Top Ten Canadian Buildings

chrisallard5454 · #1 Posted: **Aug 10, 2012, 5:16 AM**

What are your top ten buildings in Canada? They can be anything. Architectural, historical, political, etc... Let's try and not turn this into a city vs. city thread. But rather, let's use this as an opportunity to explore some of the architectural wonders our country has to offer.

Chadillaccc · #2 Posted: **Aug 10, 2012, 5:31 AM**

Scotia Plaza

Le 1000 rue de la Gauchetière

First Canadian Place

The Bow

Eighth Avenue Place

Manitoba Hydro Place

Living Shangri La

Shangri La (Toronto)

Ritz Carlton (Toronto)

Canwest Global Place (Winnipeg)

Bluenote · #3 Posted: **Aug 10, 2012, 5:41 AM**

I will just do from my own city, I won't do any historical I really could not pick a fav as I love them all.

MB Hydro Building ( Winnipeg ) Just in the finishing phase of Cladding the cooling tower. Pic by Ajs.

CMHR - Canadian Museum Of Human Rites ( Under Construction - one day it will be done lol ) ( Winnipeg )

Picture by me.

1ajs · #4 Posted: **Aug 10, 2012, 6:02 AM**

whys my photo not credited properly?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/1ajs/31...57594171631363 ...

donnelly · #5 Posted: **Aug 10, 2012, 6:52 AM**

Peace Tower (ott)
Sun Life Building (mont)
New York Life Building
L Tower (tor)
CN Tower
Union Station
Harbour Center (van)
Dominion Public Building (hali)
Eighth Avenue Place (cal)
The Bow

isaidso · #6 Posted: **Aug 10, 2012, 11:25 AM**

01. Manitoba Legislature, Winnipeg
02. Parliament Buildings, Ottawa
03. Royal York Hotel, Toronto
04. Scotia Plaza, Toronto
05. CN Tower, Toronto

06. Supreme Court, Ottawa
07. Olympic Stadium, Montreal
08. Union Station, Toronto
09. Banff Springs Hotel, Banff
10. Harris Water Filtration Plant, Toronto

Honorable mention: McDonald Library, Dalhousie University

jeremy_haak · #7 Posted: **Aug 10, 2012, 12:31 PM**

There are a lot of interesting buildings that could go on this list. It would be nice to get nominations from each city or region, then have a series of polls to narrow it down to the top ten. Maybe I'll take the initiative and start some nomination threads.

DrNest · #8 Posted: **Aug 10, 2012, 1:57 PM**

Not a top ten, but buildings I would throw in for discussion from my city and why:

CN Tower - height
Scotia Plaza - design
TD Centre - design and influence for other similar buildings around the world
Rogers Centre (Skydome) - first fully retractable roof on a sports stadium

chrisallard5454 · #9 Posted: **Aug 10, 2012, 3:41 PM**

I put up the nominations threads for the regions. I will then create a poll for every nomination in each region. The top ten will move on to the National Qualifier, in which case we will have a series of Polls to see which buildings makes top ten. We could do one large poll, but the series will keep it interesting.

yaletown_fella · #10 Posted: **Aug 10, 2012, 4:55 PM**

~-- In No Particular Order --~

Commerce Court North -- Toronto

Marine Building -- Vancouver

Manulife Financial HQ -- Toronto

Hotel Place D'Armes -- Montreal

Chateau Frontenac -- Quebec City

Royal Bank Plaza -- Toronto

EAP -- Calgary

Fairmont Banff Springs -- Banff

Dundurn Castle -- Hamilton

One Saint Thomas -- Toronto

Calgarian · #11 Posted: **Aug 10, 2012, 6:27 PM**

In no particular order.

Library of Parliament
Perimeter Institute
Museum of Anthropology (UBC)
The Bow
Manitoba Hydro
Absolute World
Shangri-La (Vancouver)
Banff Springs Hotel
Vancouver Central Library
Chateau Frontenac

Bluenote · #12 Posted: **Aug 11, 2012, 6:03 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1ajs

whys my photo not credited properly?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/1ajs/31...57594171631363 ...

Sorry AJ, but the link you gave and where I got it are two different places, I think you pictures are going viral, sorry about that, if I knew it was yours I would have definatly given you props.

jeremy_haak · #13 Posted: **Aug 11, 2012, 11:13 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bluenote

Sorry AJ, but the link you gave and where I got it are two different places, I think you pictures are going viral, sorry about that, if I knew it was yours I would have definatly given you props.

Where'd you pick it up? I did a Google Image search and the only places I found it were the wikipedia page (where attribution to 1ajs is required), and a facebook page which was basically a straight up copy of the wiki page, though without any attribution from what I can recall.