[WhipperSnapper]

What is the sexist office tower past, present, and future in your opinion and why?

[Kevin_foster]

Past:
http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/kissara/jpegpics/kiss32.jpg
(Source: Compusmart.ab.ca)

Present:
http://bertselectric.net/graphics/One%20Wall%20Centre.jpg
(source: bertslectric.net)

Future:
http://urbanrealtytoronto.com/wordpressimages/1bloorsteast.jpg
(source: urbanrealtytoronto.com)

[Boris2k7]

^ Uhhh... only one of those is an office tower

[francely57]

1250 René-Lévesque for the win?

[Boris2k7]

Existing: Commerce Court North - Toronto
Reasoning - It's all about the art deco details

Future: The Bow - Calgary
Reasoning - Diagrid, Curves, Huge Atrium, Transparent Glass... what's not to love?

[Rico Rommheim]

past: Commerce Court North - no contest

Present: 1250 Rene-Levesque

Future: don't knows, probably some miscellaneous 60 floor project in TO

[graupner]

I don't like the Bow. It's fat, not sexy. I don't like fat women, I like them slim.

[Rico Rommheim]

I don't like the Bow. It's fat, not sexy. I don't like fat women, I like them slim.

Yeah but in Alberta they like their women big, mean and merciless, the bow is the perfect representation of an albertan woman.

[theman23]

I didn't even know there were office towers outside of Toronto. Amazing. When did this all happen?

[ScottFromCalgary]

I don't like the Bow. It's fat, not sexy. I don't like fat women, I like them slim.

I think you just prefer buildings shaped more like a penis.

[Surrealplaces]

For the past, I'd go with Place Victoria or Commerce Court. Place Ville Marie is cool in a nostalgic way.

For the future, The Bow easily. 4 x 15 storey atriums up one side, a boomerang shaped floorplate, cross bracing and good height. Sorry Graupner, you might as well face the facts.

[Rico Rommheim]

I didn't even know there were office towers outside of Toronto. Amazing. When did this all happen?

In 1888, when canada's first skyscraper was built in Montreal. By the by, Montreal is this small town north of Yorkville and east of your suburb, Ottawa.

[Cambridgite]

I think you just prefer buildings shaped more like a penis.

:haha: :tup:

[ErickMontreal]

Yeah but in Alberta they like their women big, mean and merciless, the bow is the perfect representation of an albertan woman.

:haha:

[Surrealplaces]

^ Uhhh... only one of those is an office tower

And it's nowhere near the sexiest in Canada.

[Xelebes]

When did Canada become Pompeii?

[vid]

Transparent Glass

Wow, transparent glass!! Much better than this opaque stuff we've been using for years! :tup:

[HomeInMyShoes]

There's not many in Canada that I really fall over love.

Canterra in Calgary
Tour de la Bourse, Montreal
1000, Montreal, I like 1250, but 1000 is just so dreamy in the evening

We'll see how The Bow turns out, I think it's going to be super cool from some angles. However the true sexiest office tower is really being built in Shanghai right now.

[caltrane74]

Past: 1988 - Scotiaplaza
Present 2007 - Scotiaplaza
Future : 2008 and beyond : Scotiaplaza

[Cambridgite]

I kind like the TD building in Toronto. However, this is a really bad angle of it.

http://www.yafla.com/~dforbes/toronto/bce_cibc_td.jpg

There's also some cool looking gold building right on Front street. Toronto forumers might know the one I'm talking about. It's hot. :slob:

[The Chemist]

The future is The Bow - there shouldn't even be any question about it. One of the finest buildings going up anywhere - not just in Canada. :thumbup:

[MolsonExport]

1250 Rene Levesque (Montreal)
http://publish.pdesigner.com/sproulelaw/Graphics/Library/1250bldg2.jpg

[You Need A Thneed]

You know "sexist" and "sexiest" mean slightly different things. I not even sure how a "sexist" tower might look like.

[Boris2k7]

Wow, transparent glass!! Much better than this opaque stuff we've been using for years! :tup:

Hey, you know what I meant. Non-reflective.

