Great Canadian Suburban Skyline Thread! - Page 69

Hali87 · #**1361** Posted **Jul 6, 2022, 9:04 PM**

Bedford South (Larry Uteck) - facing east/downhill from NS HWY 102:

zahav · #**1362** Posted **Jul 15, 2022, 10:27 PM**

This is from Daily Hive, with photo credit to @saptarshi.photos from Instagram. Sorry for the quality, it was just a rip from their Insta. Metrotown is the main skyline, with a portion of Brentwood to the left.

Denscity · #**1363** Posted **Jul 16, 2022, 1:23 AM**

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Originally Posted by zahav

This is from Daily Hive, with photo credit to @saptarshi.photos from Instagram. Sorry for the quality, it was just a rip from their Insta. Metrotown is the main skyline, with a portion of Brentwood to the left.

It didn't show up.

zahav · #**1364** Posted **Jul 16, 2022, 1:47 AM**

Sorry I am not used to posting photos, does this link work?

https://imgur.com/x4vjUuf

Denscity · #**1365** Posted **Jul 16, 2022, 2:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by zahav

Sorry I am not used to posting photos, does this link work?

https://imgur.com/x4vjUuf

No worries neither am I and yes it works.

zahav · #**1366** Posted **Jul 16, 2022, 2:27 AM**

Anyone who knows how to post, feel free to

Architype · #**1367** Posted **Jul 16, 2022, 2:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by zahav

Anyone who knows how to post, feel free to

It's easy, you can find the complete address by right clicking on the photo (copy image link), you just take that address and wrap it with [img]----[/img] - there is also a button for it in the post window.

https://i.imgur.com/x4vjUuf.png

mcminsen · #**1368** Posted **Jul 16, 2022, 4:43 AM**

Probably taken from Grouse Mountain. I think the thing to the left of the people is a snow making machine.

Centre-left you can see a tower with a luffing crane.
It is the development at Gilmore Station.
One of the towers there will be Metro Vancouver's next new tallest.

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sorry i am not used to posting photos, does this link work?

source: https://i.imgur.com/x4vjUuf.png

GeneralLeeTPHLS · #**1369** Posted **Jul 16, 2022, 7:04 AM**

Wow, now that's one hell of a view! Metrotown is certainly a well developed skyline.

giallo · #**1370** Posted **Jul 16, 2022, 4:18 PM**

I was in Metrotown the other day (eating at Crystal Mall, of course), and shots some photos.

WhipperSnapper · #**1371** Posted **Jul 16, 2022, 4:28 PM**

Great shots. Does Crystal Mall float though?

giallo · #**1372** Posted **Jul 16, 2022, 4:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Great shots. Does Crystal Mall float though?

Give climate change another 100 years, and it might.

Architype · #**1373** Posted **Jul 18, 2022, 1:57 AM**

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Originally Posted by GeneralLeeTPHLS

Wow, now that's one hell of a view! Metrotown is certainly a well developed skyline.

The photo is very nice.

Yes it's an impressive skyline, except Metrotown is a skyline in the middle of nowhere; given the geography of Metro Vancouver with its peninsulas, bays, inlets, beaches, islands, mountains, rivers - there is nothing special or exceptional about the location of Metrotown. Its location is totally the result of municipal political division.

Metro-One · #**1374** Posted **Jul 18, 2022, 2:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by Architype

The photo is very nice.

Yes it's an impressive skyline, except Metrotown is a skyline in the middle of nowhere; given the geography of Metro Vancouver with its peninsulas, bays, inlets, beaches, islands, mountains, rivers - there is nothing special or exceptional about the location of Metrotown. Its location is totally the result of municipal political division.

That’s funny, I feel the complete opposite, Metrotown is perfectly perched on a notable ridge, feels like a very natural location for a skyline IMO.

Lougheed to me feels more like a randomly placed skyline. Though one can make such a case for any skyline not on a shoreline. For example downtown LA has the same sense of randomness.

PS, great pics!

Repthe250 · #**1375** Posted **Jul 19, 2022, 1:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by Architype

The photo is very nice.

Yes it's an impressive skyline, except Metrotown is a skyline in the middle of nowhere; given the geography of Metro Vancouver with its peninsulas, bays, inlets, beaches, islands, mountains, rivers - there is nothing special or exceptional about the location of Metrotown. Its location is totally the result of municipal political division.

Metrotown is almost literally the exact centre of Metro Vancouver. On a perch about 300m above sea level, with panoramic views all 360 degrees around it. It’s also along Kingsway, the “Main Street” corridor that connects New Westminster to Downtown Vancouver as well as the direct centre of the oldest and most heavily used sky train line, the Expo line. Not exactly random when you think of it.

WhipperSnapper · #**1376** Posted **Jul 19, 2022, 2:29 PM**

You guys are only supporting his argument.

yaletown_fella · #**1377** Posted **Jul 19, 2022, 2:48 PM**

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So many skyline shots of so many Ontario cities are marred by those ubiquitous and hideous power pylons.

The trend, unfortunately, continues to street level. Otherwise pleasant stretches of cobblestone or granite paved streetscape (Such as Mink Mile or the old red cobblestone streets of Forest Hill South, are dug up and filled in with ugly asphalt patches by Toronto Hydro.

Rico Rommheim · #**1378** Posted **Jul 20, 2022, 7:13 PM**

The (new) Brossard skyline being built around the new REM terminus.

by Fleurdelys on agoramtl.com

GeneralLeeTPHLS · #**1379** Posted **Jul 20, 2022, 7:48 PM**

Something about that new LRT bridge is off putting in this image, but it's probably due to the perspective of the image.

Rico Rommheim · #**1380** Posted **Jul 20, 2022, 8:34 PM**

This photo was taken with a wide lense, and greatly flattens the image. In reality the Champlain bridge is a good 5-6 km away.