The Great Canadian Skyline Thread! - Page 26

Chadillaccc · #**501** Posted **Sep 2, 2014, 7:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by Surrealplaces

From HeaveyLight on flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/synesthesiaphotography/

Holy moly!

Great pic!

north 42 · #**502** Posted **Sep 2, 2014, 8:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by FrAnKs

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/71541866

This shot looks like a 1960s postcard. Must be the style of the highrises.

caltrane74 · #**503** Posted **Sep 2, 2014, 8:35 PM**

Toronto Skyline by Jude Freeman at Flickr

Martin Mtl · #**504** Posted **Sep 2, 2014, 8:56 PM**

Montreal la nuit by Réjean Biron on Flickr

isaidso · #**505** Posted **Sep 2, 2014, 9:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by Allan83

I’m merely point out that you seem to have a rather biased opinion based on the fact that Montreal is your home town.

Are you implying that he is incapable of being impartial? No city will ever match Montreal when it comes to the grandeur of its pre-war built form. It's not just Montrealers that recognize that.

Razor · #**506** Posted **Sep 2, 2014, 10:17 PM**

^ Love the past few shots..Especially that saddledome pic..Great shot Surreal.

RyLucky · #**507** Posted **Sep 2, 2014, 10:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by isaidso

Are you implying that he is incapable of being impartial? No city will ever match Montreal when it comes to the grandeur of its pre-war built form. It's not just Montrealers that recognize that.

What exactly do you mean by "prewar built form"? There are dozens of cities around the world that have at least as much prewar or colonial architecture. In Canada, Montreal certainly has a number of buildings of tremendous historical value - especially colonial architecture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. After all, Montreal was the primary economic centre for 150ish years. Of course, I'm not saying it's day has passed; it's still a vital city in Canada. Montreal has added many, many iconic buildings to its skyline since WWII.

Pretty well every city in Canada that was a big city pre-war maintains a lot of interesting relics. Toronto has beautiful Victorian row houses and factories. The Maritimes, Newfoundland, and Quebec have tons of interesting colonial and hundred-year old buildings. Calgary, Edmonton, and a handful of smaller prairie cities have some beautiful Beaux Arts sandstone buildings. Vancouver has a ton of surviving Victorian and Art Deco buildings. Winnipeg has some of Canada's best Chicago style buildings and tons of elegant prewar houses. Ottawa and Kingston: don't get me started. There are also plenty of one-off beauties that define other towns, such as the Banff Springs Hotel or old stone houses of Hamilton and Niagara.

Montreal's great and so are other cities. What is everyone fighting about?

RyLucky · #**508** Posted **Sep 2, 2014, 10:39 PM**

Here is a question for all of you: where is the best place to view your city?

My answers for the 2 cities I know best:

Toronto: the CN Tower facing north
Calgary: McHugh Bluff, Salisbury St in Ramsay, driving on Memorial with the Rockies in the background, Shagannappi, or the soccer field at SAIT

Chadillaccc · #**509** Posted **Sep 2, 2014, 10:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by RyLucky

What exactly do you mean by "prewar built form"? There are dozens of cities around the world that have at least as much prewar or colonial architecture. In Canada, Montreal certainly has a number of buildings of tremendous historical value - especially colonial architecture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. After all, Montreal was the primary economic centre for 150ish years. Of course, I'm not saying it's day has passed; it's still a vital city in Canada. Montreal has added many, many iconic buildings to its skyline since WWII.

Pretty well every city in Canada that was a big city pre-war maintains a lot of interesting relics. Toronto has beautiful Victorian row houses and factories. The Maritimes, Newfoundland, and Quebec have tons of interesting colonial and hundred-year old buildings. Calgary, Edmonton, and a handful of smaller prairie cities have some beautiful Beaux Arts sandstone buildings. Vancouver has a ton of surviving Victorian and Art Deco buildings. Winnipeg has some of Canada's best Chicago style buildings and tons of elegant prewar houses. Ottawa and Kingston: don't get me started. There are also plenty of one-off beauties that define other towns, such as the Banff Springs Hotel or old stone houses of Hamilton and Niagara.

Montreal's great and so are other cities. What is everyone fighting about?

What an absolutely excellent post. I wish I could use it as my signature on here.

WhipperSnapper · #**510** Posted **Sep 2, 2014, 10:51 PM**

That Calgary photo is crazy.

The Toronto photo is a view I've seen many times before so the one thing that stands out are the aluminum panels on the new condo on the right hand side that seem to have been install with a sledge hammer.

zoomer · #**511** Posted **Sep 2, 2014, 11:05 PM**

Quebec probably has one of the nicest, if not the nicest skylines from the 'front', yet one of the ugliest from the backside! They are also building the best low and mid rise buildings in the country, which don't really impact the skyline.

That Toronto shot is insane.. wow. If society collapses for one reason or another, that's going to be one hell of an urban jungle! Perfect setting for the next Hollywood apocalypse movie.

Calgarian · #**512** Posted **Sep 2, 2014, 11:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

The Toronto photo is a view I've seen many times before so the one thing that stands out are the aluminum panels on the new condo on the right hand side that seem to have been install with a sledge hammer.

Yeah someone fucked up there, that looks terrible!

What's that structure just below the sledgehammer tower? looks like a rail line or street?

GlassCity · #**513** Posted **Sep 2, 2014, 11:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by RyLucky

Here is a question for all of you: where is the best place to view your city?

My answers for the 2 cities I know best:

Toronto: the CN Tower facing north
Calgary: McHugh Bluff, Salisbury St in Ramsay, driving on Memorial with the Rockies in the background, Shagannappi, or the soccer field at SAIT

It's really all a matter of opinion. I guess Vancouver's flagship, Toronto-from-the-islands style shot is the one taken from south of False Creek because it provides the mountain backdrop. I personally don't like it because the southern shore of the downtown peninsula is just a wall of the infamous Vancouver seafoam green condo towers which are really boring.

http://www.theodora.com/wfb/photos/canada/canada_photos_33.html

A variation of this that I prefer is taken from a bit further east which provides a great shot of BC Place and a more varied collection of buildings in the skyline, while still keeping the mountains.

http://www.avision.ca/latestwork-by-chris-collacott.html

I'm not sure if I prefer that view, or this one taken from the North Shore. While you obviously lose the mountains, here the skyline looks beefier because our tallest buildings and the majority of our office towers are located towards the north shore of the peninsula. I like to use these shots as proof that we don't need the mountains, we have a great skyline without them.

http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2013/06/flickr-buzz-june-28-2013/

vegeta_skyline · #**514** Posted **Sep 3, 2014, 12:14 AM**

From Humber Bay Shores;

Rico Rommheim · #**515** Posted **Sep 3, 2014, 12:21 AM**

^Just massive.

logan5 · #**516** Posted **Sep 3, 2014, 12:38 AM**

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Originally Posted by RyLucky

Here is a question for all of you: where is the best place to view your city?

For Vancouver, it's gotta be the North Shore mountains. One of the more spectacular moments in Vancouver is the view from Cypress at night, especially during your last run of the night and there's absolutely no one else around.

http://www.vancouverobserver.com/sites/v...mages/article/body/cypress-city-view.jpg