[Cambridgite]

You know "sexist" and "sexiest" mean slightly different things. I not even sure how a "sexist" tower might look like.

It would be shaped like a woman who is not allowed to vote.

[caltrane74]

Going up?

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1061/1436449280_6b14d0b272.jpg?v=0

[401_King]

http://www.ctn.etsmtl.ca/dbauer/ctn605/ctn-605/Photos/RoyalBankPlaza.jpg

RBC is now bigger than Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch

[caltrane74]

Time for some US aquistions? maybe...

[caltrane74]

I.M Pei - does his thing in the T.Dot.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/111/282547132_6639d6946c.jpg?v=0

[WhipperSnapper]

^That's mine for sexist

Love the proportions, clean lines, and stainless steel which still has some shimmer left after 30+ years.

[Cambridgite]

http://www.ctn.etsmtl.ca/dbauer/ctn605/ctn-605/Photos/RoyalBankPlaza.jpg

RBC is now bigger than Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch

Ahhh, there we go. That's what I'm talking about!

[jeremy_haak]

Toronto really does have some quality architecture: Toronto City Hall, Commerce Court West, TD Centre, Royal Bank Plaza and Scotia Plaza are all exceptional skyscrapers in my books.

[MolsonExport]

It would be shaped like a woman who is not allowed to vote.

Like this one going up in Mississausage?
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/9929/absolutetower3si.jpg

[Kevin_foster]

^ Uhhh... only one of those is an office tower

Ah who cares, towers!

Plus, people could be conducting business inside of those towers!

[Cambridgite]

Like this one going up in Mississausage?
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/9929/absolutetower3si.jpg

Ding ding, we have a weiner! Right in the middle of downtown Mississausage. :haha:

Good eye, MolsonExport!

[jeremy_haak]

Ah who cares, towers!

Plus, people could be conducting business inside of those towers!

A home office tower?

[Boris2k7]

Plus, people could be conducting business inside of those towers!

Funky business! :banana:

[PhilippeMtl]

Scotia Bank in T.O

[MonkeyRonin]

TD Centre by far.

Though Ville-Marie, CIBC, and Commerce Court West and North are all pretty sexy too.

[b13]

http://www.ctn.etsmtl.ca/dbauer/ctn605/ctn-605/Photos/RoyalBankPlaza.jpg

RBC is now bigger than Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch

RBC is now bigger than Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch? When did this happen, any articles about this?

[Coldrsx]

guiness tower in van

[LeftCoaster]

^Euch, I used to work in that building, such a boring design! My vote goes to Scotia bank in Toronto... just too damn beautiful to resist.

[WhipperSnapper]

TD Centre by far.

they fucked that one up too much

[Canadian74]

Going up?

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1061/1436449280_6b14d0b272.jpg?v=0

Do you have a larger version of this picture?

[Canadian Mind]

Ah who cares, towers!

Plus, people could be conducting business inside of those towers!

:cheers:

More People = More Economic potential, so I guess it is business potential as much as it already is "business" isn't it?

[401_King]

RBC is now bigger than Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch? When did this happen, any articles about this?

this happened recently when all (except goldman sachs) the US banks' stock prices started plummeting. The strong canadian dollar coupled with the big US banks writing down billions and billions of losses this quarter related to subprime. Merrill Lynch 8 Billion. Citigroup 11 billion. I believe morgan stanley 3 billion?? RBC has now more market cap than Merrill and Morgan and is therefore larger. RBC was already huge anyways, but this is for real!

Market Caps today:


RBC 71 billion USD
TD 52 Billion USD

Citigroup 166 Billion USD
Goldman Sachs 85 billion USD
Morgan Stanley 54 billion USD
Merrill 46 billion usd
Lehman 30 Billion USD

[Canadian Mind]

Good, our banks should start buying more American banks.

[401_King]

^ already happening. ppl arent sleeping these days, lots of deals going on.

