The Great Canadian Skyline Thread! - Page 100

logan5 · #**1981** Posted **Oct 30, 2014, 3:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by ozonemania

It's almost like in Vancouver, you walk down the lush downtown streets and you turn a wrong corner and all of a sudden you're in a different place, the down-trodden DTES slum.

Not every turn leads to the DTES. Doesn't matter anyways. Ghetto is the new hip in Vancouver.

ozonemania · #**1982** Posted **Oct 30, 2014, 3:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by Procrastinational

Even weirder in Vancouver is when you enter Stanley Park. You go from mid-rises all around to trees very abruptly

Toronto and Montreal have a few areas which give me that vibe as well. It's quite striking, and nice.

ozonemania · #**1983** Posted **Oct 30, 2014, 3:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by logan5

Not every turn leads to the DTES. Doesn't matter anyways. Ghetto is the new hip in Vancouver.

So true. Shopping/eating/blending-in in the DTES is the new urban sport! I think it's making the poverty activists nervous...

Procrastinational · #**1984** Posted **Oct 30, 2014, 3:49 AM**

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Originally Posted by ozonemania

Toronto and Montreal have a few areas which give me that vibe as well. It's quite striking, and nice.

I think it's great. Reminds me of central park.

Prometheus · #**1985** Posted **Oct 30, 2014, 4:04 AM**

Photo by Ted McGrath: https://www.flickr.com/photos/time-to-look/15306764301

Photo by Peter: https://www.flickr.com/photos/peters_travels/14761908195

Photo by Peter: https://www.flickr.com/photos/peters_travels/14761912395/in/set-72157645941551666

Photo by Peter: https://www.flickr.com/photos/peters_travels/14738920456/in/set-72157645941551666

Calgarian · #**1986** Posted **Oct 30, 2014, 4:05 AM**

Vancouver is lookin good!

Razor · #**1987** Posted **Oct 30, 2014, 4:17 AM**

^ awesome shots of Vancouver.

Shorten the over all length of that skyline and saw the buildings in half and you get something similar to Ottawa which like Vancouver also has great dt density..Just almost half the size city.

Martin Mtl · #**1988** Posted **Oct 30, 2014, 12:00 PM**

Great Vancouver pics on this page and the one before. Just beautiful.

MolsonExport · #**1989** Posted **Oct 30, 2014, 12:32 PM**

Vancouver wins the downtown park prize, by virtue of Stanley Park (truly one of the world's greatest urban parks). Runner up prize goes to Montreal, on account of Mount Royal Park. Both are in the heart of their respective cities.

waiting to be showered with rebuttals and pictures of the Bow river, Canada Olympic Park, etc.

SignalHillHiker · #**1990** Posted **Oct 30, 2014, 12:40 PM**

It depends what you want.

I prefer Bannerman, Bowring, or Victoria parks to Pippy Park, our equivalent of Stanley:

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Pippy Park is a 3,400-acre (14 km2) urban park located in the city of St. John's, Newfoundland. The park is a popular camping, hiking and recreational park within the city, and incorporates numerous groomed and wilderness-style hiking/skiing trails, a miniature golf course, a 9-hole and an 18-hole golf course, a driving range, and a public access trailer park with limited tent camping facilities. Trails within the park link to the Grand Concourse walking trails.

The other examples are all heavily landscaped, Victorian parks. They're status symbols from that time - donated by wealthy families, meant to provide public respite from the squalid congestion of the city.

I love that much more than just... wilderness. Wilderness is just everywhere.

So, of those two big ones, Mount Royal would win for me. Great park, great views. But the riverwalk in Vancouver gives everything a run for its money.

giallo · #**1991** Posted **Oct 30, 2014, 1:12 PM**

^Mount Royal is fantastic, but funny enough, it reminded me a lot of Stanley Park as it seems to have the same function to Montreal residents that ST has for Vancouverites.

Stanley Park is much more than just wilderness (that'd be the last reason I'd go there for). It's got the 'riverwalk' (Stanley Park isn't on any fresh body of water. It borders Burrard Inlet and English Bay), a number of beaches (third beach being the best), Vancouver Aquarium, large open grass fields for picnics, outdoor movies, musical performances or just plain summertime boozing, farms, a pitch and putt....you get the idea. The entire entrance is a sculptured park not unlike the ones you mentioned in St.J. You could just hang around the entrance, and never even explore the other 95% of the park, and it'd still be huge.

I guess what I'm getting at is that Stanley Park is Vancouver's backyard, and therefore serves many, many purposes for the residents. I freaking adore the place.

When was the last time you explored it?

Acajack · #**1992** Posted **Oct 30, 2014, 1:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by logan5

Yeah it does look better when large office towers are supported by smaller buildings that taper down slowly as you move outwards. Otherwise it looks unnatural...

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=113704051

Reminds me of this! Watch all the way to the end:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InMJopurNTE

Delirium · #**1993** Posted **Oct 30, 2014, 1:49 PM**

Photo by Hyogoman https://www.flickr.com/photos/75501600@N04/15443578908/sizes/h/

The_Architect · #**1994** Posted **Oct 30, 2014, 2:31 PM**

Today is much better so far but the past few days can only be summed up by:

Beedok · #**1995** Posted **Oct 30, 2014, 2:43 PM**

We had one of the best Montreal dumps ever, odd angles of Vancouver and Hamilton, and half decent Calgary and Toronto pics.

#**1996** Posted **Oct 30, 2014, 2:48 PM**

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Darkoshvilli · #**1997** Posted **Oct 30, 2014, 3:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by Beedok

We had one of the best Montreal dumps ever, odd angles of Vancouver and Hamilton, and half decent Calgary and Toronto pics.

The only bad thing about those amazing Montreal aerials is that they were taken just before tdc, avenue, rocca etc start to rise around the bell center. Hopefully whoever that photog is takes another helicopter ride in 2016 or so.

Martin Mtl · #**1998** Posted **Oct 30, 2014, 3:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by The_Architect

Today is much better so far but the past few days can only be summed up by:

I guess you'll be happy to know, then, that all those boring pics of Montreal were taken down. I'm waiting for your contribution to alleviate the boredom that plagues this thread.

OTSkyline · #**1999** Posted **Oct 30, 2014, 3:19 PM**

OMG those Vancouver shots in the past couple of pages...

Calgarian · #**2000** Posted **Oct 30, 2014, 3:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Vancouver wins the downtown park prize, by virtue of Stanley Park (truly one of the world's greatest urban parks). Runner up prize goes to Montreal, on account of Mount Royal Park. Both are in the heart of their respective cities.

waiting to be showered with rebuttals and pictures of the Bow river, Canada Olympic Park, etc.

Obviously we don't have anything on the scale of Stanley Park, but there are some nice green areas in downtown Calgary, nothing like a forest though lol. You do get a cool effect from Prince's Island downtown where you are surrounded by greenery with the glass towers looming overhead, and St Patrick's Island will have that effect with the East Village in a couple years. Canada Olympic Park is a sports venue, why mention that?

Prince's Island park:

http://www.offshootstudios.com/sample-page/commercialaerial/