The Great Canadian Skyline Thread! - Page 285

MolsonExport · #**5681** Posted **Apr 29, 2015, 1:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by GreaterMontréal

Montréal is not a city of skyscrapers. The city is evolving, with what once were industrial and warehouse buildings being converted into office and studio spaces. No big office towers yet, mainly for that reason.

I like it better this way. Fill the bones with marrow before beefing up the skyline. Woot.

SignalHillHiker · #**5682** Posted **Apr 29, 2015, 1:08 PM**

Great Hamilton shots, Thomas.

Chadillaccc · #**5683** Posted **Apr 29, 2015, 1:13 PM**

http://thepeopleofcalgary.com/2014/03/02/joe-checking-out-calgary/

SkahHigh · #**5684** Posted **Apr 29, 2015, 2:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Detroit and Boston each both have at least one suburb with dozens of highrises. Washington has a good 6 suburbs each with dozens of high rises, while Toronto has 7 (not including the dozen or so highrise nodes in the city itself)

No, they don't. The only highrises in the Detroit area (Warren and Oakland counties) are in Downtown Detroit, and one tower in Troy. How can one of the most economically depressed metro areas in the U.S aspire to have highrise development? If you're talking about 8-story buildings then sure every suburb has some.

Boston isn't a skyscraper city to start with, and the suburbs have basically nothing you could call a "highrise".

As for Washington, it really doesn't have that many highrises. Arlington has a few but that's it.

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Tone · #**5686** Posted **Apr 29, 2015, 4:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by Tone

Yes because every old NE cities are built like Vancouver.

Of course every cities have highrises in their suburbs including Montreal, but by saying ''built like Vancouver'' my point was that nothing comes close to how multi-nodal and tall Vancouver's new suburban condos are, obviously Toronto being the other exception.

That's why I find it odd for someone to wonder why Montreal resembles most of its peers and not the outsider.

Echoes · #**5687** Posted **Apr 29, 2015, 4:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

Toronto Airport and City skyline by atcogl, on Flickr

Incredible!

WhipperSnapper · #**5688** Posted **Apr 29, 2015, 4:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by Tone

Of course every cities have highrises in their suburbs including Montreal, but by saying ''built like Vancouver'' my point was that nothing comes close to how multi-nodal and tall Vancouver's new suburban condos are, obviously Toronto being the other exception.

That's why I find it odd for someone to wonder why Montreal resembles most of its peers and not the outsider.

Height is making its way into Toronto's suburbs however, Mississauga Centre is the only place to have established heights comparable to Vancouvers. However, Vancouver's towers are small comparably to square footage.

WhipperSnapper · #**5689** Posted **Apr 29, 2015, 4:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by SkahHigh

No, they don't. The only highrises in the Detroit area (Warren and Oakland counties) are in Downtown Detroit, and one tower in Troy. How can one of the most economically depressed metro areas in the U.S aspire to have highrise development? If you're talking about 8-story buildings then sure every suburb has some.

Boston isn't a skyscraper city to start with, and the suburbs have basically nothing you could call a "highrise".

As for Washington, it really doesn't have that many highrises. Arlington has a few but that's it.

Nice edit on Arlington having none over 15 storeys but, I think you're still pretty close to inserting foot in mouth by saying just a few high rises.

SkahHigh · #**5690** Posted **Apr 29, 2015, 5:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Nice edit on Arlington having none over 15 storeys but, I think you're still pretty close to inserting foot in mouth by saying just a few high rises.

My mistake, I seriously didn't know Arlington had an actual downtown, which it does (tallest building at 119m). It only has 5 or 6 buildings we could qualify has "highrises" though... And they're office, not condos.

Tone · #**5691** Posted **Apr 29, 2015, 5:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Height is making its way into Toronto's suburbs however, Mississauga Centre is the only place to have established heights comparable to Vancouvers. However, Vancouver's towers are small comparably to square footage.

Is North York considered a suburb? It looked to have some good height too, so it seemed to me.

SkahHigh · #**5692** Posted **Apr 29, 2015, 5:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by Tone

Is North York considered a suburb? It looked to have some good height too, so it seemed to me.

It's part of Toronto, so I don't think it can be called a suburb.

MolsonExport · #**5693** Posted **Apr 29, 2015, 5:09 PM**

North York is a suburb. NYCC is a full-fledged urban node. London Ontario is approximately half farmland, and takes in 95% of the suburbs (exceptions being St. Thomas, Ilderton, Strathroy, Komoka-Kilworth, Ingersoll, and a handful of two-bit villages)

Tone · #**5694** Posted **Apr 29, 2015, 5:18 PM**

Thanks guys. It used to be a municipality, now a district of Toronto but its still a separate node...so I dont know. Anyways.

1overcosc · #**5695** Posted **Apr 29, 2015, 5:29 PM**

It's beyond the city's prewar core so it's a suburb.

City boundaries are irrelevant, as they can be changed with a stroke of a pen by a politician.

SkahHigh · #**5696** Posted **Apr 29, 2015, 5:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by 1overcosc

It's beyond the city's prewar core so it's a suburb.

City boundaries are irrelevant, as they can be changed with a stroke of a pen by a politician.

70% of Toronto is beyond Old Toronto... So most of Toronto=suburb?

1overcosc · #**5697** Posted **Apr 29, 2015, 5:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by SkahHigh

70% of Toronto is beyond Old Toronto... So most of Toronto=suburb?

Yes, most of the City of Toronto municipality is suburban.

Same deal with the City of Ottawa municipality... along with Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg.

Really it's only Montreal and Vancouver whose city limits are restricted to non-suburban areas for the most part.

WhipperSnapper · #**5698** Posted **Apr 29, 2015, 6:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by Tone

Thanks guys. It used to be a municipality, now a district of Toronto but its still a separate node...so I dont know. Anyways.

North York was a borough/municipality of Toronto. We had a two tier municipal government here which was amalgamated into one. It's now one of four community districts that make up Toronto.

Spring2008 · #**5699** Posted **Apr 29, 2015, 6:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

Toronto Airport and City skyline by atcogl, on Flickr

The real deal Holyfield lol. Imagine how the city will look if the high-rise mega-boom continues for another decade.

softee · #**5700** Posted **Apr 29, 2015, 6:02 PM**

I'd say that not much more than 60% of the city of Toronto is made up of post war development. Not everything that was built in the post war era is "suburban", though.

North York is part of the city, so I don't refer to it as a suburb, it's more like a borough.

Montreal City has a significant portion that is made up of post war development.