[MonkeyRonin]

they fucked that one up too much

How so? Its hard to find such a great individual example of modernist architecture anywhere, let alone across multiple buildings.


http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3267/lookingupsj2.jpg

(with the almost-as-sexy Scotia Plaza)

[Jay in Cowtown]

Yeah but in Alberta they like their women big, mean and merciless, the bow is the perfect representation of an albertan woman.

Is there a building in Quebec that represents hairy armpits and body odor?

[PhilippeMtl]

Is there a building in Quebec that represents hairy armpits and body odor?

I suggest you to visit Montreal and to try to find a woman with hairy armpits. If you find one, call me and I will pay you a good pitchet of beer. :cheers:


Rico Rommheim talks like an ignorant, dont play his game. Lots of Albertan girls are gorgeous, but you probably already know it ;)

[PhilippeMtl]

Double Post...

[graupner]

Is there a building in Quebec that represents hairy armpits and body odor?

No but they're about to build one. It will be the new HQ of many ecological organizations.

[1ajs]

what about this 600,000 sqft office tower under construction here in winnipeg guys....
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2258/1622759494_03132dbf54_o.jpg


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2232/1619181014_b19ed17480_o.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1149/1392972696_8efae12834_o.jpg

[CC420]

Marine Building - Vancouver

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/1735/sexistmf6.jpg

This link has some excellent interior shots. :tup:
http://www.greatervancouverparks.com/355BurrardPhotos.html

[Rico Rommheim]

Rico Rommheim talks like an ignorant, dont play his game. Lots of Albertan girls are gorgeous, but you probably already know it ;)

Rico Rommheim was joking, friend, and he has spent many years of his life living and working in Edmonton and Grande Prairie...but thanks for the memo.

[PhilippeMtl]

Rico Rommheim was joking, friend, and he has spent many years of his life living and working in Edmonton and Grande Prairie...but thanks for the memo.


I just want to avoid a 93rd war Quebec- Rest of Canada. ;)

[wild wild west]

I think Commerce Court North is a great example of early skyscrapers in Canada. I quite like the Marine Building in Vancouver too. Some more recent scrapers I really like include Royal Bank, Scotia Plaza, Bankers Hall and 1250 Rene-Levesque.

There are plenty of attractive skyscrapers both under construction and proposed in a number of Canadian cities, and while many of them are very high-quality designs most of them are not what I would call innovative or ground-breaking, with the glaring exception of The Bow. Therefore I would have to say The Bow is Canada's sexiest office tower of the future.

[harls]

if we're going for "a sexy building" (whatever that means) I'm picking that curvy Mississauga thing.

[caltrane74]

yeah, but its not an office tower.

[Calgarian]

Canterra may not be the sexiest in the country, but I nominate it because it is the sexiest in Calgary.
http://www.viewcalgary.com/downtown/pCanterraBldg.jpg

[murman]

what about this 600,000 sqft office tower under construction here in winnipeg guys....

There is NOTHING sexy about Winnipeg, let alone that building.

[MolsonExport]

if we're going for "a sexy building" (whatever that means) I'm picking that curvy Mississauga thing.

Yeah, some have taken to calling it the Marilyn Monroe Building.

[O-Town Hockey]

There's something about 1250 Boulevard René-Lévesque that always gets me going. :cool:

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Maze/9975/1250brlo.gif

[murman]

There's something about 1250 Boulevard René-Lévesque that always gets me going. :cool:

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Maze/9975/1250brlo.gif

Like fibre? :banana:

[caltrane74]

I think Commerce Court North is a great example of early skyscrapers in Canada. I quite like the Marine Building in Vancouver too. Some more recent scrapers I really like include Royal Bank, Scotia Plaza, Bankers Hall and 1250 Rene-Levesque.

There are plenty of attractive skyscrapers both under construction and proposed in a number of Canadian cities, and while many of them are very high-quality designs most of them are not what I would call innovative or ground-breaking, with the glaring exception of The Bow. Therefore I would have to say The Bow is Canada's sexiest office tower of the future.

Amoung buildings currently u/c, the Bow wins hands down in all respects. Nothing else comes close, including that "thing" currently under construction in Winnipeg.
....

