Future Canadian Skylines

[dleung]

I noticed you added a bunch of fantasy proposals in orange. Now it's always easy to add tons of buildings, but my curiosity and challenge to you would be where and how would you distribute buildings and height if you can only add 1000m total?

Originally Posted by AndrewJM3D

[Andrewjm3D]

1000m!!!!!!!!! or did you mean 1000ft?

I made that render for Isaidso who said there was room for 500 more towers. It's not possible without destroying half of the built form in the core. Also looking at that render, wouldn't a reverse Central Park style city be cool? One where is a confined rectangle like that surrounded by park and forest. No burbs.

[Ramako]

Originally Posted by Andrewjm3D

Also looking at that render, wouldn't a reverse Central Park style city be cool? One where is a confined rectangle like that surrounded by park and forest. No burbs.

Check out Adelaide, Australia

[Andrewjm3D]

Ya except Adelaide's parks suck, and it's completely boxed in by it's burbs.

Dleung, I think 1000m would look silly, the highest I could see something ever going would be 600m with a spire in the year 2120.

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by Andrewjm3D

Ya except Adelaide's parks suck, and it's completely boxed in by it's burbs.

Really? I think it's great.

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by Andrewjm3D

1000m!!!!!!!!! or did you mean 1000ft?

I made that render for Isaidso who said there was room for 500 more towers. It's not possible without destroying half of the built form in the core. Also looking at that render, wouldn't a reverse Central Park style city be cool? One where is a confined rectangle like that surrounded by park and forest. No burbs.

I'd say that only half the buildings in core are worth saving. Regarding parks, I think Moss Park and Allan Gardens would have made a great downtown park if they were joined to form a giant park from Carlton down to Queen. It would mean bulldozing 2 long blocks of residential between the 2, but rezoning the perimeter of the new park for highrise residential would replace the housing stock lost (all be it condos), and give Toronto that big downtown park it lacks.

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by isaidso

I'd say that only half the buildings in core are worth saving. Regarding parks, I think Moss Park and Allan Gardens would have made a great downtown park if they were joined to form a giant park from Carlton down to Queen. It would mean bulldozing 2 long blocks of residential between the 2, but rezoning the perimeter of the new park for highrise residential would replace the housing stock lost (all be it condos), and give Toronto that big downtown park it lacks.

I disagree only half the buildings in the core are worth saving however, your "Central Park" plan is actually the most reasonable (still a waste) I've heard to this date.

[dleung]

I meant 1000m total, as in made up of however many buildings you like. For Vancouver, I'd go with six 140-200m towers along Alberni St. Will dig up old renders when i have the time.

[Chadillaccc]

dude... he was saying only adding 1000 meters worth of fantasy towers. It could be a 600 meter tower and a 400 meter tower... or a 350 meter tower, a 250 meter and two 200 meter towers. As long as it = 1000 meters in total.

[Andrewjm3D]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

dude... he was saying only adding 1000 meters worth of fantasy towers. It could be a 600 meter tower and a 400 meter tower... or a 350 meter tower, a 250 meter and two 200 meter towers. As long as it = 1000 meters in total.

I read his post wrong. And we already have over 1000m going up in the core right now.

[whiteford]

a 1000m tower would look great as a strait box imo. tall and slender and square. black too. dont forget black. the darth vader look.

[yaletown_fella]

It sucks how L tower will be so prominent.

[vegeta_skyline]

Nice. But I gotta say, somebody sure likes spires and 'pointy hats'.

Originally Posted by yaletown_fella

It sucks how L tower will be so prominent.

What? Letme guess, your one of those hating on it after 2 floors of cladding. But you do realize that it won't look nearly that prominent when all the highrises south of the tracks are taken into consideration, right?

[Travis007]

Great models, Insertnamehere and Andrew!

With intensification happening all over downtown, all we need now is the stretch on Yonge from Gerrard down to Queen to step up its game.

[whiteford]

i actualy ment to say a 1000m building. lol that's what would look good.

[dleung]

Vancouver 3d. I added about 1500m worth of fantasy proposals... I focused it all in one area where I think it'll have the best impact on the skyline.

Green: construction
Blue: proposed/approved
Yellow: fantasy

[dleung]

Originally Posted by vegeta skyline

Nice. But I gotta say, somebody sure likes spires and 'pointy hats'.

I don't like decourative spires... those are antennae, and the messier the better. I don't like "hats" either; it implies a sloped, inaccessible surface, whereas I prefer "fins" that render rooftops more usable.

This is a dleung-approved fantasy tower for Vancouver, created in 5 minutes. It's 180m (measured to fins), and has 7000sf residential floorplates and 25,000sf office floorplates.

[vegeta_skyline]

Well that makes things clearer, they looked like hat's and spires from a distance.
I'll certainly concede that accessible rooftops protected with sloped fins are a good idea and provide a nice aesthetic but whats the deal with the messy antenna's, that a fetish of yours?

[dleung]

Yea i have a fetish for antennae... I'm a fan of high-tech aesthetics and Richard Rogers is my hero. But even if the the towers were as you thought they were, I still have a hard time understanding why it would be worse than a flat inaccessible roof. "pointy hats" is clearly a pejorative, and implies something tacked on, as opposed to part of the vertical expression.

To me, only the ones in the left image are "hats"

http://www.planetware.com

[whiteford]

please do the blue/green thing with Calgary. i would also love to see the too-scale comparison with Vancouver and Calgary. that would be very interesting to see.