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The list of demolished grand old buildings in Calgary would be quite depressing, especially considering what replaced most of them.
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The Southam Building was a tragic loss, especially for the garbage that replaced it. Here's a better view...
http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/pcim...b/PC005671.jpg Thankfully, Calgary is also still home to... Fairmont Palliser Hotel - 1914 - 55 meters https://www.aeonstonetile.com/wp-con...-Calgary-2.jpg https://www.aeonstonetile.com/instal...iar-calgary-2/ The Lancaster Building - 1918 - 40 meters https://imarcomcdn.simons.ca/imarcom...e0141f953e92d0 Calgary Public Building - 42 meters http://www.mbeng.ca/wp-content/uploa...B-DSC_0270.jpg http://www.mbeng.ca/portfolio/calgary-public-building/ And a special mention to the Grain Exchange Building, built in 1910 at 30 meters, one of the first buildings in Alberta with an elevator. :tup: https://images1.loopnet.com/i2/EWXht.../110/image.jpg https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/815-...ry-AB/6540483/ |
Our only contender would likely be the Supreme Court of Newfoundland - first built in 1730 but the current building (on that same site) was built in 1901. Not sure if it's tall enough?
https://live.staticflickr.com/4145/4...ded00cca_b.jpgSupreme Court Building, St. John's by Eric Harrison, on Flickr https://i.postimg.cc/vHwDX3Jc/1280px...st-2012-01.jpg |
A few from Montreal that were forgotten:
Canada Life building: 1895. 8 floors and 40m roof height. The first highrise in Canada with a steel frame. http://www.vieux.montreal.qc.ca/inve...1613-00-11.jpg Windsor Station /CP Headquarters: 1916. 69m and 15 floors. https://i0.wp.com/cs-montrealgazette...y=65&strip=all Ritz-Carleton Hotel 10 floors 38. 1912. https://media2.ledevoir.com/images_g...3072/image.jpg Linton Apartments 1908. 10 floors 40m. http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.c...iew/v12777.jpg Windsor hotel (annex) 40m 9 floors 1906. https://lewindsormontreal.com/upload...orth-annex.jpg Guardian Building. 36m 9 floors 1902. http://www.vieux.montreal.qc.ca/inve...9970-00-12.jpg http://www.vieux.montreal.qc.ca/inve...9970-00-15.jpg There are many more 130 footers. By 1931 Montreal would have approximately 80 buildings of 40m or more. Montreal had a height limit of 40m until 1922. |
Calgary was building taller than Montreal in 1915. Lmao
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Proper skyscrapers! Love it! :tup:
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A couple more for Vancouver:
The Royal Bank building is an overlooked, but awesome one. https://live.staticflickr.com/2783/4...724fbfca_b.jpgRoyal Bank Building, Vancouver by Steven Ballegeer, on Flickr And, of course, how could we forget the Marine Building. https://tce-live2.s3.amazonaws.com/m...a3697c26fd.jpg |
^ Lots of beautiful early skyscrapers in Canada built in the 1920's and in the very early 1930's. I find it funny how Winnipeg has a nice collection of "First Great Age" early skyscrapers yet none from the 1920's while Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Hamilton and Quebec City have some.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nCXsPDdsjV...%2BTribune.bmp http://winnipegdowntownplaces.blogsp...-building.html Construction started on the first Richardson Building only a few weeks before Black Tuesday in 1929, it was put on-hold and then eventually cancelled. The building was supposed to be about 90 metres in height. |
We have a good collection of highrises from the early 20th century in Canada, but the heights were modest compared to what was being built in the US.
New York City built the Woolworth Building in 1912. Height: 241 m. https://media-cdn.sygictraveldata.co...32343638383832 https://media-cdn.sygictraveldata.com |
For sure. The US built 241 metre towers all over the place at the turn of the century.
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Edmonton only ever had four 'skyscrapers' constructed prior to the Second World War, although they were all more stout than those in Canada's larger cities.
The 1911-1915 Tegler Building was the city's first true skyscraper, standing at 28 meters, and was demolished in 1982 in a tragic turn of events. The Bank of Montreal had ultimately purchased it, and strong armed City Council through blackmail and threats to get them to rescind a planned heritage designation, over the objections of the public at large. https://www.edmontonsarchitecturalhe...5A01_popup.jpg https://www.edmontonsarchitecturalhe...gler-building/ The 1912-15 McLeod Building stands at 35 meters tall. It's a designated Municipal and Provincial Historic Resource, and is Alberta's best example of Chicago School architecture. Interestingly, it's a near copy of Spokane's Paulsen Building; its namesake, Alderman Kenneth McLeod, was so wooed by it he put in an order with the same architect for a twin. Allegedly its footings were designed to allow for another 50 storeys to be built in the future. https://www.edmontonsarchitecturalhe...5728_popup.jpg https://www.edmontonsarchitecturalhe...leod-building/ The 1912-13 Canadian Pacific Railway Building stood at approximately 25 meters. It was supposedly Western Canada's first steel-reinforced concrete building, and was initially planned to stand around 40 meters. It was demolished in 1992 despite the protests of heritage advocates; its ornate ground floor reliefs and columns were bastardized and grafted onto its stout two storey replacement. https://cdn.skyrisecities.com/forum/..._o-jpg.204872/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/lac-bac/18360612256 The 1912-13 Agency Building stood around 28 meters, and was purported to be Canada's skinniest 'skyscraper,' with its width of only 25 feet. It was demolished in 1972. https://www.edmontonsarchitecturalhe...3640_popup.jpg https://www.edmontonsarchitecturalhe...ency-building/ An honourable mention also goes to the 1926 Woodward's Department Store, which after going through an expansion in 1940 stood at roughly 25 meters. It was demolished in 1974 to make way for Woodward's Edmonton Centre Mall. https://live.staticflickr.com/1536/2...d1215f1e_c.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/woodhead/25746584396/ |
Delete... posted building was past the "first great age" :)
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Wow, Edmonton only had a handful of such towers and decided to demolish all but one? I would say relatively Edmonton has suffered the worst fate in this regard for any Canadian city?
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It's a bit utilitarian, but the 10-storey 1916 wing of Peterborough's Quaker Oats factory counts:
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/c...g?format=1500w Today: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/c...g?format=1500w It actually replaced a nearly-identical building from 1902 that burned down in a fire. |
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Ottawa has a few, mostly on the corner of Sussex and Rideau and down Sparks Street. Many more were lost during the blitz of the 50s, 60s and 70s.
Transportation Building, 1916. Named for its location across the street of the then Union Station. It served as the "temporary" City Hall between 1931 and 1958 when our second City Hall burnt down. Today, it hoses one of the entrances of Rideau Station. Here it is in 1962, three years after the streetcars were removed. https://live.staticflickr.com/1637/2...91fb676f_b.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/rdb466/23778776170 Recent image with subway entrance on the corner. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...lding_-_03.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transp...lding_-_03.jpg http://gmld.ca/wp-content/uploads/20...tre-Edit-1.jpg http://gmld.ca/portfolio/cf-rideau-centre/ And here's one with the Transportation on the right and the Plaza Building on the left, another early skyscraper. Little information is available on this one, but it was designed by W.E. Nofke, one of Ottawa's most prolific architects of the first half of the 20th century, and built somewhere between 1905 and 1920. http://www.pastottawa.com/include/ot...1376782616.jpg http://www.pastottawa.com/comparison...king-east/225/ |
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