As for "best" or "sexist" amoung all current office buildings, it may be in a bit of a competition with some that have been built in the past 30-40 years. And there are a lot of those around in all parts of the country including Calgary. -

[Coldrsx]

i have always loved this baby in Edmonton:

http://www.irproperty.com/_images/_assessmentimages/cntower.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1424/582992729_f428c28308.jpg

[O-Town Hockey]

:previous: That building is not sexy. Sexist....maybe. I have always imagined that building as drunk, wearing a wife beater, and being oppressive and controlling toward his wife.

[vid]

Yes, but once you look past the CN worm, it's much more than that. :)

[HomeInMyShoes]

^You haven't seen the worm at night. Now that's sexy.

[Coldrsx]

what you cannot see very well from these angles is that it is actually concave on each side and very sexy.

[HomeInMyShoes]

^You don't have to sell me on CN Cold. I really do like it. I wouldn't call it sexy, but it's a great piece from the 60s.

I don't think I'm alone in saying that Canada needs to build more sexy into it's major structures.

[wild wild west]

I like CN too. Not my favorite period in architecture to be honest, but that building is one of the best of that period IMO.

[Rico Rommheim]

That building is not sexy. Sexist....maybe.

No shit.

I like CN but it aint a "sexy" building, whatever "sexy" means, I sexy means someone who gives me a hard on, not a concrete slab or some building...

[240glt]

Agreed... All this talk of 'sexy' office towers leads me to believe that a lot of you need to get out more :D

[1ajs]

There is NOTHING sexy about Winnipeg, let alone that building.

wow

have you ever been here?

outa curioisty what is the sq footage of the other buildings mention lol?

[vid]

^You haven't seen the worm at night. Now that's sexy.

The worm represents evil. We must vanquish all evil!

http://www.psa-software.com/images/Logo-Canadian-Pacific.gif

:banana: CP! :banana:

[HomeInMyShoes]

wow

have you ever been here?

outa curioisty what is the sq footage of the other buildings mention lol?

Using sq footage to rate a buildings sexiness is like using total mass to rate a woman's sexiness...this is the sexist thread still, right?


@vid: Go beavers!!! ;)

[vid]

*lives beside the beavers*

They're very loud beavers, but they don't run into things. :) I like that in a beaver.

[citizen j]

You guys are hilarious. "Shaped like a woman that is not allowed to vote." I'm trying to picture which tower in the country matches that description and I'm thinking maybe the Marilyn Munroe tower in Mississauga, and her slightly "big-boned" friend directly to the north.

[Greco Roman]

There is NOTHING sexy about Winnipeg, let alone that building.


Funny, that's how I feel about Calgary :haha:

[vid]

And you live in Edmonton!

Now, imagine how absurd it would be if I felt that way??

[giallo]

Some odd choices here:
CN Building in Edmonton? Er....is Edmonton's architectual stock so limited that the CN Building is considered sexy? It looks like typical 60s government shite to me.

Canterra? I don't understand the appeal of this tower in Calgary. There nothing offensive or inspiring about it, just an ordinary 80s skyscraper. Once the Bow rears is beautiful head, this forgettable glassy tower will become just that, forgettable.


I've always found Toronto's Scotia Bank Tower to be a sexy beast.

[Coldrsx]

CN is very sexy if you take the time with it...and i can understand why many disagree, but 60's modernism is fucking hot

[CMD UW]

^ already happening. ppl arent sleeping these days, lots of deals going on.

Yep.

Anyways, 1250 Rene Levesque for me by far.

[1ajs]

Using sq footage to rate a buildings sexiness is like using total mass to rate a woman's sexiness...this is the sexist thread still, right?


@vid: Go beavers!!! ;)


of course is the sexyist thread still :whip:

[trueviking]

the L tower in toronto Liebeskind

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/7291/37357049nw7.jpg

manitoba hydro KPMB

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/1209/67608928bv8.jpg

[trueviking]

There is NOTHING sexy about Winnipeg.

winnipeg is sexy in a gina gershon kid of way....you wouldnt invite her to thanksgiving dinner with the family, but she would be fun for a night....

an imperfect sexy, which is the sexiest kind of sexy.

