The Great Canadian Skyline Thread!

[GreaterMontréal]

Ottawa veut transférer les ponts Champlain, Mercier et Jacques-Cartier au Québec et à Montréal

http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/montr...er-jacques-cartier-quebec-montreal.shtml

[Denscity]

Sensitive topic when younger brother inspires older brother. Lots of Vancouver developers sometimes with Vancouver architects have built towers in Toronto. Nothing wrong with that either.

[lio45]

Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

I'm going to have to go back and re-read a few pages as I see all this drama but I can't recall anything happening that would have started it all. Like some sort of spontaneous dramatic combustion.

Metro-One was mostly referring to another thread, the "is there a housing bubble at the moment" thread. You can notice that in his rants in this thread (the Skyline thread) he brings me up a few times though I haven't been posting at all in this thread (not even checking it out, actually) for a while as I'm not that interested in skyline pics in the first place... so, obviously, what ticked him off happened somewhere else.

FWIW, I personally don't think there was much drama over there, the drama was IMO mostly in the head of a tiny handful of BC SSPers. Now back to skylines for you guys.

[Klazu]

Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

The champlain bridge is the busiest in the country. beyond commuting, the bridge is an important transport/shipping link between Canada and the US. and from the ROC to the maritimes.

Thank you for the background. Wikipedia is a bit conflicting on how busy this bridge really is and makes claims without any references, but it seems to deal with a lot of traffic (most of which must be local commuting traffic).

Good to hear that they will be tolling it. Our local media was spinning the story quite differently and calling it a purely local bridge since it is not even part of Trans-Canada Highway. Something similar to our George Massey Tunnel between Vancouver and Seattle, which has not been securing federal money despite being a severe earthquake risk.

Anyways, the new bridge looks very good and having it ready by 2018 sounds very fast!

[Klazu]

Originally Posted by Denscity

Sensitive topic when younger brother inspires older brother. Lots of Vancouver developers sometimes with Vancouver architects have built towers in Toronto. Nothing wrong with that either.

Think Concord Pacific.

Originally Posted by TownGuy

If you ever read something that I write that you don't like it was just a tease also...

I suggest that you take your sarcasm radar for repair and ask them to check why it fails to interpret winking smilies properly. Here's one for an post-repair test:

[Denscity]

Originally Posted by Klazu

Think Concord Pacific.



I suggest that you take your sarcasm radar for repair and ask them to check why it fails to interpret winking smilies properly. Here's one for an after-repair test:

Yes Concord (Pacific), Westbank, Pinnacle... (theres more).

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by Klazu

Also Vancouver has some 70s/80s examples of similar development nearby Granville Island, but who was first was not the point. The point was that Vancouver seems to be doing this kind of waterfront development very successfully. Our Seawall is the only Canadian waterfront that is truly world-famous and has gathered lots of recognition by city planners and people alike. I don't remember hearing much about other cities' waterfronts, so Vancouver seems clearly be setting an example on what great waterfront development looks like.

And let's not forget that there are also other things Vancouver has inspired - even its own style of city planning, Vancouverism. I think that is a pretty remarkable feat for a small city. Vancouver being so well-known around the world is pretty amazing as well, so we are clearly doing many things right.

The comment about Toronto taking a cue was of course just a small tease that did not warrant the attention that followed. Knowing this forum I am not surprised that it did, but it was unwarranted and thus pretty hilarious.



Well, there must be something to it when so many people want to live here even despite the crazy housing prices...

Wow are you ever insular.

[WhipperSnapper]

Cityplace was built by Concord Adex which is a subsidiary of Concord Pacific. The architects are Page+Steele, architectsAlliance, KPMB, KPF, Raw Design, HOK. The original masterplanning was done by IBI Group so there's your Vancouver connection. I can't remember if they did the revised built version.

[TownGuy]

Originally Posted by Klazu

Think Concord Pacific.



I suggest that you take your sarcasm radar for repair and ask them to check why it fails to interpret winking smilies properly. Here's one for an after-repair test:

Yeah I get It. Make an insidious comment with a smug little smilie and get off the hook. No one buys that shit.

[Ramako]

Personally I'd prefer not to think of Concord.

[WhipperSnapper]

Concord is not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. It's a scapegoat for everything wrong with the condo boom.

I don't see the significance of a master planned community whether it's on the waterfront or in the middle of a desert. Both Toronto and Vancouver have a rich history of planning and development with many accolades and international attention. Vancourism, St Lawrence Neighbourhood, Don Mills, etc. There's really only a handful of companies in Canada working on these large communities which is why these developments whether in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, etc. all look the same.

[Prometheus]

Photo by Spryguy: https://www.flickr.com/photos/66107179@N04/17366308633/in/photostream/lightbox/

[logan5]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

There's really only a handful of companies in Canada working on these large communities which is why these developments whether in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, etc. all look the same.

I think it's more of a case of lowest common denominator. Portland's Pearl District looks very much like Yaletown, and a lot of Seattle developments look Vancouverish or Torontoish. Pick a city. I was looking at a redevelopment in Buenos Aires recently, and what do you know, it looks like Yaletown. I don't think there's any particular style developers aspire to, their main priority is to build at the lowest cost possible. To market something as "Vancouverism" is a way of putting lipstick on a pig.

[SkahHigh]

Montreal Cityscape by hm.pix, sur Flickr

[dleung]

I like to think that Concord Pacific looks nothing like Cityplace

[Klazu]

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[Pinion]

City of North Vancouver yesterday

Vancouver by chrisjohann, on Flickr

Vancouver across the inlet

Vancouver by chrisjohann, on Flickr

[Ramako]

^^^

Gotta say I like the Vancouver skyline better without the mountains in the background.

[Metro-One]

In general the architecture along the north shore of the peninsula (as seen in the picture above) is far more varied and of higher quality than the south shore. The south shore though will be improving quite a bit over the coming few years.