View Full Version : Tallest in your city ? 75,000 pop +


Rhino
October 17th, 2005, 08:24 AM
Well We are building some of the same size ( Twin condo's at our University ) right now, and this spring a new condo going up between 18-22 stories but right now its this old thing : The Acacia in KAMLOOPS BC at 14 stories.

http://www.emporis.com./files/transfer/sixwm/2003/08/208402.jpg
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=129012

vanboyH
October 17th, 2005, 08:42 AM
Does it have to be a city of over 75 000?

Oh well, even if this doesn't fit the criteria, here is Prince Rupert's (2001 pop: 14 000) tallest building.

http://www.pacrimhospitality.com/images/properties/manager/HJP_frontext.jpg

Howard Johnson Highliner Inn - Prince Rupert
Used to be the tallest building north of Vancouver
Completed in 1980
17 floors
~65m

And here was the hotel that was never built - due to WWI in Prince Rupert:

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/500/28princerupert-chateau01.jpg

Chateau Prince Rupert
Part of Hays plan for Pr. Rupert; never built as a result of WWI
18 floors
71.3m

crazyjoeda
October 17th, 2005, 09:31 AM
Vancouver
http://www.shutterfreaks.com/albums/VancouverFavorites/CRW_2065_FCurvesSubtleCloneSelB.jpg
Wall Centre 150m

Soon to be Living Shangri-la at 198m

ldoto
October 17th, 2005, 03:54 PM
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ldoto/2004/IMGP2031.jpg


One London Place

255 Queens Avenue
London ON Canada


Status: built
Construction Dates
Finished: 1992
Floor Count: 24
Floor Area: 32,516 mē
Building Uses
• office
Structural Types
• highrise
Architectural Style
• late-modernist
Materials
• concrete
• glass
• steel


Heights Value Source / Comments

Roof 113.4 m Sifton Properties



Description
Architect: Crang & Boake

One London Place is the tallest office building in Ontario outside of Toronto, and the third tallest building in Ontario outside of Toronto overall

vid
October 17th, 2005, 04:24 PM
Waverly Park Tower (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=178160)

405 Waverly Street
Thunder Bay Ontario

Built: 1970
Floors: 16(there is a mechanical floor above ground bit it doesn't seem to count)

As far as I know, the tallest in Northern Ontario. I'm not sure if Sudbury has anything taller, as far as I know their tallest is 13.

*Jarrod
October 17th, 2005, 04:53 PM
Orchid House (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=113502)

tallest building in victoria

22 floors
built 1969

This is Victoria's tallest building. Its construction resulted in controversy and, ultimately, height restrictions.

The Chemist
October 17th, 2005, 06:21 PM
Calgary:

PetroCanada Centre West tower
53 Stories
215m
Built 1984

Currently Calgary's tallest, but likely to be supplanted by the new EnCana tower (rumoured 60 stories +, but no official word yet) by 2009.

Rhino
October 17th, 2005, 07:51 PM
Hmmm. I went to lot of trouble to get the image I had and now its a big X ...
I will try to fix it sorry. If you cannot see it at the top ( X ) , right click on X and copy and paste the Address that comes up under properties in to a Web browser. And no pop. doesnt matter just as long as someone doesnt show a 2 story from Merret we will be okay.

CanadianCentaur
October 17th, 2005, 08:27 PM
In Edmonton, it's Manulife Place, of course. It's 146 metres and 38 stories tall.
http://www.kwantumwellness.com/graphics/manulife.jpg

Grande Prairie (pop. ~45,000 - will reach 75,000 sometimes during the 2010s), which is my other city, has 214 Place as its tallest building. It's 14 stories tall - and you can see the Rockies from the top of that building.
http://www.cityofgp.com/NR/rdonlyres/24DF327A-5B2B-43AF-B375-52E4DB3BB9C3/0/060_es_pic28.jpg

http://www.cityofgp.com/NR/rdonlyres/F4E85C07-9DF4-47E8-BFE5-765FB0042E7C/0/180_cspic191.jpg

Travis007
October 17th, 2005, 10:42 PM
Yup, the tallest POS in my neighbourhood in Toronto at 22s and 194 ft.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v86/Switzer/ghettoblock.jpg

algonquin
October 17th, 2005, 11:10 PM
Hamilton

Landmark Place
127m (417')
43 floors
built 1974

- Currently the tallest residential building in Canada outside of Toronto (perhaps Canadas ugliest too)

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/549/1961landmark-place_hamilton.jpg

Nate
October 17th, 2005, 11:43 PM
The tallest in Regina is the Delta Hotel, at 90m I think:

http://www.iseis.org/images/Delta.gif

and to see how it fits into the skyline:

http://img437.imageshack.us/img437/6918/regina61pf.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Tallest building on the right side of the middle of the picture.

