Future Canadian Skylines

[caltrane74]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Rumours around Cowtown say otherwise. Lots of speculation Imperial Oil will be the main tenant and that Brookfield wants a statement making building.

Not saying it isn't possible, just repeating Whippersnappers quips.

Although, asking Brookfield to make a "Statement" is like asking Warren Buffet to go to the Las Vegas Casino and have a good time.

[Ramako]

If Brookfield builds some iconic masterpiece in Calgary and leaves Toronto with another plain box in the form of Bay-Adelaide Centre East, I'm going to be really frustrated.

[LeftCoaster]

They wont.

They will build an architectural statement. It will just be in New York.

[Chadillaccc]

We'll see

[CtrlAltDel]

What Calgary will get:

From Brookfield

What I wish:

By me, based on the now-dead proposal by SOM Architects for San Francisco Transbay redevelopment

What I would be happy to settle for:

By me, based on the Brookfield proposal in New York

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by CtrlAltDel

What Calgary will get:

From Brookfield

That's downright eerie. For a second there I thought you'd just added a second tower to the Herald Square proposal before realizing the obvious. I'm still optimistic though.

[Chadillaccc]

Excellent work man! Both proposals would be amazing.

Originally Posted by CtrlAltDel

What I wish:

By me, based on the now-dead proposal by SOM Architects for San Francisco Transbay redevelopment

What I would be happy to settle for:

By me, based on the Brookfield proposal in New York

[patm]

I will donate $50 to the charity of the forums choice if Hearld Square is taller then the bow.

[O-tacular]

Granted Brookfield's portfolio isn't very encouraging but for once I'm optimistic they'll break the mould. They've indicated they wanted to do something 'befitting the site' and I can't see that being Bay Adelaide 2.0. Even an accountant could see that being a wasted opportunity. Though I'm convinced they'll do twins of some variety (as if Calgary needed more)

The thing I am worried will happen though is that they'll either go tall and plain or medium and bold. It would just be too good to be true if they were to actually give Calgary a new tallest of the caliber of the Bow.

[PoscStudent]

The east end of St. John's could potentially look like this after two 16 story residential high rises are constructed.

Originally Posted by jeddy1989

Here is a rough photoshop I did of what two 16 story buildings in the tiffany development could look like



Because of how the land slopes these buildings will look significantly higher

[Chadillaccc]

Originally Posted by PoscStudent

The east end of St. John's could potentially look like this after two 16 story residential high rises are constructed.

Wouldn't that make them, by far, the tallest buildings in St. John's? How unfortunate. Someone needs to do a good render of what St. John's will look like with Fortis, 351 Water, Deacon, and the Hilton all finished. Maybe add in the Fortis and TD reclads too

[PoscStudent]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Wouldn't that make them, by far, the tallest buildings in St. John's? How unfortunate. Someone needs to do a good render of what St. John's will look like with Fortis, 351 Water, Deacon, and the Hilton all finished. Maybe add in the Fortis and TD reclads too

They'd be the tallest. I think there might be some renderings of what the skyline will look like in our main thread, I'll check.

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Wouldn't that make them, by far, the tallest buildings in St. John's? How unfortunate.

Agree. You don't want your more significant buildings to be depressing commie blocks. If they were the size of a house few would have to look at them, but something that size in a city like St. John's should be pleasing to the eye.

I'm not very impressed with what I see coming out of St. John's. If Halifax can build good looking modern buildings, so can they.

[PoscStudent]

Originally Posted by isaidso

Agree. You don't want your more significant buildings to be depressing commie blocks. If they were the size of a house few would have to look at them, but something that size in a city like St. John's should be pleasing to the eye.

I'm not very impressed with what I see coming out of St. John's. If Halifax can build good looking modern buildings, so can they.

They may not look like what Jeddy put in the render. The plan for the development has changed and all we know is that there will be two sixteen story condos, the first building constructed a few years back was brick.

[Marty_Mcfly]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Wouldn't that make them, by far, the tallest buildings in St. John's? How unfortunate.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Floor wise they'd potentially be the highest, only matching Southcott Hall. But with the floor height differences between residential and office they may make the towers shorter. The tallest building downtown is at 63m.

In any sense, these buildings wouldn't be easily noticeable from downtown. And the design could actually be nice, nothing has been released about the buildings yet. The schematic was only really based on the existing building, which isn't all that attractive to begin with.

As for a future skyline image, I believe I may have posted one back a few pages. It's missing the Deacon Investments office building, it's just slightly left of the image. It doesn't have the TD reclad on it, though the two buildings may not be hugely different from afar. That image also includes a few other proposals: The Mirador (9-storey condo/parking on Duckworth Street), Compusult (5-storey office building next door to 351 at 349 water street), and an 8-storey hotel proposed at the corner of Prescott and Water (across the street from Fortis and TD)

EDIT: Okay, it was a lot of pages back. This was made by Architype. It should also be mentioned that the Hilton proposal has been completely redesigned apparently, though we still haven't seen the new renderings.




As well, there is another hotel proposal for the general area of new Fortis/Deacon/Hilton developments.

[Innsertnamehere]

looks like Canadian Business has found my model, and deemed it article worthy

http://www.canadianbusiness.com/blog...-like-in-2020?

and here is the latest update, from the end of august



the entire model in one view:



the future CN Tower view:



my favourite view of the future skyline:



and the latest toronto mega-proposal:

[Nouvellecosse]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

looks like Canadian Business has found my model, and deemed it article worthy

http://www.canadianbusiness.com/blog...-like-in-2020?

Oh wow, you're only 17?!? That's so cute! I had no idea.

[koops65]

Here's a project I've been working on for some time now, making a 3D model of downtown Toronto. Still needs some improvements, but it's starting to look good enough now to post some screenshots. All of the latest proposals are included, as of last week anyways.

Overview, from the northwest:
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And from the southeast:
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The CBD and Clubland:
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Yorkville and the north end of Yonge Street:
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Looking north:
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Yorkville, looking south:
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Clubland, Southcore and Citiplace:
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Looking north from the lake, the traditional postcard view:
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And now for some dramatic shots, stuff you can't do with Google Sketchup...

All of downtown, from the west, just before sunset:
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All of downtown, from the east, just after sunrise:
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Looking up at the towers of the CBD, at night:
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Looking west, at sunset:
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[vegeta_skyline]

My gawd koops...
You've really outdone yourself now.

On a side note its ridiculous how I barely even noticed or paid attention to some of the bigger projects proposed just a few years back,(i.e. 88 Scott, U condo's, CASA 2, INDX, 43 Simcoe & 156 Front) with my eyes just instinctively focusing on how all the recent mega proposals will look on the skyline.

[SignalHillHiker]

Oh wow, congratulations!

And SO much blue... that's nice to see.