The Great Canadian Skyline Thread! - Page 49

isaidso · #1 Posted **Sep 29, 2014, 2:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by Ashok

Place Bonadventure needs to go,

and replaced by a nice modern, glassy superstructure.

No thanks. It's one of the most interesting buildings in the country. Brutalist architecture isn't very popular, but some of the most significant examples of it should be protected.

Martin Mtl · #2 Posted **Sep 28, 2014, 10:53 PM**

I had never see this pic before. It's fantastic. I love the look of Old Montreal from the sky.

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FrAnKs · #3 Posted **Sep 28, 2014, 7:54 PM**

By the way. I found this Photosphere from a building Under-construction in Griffintown : https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.493915,-7...e1!3m3!1spqAvI0nUGKMAAAQYNN5SYw!2e0!3e11

Delirium · #4 Posted **Sep 28, 2014, 8:10 PM**

Photo by Sandraorourke https://www.flickr.com/photos/noparticularplace2go/15196798317/sizes/h/

Photo by Sandraorourke https://www.flickr.com/photos/noparticularplace2go/15196824657/sizes/h/

FrAnKs · #5 Posted **Sep 28, 2014, 8:10 PM**

^^ and I think it's an old picture ! No altoria, no Le V, and no griffintown boom yet.

Ashok · #6 Posted **Sep 28, 2014, 8:24 PM**

I still curse each time I walk pass that vile thing!

FrAnKs · #7 Posted **Sep 28, 2014, 8:25 PM**

Aging a little bit, but still one of my favourites ever :

https://www.flickr.com/photos/caribb/277945660/sizes/o/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/caribb/277945662/sizes/o/

Boris2k7 · #8 Posted **Sep 28, 2014, 10:32 PM**

Some Quebec City by ME

Citadel View by RemotelyBoris, on Flickr

Lower city by RemotelyBoris, on Flickr

Upper city by RemotelyBoris, on Flickr

QC Evening by RemotelyBoris, on Flickr

St. Lawrence by RemotelyBoris, on Flickr

rousseau · #9 Posted **Sep 28, 2014, 9:05 PM**

This is what I'm talking about. Montreal is no. 2 because of the stellar density surrounding the skyline, as per Ashok's photo at the top of this page. Try to imagine lower Manhattan with a Calgary-style bungalow belt north of Canal Street. See what I mean?

Ashok's photo is absolutely gorgeous. No other skyline at this height comes even remotely close to it save for Toronto.

Beedok · #10 Posted **Sep 28, 2014, 9:08 PM**

Things look so small from the air.

RyLucky · #11 Posted **Sep 28, 2014, 9:53 PM**

I love Montreal, but when you get far enough from the core, it's just as crappy and suburban as every other Canadian CMA.

Maybe Montrealers don't consider Laval and Kirkland and Brossard as part of the city, but really it's inseparable. Just like how TO has Richmond Hill and Brampton, or how Calgary has Mackenzie Towne or Saddleridge, or Vancouver has Surrey and Richmond.

That said, I'll grant that Montreal punches above its weight for how far you can walk without leaving a medium-dense corridor. Bonus points for best bagels.

It's the core and immediate periphery of each city that gives it its character, livelihood, and identity. That's why Montreal is great. It's easy to forget how mediocre its suburbs are.

FrAnKs · #12 Posted **Sep 28, 2014, 10:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by RyLucky

It's the core and immediate periphery of each city that gives it its character, livelihood, and identity. That's why Montreal is great. It's easy to forget how mediocre its suburbs are.

And how there is ...

Rico Rommheim · #13 Posted **Sep 28, 2014, 10:05 PM**

Suburban Montreal is the ugliest peripheral (non)urban sequence out of the big 3. Surburban Vancouver has cool topography, lush vegetation, solid public transit coverage and a bold planning scheme among other things. Toronto's suburbs though not particularly pretty are very ambitious (The spaced-out architecture in Mississauga) in scope and some are very multi-ethnic. Montreal just sprawls aimlessly, its architecture is uninspired and its ambitions aren't all that impressive.

FrAnKs · #14 Posted **Sep 28, 2014, 10:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

Suburban Montreal is the ugliest peripheral (non)urban sequence out of the big 3. Surburban Vancouver has cool topography, lush vegetation, solid public transit coverage and a bold planning scheme among other things. Toronto's suburbs though not particularly pretty are very ambitious (The spaced-out architecture in Mississauga) in scope and some are very multi-ethnic. Montreal just sprawls aimlessly, its architecture is uninspired and its ambitions aren't all that impressive.

I couldn't agree more. Lived all my life before 2011 in Lower-laurentians & Laval... what a boring place it is. Really.
At least I worked for a long time in St-Joseph-du-lac. It's bucolic.

miketoronto · #15 Posted **Sep 28, 2014, 10:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by FrAnKs

I couldn't agree more. Lived all my life before 2011 in Lower-laurentians & Laval... what a boring place it is. Really.
At least I worked for a long time in St-Joseph-du-lac. It's bucolic.

Are Montreal's suburbs more European in a way? Some areas of suburban Montreal could pass for apartment suburbs in Paris.

FrAnKs · #16 Posted **Sep 28, 2014, 10:35 PM**

^^^Awwww so lovely !

I'm curious

Was it your first trip here ? And how did you found the city itself & the ambiance ?

Boris2k7 · #17 Posted **Sep 28, 2014, 10:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by FrAnKs

^^^Awwww so lovely !

I'm curious

Was it your first trip here ? And how did you found the city itself & the ambiance ?

It's quite nice, and it was indeed my first trip there. I actually found the parts outside of the walls to be much more interesting than those inside. If I'd had another day I would've liked to explore some of the surrounding towns a little more.

FrAnKs · #18 Posted **Sep 28, 2014, 10:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by Boris2k7

It's quite nice, and it was indeed my first trip there. I actually found the parts outside of the walls to be much more interesting than those inside. If I'd had another day I would've liked to explore some of the surrounding towns a little more.

Definitely. Thats often what I try to show in my photo threads of the city. Cause the real life is outside of the walls. At least you visited my district ( Montcalm).
It does remind me of the Mile-end in Montréal.
I really enjoy the life here next to the Abraham plains.

Here's my last thread taken this summer : http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=212805

1overcosc · #19 Posted **Sep 28, 2014, 11:23 PM**

Most Anglo-Canadian cities are improving their game when it comes to suburbia. Ottawa's newest suburbs are laid out quite well, are decently dense, and provide a lot of pedestrian and cyclist mobility, but the city has done a horrible job expanding its transit system out to newer areas. There's one subdivision in Kanata that was built in 2012 that still doesn't have any transit at all, not even a peak period route.

In Kingston the newer suburbs just suck. They're just as bad as the old ones. Some would say that is offset by the fact that Kingston probably has one of the highest proportions of inner city growth in Canada (the inner city's share of the population is actually increasing right now), but it still bugs me.

Both Ottawa & Kingston are in the same boat as Calgary... all suburbs within city limits.

Beedok · #20 Posted **Sep 28, 2014, 11:33 PM**

Hamilton's not exactly increasing it's density, but I'm fairly certain that just by having houses very close together it manages pretty decent densities.