[WZ1]

While a new job means a new office, and that means new views! I got a job on the 14th floor of the Don Valley Office Park. Here are some amazing NYCC pics from the 14th!

Don Mills/Eglinton Ave E.
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p500627323-4.jpg

Part of the office complex
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p187752497-4.jpg

PJs
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p25571310-4.jpg

slabs
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p189421195-4.jpg

Condos
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p324732322-4.jpg

Foresters
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p227458347-4.jpg

NY Towers in the Back.
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p232554205-4.jpg

Some Random Infill
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p423440364-4.jpg

Slabtastic
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p152331074-4.jpg

Slabs line York Mills/404/DVP junction
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p99622416-4.jpg

NYCC is getting SOOO Big!! - Watch out Edmonton, Winnipeg, Tampa...
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p206466137-4.jpg


One Mother of NYCC Pano!!
SCROLL >>>>>>>
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p162841232-5.jpg

Larger File:
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(URL) http://upload.pbase.com/mattshaver/image/71865463/original

Hope you all enjoyed!! Comments?

[J. Will]

North York alone has more 12+ story buildings than many entire metropolitan areas of 3 million +. The urban growth up there is incredible, and contrary to what some idiot (who had obviously not been there in years, if ever) told me, it is not just a bunch of towers-in-the-park (he was claiming it was less than Washington D.C.'s suburbs).

[DrJoe]

Whoa! Look at that skyline.

[caltrane74]

Massive skyline, massive city.

North York is the Shinjuku or Shinoba of Toronto.

[WHISTLERINMUSKOKA]

NYCC is getting massive, T.O's best urban suburba by far.

[MolsonExport]

One of the most linear skylines in North America

[caltrane74]

Linear because it follows yonge street up the spine.

Imagine when the massive Hullmark Centre is built. it will finally have a couple of peaks. like mountains standing up in the clouds.

[-GR2NY-]

The few times I've spent time in greater Toronto with a car cruising the freeways, North York area didn't look anything like that. The density doesn't really exist when you are actually IN that vicinity. There is density here and there, but no mini-manhattan jutting up. Must just be a good angle you've found. btw, nothing against the area. I LOVE it there.

[caltrane74]

I guess it is slightly deceptive from ground level. But I like the fact all the buildings are so new, feels like you walked 15 years into the future everytime I go there.


All of these skyscrapers were once suburban residential homes not even 30 years ago.

[Sacamano]

"The few times I've spent time in greater Toronto with a car cruising the freeways, North York area didn't look anything like that. The density doesn't really exist when you are actually IN that vicinity. There is density here and there, but no mini-manhattan jutting up. Must just be a good angle you've found. btw, nothing against the area. I LOVE it there."

I disagree, several blocks of North York City Centre definitely gives off a downtown-esque impression with the addtion of some 40 highrises (few under 20 storeys) over the past 5 years

Don Mills is more tower-in-a-park'y' though

[wlyyl]

Linear because it follows yonge street up the spine.

Imagine when the massive Hullmark Centre is built. it will finally have a couple of peaks. like mountains standing up in the clouds.

How tall is it?

[caltrane74]

I think it will be 170M or 600 feet. ( I'm not good on the conversion to standard)

North York Centre has hieght issues, as it is in the path of the Toronto International Airport. So you will never see really really tall buildings. But its still a good distance away.

[-GR2NY-]

"The few times I've spent time in greater Toronto with a car cruising the freeways, North York area didn't look anything like that. The density doesn't really exist when you are actually IN that vicinity. There is density here and there, but no mini-manhattan jutting up. Must just be a good angle you've found. btw, nothing against the area. I LOVE it there."

I disagree, several blocks of North York City Centre definitely gives off a downtown-esque impression with the addtion of some 40 highrises (few under 20 storeys) over the past 5 years

Don Mills is more tower-in-a-park'y' though


Fair enough.

[zerokarma]

Got to love the commie slabs

[Ex-Ithacan]

I think Miketoronto gave myself, DonB and Alex a tour of the area the day before the official TO meet last spring. Impressive is an apt word. Good stuff WZ, thanks for the pics (especially that pano).

[samne]

awesome shots!

pano's great and really like #3 and 4.

I know Flemo' or Flemigdon City. Thorncliff Pk., accross the bridge in East York is very similar. Both make interesting urban studies.

Flemingdon Park was first proposed to North York (now Toronto) City Councillors in 1958. It was touted as Canada's first completely planned "apartment city", and was based on similar developments already built in Europe and Scandinavia.


more... http://www.torontoneighbourhoods.net/regions/northyork/106.html

[steveve]

I believe North York City centre has one of the best skylines in Canada. It's kinda scary that there are fairly big city centres emerging out of nowhere SO close to downtown Toronto... For example North York City Centre and Scarborough City Centre all have emerging skylines...

In my opinion it beats Mississauga's skyline any day... It looks great because it is such a long skyline that runs a long Yonge St.

Wait a couple of years and you'll get some pretty tall ones...

Hullmark Centre
Emerald Park
Gibson Square

[tdawg]

It really does remind me of Atlanta's Buckhead. The skyline, the way it follows the major street (Yonge=Peachtree) and a transit spine. I guess the major difference is that Buckhead's center is two giant malls. Here's Buckhead for reference:

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii210/blkspice21/buckhead.jpg
photo by joe f. steele

[AnDerRew]

My friend lives in that "random infill" thing of new houses amongst the office buildings and near flemmington.

my other friend lives in that white slabtastic building..flemmo isnt that bad and its fairly easy to get downtown from there by transit.

[jodelli]

I like that Sheppard and Yonge is not far from the city via subway, taking advantage of both worlds.

Nice vantage.

[Wheelingman04]

Just in Toronto at the end of May. Great city. It had grown so much since I was there in 2001.

[Brandon716]

^^^The comparison to Buckhead is slightly humorous, albeit interesting. Buckhead is an extension of downtown and midtown Atlanta, and its more like office park buildings and condos in a forest.

North York City Centre has as many buildings as the entire central core of Atlanta alone (downtown, midtown, buckhick combined) and its 8 miles north of Toronto's skyline. The central core of NYCC is very urban, and while it follows Yonge St its actually a very urban corridor that spans out a few blocks. I would argue that NYCC is as attractive as downtown Atlanta and is equally as urban (if not more) and is actually far more livable, yet its not part of the immediate Toronto urban central core.

In regards to the earlier discussion about someone saying its just a suburb, I agree, there isn't really a comparison in the US. I've been all over the US.. From Rosslyn across from Georgetown in DC to Bellevue in Seattle, the office parks around the SF Bay area. Jersey City... There really aren't many American comparisons to make. Canada simply builds cities differently. Rosslyn is nice, but its a joke compared to NYCC. Its truly a city onto itself.