Canadian Skyline Thread III - Page 56

Coldrsx · #**1101** Posted **Apr 22, 2024, 2:53 PM**

https://twitter.com/kmoorephotos/sta...22095412236664

giallo · #**1102** Posted **Apr 22, 2024, 5:28 PM**

^ Nice. Edmonton looks good from the river.

Coldrsx · #**1103** Posted **Apr 22, 2024, 5:51 PM**

That broadway tower looks towering.

Coldrsx · #**1104** Posted **Apr 23, 2024, 5:04 PM**

https://twitter.com/kmoorephotos/sta...3898%2Fpage-74

koops65 · #**1105** Posted **Apr 23, 2024, 6:07 PM**

Love the astronomical shots!!

dleung · #**1106** Posted **Apr 24, 2024, 7:45 PM**

Well, nothing says income inequality like someone decorating their luxury condo with a porsche

https://www.tiktok.com/@604tv/video/7361257386813787398

WhipperSnapper · #**1107** Posted **Apr 24, 2024, 7:51 PM**

That sort of car abuse shouldn't be allowed. Lot of effort for a 356.

Architype · #**1108** Posted **Apr 25, 2024, 6:27 AM**

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Originally Posted by Coldrsx

That broadway tower looks towering.

It looks monolithic there, surprising considering its location so close to downtown.

Here is a current view of Metrotown, from my vantage point over 7km away in East Van.

photo by me Apr 22 2024

WhipperSnapper · #**1109** Posted **Apr 25, 2024, 1:00 PM**

It just tall. Everything else about the development sucks balls. Worst of all is a giant booooring podium on the most eclectic postmodern high rise street in Canada. Hope it's just a one off. Somehow I doubt it. Oh well, people can rejoice in the borification with the new height precedence

Martin Mtl · #**1110** Posted **Apr 25, 2024, 1:06 PM**

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GL-Y6ZGW...pg&name=medium

Rico Rommheim · #**1111** Posted **Apr 25, 2024, 1:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by Architype

It looks monolithic there, surprising considering its location so close to downtown.

Here is a current view of Metrotown, from my vantage point over 7km away in East Van.

photo by me Apr 22 2024

I remember when the Metrotown skyline was only those 2 black towers. I remember thinking they were so tall. How things have changed!

coastalkid · #**1112** Posted **Apr 25, 2024, 6:05 PM**

I thought these were cool of the Spring Garden Road area of Halifax. You can see the North End skyline in the distance, with the tallest being Richmond Yards u/c:

Closer view of Dresden Row terminating at Citadel Hill (North End skyline top left, Downtown top right):

Source:https://www.viewpoint.ca/cutsheet/20...en-Row-Halifax

zoomer · #**1113** Posted **Apr 25, 2024, 10:50 PM**

Beautiful pictures! A fresh perspective with some good mid-rise density and views to boot, thanks for sharing

giallo · #**1114** Posted **Apr 26, 2024, 12:31 AM**

There are a few shots of the Vancouver skyline in this video.

• Video Link

Architype · #**1115** Posted **Apr 26, 2024, 2:22 AM**

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Originally Posted by giallo

There are a few shots of the Vancouver skyline in this video.

Very well done.

Architype · #**1116** Posted **Apr 26, 2024, 3:09 AM**

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Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

I remember when the Metrotown skyline was only those 2 black towers. I remember thinking they were so tall. How things have changed!

There has been lots of change. Here's a comparison from February, I think the building under construction on the right, at centre above, is Central Park House, 42 storeys. The 65 storey Grand Tower, to be Burnaby's tallest to date will also be visible.

my photo Feb 13 2024

MolsonExport · #**1117** Posted **Apr 26, 2024, 12:57 PM**

I used to work in Metrotown (1995). Even back then, I was fascinated by the notion of a secondary downtown with skyscrapers (coming from Montreal, where we really didn't have such a thing...well, maybe there was "downtown Longueuil" but that was right across the river and besides, it was/is hideous). Metrotown today is unrecognizable from my 1995 memories.

I do recall North York City Centre back in the 1980s, as a secondary downtown for Toronto. There were certainly many nodes of tallish buildings elsewhere in Metro Toronto (we didn't speak of the GTA back then), but almost all of these were concrete slabs (commie blocks).

Back then, both NYCC and Metrotown were almost completely linear skylines (the former along Yonge, the latter along the Kingsway).

Now, satellite downtowns are everywhere in Canada's bigger cities. As for Toronto and Vancouver, there are new ones springing up every few years.

WhipperSnapper · #**1118** Posted **Apr 26, 2024, 1:11 PM**

North York Centre is linear now. Back then, as I remember it, you had a node around Sheppard; a smaller node around Finch and, a couple towers, a subway station built as part of Lastman's City Hall development near the middle

Rico Rommheim · #**1119** Posted **Apr 26, 2024, 2:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

I used to work in Metrotown (1995). Even back then, I was fascinated by the notion of a secondary downtown with skyscrapers (coming from Montreal, where we really didn't have such a

Same. The first time I saw Metrotown it was from the highway in 2000. I noticed those two 100m-tall towers and I remember being blown away by this giant suburban skyline so far from the centre. I think I was quite impressionable in my younger days

TorontoDrew · #**1120** Posted **Apr 26, 2024, 2:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by dleung

Well, nothing says income inequality like someone decorating their luxury condo with a porsche

https://www.tiktok.com/@604tv/video/7361257386813787398

This is so dumb, I heard it was going in the Butterfly? Considering how tiny and how expensive condos are in Vancouver this is like a giant F/U to most people. Kind of reminds me about a few years back where a guy on one of the upper floors at the Ritz Toronto would have daytime sex parties in his condo he had a collection of vintage Harleys in. Apparently Cadillac Fairview had to get the cops involved to make him stop or close his blinds as the RBC workers were distracted all day.