The Great Canadian Skyscraper Thread - Page 3

flar · #41 Posted **Sep 17, 2010, 12:56 AM**

favourite is the Toronto Dominion Centre (on the right)

Pigott Building:

Rico Rommheim · #42 Posted **Sep 17, 2010, 3:25 AM**

Here's a beautiful art deco building, but gets virtually no attention.

http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/Images/CA/ON/Toronto/200801/BankofNovaScotiaBuilding-Aug08-010a.jpg

http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/Images/CA/ON/Toronto/200801/BankofNovaScotiaBuilding-Aug08-002a.jpg

francely57 · #43 Posted **Sep 17, 2010, 3:40 AM**

A vastly unknown skyscraper... does any non-Montrealer know where it is?

March 24, 2010 (I was going somewhere and thought this angle was interesting)

Rico Rommheim · #44 Posted **Sep 17, 2010, 4:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by francely57

A vastly unknown skyscraper... does any non-Montrealer know where it is?

I'd wager that most Montrealers don't even know this building even exists. I didn't know of it until 3 years ago.

Darkoshvilli · #45 Posted **Sep 17, 2010, 3:12 PM**

What the hell is that?

davidivivid · #46 Posted **Sep 17, 2010, 5:13 PM**

Price Building - Quebec City

http://www.jonathanhoule.com/Cartes-...11396967_Z4UeJ

http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielpaquet/3917712463/

francely57 · #47 Posted **Sep 21, 2010, 3:46 AM**

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Originally Posted by Darkoshvilli

What the hell is that?

Haha, exactly like Rico Rommheim said...

It's The Tower on Édouard-Montpetit.

...of course it looks more special from this angle.

MolsonExport · #48 Posted **Sep 21, 2010, 1:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by francely57

A vastly unknown skyscraper... does any non-Montrealer know where it is?

March 24, 2010 (I was going somewhere and thought this angle was interesting)

McGill campus, neh? Or is it down by Edouard Montpetit on Cote-St. Catherine?

Rico Rommheim · #49 Posted **Sep 21, 2010, 1:48 PM**

^ Its a University of Montreal residence. Built in 1965.

here's a link http://imtl.org/edifices/Residence-U...e-Montreal.php

I actually like it. For a concrete slab, its holds some measure of dignity.

Dwils01 · #50 Posted **Sep 22, 2010, 2:10 PM**

Here are two of my favourite buildings in Hamilton
Pigott Building (Hamilton's first skyscraper).

Landmark Place (Just because it's our tallest building at 43 floors).
http://commondatastorage.googleapis....al/4065490.jpg

Darkoshvilli · #51 Posted **Sep 22, 2010, 3:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by francely57

Haha, exactly like Rico Rommheim said...

It's The Tower on Édouard-Montpetit.

...of course it looks more special from this angle.

I've driven on Montpetit before but don't remember seeing it. You can't see that building from anywhere to be honest.

flar · #52 Posted **Sep 22, 2010, 3:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by Dwils01

Landmark Place (Just because it's our tallest building at 43 floors).
http://commondatastorage.googleapis....al/4065490.jpg

Landmark Place is probably the ugliest tallest in Canada. So ugly I don't think I've ever taken a photo of it specifically.
Behold!

MolsonExport · #53 Posted **Sep 22, 2010, 4:58 PM**

^ beg pardon, but this is the ugliest skyscraper in canada:

ooglies@imageshack

Behold in all it's majestic ugliness. The London Courthouse Building. In Slabsville (London), Ontario. Nobody knows concrete better. Nooobody!!

flar · #54 Posted **Sep 22, 2010, 5:00 PM**

Yeah, but it's not the tallest in London. And at least there was some intent in the design, an imposing brutalist obelisk of justice (or something).

Cambridgite · #55 Posted **Sep 24, 2010, 2:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

^ beg pardon, but this is the ugliest skyscraper in canada:

ooglies@imageshack

Behold in all it's majestic ugliness. The London Courthouse Building. In Slabsville (London), Ontario. Nobody knows concrete better. Nooobody!!

Dear lord...
The mothership has landed.

someone123 · #56 Posted **Sep 24, 2010, 2:16 AM**

Fenwick tower is the tallest in Halifax and is very ugly but is in the process of being renovated and reclad with glass.

Lots of photos here: http://www.fenwicktower.ca/vision

David1gray · #57 Posted **Sep 24, 2010, 3:54 AM**

hahaha i know that tower as soon as i see it

only been to london twice but that is what i see when i think of the city.....

Nouvellecosse · #58 Posted **Sep 24, 2010, 6:52 AM**

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Originally Posted by someone123

Fenwick tower is the tallest in Halifax and is very ugly but is in the process of being renovated and reclad with glass.

Lots of photos here: http://www.fenwicktower.ca/vision

I don't want the tower to be redone in glass, it's a crying shame, it has loads of personality as is.

kw5150 · #59 Posted **Sep 24, 2010, 9:22 PM**

Worst Building in Canada is in Winnipeh and it is called "Drury Manor" Here is is!

Here is another gem:

"Summerland" in Winnipeg. It has tonnes of cockroaches and the atrium smells like 100 different kinds of food. I am not afraid of different kinds of food but all mashed together in a big humid arium can be pretty gross. They market this place as a seniors retirement centre. I would NEVER want my mom to retire in that slum.....

caltrane74 · #60 Posted **Oct 13, 2010, 1:42 PM**

Source

Maple Leaf Square is Finished now...