Canadian Urban Canyons

[caltrane74]

Southcore - Today

[LeftCoaster]

Woof, everything I dislike about the south core epitomized in one succinct picture.

[Ramako]

Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

Woof, everything I dislike about the south core epitomized in one succinct picture.

The most prominent things in that shot are a construction site and an off-ramp that's scheduled to be demolished, so that view is bound to look significantly different in a few years.

[TownGuy]

Urbansanity by Jack Landau, on Flickr

[ssiguy]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

^bad-assed canyon. Good ol' Boul. Rene Levesque.

I don't know. I've never been a fan of Rene Levesque, it's not near what it could be.

Always sort of struck me as a half assed, poor man's University Avenue. They can try to make it seem more important by calling it a "boulevard" but it's always struck me as nothing more than a wide street with offices down it.

On a different not..........is that above photo Toronto? The only thing I can recognize is the billboards that might make it Dundas Square.

[Ramako]

Originally Posted by ssiguy

I don't know. I've never been a fan of Rene Levesque, it's not near what it could be.

Always sort of struck me as a half assed, poor man's University Avenue. They can try to make it seem more important by calling it a "boulevard" but it's always struck me as nothing more than a wide street with offices down it.

On a different not..........is that above photo Toronto? The only thing I can recognize is the billboards that might make it Dundas Square.

Yup, canyon is Yonge Street. You can see 2 Queen East and Pantages Tower on the right.

[GreaterMontréal]

Originally Posted by ssiguy

I don't know. I've never been a fan of Rene Levesque, it's not near what it could be.

Always sort of struck me as a half assed, poor man's University Avenue. They can try to make it seem more important by calling it a "boulevard" but it's always struck me as nothing more than a wide street with offices down it.

On a different not..........is that above photo Toronto? The only thing I can recognize is the billboards that might make it Dundas Square.

Luckily that will change in a couple of years with all the constructions on R-L.

[Rico Rommheim]

Rene-Levesque has a promising future. Just off the top of my head I can list:

1. Roccabella: 147m, 147m
2. Icone: 146m, 107m
3. YUL: 120m, 120m
4. Babylone: 120m, 80m
5. Renaissance hotel: 30 floors
6. New residential tower on Anderson/ R-L: 28 floors
7. CHUM office tower: 17 floors
8. O'Nessy: 15 floors
9. +a bunch of mid rises planned in and around the Radio-Canada/CBC lands.

+maybe the Point Zero tower?

Some solid infill and height to be added in the near future.

[ssiguy]

That will certainly improve the urban canyon but the street itself is so much less than it could be.

[vanman]

The Kingsway canyon in Burnaby. North York better watch it's back.

Originally Posted by Jebby

b by Yellow Fever @ SkyscraperCity, on Flickr

[Chadillaccc]

Are any of the other Station Square towers UC yet?

[Surrealplaces]

Urbanity indeed. Looks like HK or NYC.

Originally Posted by TownGuy

Urbansanity by Jack Landau, on Flickr

[softee]

^ The 60 storey Massey Tower and a 40 storey apartment tower (crane visible) will add significant density to that view in a couple of years.

[kwoldtimer]

Originally Posted by ssiguy

That will certainly improve the urban canyon but the street itself is so much less than it could be.

Much like University Avenue.

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by Delirium

looking down seymour st

Photo by Mindfuel https://www.flickr.com/photos/mindfu...54099/sizes/l/

That street looks good until you look up past the podiums. If only the towers weren't set back and carried on with the same architecture of the first 3 floors this would be an attractive street.

[vanman]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Are any of the other Station Square towers UC yet?

Nope. Nothing but site prep so far. The next two towers have sold over 520+ units between them so I imagine that they'll be starting excavation work as soon as possible.

[Rico Rommheim]

Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

Much like University Avenue.

It may be cold and impersonal, almost even Rene-Levesque-esque (Ha) but I'm always impressed with University Avenue. It was clearly built with the intent to impress, lined with monumental commercial buildings and cumulating at an epic terminated vista.

Rene-Levesque lacks a terminated vista on either end, and worse, it doesn't go anywhere. It dies miserably at both east and west ends.

[GreaterMontréal]

Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

It may be cold and impersonal, almost even Rene-Levesque-esque (Ha) but I'm always impressed with University Avenue. It was clearly built with the intent to impress, lined with monumental commercial buildings and cumulating at an epic terminated vista.

Rene-Levesque lacks a terminated vista on either end, and worse, it doesn't go anywhere. It dies miserably at both east and west ends.

soon to be called boulevard Robert-Bourassa, between Notre-Dame and Sherbrooke.

[Rico Rommheim]

^I was talking about University Ave. (Toronto), not University street here in Montreal.


Anyways University ave. and University st. have no similarities whatsoever.

[GreaterMontréal]

Originally Posted by Rico Rommheim

^I was talking about University Ave. (Toronto), not University street here in Montreal.


Anyways University ave. and University st. have no similarities whatsoever.

My bad, I agree they're not similar.

With the transformation of the Bonaventure Expressway into an urban boulevard, Montreal will finally have a real prestigious entrance. Let's hope for the best.