Great Canadian Suburban Skyline Thread!

[ScreamingViking]

Originally Posted by Metro-One

And just like that, Surrey has a real skyline. It actually happened.

Surrey with the fringe on top!
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2xktmj

[Harley613]

35+26s 123.3/93.6m towers have just been proposed in Barrhaven, Ottawa's largest satellite city South of the greenbelt.

1034 McGarry Terrace

[giallo]

Surrey's growing skyline

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[Denscity]

Great vid giallo.
Surrey gonna look like Calgary one day.

[giallo]

Originally Posted by Denscity

Great vid giallo.
Surrey gonna look like Calgary one day.

Thanks, Denscity!

[MonkeyRonin]

Metrotown from Brentwood:


Burnaby by Henry Dowling, on Flickr

[zahav]

Great shot MonkeyRonin! I took the Millennium Line from Inlet Centre to Commerical Broadway yesterday. It was wild to see the Metrotown skyline so massive, and you could see Surrey quite well and their skyline looked unrecognizable, so impressive now. Obviously being on the M Line, you couldn't see Brentwood's skyline because you were right in it, but you can really appreciate the continuous density on both sides (but especially the south side) when riding the train right through it. Port Moody will have a very decent cluster with the new Coronation Heights (8 towers) and Coronation Park (5 towers) going in right beside each other, and across the street from the 3 Suter Brook high-rises and the two Klahanie ones (plus the few older high-rises in Newport Village. I don't know the area well enough to know where the best vantage point will be to take it all in (if that's even possible physically), but will be a very dense area. Funnily enough, one of the parcels is within Port Moody, and the other is Coquitlam, but they are right beside each other, the municipal boundary is the road between the two. That likely was a bonus for both cities, since neither city could have objections to the other building up super dense highrises. Ie. if both properties were in Port Moody, Coquitlam probably would have tried to do something to stop it. The Coquitlam neighbourhood bordering the easternmost parcel is single family and townhouse, but very built up and relatively newish (80s/early 90s I think?). Nothing like the much older and more sparse SF properties that used to be on the Port Moody parcel, it was way under utilized for such a prominent area (newly prominent and growing). So if both parcels were Port Moody projects, I could see Coquitlam doing something to tone down the density. But since both cities have the same type of proposals, everyone is happy (except maybe the SF/townhouse neighbourhood that will have a wall of towers right there lol, but it's happening. And so glad both cities went in full blast with the number of units. Chances to redevelop parcels this size are rare, so going in low density would be a mistake future generations would feel.