Future Canadian Skylines

[steveve]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

Awesome graphics Steveve! You've really stepped up the future skyline rendering game.

There are a few errors in the "use type" graphic, mostly just missing a few residential/hotel uses and misattributing them to residential only.
- Mirvish Gehry's tallest tower has a hotel in it
- 411 King has a hotel component I believe
- You have the ACE hotel as residential even though it's all hotel
- The Ontario Hydro building addition is listed as residential only even though it also includes a significant amount of new office space
- 475 Yonge has a significant hotel component
- 88 Queen's tallest tower has a good size office component in the podium
- you have the hotel at Trinity and mill st as a residential building
- 488 University has a significant office component
- the shortest tower of Chelsea Green (33 Gerrard W) is hotel
- 250 Dundas West has a large office component
- 1075 Bay has a large office component
- the three south Well towers should be mixed use as they have large office podiums
- not sure what is going on with the 2 Tecumseth model, but there is an all office building in that development

Originally Posted by yaletown_fella

Model looks amazing Steveve.

Two developments you could add: 287 Davenport Rd and 89 Avenue Rd.

I wouldnt take Mirvish-Gehry seriously at this point and would consider omitting it. But no worries.

Thanks @innsertnamehere and @yaletown_fella for pointing these out! There were a few others I missed that I also noticed. This really saves me time to when I go back and correct them, since there are so many projects to keep track of, I often overlook these details and make errors.

Originally Posted by Maldive

But your totals are only Bloor/Yorkville to the lake correct? Yonge and Eglinton will be chipping in the near future, maybe Yonge and St. Clair one day (One Delisle @ 150m is a good start) and North York is overdue.

So more than 50 is ok with me too.

That’s right. It only counts the ones shown in the graphic.
Would definitely love to cover more areas.


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Here’s another style of image, this time of Yorkville:

[steveve]

Below is a timeline of Toronto's skyline over the decades:

[MolsonExport]

Manhattanization.

[koops65]

510 Yonge, 56 floors, no render yet, this is my 180 metre tall placeholder:

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[koops65]

The Grand Hotel, and the St. Mike's helicopter flight path:

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[koops65]

The Millwood, at Yonge and Davisville, 154 metres, 45 floors:

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Zoomed out:

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[steveve]

Here is an updated Toronto development graphic:

[Maldive]

I accidentally clicked page 1 of this thread, and discovered I had started it... shortly after the invention of the wheel and the subsequent release of PhotoShop.

There's a Bloor/Yorkville to the Lake future render somewhere on this thread that I did with Koops for Toronto Life, and below is my June update (stuff like new SkyTower, 1200 Bay etc.).
Only 4 months later and this is also completely out-of-date, thanks to the avalanche of COVID-defying proposals that keep appearing.

Since I no longer have a single hair on my head that is still brown, I thought it appropriate to post the de-saturated version:



In colour.

BTW, can't remember what that very first thread post, a 2008 future rendering, actually was... but think it was this one below.

[ericmacm]

Halifax, NS:

Total # of new towers in skyline: 30

Halifax Watermarked V1-1 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

Halifax Watermarked V1-2 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

Halifax Watermarked V1-3 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

Halifax Watermarked V1-4 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

Halifax Watermarked V1-5 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

Halifax Watermarked V1-6 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

Halifax Watermarked V1-7 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

Halifax Watermarked V1-8 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

Hamilton, ON:

Total # of new towers in skyline: 45

Hamilton Watermarked V6-1 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

Hamilton Watermarked V6-2 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

Hamilton Watermarked V6-3 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

Hamilton Watermarked V6-4 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

Hamilton Watermarked V6-5 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

Hamilton Watermarked V6-6 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

Hamilton Watermarked V6-7 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

Hamilton Watermarked V6-8 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

Niagara Falls, ON:

Total # of new towers in skyline: 15

Niagara Falls Watermarked V3-1 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

Niagara Falls Watermarked V3-2 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

Niagara Falls Watermarked V3-3 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

Niagara Falls Watermarked V3-4 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

Niagara Falls Watermarked V3-5 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr


Niagara Falls Watermarked V3-6 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

Niagara Falls Watermarked V3-7 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

Niagara Falls Watermarked V3-8 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

[megadude]

Can someone explain to me why Niagara would need that many new towers? What are the chances of any of those getting built? It would look cool but I don't understand the rationale.

I remember three years ago walking around noticing the abandoned project that had the foundation complete but little else that had been around for about 10 years.

[Harrison]

Originally Posted by megadude

Can someone explain to me why Niagara would need that many new towers? What are the chances of any of those getting built? It would look cool but I don't understand the rationale.

I remember three years ago walking around noticing the abandoned project that had the foundation complete but little else that had been around for about 10 years.

Niagara Falls is truly the Las Vegas of Canada in terms of architecture.

[MolsonExport]

NF, NY is one of the saddest, downtrodden places I have ever witnessed with my own eyes. It is astonishingly terrible. On par with Flint.


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[koops65]

Originally Posted by megadude

Can someone explain to me why Niagara would need that many new towers? What are the chances of any of those getting built? It would look cool but I don't understand the rationale.

I remember three years ago walking around noticing the abandoned project that had the foundation complete but little else that had been around for about 10 years.

Tourism...

[megadude]

So how did they manage without any new construction of that scale for so many years? At least I don't recall anything new like that for several years. The unfinished project on Stanley has been sitting there for over a decade.

Are these new buildings themselves supposed to attract that much more tourism?

[WhipperSnapper]

The chances of any of these being built are very slim. The majority of the space is not for hotel usage. These are largely condos in a market that hasn't attracted a big investor/developer in the past 15 to 20 years of trying. Tourism hasn't yielded a major hotel tower in 12 years and a partially built structure rotting away for the last 20 years. A second wave of large hotel towers was not going to happen before the pandemic and the pandemic is a Tsunami for Niagara Falls. The first hit were states relaxing laws allowing more local casinos to be built. Niagara Falls isn't Atlantic City. The casinos are a huge draw from south of the border.

People just have fun believing a rendering and zoning exercise is a big enough expenditure giving any proposal a moderate shot of being built. No one makes future skyline renderings of just towers under construction.

[koops65]

510 Yonge:

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zoomed out:

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[ericmacm]

Barrie, ON:

Total # of new towers in skyline: 19

Barrie Watermarked V2-1 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

Barrie Watermarked V2-2 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

Barrie Watermarked V2-3 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

Barrie Watermarked V2-4 by Eric MacMillan, on Flickr

[koops65]

Excellent stuff! Barrie is growing up it seems...

[steveve]

Here are some future Toronto cityscapes:

[Maldive]

^ you da man steve... stunning.

Future Skyline (Bloor/Yorkville to the lake): November update with 3 dozen new proposals, new designs and improvements. Be sure to click the link below (and then zoom) to see a larger, higher resolution render.

LARGER RENDER: http://upside-down.ca/futuretoronto/...-8rev-2020.jpg

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Couple of screenshots from the large render