Future Canadian Skylines

[Chadillaccc]

We all know it's part of the cma. I was talking about cities, that's why I refuted the comparison, that is all.

[isaidso]

I think Burlington will eventually return back into the Hamilton fold as Hamilton grows and the whole CMA becomes better integrated.

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

We all know it's part of the cma. I was talking about cities, that's why I refuted the comparison, that is all.

My post wasn't directed at you. Btw, you'd be surprised how many people don't know that Burlington is part of the Hamilton CMA. Most people don't know what a CMA is actually.

[Beedok]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

We all know it's part of the cma. I was talking about cities, that's why I refuted the comparison, that is all.

City boundaries are fairly irrelevant though. Gatineau's skyline has more to do with Ottawa's than anything out in Kanata. From what I can tell on Google Earth Sainte Foy is about 7 kilometres from downtown Quebec, Burlington is 9 from downtown Hamilton. That's not much of a difference and the two cities are linked. Burlington was almost amalgamated into Hamilton in the 70s apparently anyway, if that helps.

[caltrane74]

Burlington is part of the Toronto - GTA

It is also a part of the Hamilton CMA.

It lies right next to Toronto's wealthiest 905 suburb, Oakville.

Remember cities are creatures of the province, the Federal Government has no authority of municipal boundaries and law making. That is the preserve of the Province, the Toronto GTA, was created by the province as a means to plan growth in the Toronto Centred region, and is the term most people use, not the Toronto CMA. (Federal Measure)

[Chadillaccc]

Be that as it may, my original point is clear... all I was doing is complimenting Quebec City on being able to maintain and grow two large, easily identifiable skylines within its boundaries and it's not even a million people! I think that's pretty awesome. Both of its skylines even have building(s) over 100 meters now! & if memory serves, I believe the first(shorter) tower of Complexe Jules Dallaire can/will have extra floors added to it in the future, making it potentially another 100 meter building. Maybe someone from Quebec City could confirm this though...

[Darkcanadian]

I confirm Chadillacc, and I just want to tell you, there is possibility to have many highrise at ste-foy with a 2 other complex( 27 and 12 storeys office building just right next to the 100m tower being built and 4 other office building in the 30 storeys range) proposed. All this will be built in the same area, so in maybe 10 years the face of ste-foy and Quebec city will be changed in the right direction, I hope


And I hope you will understand my sentence, I'm not really good in english ahah sorry if you don't get all :p

[Chadillaccc]

Your post was perfectly coherent! Not to worry. Thanks for the response! I knew that there were also other tall prosals for Ste Foy but I had now idea the breadth of it all, wow, potentially five towers over 100 meters plus the addition to CJD 1 plus a 12 storey office building? Impressive. So happy to see all of Canada doing so great. I think I say that way too often

[kevinbottawa]

Here's a graphic from the Ottawa Citizen showing the proposals for the Dow's Lake area at various stages. These are only the proposals that are in the works. It'll be a nice skyline.



Here's a corresponding article about the urbanization of this part of Ottawa:

http://www.ottawacitizenstyle.com/ca...-urbanization/

[1ajs]

blue proposed going through sales leasing
red proposed
green under construction

[Chadillaccc]

Excellent! Even just the projects UC are gonna have a major effect on the skyline!

[roccerfeller]

here's the other one in the Winnipeg thread, same colour scheme as 1ajs's

Green - U/C
Blue - Near ready for construction
Red - Known but need some work for them to proceed

Credit goes to Biff for the placements and trueviking for the original photo



The red one, if it goes through, will become the new tallest tower between Toronto and Calgary (which isn't saying much since Regina and Thunder Bay I suppose would be the two largest centres "between" T dot and cowtown, I suppose) a position currently held by 201 Portage, or the bage and green tower in the middle of the tall 3 ones on the left

[Chadillaccc]

Calgary's FUTURE(istic) skyline!

Originally Posted by CtrlAltDel

Here is a quick stab at it. My photoshop (and my renders) are at home, which I still cannot go back to for a few weeks, but this gives a rough idea...

[vegeta_skyline]

Nice, but at the same time it'll give Calgary more of a plateau skyline. The city could use something to 'breakthrough' in the future.

[TallBob]

Calgary needs an 800 footer on the west end and a couple of 900 footers in the center of the core.

[Chadillaccc]

Absolutely. Herald Square, being closer to the centre of the skyline, will somewhat help mitigate this issue, but not nearly enough. Though it will finally create somewhat of a peak in the skyline with the main tower of Herald Square being directly adjacent to the main tower of Suncor Energy Centre on the other side of the intersection.

[travis3000]

So excited to see Calgary in 5 years from now. There are two game changing towers on the way!

[Chadillaccc]

Originally Posted by travis3000

So excited to see Calgary in 5 years from now. There are two game changing towers on the way!

Yeah man, the faces of Canada's 6 largest cities will be completely unrecognizable by 2018 - 19. So many awesome and tall proposals in every city. Would love to see Quebec City hop on this wagon too, they kind of have with CJD II but I mean in the central DT core. Hopefully the Fortress proposal in Winnipeg and the Carmen and Connaught proposals in Hamilton will all turn out nicely!

[FrAnKs]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

. Would love to see Quebec City hop on this wagon too, they kind of have with CJD II but I mean in the central DT core.

I only know ONE highrise of about 15 storeys being built in the central core of Québec city in the next years.

He will be built next to the Hilton on this podium : https://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=fr&ll...01533&t=k&z=20

The podium is a good 5-6 storeys so far, then the new highrise will looks like of a 20fl. and more !

See page 43 / 70 of the PPU : https://www.ville.quebec.qc.ca/envir...e/docs/ppu.pdf

Now, OUTSIDE of the Centrale core, there is two highrises that may go up in the next years aswell, here's the first one :


In Ste-foy on Laurier Boulevard :


The next one is a mixed-use of condos & hotel and will be built in Downtown Lévis.
He will be the Lévis tallest of all times :


Otherwise, Québec city is more a city of Midrises, between 5 and 10 storeys I would say. I do like Midrises, they're doing such a nice job in densification with more discretion than highrises !

[chrisallard5454]

Those Calgary proposals look amazing. I agree with Chad, that they will create multi-building peak, that slants downward as it starts heading away from the five tallest.

[Calgarian]

The city I want to see something happen in is Hamilton, I'm still mystified that none of the boom in TO has trickled down to Hamilton.