Future Canadian Skylines - Page 185

Beedok · #**3681** Posted **Oct 9, 2015, 7:35 PM**

Minneapolis too. 70s pics of there look so awkward with one behemoth.

Biff · #**3682** Posted **Oct 9, 2015, 7:50 PM**

^^^

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Coldrsx · #**3683** Posted **Oct 9, 2015, 8:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by itom 987

Spring2008, Black Star, Coldrsx and SkahHigh no more bickering please.

Sorry boss, just have no patience for such obvious cockery.

J.OT13 · #**3684** Posted **Oct 10, 2015, 1:09 AM**

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Originally Posted by caltrane74

Edmonton will be in the big leagues when that tower goes up... Even these half ass renderings are scaring me!! lol!

All it takes is one Monster and then every piece of land in the core will get bought up and developed to match. That's what happened in Toronto, when TD Centre went up, it dwarfed every tower in the downtown core by 150 meters when it was built. Didn't even look right, but eventually all the other banks were like we gotta get in the game and bought all the land or (repurposed/redeveloped land they already owned) and we got monster towers all around.

Toronto's Stantec back in the day (wasn't as tall as Stantec, but you get the picture)

www.blogto.com

Love those pictures of late 60s TO. Toronto Dominion sticks out like a sore thumb. No doubt it faced massive opposition because it "didn't fit with its surroundings". Within 10 years, TO had a distinctive financial district of super-tall International style towers.

1976

http://starstore.ca/products/toronto-skyline-1976

Chadillaccc · #**3685** Posted **Oct 10, 2015, 3:16 AM**

Here's one from Calgary made early this year. The only building that needs to be taken out is 3 Eau Claire as ownership has been transferred to another developer and will now likely be a single tower with a rumoured significant height increase from the previous 160 meter proposal. This render is missing quite a few towers that have been proposed since then.

Source: Ctrl Alt Del on SSP

Black Star · #**3686** Posted **Oct 10, 2015, 3:28 AM**

Thats a great shot of Calgary.

TallBob · #**3687** Posted **Oct 10, 2015, 7:12 AM**

Chadiliac: So 3EC might be a single tower and taller eh! I remember a couple years ago suggesting that very same thing.... and it wasn't too popular with the forum! I feel vindicated!

koops65 · #**3688** Posted **Oct 11, 2015, 10:37 PM**

Here is my newest future Toronto render, with as many 122 metre + (400 feet) towers as I could manage to fit in, and a bunch were completely or partially lost when other towers were added in, so there are actually more than what I labeled. There are approximately 80 - 90 towers added in or altered by myself. (buildings under construction for instance)

Original photo credit, from July 11, 2015:

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By James MacDonald at Bloomberg Business.

My render:
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With buildings labeled:
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caltrane74 · #**3689** Posted **Oct 11, 2015, 11:58 PM**

Slowly, but surely, the Toronto Skyline is beefing up.

Good work Koops!

Beedok · #**3690** Posted **Oct 12, 2015, 12:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by caltrane74

Slowly, but surely, the Toronto Skyline is beefing up.

Good work Koops!

Are Shanghai and Dubai the only cities you don't consider slow?

caltrane74 · #**3691** Posted **Oct 12, 2015, 2:53 AM**

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Originally Posted by Beedok

Are Shanghai and Dubai the only cities you don't consider slow?

Well they are fast paced cities, that's for sure. Dubai is Super-Luxury and Shanghai is Super-Huge.

ainvan · #**3692** Posted **Oct 12, 2015, 6:56 AM**

Wow! Toronto in the future!

leftimage · #**3693** Posted **Oct 14, 2015, 3:19 AM**

Must-watch video showing the Quad windsor project in Montreal... too many towers to count.... and they used legos!

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Spring2008 · #**3694** Posted **Oct 14, 2015, 10:35 PM**

I think TO will surpass Chicago in a few years for #2 spot in NA. Also building a pretty big lead on all the other Cdn cities with Van/Cgy 2nd and third, though Van will continue to pull away as #2 with the super luxury boom while lots of Cgy proposals continue to sit in limbo.

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Originally Posted by koops65

Here is my newest future Toronto render, with as many 122 metre + (400 feet) towers as I could manage to fit in, and a bunch were completely or partially lost when other towers were added in, so there are actually more than what I labeled. There are approximately 80 - 90 towers added in or altered by myself. (buildings under construction for instance)

Original photo credit, from July 11, 2015:

My render:
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With buildings labeled:
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SkahHigh · #**3695** Posted **Oct 14, 2015, 10:46 PM**

I will repeat this: TO will not surpass Chicago until it gets at least one tower over 300m. Chicago has 4 (including a 450m tower)... I have a lot of respect for the Toronto skyline but it still needs to get to the next level. The bones (150m-200m) are being massively built, now TO needs some supertalls.

caltrane74 · #**3696** Posted **Oct 14, 2015, 11:10 PM**

It's not only super-talls, Toronto doesn't have the same quality of buildings as Chicago.

Chicago has been a big-league (world city) for a much longer time than Toronto. Toronto, just got into the big leagues about 10-to 15 years ago. Maybe????

Chicago has been a major-league city for 120 years or so, so they've been building quality high-rises all that time. It will take a while for us to catch up, but we will have them beat on density at some time in the next 10 years to 15 years.

Black Star · #**3697** Posted **Oct 14, 2015, 11:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by SkahHigh

I will repeat this: TO will not surpass Chicago until it gets at least one tower over 300m. Chicago has 4 (including a 450m tower)... I have a lot of respect for the Toronto skyline but it still needs to get to the next level. The bones (150m-200m) are being massively built, now TO needs some supertalls.

Agree....some peoples kids don't get this.

Beedok · #**3698** Posted **Oct 15, 2015, 12:29 AM**

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Originally Posted by SkahHigh

I will repeat this: TO will not surpass Chicago until it gets at least one tower over 300m. Chicago has 4 (including a 450m tower)... I have a lot of respect for the Toronto skyline but it still needs to get to the next level. The bones (150m-200m) are being massively built, now TO needs some supertalls.

Not really needed. A much more solid skyline can still win.

softee · #**3699** Posted **Oct 15, 2015, 12:33 AM**

^^ There are three supertalls in the pipeline and of course Toronto already has that little 554 metre freestanding structure that has got to count for something.

SkahHigh · #**3700** Posted **Oct 15, 2015, 12:55 AM**

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Originally Posted by softee

^^ There are three supertalls in the pipeline and of course Toronto already has that little 554 metre freestanding structure that has got to count for something.

The CN Tower is indeed very iconic, but Chicago has the Willis Tower and the John Hancock (plus the very impressive Trump Tower) which makes the city recognizable. Again, I'm not trying to bring down Toronto, but it won't be equal or bigger than Chicago until it gets two or three supertalls. TO can be included in that conversation though, which really is a compliment to the city's skyline.

Let's compare both skylines (future TO with current Chicago)

Toronto 2020:

Chicago 2014:

Don't forget that Chicago will keep building a few 200m+ towers until 2020.