3 and possibly 4 new tallest in a period of 3-4 years is quite impressive....And these aren't
just slightly taller either!
Not to mention their downtown is on a hill and not sunken in a river valley... the new towers will really stand out. Hell, the 140m-ish skyline wasn't too bad because of that!
What software are you using? I think I've asked before. If you ever want help adding some details or textures to certain buildings or sections I'd love to help you out. I use Maya but can import export in multiple formats.
I've made this in Second Life. I'm not an expert on software details, I just build. You can join for free, and then you can check it out in 3D at your leisure.
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Y&E, Davisville and, St Clair probably will always be islands. The best case scenario is a connecting sandbar.
I hope to hell Toronto NEVER comes close to Manhattan.
One of the things that makes Toronto so endearing is that you have highrises but also thousands of SFH and townhomes throughout the core while in Manhattan you could count the number of houses on your hands with Vancouver nearly being the same.
I hope to hell Toronto NEVER comes close to Manhattan.
One of the things that makes Toronto so endearing is that you have highrises but also thousands of SFH and townhomes throughout the core while in Manhattan you could count the number of houses on your hands with Vancouver nearly being the same.
Toronto doesn't have many detached SFH in the core at all, most houses remaining in the core are rowhouses or semi-detached houses, and if by the core you mean the part of downtown where most of the tall buildings are clustered (Lake to Bloor, University to Jarvis), there might be hundreds at best. If you expand the core boundaries to Bathurst and the Don River, then that's a different story, but most of those homes are also rowhouses and semi-detached.
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Yes I basically meant Bathurst to Don, Lakeshore to Dupont. Vancouver has destroyed nearly every SFH in the core save a few with heritage designation and it never had any townhomes. Manhattan is just apt after apt many of which are very nice but still not very endearing. You need a healthy mix of housing to have a healthy mix of all demographics from singles to families, rich to poor, 5 to 95, and every racial and ethnic makeup.
Toronto is not a great city because it's a smaller New York but quite the opposite, it's a great city because it's large and isn't New York and it will lose it's warmth, sense of community, and liveability if ever decides to become a small New York. New York and especially Manhattan, is a truly great city but not one Toronto should emulate.
Manhattan isn't just apartments after apartments. There's also a much better range of apartments styles and sizes than what Toronto and Vancouver has built in the last 15 years too.
As more and more big towers go up along Yonge between the lake and Bloor, the number of 2 & 3 storey heritage buildings fronting Yonge grows less and less...
Very true but walk off Yonge by just one block and you are in the midst of beautiful tree lined streets with gorgeous Victorians. In Vancouver, except for 2 small heritage areas totally less than 20 houses, you have to leave the entire downtown to see a house.
The Weste End use to be all low rise apts and SFH but in true Vancouver stlye, they were torn down decades ago for high rises. Up until about 1960, the English Bay Hotel was the tallest building in the West End.
Future Yonge & Eglinton - I've textured most of the buildings, still needs more detail, but it's getting there now
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A lot of those taller towers are still proposals, but many are already U/C as well. Some of those blocks, especially along Broadway, will be at downtown density levels if this building trend continues for only a few more years...
Very true but walk off Yonge by just one block and you are in the midst of beautiful tree lined streets with gorgeous Victorians. In Vancouver, except for 2 small heritage areas totally less than 20 houses, you have to leave the entire downtown to see a house.
The Weste End use to be all low rise apts and SFH but in true Vancouver stlye, they were torn down decades ago for high rises. Up until about 1960, the English Bay Hotel was the tallest building in the West End.
C'mon. You have to go east of Sherbourne or west of Spadina to find tree lined streets complete with single family houses. That's a large area in between.
Future Yonge & Eglinton - I've textured most of the buildings, still needs more detail, but it's getting there now
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A lot of those taller towers are still proposals, but many are already U/C as well. Some of those blocks, especially along Broadway, will be at downtown density levels if this building trend continues for only a few more years...
This is great. I've been trying to visualize all the new development proposals. (with many more to come) The densities just isn't very attractive to me. This is far from being downtown. Of course, there's also Vaughan Centre which is selling like hotcakes.
Koops, what an astonishing labour of love...I can see this becoming a very useful tool/file in the years ahead as more of these come to fruition and we seek to visualize each new development from different angles. Thank you so much!
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Future Yonge & Eglinton - I've textured most of the buildings, still needs more detail, but it's getting there now
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A lot of those taller towers are still proposals, but many are already U/C as well. Some of those blocks, especially along Broadway, will be at downtown density levels if this building trend continues for only a few more years...
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