Mohkínstsis — 1.6 million people at the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains, 400 high-rises, a 300-metre SE to NW climb, over 1000 kilometres of pathways, with 20% of the urban area as parkland.
Interesting shot. But who the hell got away with the decision to have the power pylons right next to the lake? I mean, there has got to be better, less intrusive way to deliver power.
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^ Good work by AX, who has over the years become quite a great photographer.
The first picture confirms something that I noticed a while ago, that the downtown skyline is in fact made up of a number of smaller independent clusters of highrises. The one running along Sherbrooke and Maisonneuve West as this picture shows along with the cluster I can think of like the one around PVM, and the one around Tour de la Bourse, the Quartier Concordia and the Bell Centre node, Westmount Square. These separate clusters explain why our skyline can look so fragmented from so angles.
The second photo shows that Griffintown now has its own true skyline and will soon become one of downtown's highrise clusters.
They're supposed to be burying the power lines within the next decade. I never understood why someone thought it was a good idea to ruin the beach with all of the towers.
Or to have heavy industry so close to the city - in the city, essentially.
Interesting shot. But who the hell got away with the decision to have the power pylons right next to the lake? I mean, there has got to be better, less intrusive way to deliver power.
Those hydro pylons are literally on the beach. It's pretty much the equivalent of BC Hydro planting towers all the way around Stanley Park and along the beaches of Kitsilano etc. It's bad...
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It's weird because that angle is reminiscent of a common helicopter shot from the flood in 2013. They repaired the banks quite well. Any non-Calgarians look at the areas along the banks of grey stone. That was all done post flood to stabilize the areas that got carved out. Would be more interesting to see an aerial of that part by Inglewood where the river shifted 100 feet closer to the neighbourhood.
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