do, I'm going to have to bring this up with them for a laugh. Actually, tomorrow I'm doing a review on one of their properties in Oshawa, but won't be corresponding with anyone on that. Even if they used just a pic of that property alone as their banner image it would make more sense than using Austin.

[Maldive]

The downtown core viewed from across the lake featuring 160 Front Street West (TD) u/c. Interesting how the lake appears to rise above the bottom half of the towers. Pinnacle's super-tall SkyTower will join this view near the far right of the photo.


kris (shot by Gavin Edmondstone)

[MolsonExport]

Amazing shot.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by megadude

Some odd depictions of various Ontario skylines on this site. The contributor has done several dozens of these for cities around the world, but only Ontario for Canaada.

Ottawa is a metropolis and is bigger than Toronto! And no longer the capital as Parliament has apparently been moved somewhere else. Unless it was replaced by generic office buildings as it was cheaper to demolish than to restore.

The only four I could ID without captions are TO, Niagara, Hamilton and Sauga. I might have been able to guess Windsor.


https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/set-12-city-silhouette-ontario-canada-339514382


https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/set-16-city-ontario-canada-toronto-361242755

Oshawa has a skyline?

[TorontoDrew]

Originally Posted by Maldive

Interesting how the lake appears to rise above the bottom half of the towers.

This shot would piss off these nuts.

Source: cnn

[J.OT13]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

https://why.edmonton.ca/affordable

So interesting seeing modern suburbs with such a good view of the downtown skyline. Could you show us on a map where this is taken from?

[O-tacular]

That Edmonton suburb actually looks really nice. Also interesting angle. Harder to identify Stantec from that side. It almost looks like a midsize American city.

[Luisito]

The more I see of Edmonton on here the more I like it. There have been some really great shots of Edmonto posted on here.

[_Citizen_Dane_]

Originally Posted by J.OT13

So interesting seeing modern suburbs with such a good view of the downtown skyline. Could you show us on a map where this is taken from?

Surprisingly, this picture was taken from a fairly central community, Griesbach. Land was set aside, on what was then out-of-town, in the 1940s for a Canadian Forces Base — in time, Edmonton grew around it.

C.F.B. Griesbach was used until the early 2000s when most operations were transferred to C.F.B. Edmonton. Since then the land's been slowly redeveloped into a low- and mid-density neighbourhood. It's pretty interesting in terms of an urban context, given that it's surrounded on all sides by neighbourhoods from the '50s and '60s.

[Coldrsx]

https://twitter.com/ExploreEdmonton/stat...hreads%2Fedmonton-aerials.24644%2Fpage-7

[Kevin_foster]

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

https://twitter.com/ExploreEdmonton/stat...hreads%2Fedmonton-aerials.24644%2Fpage-7

Great shot, but too bad the photographer didnt pan just a little more to the right to show all of the towers, not just ice district.
Just being nit picky

[J.OT13]

Originally Posted by _Citizen_Dane_

Surprisingly, this picture was taken from a fairly central community, Griesbach. Land was set aside, on what was then out-of-town, in the 1940s for a Canadian Forces Base — in time, Edmonton grew around it.

C.F.B. Griesbach was used until the early 2000s when most operations were transferred to C.F.B. Edmonton. Since then the land's been slowly redeveloped into a low- and mid-density neighbourhood. It's pretty interesting in terms of an urban context, given that it's surrounded on all sides by neighbourhoods from the '50s and '60s.

I imagine CFB Rockcliffe, currently being redeveloped in Ottawa as Wateridge Village, will have a similar feel.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Unifor...913112396!8m2!3d45.4509559!4d-75.6448616

I forget how compact Edmonton is, with the built up area being about 15 kilometers deep around Downtown.

Ottawa is a sprawly mess in comparison, where suburbs stretch 20 to 30 kilometers away from the core, partly due to the Greenbelt.

[coastalkid]

Source: https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/25086681/2301-1650-granville-street-halifax-halifax

Halifax aerials from a new condo listing. In the lower right corner of the 2nd shot you can see the shell of the Dennis building which is being preserved and incorporated into the new Press Block development. Not an overly exciting design:





Source: http://pressblock.ca/renderings/

[rousseau]

Oh yeah, love these Halifax images.

[Luisito]

Awesome shots of Halifax. Specially the first two.

[Siriusb]

Charlottetown

[905er]

Originally Posted by Siriusb

Charlottetown

opportunity for a decent waterfront, but instead you get that for a marina... I'd love to see that spruced up.
Charlottetown is cute though.

[Siriusb]

Originally Posted by 905er

opportunity for a decent waterfront, but instead you get that for a marina... I'd love to see that spruced up.
Charlottetown is cute though.

This is one of four marinas and this is the smallest which is much larger than in the photo. We can't have all marinas on the waterfront as we had to leave room for cruise ships, and some are huge cruise ships at that

[905er]

Originally Posted by Siriusb

This is one of four marinas and this is the smallest which is much larger than in the photo. We can't have all marinas on the waterfront as we had to leave room for cruise ships, and some are huge cruise ships at that

ok.. that makes sense.. I would have been shocked if this was the waterfront.

[Klazu]