The Ultimate Canadian "Unbuilt Projects" Thread

[ericmacm]

Hey everyone,

I know we've had many "unbuilt projects" threads on this subforum over the years, but I've recently been digging into a couple of them and have found that a lot of material and images have gone missing, with many article links becoming broken beyond repair, or various imageshack/photobucket/etc accounts being closed.

I am currently compiling a large amount of images that show projects that have either fallen through, been passed over for alternate designs, were intended as a zoning exercise, or just so insane that they would have never been built anyway. Some are very old and I have had to dig through archived webpages to recover the images.

The goal of this thread is to create a sort of a consolidated index that contains images for unbuilt and unrealized projects all across Canada. I would love for people to help contribute to this thread, so I can compile everything by editing the main post, and host all of the images externally/publicly on Imgur, so they (hopefully) won't disappear over time.

I will be arranging the unbuilt projects by city, from coast to coast:

Halifax


22nd Commerce Square


Skye Towers




Salter Lands


Midtown Hotel


International Place


Commonwealth Games Stadium

Quebec City


Plains of Abraham UN Headquarters


Place Quebec


Unknown Office Proposal

Montreal


1300 Rene Levesque


Tour Bonaventura




Waterfront UN Headquarters

Gatineau












Place Des Peuples

Toronto


Sapphire Tower V1


Sapphire Tower V2




One Front (Zoning Exercise)


John Mayron Tower


320 Bay (PARTISANS)


320 Bay (Sweeny&Co)


Cumberland Terrace (Oxford)






Cumberland Terrace (Safdie)




Cumberland Terrace (Allies and Morrison)

Mississauga




Absolute World (Boyarsky Murphy Architects)




Absolute World (Quadrangle)




Absolute World (Rojkind)




Absolute World (Zeidler)


Absolute World (MWM)


Absolute World (Unknown)


Absolute World (Unknown)

Hamilton


Royal Connaught Tower


Beasley Lofts




Riccio Towers








The Carmen's Hotel


Pan Am Stadium




Copps Coliseum Development - Phoenix Coyotes Bid

Sault Ste Marie






Borealis Biodome

Saskatoon


Cameco Tower








City Centre Towers




Library Development




Third Avenue Church Development

Fort McMurray






Golden Buffalo Centre






Downtown Arena

Calgary




Constellation Towers (Zoning Exercise)


Eau Claire Tower (Shaw Headquarters)


Palliser Square/Calgary Tower


McIntyre Building


Oxford Tower


Kings on Fourth


Singer City


Alberta Plaza

Vancouver












Project 200 Master Plan


Yaletown Master Plan


Waterfront Convention Centre


Lower Lonsdale Tower

[FrankieFlowerpot]

Both for Yorkville Square - part of an international design contest for a zoning exercise.

[giallo]

Great thread, Eric. Thanks for putting it together.

A lot of bullets dodged here. Toronto got so lucky. I remember when the Sapphire Tower was proposed, and I was appalled by what I saw. It looks like something China would have built back in 1995.

[EpicPonyTime]

I've always been very disappointed Cameco opted not to build that tower in Saskatoon. The skyline could use a distinct, impressive tower like that.

That corner is currently the site of a single storey Hudson's if I'm not mistaken. It could be so much more.

[Acajack]

Place des Peuples - Gatineau, Québec

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local...useum-district

[kool maudit]

Tour Bonaventura, 80+ floors, Montreal.

Parallel universe First Canadian Place.

[p_xavier]

Not many pics left but I really enjoyed the UN move to Montréal initative back in 2007. http://spacing.ca/montreal/2007/10/2...he-waterfront/

[Chadillaccc]

Calgary


Singer City - 580 meters





Alberta Plaza - 277 meters





Oxford Tower - 262 meters





McIntyre Building - 260 meters





Kings on Fourth - 210 meters







There are a lot more, but I'm lazy. Here's the diagram for Calgary's cancelled projects... http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=88105145

[FrankieFlowerpot]

John Maryon Tower (140 floors - 503m, 686m to top of mast) - College Park Toronto

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Calgary


Singer City - 580 meters

That would basically been a clone of the Sheraton Centre in Toronto.

