Great Canadian Skyline Thread II

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Dubious star architecture is Edmonton's thing. The library is consistent with the art gallery.

That's a great angle of the library. Edmonton's is more urban minded.

??? Do you mean suburban minded? Calgary's central library bridges the lrt and connects East Village with City Hall. It is the best piece of urban architecture in the city imo. It responds perfectly to the site's context. Walking up to it from the NMC is breathtaking.

Compare with this bunker starship monstrosity:

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by ZeDgE

Different angle of that area with the library.



https://www.reddit.com/r/Calgary/comments/10yt6ul/yesterday_was_the_first_time_ive_been_out_to/

Beauty! I'm really loving how east village is turning out!

[vanman]

Wasn't East Village originally planned to be more of a midrise community along the lines of Olympic Village in Vancouver? Clearly that's no longer the case.

[giallo]

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by vanman

Wasn't East Village originally planned to be more of a midrise community along the lines of Olympic Village in Vancouver? Clearly that's no longer the case.

You might be thinking of the Bridges in Bridgeland across the river where the old general hospital was.

[Vantage]

posted by u/Koblootski on the Vancouver subreddit

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[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

??? Do you mean suburban minded? Calgary's central library bridges the lrt and connects East Village with City Hall. It is the best piece of urban architecture in the city imo. It responds perfectly to the site's context. Walking up to it from the NMC is breathtaking.

Compare with this bunker starship monstrosity:

Urban form has little to with architectural beauty. The best architecture tends to have the worst urban form. Creating a grand entrance raised high above street level with a half kilometre of ramps and stairs is an example of what I'm talking about. Coolness of an lrt running through a building is very high. If the emerging underground lrt is the cause for the main entrance design than this was a poor choice of site for a public building like this.

The Edmonton Library is raised on a plyth providing little active street frontage. It still beats a decorative stone wall.

[itom 987]

^ Excuse me, but there is only one entrance into Edmonton's library and it's facing Churchill Square. The west, south and east sides of the building are all featureless walls that have no interaction with the street. At least Calgary's library has a park for pedestrians to interact with.

"The best architecture tends to have the worst urban form." That statement is bullshit, you can have amazing architecture with suburb street interaction.

[csbvan]

There's just so much to look at in that Vancouver aerial of the peninsula. Love a good high quality aerial.

And giallo, it's great to have you back shooting Vancouver! We're really being treated by these incredible posts

[Nouvellecosse]

Originally Posted by itom 987

"The best architecture tends to have the worst urban form." That statement is bullshit, you can have amazing architecture with suburb street interaction.

Wait... did you mean superb street interaction? For a second there it sounded like you were simultaneously calling the claim BS while basically agreeing with him lol!

[itom 987]

I don't know how you lost translation but urban form = street interaction.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

??? Do you mean suburban minded? Calgary's central library bridges the lrt and connects East Village with City Hall. It is the best piece of urban architecture in the city imo. It responds perfectly to the site's context. Walking up to it from the NMC is breathtaking.

Compare with this bunker starship monstrosity:

[WhipperSnapper]

As for Edmonton liibrary's, I'll take your word that the street level integration is terrible and I was wrong with my impression. I must have been blinded by its spectacular shediness, LOL. It doesn't change anything about Calgary's. The ramps and staircases are a pretty Cormier design. It's fairly typical of star architecture. It's not great urban form by any means. Yeah, You called bullshit and then basically repeated exactly what I said. It's not the first time either.


There's no such dichomony as suburban and urban. There's just bad urban form.

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

You calling that ship ugly?

[koops65]

It's supposed to be a STAR ship, not a water ship...

[giallo]

Originally Posted by csbvan

There's just so much to look at in that Vancouver aerial of the peninsula. Love a good high quality aerial.

And giallo, it's great to have you back shooting Vancouver! We're really being treated by these incredible posts

Thanks, man. It's nice to have Vancouver as my muse again.

[WhipperSnapper]

Hmm. just googled ugliest yacht in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_%28sailing_yacht%29

am I drunk or can one find a lot of books on this ship?

[giallo]

The Westend

[ZeDgE]

https://www.reddit.com/r/CityPorn/comments/110yia3/calgary_winter_day/
https://www.instagram.com/pushtheimpossible/

[Harley613]

The Edmonton Milner Library must be the most unredeemable example of architecture in Canadian History. The only things that come close are Clockzilla and Princess Towers in Kingston.