Great Canadian Skyline Thread II

[ue]

^ I can see that angle growing more popular as Stantec, JW, et al begin rising vis-a-vis the old Gallagher/Sask Drive angle. You still get the quintessential valley view but with a more direct view of all the new development.

[SkahHigh]

Montréal panorama by Akos Hajdu, sur Flickr

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by TheGreatestX

Peep the beach created by the new LRT bridge construction.


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Mine

What is that sloped building with the white roof stepping down the hill?

[urbanroo]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

What is that sloped building with the white roof stepping down the hill?

It's the Shaw Convention Centre. It's kind of neat inside because there are these long escalators that take you all the way down the riverbank, and there're trees and water features inside. I'm not sure why the roof looks white--I think it's just the sun reflecting...the building is all glass.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by urbanroo

It's the Shaw Convention Centre. It's kind of neat inside because there are these long escalators that take you all the way down the riverbank, and there're trees and water features inside. I'm not sure why the roof looks white--I think it's just the sun reflecting...the building is all glass.

I've been in there but I don't really "get" that building and how exactly it's placed. Is it built into the hillside like a cave? I remember a large part of the exhibition hall had a kind of slanted roof.

[Boris2k7]

Originally Posted by esquire

I've been in there but I don't really "get" that building and how exactly it's placed. Is it built into the hillside like a cave? I remember a large part of the exhibition hall had a kind of slanted roof.

More or less. It ties into Edmonton's pedway system. You can connect underneath Jasper Ave to the Federal building, and from there onwards to Churchill Station, City Centre Mall, etc.

[Monolith]

Vancouver Aerial View by RudyMareelPhotography https://www.flickr.com/photos/69197709@N02/36056574493/

[christmas]

Vancouver feels so magical from that angle.

[Calgarian]

Magical? it's a pretty city but calling it magical is getting a bit carried away...

[Metro-One]

Going to take the bait, why not call it magical? And why do you feel the need to question such regarding someone's opinion?

If someone said that Calgary is magical to them after someone posted a picture of the looming skyline looking from the Bow River or with the Rockies far in the background I personally would not have a need to question that.

Same goes if someone said so after a cool night shot of Toronto or a shot of Montreal bathed in fall foliage, etc...

This is why i find these forums to be odd at times.

I can understand arguing facts / figures / objective matters, but someone calling a city magical? Really? Especially after a lovely image in posted of a city.

[Pavlov]

Originally Posted by Metro-One

Going to take the bait, why not call it magical? And why do you feel the need to question such regarding someone's opinion?

If someone said that Calgary is magical to them after someone posted a picture of the looming skyline looking from the Bow River or with the Rockies far in the background I personally would not have a need to question that.

Same goes if someone said so after a cool night shot of Toronto or a shot of Montreal bathed in fall foliage, etc...

This is why i find these forums to be odd at times.

I can understand arguing facts / figures / objective matters, but someone calling a city magical? Really? Especially after a lovely image in posted of a city.

Perhaps this just further demonstrates your point, but if someone called Calgary or Toronto "so magical", the ensuing shit storm would likely last several pages.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by Metro-One

Going to take the bait, why not call it magical? And why do you feel the need to question such regarding someone's opinion?

If someone said that Calgary is magical to them after someone posted a picture of the looming skyline looking from the Bow River or with the Rockies far in the background I personally would not have a need to question that.

Same goes if someone said so after a cool night shot of Toronto or a shot of Montreal bathed in fall foliage, etc...

This is why i find these forums to be odd at times.

I can understand arguing facts / figures / objective matters, but someone calling a city magical? Really? Especially after a lovely image in posted of a city.

Are you new here? It is standard SSP-Canada practice to call out people who are too flattering toward cities other than your own.

[Metro-One]

Haha, oh I know Toronto would get it especially hard, just comes off as funny and insecure to me, especially over incredibly subjective matters as calling a city magical. It is a staple on SSP, I know, just from time to time it is fun to point out the silliness that we partake in.

[Calgarian]

Originally Posted by Metro-One

Going to take the bait, why not call it magical? And why do you feel the need to question such regarding someone's opinion?

If someone said that Calgary is magical to them after someone posted a picture of the looming skyline looking from the Bow River or with the Rockies far in the background I personally would not have a need to question that.

Same goes if someone said so after a cool night shot of Toronto or a shot of Montreal bathed in fall foliage, etc...

This is why i find these forums to be odd at times.

I can understand arguing facts / figures / objective matters, but someone calling a city magical? Really? Especially after a lovely image in posted of a city.

Magical is just an odd term for a city skyline, that word denotes something mystic or otherworldly to me, and that picture doesn't have either of those things. Either way, to each their own...

Originally Posted by esquire

Are you new here? It is standard SSP-Canada practice to call out people who are too flattering toward cities other than your own.

This is true for some posters on here, especially to any city that isn't one of the "big 3", but most of us can appreciate other cites, that's the point of the Canada section.

Originally Posted by Metro-One

Haha, oh I know Toronto would get it especially hard, just comes off as funny and insecure to me, especially over incredibly subjective matters as calling a city magical. It is a staple on SSP, I know, just from time to time it is fun to point out the silliness that we partake in.

This is the problem with the Canada section, anything that isn't overwhelmingly flattering towards some cities is taken as insecurity. I think Vancouver is by far the prettiest major city in the country, but questioning what I find to be an odd term makes me insecure? good grief...

[Metro-One]

It came off as a little insecure (which is not out of the norm on here), unless you stated from the get go that you find that as an odd term to describe a city skyline in general, as you have now said. That is a different connotation entirely. In the end though, on a site dedicated to skylines, I can see how people could use that term to describe such.

[Laceoflight]

It's kind of hard to post anything after that last magnificient picture of Vancouver, but I thought that those angles were not shared too often on the forum.

Montreal, Aug. 20

Montreal • 🌇🇨🇦 by Tristan Gauthier, sur Flickr

Aug. 19

Montreal by dan ye, sur Flickr

Sooner, in July

Montreal from 10,000 feet by Jason Thibault, sur Flickr

[TorontoDrew]

[IMG]Candy Apples and Sno Kones by Paul Flynn, on Flickr[/IMG]

[IMG]Bloor Street by Marcanadian, on Flickr[/IMG]

[IMG]my feelings cant explain by Dustin William, on Flickr[/IMG]

[ainvan]

Toronto skyline at dusk by Phil Marion, on Flickr


Toronto Skyline by Conrad Kuiper, on Flickr


Toronto Islands by Garnett Plum, on Flickr


City of lights by Worrawat Engchuan, on Flickr


A night out with the Jays by Lee Chu, on Flickr

[Urban recluse]

Wow!

Originally Posted by ainvan

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[LeftCoaster]

Magical!