Great Canadian Skyline Thread II

[Coldrsx]

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[Martin Mtl]

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[Nouvellecosse]

Originally Posted by JHikka

I was thinking of how much of a shame it is that such prime land is soaked up by golf courses.

Yeah golf courses suck. The sheer amount of land, water, fertilizer and energy required to provide amusement to such a small number of people. So not worth it.

[Repthe250]

Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

Yeah golf courses suck. The sheer amount of land, water, fertilizer and energy required to provide amusement to such a small number of people. So not worth it.

Especially when they’re only operational 6 months out of the year.

[LFC]

Originally Posted by JHikka

I was thinking of how much of a shame it is that such prime land is soaked up by golf courses.

And I was thinking how nice that course would be to play one summer….

[craner]

^Ha ya - me too.

[Rico Rommheim]

Here's my solution for those silly golf courses:

[JHikka]

I mean, shooting golfers is definitely not something I would condone (yikes), but I wouldn't be totally sad to see urban golf courses expropriated for better uses like, uh, housing. Sorry, upper middle class folks and corporate parties.

[Hawrylyshyn]

Even if not housing, turn them into large public parks to keep the green space but enable more people to access it

[O-tacular]

There’s a former city owned golf course in Calgary that was sold to a developer years ago but requires flooding mitigation which the developer was not aware of and now it sits as a semi wild / abandoned pseudo park space. Last of Us should film there as it feels post apocalyptic.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

Here's my solution for those silly golf courses:

I don’t remember that scene from Falling Down.

Edit: here we go. What an underrated movie.

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[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

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Montreal and her lovely layers. You delight in undressing each part.

[Rico Rommheim]

I'm just glad that the city's skyline is guaranteed to always have two marquee classic skyscrapers clearly visible (Aldred + RBC).

I think we're down to only 2 Canadian cities (Mtl + Quebec City) where classic skyscrapers still have prominent positions in the skyline.

[J.OT13]

Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

I'm just glad that the city's skyline is guaranteed to always have two marquee classic skyscrapers clearly visible (Aldred + RBC).

I think we're down to only 2 Canadian cities (Mtl + Quebec City) where classic skyscrapers still have prominent positions in the skyline.

When I read RBC, I thought you meant Place Ville-Marie, which is slowly getting obscured. As in most major Canadian city, even the international style mid-century towers that dominated for 40-50 years are being overtaken by taller, larger towers, or blander towers of similar height in some cases.

[Harley613]

Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

I'm just glad that the city's skyline is guaranteed to always have two marquee classic skyscrapers clearly visible (Aldred + RBC).

I think we're down to only 2 Canadian cities (Mtl + Quebec City) where classic skyscrapers still have prominent positions in the skyline.

3 including Place de Ville/Terrasses de la Chaudière in Ottawa-Gatineau

[Friedrich Nietzsche]

Originally Posted by Harley613

3 including Place de Ville/Terrasses de la Chaudière in Ottawa-Gatineau

He said skyscrapers, not stubbies

[q12]

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[someone123]

I wouldn't call it a skyscraper but you can see an Art Deco highrise building in that Halifax shot. Queen's Marque makes the scale a bit more obvious. I think it's 10 storeys on the side with the balconies and that only goes about halfway up to the top of the dome. Bank of NS is visible there too and I think it's only 6 or 7 floors but it has tall floor heights, maybe to the point where it's tied with some 10-12 storey residential buildings.

[J.OT13]

Originally Posted by Friedrich Nietzsche

He said skyscrapers, not stubbies

Those Ottawa-Gatineau towers have a comparable heights (in some cases taller) than Aldred and RBC in Old Montreal.

That said, I think Rico was talking about pre-war skyscrapers, not those from the mid-century boom. In that case, Ottawa's skyline continues to be dominated by mid-19th to early 20th Century buildings, but none are traditional/classic skyscrapers.