The Great Canadian Skyline thread for CMAs 1 million and under

[lake of the nations]

The purpose of the third leg is purely structural, but it earned her the nickname of l'ange à trois pattes (the three-legged angel).

[Wigs]

Originally Posted by rousseau

Buffalo is or was known as the Queen City. Don't know why.

Buffalo was the Queen City of the Great Lakes (after Chicago), or Queen City of NY State (i.e. New York is the King) as Buffalo is the 2nd largest city/Metropolitan Area in NY State.

and the amazing Art deco grand dame city hall definitely gives it a regal feel

[BrickJunkie]

That Sherbrooke shot actually reminds me of Kiev, believe it or not.

[Nouvellecosse]

Originally Posted by WIGS

Buffalo was the Queen City of the Great Lakes (after Chicago), or Queen City of NY State (i.e. New York is the King) as Buffalo is the 2nd largest city/Metropolitan Area in NY State.

So calling something a Queen City just means it's the second largest or most prominent city in a particular region?

[Nathan]

Originally Posted by BrickJunkie

That Sherbrooke shot actually reminds me of Kiev, believe it or not.

What's giving you that impression? Genuinely curious cause I can't see Kyiv in that picture at all.

[SkydivePilot]

Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

So calling something a Queen City just means it's the second largest or most prominent city in a particular region?

Regina is called the "Queen City" due-to-the-fact that Queen Victoria [in part] chose Regina's location. (Regina was originally to be named Wascana.)

Not to mention the fact that the word Regina is Latin for the word Queen.

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

So calling something a Queen City just means it's the second largest or most prominent city in a particular region?

I believe that was unique to Buffalo.

[FrAnKs]

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[Nouvellecosse]

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

I believe that was unique to Buffalo.

I just wish that if people are going to come up with nicknames for a city that they come up with something that:

a) Is unique (not shared with a bunch of other places)

b) Means something (has some meaning behind it that preferably isn't something stupid or trite).

Actually, I would be happy to see even one condition of the two met...

[Beedok]

So, does The Hammer pass that test?

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by Beedok

So, does The Hammer pass that test?

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[lio45]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Why does she have so many legs?

Love the white balconies on that building near the centre.

That building used to look much better with its original windows. They replaced them a couple years ago with newer ones... :-(


A few random ones of downtown Sherbrooke, among other things you can see our little downtown lake (that makes it look like Rimouski ) and the new summer landscaping of the CBD divider... (if we can call what Sherbrooke has a CBD)

All pictures by me, except one. I'll let you guess which.

[SignalHillHiker]

Wow, I didn't realize Sherbrooke had a street this dense:

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y15...IMG_2296-1.jpg

That's beautiful! Looks like there are quite a few spaces to fill in, but that's enough for a great urban sense of lifestyle.

And that mural is brilliant.

[north 42]

Wow, Sherbrooke is such a beautiful place! I feel that it's very underrated or even unnoticed by the majority of Canadians!

[lio45]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Wow, I didn't realize Sherbrooke had a street this dense:

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y15...IMG_2296-1.jpg

In fact in every single picture but one you can see "this street" (King Street, the main street of the city).

The one exception is the next-to-last with the two white Victorians, which is slightly outside downtown, and really doesn't belong in that selection at all, I just came upon it by chance (it was already among my pics that were online) and decided to include it.

If you removed that one picture you could call the whole selection of pics "King Street Downtown Sherbrooke" and it would be accurate.

That's beautiful! Looks like there are quite a few spaces to fill in, but that's enough for a great urban sense of lifestyle.

... Unfortunately the spaces aren't being filled. I'd even say, quite the contrary. Actually, barely three years ago the city forced me to replace a 4-story 100+ years old building with a parking lot, because the rehab wasn't going fast enough for them. That "empty space" is nowadays empty. I use it for parking for my other buildings next to it. (I have to admit, that parking space has been very useful since then, I can understand why people generally tend to want to tear down buildings for parking. The quality of my tenants is completely different now that they nearly all have cars.)

And I'm not the only relatively recent case of this, another building on King Street downtown happened to lose a brick that fell on the sidewalk, and the City basically forced the owner to replace it by a big hole in the urban fabric. That was a couple years ago. The gaping hole is still there...


Pics in reverse chrono order. Pics by myself.












And yes just like I like to shame Brantford on this forum for what they did I think Sherbrooke also deserves it be told online like it is!


So shame on them...

[lauscho]

Hey, new guy here, lurked this forum, especially this epic thread, in the past, and I would like to make a contribution!

Wanna see a really ugly city?

(Click for large)


Greater Sudbury, as of yesterday afternoon. This isn't one of the most remarkable views of our skyline, but I thought it was a great vantage point for a panorama. I'm sure lots of pictures of this city have appeared in this thread already (to be honest, I haven't gone through all 120+ pages of it!) but this was an interesting perspective that isn't normally open to the public.

Edit: a slightly older shot which shows a different angle

[Chadillaccc]

Welcome to the forum, and nice pics!

[lauscho]

It's too bad they're in the process of tearing down St. Joseph's Hospital (the building in the right side background of the upper photo with the smoke stack). It actually looked kind of imposing from the foot of the Bridge Of Nations.

Most Sudburians are reasonably oblivious to this fact, but we actually have a "twin towers", which is kind of cool!

I've got a ton of other shots of varying quality. I'll post 'em if anyone wants to see 'em!

[Beedok]

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

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[Chadillaccc]

Originally Posted by lauscho

I've got a ton of other shots of varying quality. I'll post 'em if anyone wants to see 'em!

Absolutely! I'm sure we'd all love to see some more Sudbury.

I'll also repost both our posts from the last page, since Sudbury basically never gets any attention here!

Originally Posted by lauscho

Hey, new guy here, lurked this forum, especially this epic thread, in the past, and I would like to make a contribution!

Wanna see a really ugly city?

(Click for large)


Greater Sudbury, as of yesterday afternoon. This isn't one of the most remarkable views of our skyline, but I thought it was a great vantage point for a panorama. I'm sure lots of pictures of this city have appeared in this thread already (to be honest, I haven't gone through all 120+ pages of it!) but this was an interesting perspective that isn't normally open to the public.

Edit: a slightly older shot which shows a different angle

These are my two personal favorites of downtown Sudbury...


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Sudbury


http://www.urbanstrategies.com/proje...plan/?callback