The Great Canadian Skyline Thread!

[LeftCoaster]

Originally Posted by Prometheus

Vancouver View from City Hall Roof by jenn chan, on Flickr

This picture is just ridiculous, the density, the colour, the light. Beautiful.

[Denscity]

Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

This picture is just ridiculous, the density, the colour, the light. Beautiful.

That's what I thought!

[Chadillaccc]

Those Van and Toronto shots are incredible.




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[speedog]

On a strictly built up basis, Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal all make Calgary look quite bush league still. Toronto and Vancouver on their impressive broad expanses of towers and Montreal, well it's Montreal. Been to all three, like Montreal the most, just so much to discover there and this from someone who's lived in Calgary for over 36 years.

[Mrs Sauga]

Well duh, those 3 cities are a lot bigger.

[Nouvellecosse]

I don't think it's just the size. The difference in size between those 3 is bigger than the difference between Calgary and Vancouver. And if you look at a city like QC, it's very built up despite being even smaller than Calgary. I think it's a combination of age, geography, and planning practices.

[Chadillaccc]

I'd say it's equal parts all of those things and add in size difference and number of economically stagnant years in the 20th century. A lot of Calgary's beautiful historic built form was destroyed because we really only had like 5 economically stagnant years in the entire century. Our heritage buildings are being destroyed to this day actually, with the demolition of the Cecil Hotel this morning.

[TallBob]

Calgary's skyline has all of it's tall buildings in a small area and close together.... Even though Montreal and Vancouver buildings have shorter heights, they look much more impressive! When Calgary gets some height in the Beltline, EV, and the West side....it will look a lot more expansive/impressive, IMO.

[Delirium]

Photo by Frannz Morzo https://www.flickr.com/photos/123735838@N04/23510208672/in/dateposted/

[Martin Mtl]

Pic by Morten Blinksbjerg Nielsen on flickr

[Surrealplaces]

Good Morning Calgary by Surrealplaces, on Flickr

[caltrane74]

Calgary looks good no worries. I think it has the most impressive "skyscraper" skyline outside of Toronto.

Just looking at it on a tower basis.

Of course Vancouver and Montreal have far more buildings and density on an overall basis... Vancouver has setting, Montreal has urban character.

[Surrealplaces]

Originally Posted by caltrane74

Calgary looks good no worries. I think it has the most impressive "skyscraper" skyline outside of Toronto.

Just looking at it on a tower basis.

Of course Vancouver and Montreal have far more buildings and density on an overall basis... Vancouver has setting, Montreal has urban character.

Montreal's skyline is nice even just as a skyline of tall buildings. It's good a good variety. I'm not a fan of Vancouver's simply because all the buildings are the same. The setting is undeniably great though.

[Jeff]

red river still not frozen in peg city today by me:

[Laceoflight]

Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

Pic by Morten Blinksbjerg Nielsen on flickr

Wow, I LOVE what they did with Place du Canada!

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by thomax

Hamilton - Uptown, Downtown, & The Harbour by urbanmoon, on Twitter

Whoa, almost didn't recognize that place. Great Hammer shot.

[MolsonExport]

No city lost more heritage buildings than Montreal. No city had more vintage buildings than those accumulated over a couple of centuries of Montreal history. Drapeau wiped out half of the old city, most of Chinatown, 2/3 of the McGill Ghetto, all of Shaughnessy Village. Long gone Square Mile. Almost nothing survived the makeovers of Boul. de Maisonneuve and Boul. Rene Levesque. Then there are the formerly bombed out landscape south of Windsor Station, Griffintown, The Point, The Faubourg à M'Lasse (now the wretched Maison Radio Canada), the long lost Bonaventure Station, the list goes on and on and on.

[SkahHigh]

IMG_2764 by Zvi Leve, sur Flickr

[shappy]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

No city lost more heritage buildings than Montreal. No city had more vintage buildings than those accumulated over a couple of centuries of Montreal history. Drapeau wiped out half of the old city, most of Chinatown, 2/3 of the McGill Ghetto, all of Shaughnessy Village. Long gone Square Mile. Almost nothing survived the makeovers of Boul. de Maisonneuve and Boul. Rene Levesque. Then there are the formerly bombed out landscape south of Windsor Station, Griffintown, The Point, The Faubourg à M'Lasse (now the wretched Maison Radio Canada), the long lost Bonaventure Station, the list goes on and on and on.

It'd be interesting to quantify this because Toronto lost a shit-ton as well. Off the top of my head: St. Jamestown was like another modern day Cabbagetown, Regent Park had it survived redevelopment would be a pretty special place today, the large fire of 1904 that wiped out the area that is now the CBD. Chunk of Corktown to make way for the DVP ramps. What is left of St. Lawrence market is a fraction of what was there before. Sherbourne and Jarvis were pummelled... etc. The quality of buildings were of higher quality in Montreal, I imagine, but I'm curious about the quantity.

[Klazu]

Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

This picture is just ridiculous, the density, the colour, the light. Beautiful.

This is why I keep repeating that the City should open an official observation platform on top of City Hall (from where this is taken from).