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/2443/preygu7.jpg

[Only The Lonely..]

winnipeg is sexy in a gina gershon kid of way....you wouldnt invite her to thanksgiving dinner with the family, but she would be fun for a night....

an imperfect sexy, which is the sexiest kind of sexy.

http://home.comcast.net/~skyape/prey.jpg

I'd tap that..:tup:

[Only The Lonely..]

It's been about 17 years since she went up, but i'm still very much in love with the Canwest tower, it's my pick for sexiest in Canada.

http://www.destinationwinnipeg.ca/img/leadimgs/tdcentre001.jpghttp://farm2.static.flickr.com/1281/1052316348_4f67452bdd_m.jpg

[401_King]

^thats a nice bldg.

btw that girl is scary. i'd paper bag her face then i'd hit it.

[murman]

wow

have you ever been here?

outa curioisty what is the sq footage of the other buildings mention lol?

Oh, yeah. Been to WPG several times. Trust me, WPG is anything BUT sexy.

[Greco Roman]

Oh, yeah. Been to WPG several times. Trust me, WPG is anything BUT sexy.

The only city in my opinion that is truly sexy (that I've been to mind you) in Canada is Toronto. I hear Montreal is pretty cute, too. :D

No city in Western Canada is "sexy", but all are rather "cheap, over-dressed sluts".

[Rico Rommheim]

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/2443/preygu7.jpg

You'd bone her? Man that's sick! I've been to Winnipeg and during my short stay there I didn't see ONE girl that would stand up to a Montreal babe. Not one! Nada!

[KrisYYC]

Yeah but in Alberta they like their women big, mean and merciless, the bow is the perfect representation of an albertan woman.

Hahahaha.

I'm the first one to defend AB when need be, but I'm afraid Rico is right with this one. Compared to the stylish, classy, sexy women in Montreal Albertan women are a bunch of obnoxious war pigs. Montreal chicks have better attitudes too. Alberta chicks can't hold a candle to them :hell:

[Greco Roman]

I've been to Winnipeg and during my short stay there I didn't see ONE girl that would stand up to a Montreal babe. Not one! Nada!

Naw, no exaggeration here :rolleyes:

[KrisYYC]

Naw, no exaggeration here :rolleyes:


Hey, there's some good looking girls out west. The problem is the attraction for me stops as soon as they open their mouths and start spewing their usual self-absorbed obnoxious BS.

While we're on the topic of obnoxious Canadian girls: Has anybody noticed those T-shirts that say "Everyone loves a Canadian girl" or "I'm not just perfect, I'm a Canadian girl" ? I see them quite often on girls at the airport. No doubt going on a trip wearing that crap. Even Americans aren't so overtly self-absorbed. I'm sure the locals in whatever country they're going to (probably Mexico, where else do young Canadians travel really?) love being told that Canadian women are the best in the world... how condescending.

Travel overseas as much as I have and you'll realize how brutal the chicks in Canada are. They are the most selfish, demanding, overbearing women on the planet. They expect everything but give nothing.

/rant.

[Boreal]

I hate to feel like I'm being dragged in, but I have to support my home town.

Winnipeg may not be the model that leaves your jaw bruised from when it hit the floor. Instead, Winnipeg is like the girl next door. Take some time to get to know her, and she'll probably win your heart. Shes comfy, has some outstanding qualities that nobody really notices, and those that got to know her never ever forget her.

[Rico Rommheim]

Winnipeg may not be the model that leaves your jaw bruised from when it hit the floor. Instead, Winnipeg is like the girl next door. Take some time to get to know her, and she'll probably win your heart. Shes comfy, has some outstanding qualities that nobody really notices, and those that got to know her never ever forget her.


I'm not going to refute that, in any event before any Winterpegers c ome here and declare war I was just kidding about the ugly winnipeg chicks.

Sort of joking. I mean there are plenty of ugly chicks here in mtl, just go to any east-end neighbourhood. :yuck:

[citizen j]

... er, on second thought, never mind.
I'll only get myself into trouble.