Canadian Urban Canyons - Page 30

Chadillaccc · #**581** Posted **Jul 23, 2014, 3:47 PM**

A perpendicular urban canyon, by Surreal Places

Urban Canyon by Surrealplaces, on Flickr

Delirium · #**582** Posted **Jul 23, 2014, 8:35 PM**

Photo by Alexis Birkill Photography https://www.flickr.com/photos/abirki...32918/sizes/h/

Klazu · #**583** Posted **Aug 18, 2014, 4:03 AM**

Howe Street

Thurlow Street

UrbanClimate · #**584** Posted **Sep 9, 2014, 7:51 AM**

From Google Earth:

Metro-One · #**585** Posted **Sep 9, 2014, 8:15 AM**

Regina really impresses for its size. In that second to last picture the white tower in the foreground looks like it is well over 100 meters, but if I understand correctly there are no towers over 100 meters in Saskatchewan? It must a little bit of trick via the angle.

Here is an interesting sketch up of what the urban canyon down Georgia will look like with Vancouver's Turn.

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Originally Posted by officedweller

Here's a crude cut and paste job by me in Paint showing 21 more floors and a guesstimate of 16 ft (nothing sophisticated like pixel counting or anything).
The streetscape elevation at the end of the amending bylaw shows the height being closer to Shangri-La's height.

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/36776623...eet-2009-11-03

UrbanClimate · #**586** Posted **Sep 15, 2014, 7:07 AM**

[QUOTE=Metro-One;6722312]Regina really impresses for its size. In that second to last picture the white tower in the foreground looks like it is well over 100 meters, but if I understand correctly there are no towers over 100 meters in Saskatchewan? It must a little bit of trick via the angle.

True, there are no towers in Saskatchewan taller than 100 m. The "white tower" in the foreground is the Delta Regina Hotel, tallest building in the province at 84 m (26 stories).

BretttheRiderFan · #**587** Posted **Sep 24, 2014, 5:18 AM**

The glance down Jasper Avenue always provides a pretty good urban canyon.

West_aust · #**588** Posted **Sep 24, 2014, 8:15 PM**

Picture I took of Rene-Levesque in Montreal

MolsonExport · #**589** Posted **Sep 24, 2014, 8:31 PM**

^bad-assed canyon. Good ol' Boul. Rene Levesque.

Rico Rommheim · #**590** Posted **Sep 24, 2014, 8:54 PM**

Nice view from Le V!

I think rene-Levesque is the bad-ass canyon that never was. Look at all the ugly, sub-par, short and stubby concrete towers they've built east of PVM. What a shame. It's as if they decided to build 3 big towers (PVM, CIBC, Telus) and then just gave up and built low and mid-rises four the rest of the stretch.

isaidso · #**591** Posted **Sep 24, 2014, 9:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

Nice view from Le V!

I think rene-Levesque is the bad-ass canyon that never was. Look at all the ugly, sub-par, short and stubby concrete towers they've built east of PVM. What a shame. It's as if they decided to build 3 big towers (PVM, CIBC, Telus) and then just gave up and built low and mid-rises four the rest of the stretch.

It will happen eventually. The best buildings will survive and the sub par eventually get re-developed. It will look more impressive 50 years from now. How far east does one have to go before the Mont Royal induced height restrictions no longer apply? Can you build 200-400m where Radio Canada is?

Chadillaccc · #**592** Posted **Sep 24, 2014, 9:38 PM**

I believe Montreal's height restriction is city-wide.

Innsertnamehere · #**593** Posted **Sep 25, 2014, 4:12 AM**

So a 300m tall version of this is Montreals best hope then?

Rico Rommheim · #**594** Posted **Sep 25, 2014, 4:55 AM**

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Originally Posted by isaidso

Can you build 200-400m where Radio Canada is?

Nothing over 10 floors is being built around radio-canada. I beleive that on the actual grounds themselves which are do be re-developed soon, nothing over 40-45m will be built. At that point Rene-Levesque is basically a sleepy residential nowhere.

leftimage · #**595** Posted **Sep 25, 2014, 5:27 AM**

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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

So a 300m tall version of this is Montreals best hope then?

This building makes me physically ill... at least make it all-red brick. Petition?

Brizzy82 · #**596** Posted **Sep 25, 2014, 6:36 PM**

downtown Winnipeg is too spread out to be really canyonesque but here are a few shots from street view

Nouvellecosse · #**597** Posted **Sep 25, 2014, 10:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

So a 300m tall version of this is Montreals best hope then?

I love that building! I just wish it was wider and had a few antennas on it. Particularly the red and white kind. And maybe a large satellite dish.

Delirium · #**598** Posted **Sep 25, 2014, 10:24 PM**

looking down seymour st

Photo by Mindfuel https://www.flickr.com/photos/mindfu...54099/sizes/l/

isaidso · #**599** Posted **Sep 27, 2014, 2:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

Nothing over 10 floors is being built around radio-canada. I beleive that on the actual grounds themselves which are do be re-developed soon, nothing over 40-45m will be built. At that point Rene-Levesque is basically a sleepy residential nowhere.

The question was whether one is permitted to build 200-400m, not whether they are or will in the near future. If Montreal can sustain its current growth, within 50 years downtown might stretch all the way to east to the bridge. It the height restrictions aren't imposed as one moves a certain distance from Mont Royal, developers might be convinced to build a new cluster here.

Many didn't think Toronto's office towers would gravitate south of the tracks, but they did. Quebec City's new downtown is way west of Old Quebec. The same thing could easily happen in Montreal. It's impossible to predict that far in the future, but Montreal's big CBD might be 20 blocks east of where it currently is by 2065.

Rico Rommheim · #**600** Posted **Sep 27, 2014, 3:33 PM**

Allow me to clarify then, the height limit around the CBC is very low. Somewhere in the ball park of 10-15 floors. At this point we are no longer in downtown, but in a quiet residential area. The montreal master plan only allows only low and midrises in this part of the city.