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Old Posted Aug 1, 2014, 6:46 PM
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Lots of cranes!
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Yeah dude, that's what I was thinking!
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Nice shot by Johnny Shaw. The Nova Centre and The Roy will add to that perspective.
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Very nice! Is that from Loyola?

From certain angles, you can really see that Halifax actually does have a pretty well developed mid-rise skyline.
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Halifax with and without the harbour.

Halifax with Water by Urban_Halifax, on Flickr

Halifax without Water by Urban_Halifax, on Flickr
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Great photo that illustrates how lackluster the development and architecture outside the downtown core in the south end has been - from the awful-looking Peter Green Hall to the horrid cookie-cutter gabled-roof condos/apartment low-rises west of Tower Rd to the scruffy-looking precast concrete apartment buildings. Just bad.
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Great photo that illustrates how lackluster the development and architecture outside the downtown core in the south end has been - from the awful-looking Peter Green Hall to the horrid cookie-cutter gabled-roof condos/apartment low-rises west of Tower Rd to the scruffy-looking precast concrete apartment buildings. Just bad.
The same process that created these ugly buildings is playing out on Wellington Street right now. The original proposal was for a couple of mediocre towers but then the neighbourhood freaked out because they were too tall. There does not seem to be any pressure to make them more attractive, since people say they uniformly hate all new construction, but there is pressure to make the development as small and consequently as cheap as possible. Those cookie-cutter lowrise buildings are what you get with as-of-right development.

I wonder how much nicer these buildings could have been if all the money that went into court appeals and so on had been put into public-facing design elements instead. I bet the appeal process is a significant part of the cost of development in the South End.
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We had quite an interesting sunset against the city tonight with the passing weather and the heavily moisture laden air over the harbour..

I snapped these while I was on supper at work from my break room and figured they may be worth a share!





Someone on imgur commented that it looked like a sci-fi scenario where Halifax was just about to get clobbered by an asteroid
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Check this shot out! The Roy fills that gap from this angle!!!!!!! NC will also be interesting.

Halifax by Rob Romard, on Flickr
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Lovely pic. It's a shame that the Maritime Museum is such a regrettable design. Looks like a Dept of Transportation snowplow garage.
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Lovely pic. It's a shame that the Maritime Museum is such a regrettable design. Looks like a Dept of Transportation snowplow garage.
An unfortunate relic of '80s architecture. At least it looks better now than it did with the dirty-looking wood cladding.
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Mike Bayer Photography has a great FB page for pictures of Halifax and does them all with a drone. All of these photos are from his page. https://www.facebook.com/mikebayerphoto?fref=ts







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Interesting find. They show how much construction has happened over the past few years. There used to be several large parking lots on the Spring Garden Road sidestreets (Mary Ann, library, part of the Trillium, and farther back, a big lot where the Paramount is), but now all that's left is the Margaretta lot. Hopefully that project will start up soon.
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Interesting find. They show how much construction has happened over the past few years. There used to be several large parking lots on the Spring Garden Road sidestreets (Mary Ann, library, part of the Trillium, and farther back, a big lot where the Paramount is), but now all that's left is the Margaretta lot. Hopefully that project will start up soon.
The parking between the library and Morris St. seems like a real waste from the air... it does at grade, where the street experience is pretty dismal, but from the air, context is evident and you can see the hole in the urban fabric.
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The parking between the library and Morris St. seems like a real waste from the air... it does at grade, where the street experience is pretty dismal, but from the air, context is evident and you can see the hole in the urban fabric.
I agree. I think Dalhousie is taking over this land and planning to expand the Sexton campus; there are supposed to be announcements soon about the IDEA building that is going to go in behind the library (http://www.dal.ca/dept/facilities/ca...building-.html). Unfortunately, governments and universities work at a very slow pace and this project involves coordination between Dalhousie and the city, so the development has not moved along quickly.
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