[ericmacm]

Thank you all for the material so far, guys! I have uploaded all of these images to Imgur and have updated the main post. I have also added some other new material for some other buildings.

[TorontoDrew]

Several of the Toronto aren't un-built and are still in early design stages like this one. This render was just created for massing and was never a serious design.




Here was it's latest design.

Source: urbantoronto.ca

[ericmacm]

Originally Posted by TorontoDrew

Several of the Toronto aren't un-built and are still in early design stages like this one. This render was just created for massing and was never a serious design.




Here was it's latest design.

Source: urbantoronto.ca

I'm well aware of the process behind One Front. I have indicated on the root post that One Front was a zoning exercise. As I also mentioned, this thread is also inclusive of alternate designs and zoning exercises for extra flavour.

I consider rejected early massings as "unbuilt" since they did, indeed, not get built and do not represent the final product in any way. While it is true that One Front and Cumberland Terrace are still in design, the ones posted here are not representative of the chosen design that is currently being refined.

[TorontoDrew]

Originally Posted by ericmacm

I consider rejected early massings as "unbuilt" since they did, indeed, not get built and do not represent the final product in any way. While it is true that One Front and Cumberland Terrace are still in design, the ones posted here are not representative of the chosen design that is currently being refined.

But how can something that was never going to be built be unbuilt? Those designs are just created to get investors interested in a properties potential.

[giallo]

Originally Posted by kool maudit

Tour Bonaventura, 80+ floors, Montreal.

Parallel universe First Canadian Place.

This one would have been a wonderful addition to MTL.

[Gresto]

^Agreed. What a beaut!

I can't find a good render of it, but Weston Tower was a TO proposal in the early-'90s.

[J.OT13]

I feel like Montréal ended up with a shorter version of the same with Tour de la Bourse.

[Coldrsx]

1967 Centennial Tower


https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...ture-1.5324254



2 images of Eaton centre - we got the podium, but only 1 little delta





Fidelity - was to be home to peter pocklington















one of my fav's - eagle's nest















more concept but cool







one on the left "century 2" - Where Icon I and II are going now.



top 2/3 of this didnt make the cut



Hampton house - would have liked to see this one go with art deco

[Coldrsx]

The Omniplex would have been Uber-cool for like 10 years.


http://img.slate.com/media/1/123125/...5_Omniplex.jpg


www.edmonton.ca


http://mauricesunderland.com/MSA/megamall.htm

Was going to give the CN a run for its money, sorta...

http://i.imgur.com/K5fLu18.jpg?1

An early Downtown arena option

http://i.imgur.com/IB88EZO.png

Manulife 2/102st centre - I still want this one built.

https://www.pickardchilton.com/sites...?itok=sQdBTufR

Ha
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https://i184.photobucket.com/albums/...ontontower.jpg

I loved the 'vacuum cleaner'

https://i184.photobucket.com/albums/...elcortower.jpg

Another Downtown arena 'option'

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...3dsiteplan.jpg

LOVE this one

http://i.imgur.com/dSLqvDS.jpg

HSR station to Calgary

http://i.imgur.com/1sSwf4T.jpg?1


https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5754/...c7312ec7_b.jpg

The 'Russian Rocket'

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5749/...2f57f5d4_b.jpg

Pure class

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/682/2...7100f48b_b.jpg


https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5652/...449d5ffb_b.jpg

Century Park

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/634/2...1dbdd3640c.jpg

Ha

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/641/2...e06b389f_b.jpg

Stationlands (only the far right tower was/has been built)

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5803/...36296df7_z.jpg

[giallo]

Edmonton looks like Neo from the Matrix dodging all of those bullets.