Nouvellecosse
October 18th, 2005, 01:50 AM
Our tallest is the Fenwick tower, at 99 metres/32 stories. It's a residence for the Dalhousie Univ. We have a new winner for uglist tallest. :bash:

http://www.willmatheson.com/photos/ps16/aroundtown4/pack78_0002.jpg
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/8053/69panohalifax3.jpg

JARdan
October 18th, 2005, 02:02 AM
I don't know the exact specs. It's about 20floors though:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/32/Sjnb-skyline.jpg

Brett
October 18th, 2005, 02:03 AM
Orchid House (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=113502)

tallest building in victoria

22 floors
built 1969

This is Victoria's tallest building. Its construction resulted in controversy and, ultimately, height restrictions.


How many floors is View Tower? I thought that was the tallest... Im sure you are right though...

jeicow
October 18th, 2005, 02:17 AM
EDIT. Emporis was wrong and the tallest is Citygate 1. For pics see 2nd page.

Mississauga's biggest right now according to Emporis is The Park Masion which is 36 floors/ 112m.
http://www.emporis.com/files/transfer/sixwm/2005/05/363331.jpg

Currently, there are three buildings that have been approved that will be larger. All are part of the Parkside Village development with the tallest being 50 floors/154m.

bluenoser
October 18th, 2005, 02:18 AM
Our tallest is the Fenwick tower, at 99 metres/32 stories. It's a residence for the Dalhousie Univ. We have a new winner for uglist tallest.
I think it looks alright, especially for its era. Makes you wonder why they didn't go for that extra 3.3 feet.

I'm not a big fan of Landmark place, it's kind of a downer for Hamilton's skyline. It does ahhh stand out though.

Nouvellecosse
October 18th, 2005, 04:15 AM
^ I doubt that they were actually "going" for anything, other than a building that fulfilled it function, at the lowest possible cost. And yeah, it looks okay, but not really suitable to be the tallest.

malek
October 18th, 2005, 05:54 AM
Laval 350k

twin commie blocks:

70m, 25 floors, 1965

http://www.emporis.com/files/transfer/6/2001/07/115906.jpg

malek
October 18th, 2005, 05:56 AM
Montreal:

205M, 51 floors, Le 1000 de la gauchetiere aka the dick :)

http://www.emporis.com/files/transfer/sixwm/2004/07/279834.jpg

*Jarrod
October 18th, 2005, 08:25 AM
How many floors is View Tower? I thought that was the tallest... Im sure you are right though...


crack towers...oops...view towers is 19 stories. i don't know when it was built or how tall it is, but orchid house is taller...

View Towers (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=113514)

rapideye95
October 18th, 2005, 03:15 PM
Mississauga's biggest right now according to Emporis is The Park Masion which is 36 floors/ 112m.
http://www.emporis.com/files/transfer/sixwm/2005/05/363331.jpg

Currently, there are three buildings that have been approved that will be larger. All are part of the Parkside Village development with the tallest being 50 floors/154m.

Citygate 1 is 124m tall

Brett
October 18th, 2005, 04:24 PM
crack towers...oops...view towers is 19 stories. i don't know when it was built or how tall it is, but orchid house is taller...

View Towers (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=113514)

I almost took a apartment in there... It was my back up! Glad i didn't have to use it :runaway:

Rhino
October 18th, 2005, 07:34 PM
That is ausome looking

Dylan Leblanc
October 18th, 2005, 08:08 PM
Tallest in Nanaimo, tallest on Vancouver Island, the Beacon, 76 m.

http://web.mala.bc.ca/math/conference/Spain%20Norway%20031.jpg????

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/500/28nanaimo05-1999.jpg????

circle33
October 18th, 2005, 08:39 PM
Saskahoochie's tallest, and national contender for ugliest, is Hallmarkplace. 27 floors, each fuglier than than the one below it.

http://s87411149.onlinehome.us/hallmark.jpg

snoopy
October 18th, 2005, 10:42 PM
I don't know which one exactly is the tallest but here's scarborough's, my home...

Equinox (Under Construction) (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/cx/?id=110011)

AND

Ellipse Towers (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/cx/?id=102339)

AND

360 at City Centre (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=163887)

all of them are located around the Scarborough Centre RT Station and STC

softee
October 19th, 2005, 01:13 AM
Waverly Park Tower (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=178160)

405 Waverly Street
Thunder Bay Ontario

Built: 1970
Floors: 16(there is a mechanical floor above ground bit it doesn't seem to count)

As far as I know, the tallest in Northern Ontario. I'm not sure if Sudbury has anything taller, as far as I know their tallest is 13.

Sudbury has a couple of 17 storey slab apartments, and the Provincial Office tower at Sudbury Civic Square is a 12 storey office building, which may be just as tall or taller than the 17 storey apartments.

North Bay's tallest is currently an 11 storey slab apartment (which is actually about as tall as a typical 14 storey apartment) that was built on the same site as a previous 14 storey apartment tower that was imploded in 1982 because it was found to be structurally unsound. A new 12 storey twin tower condo development was approved by city council last year, but construction has yet to begin.

SimpleSimon
October 19th, 2005, 01:52 AM
Canwest Global Place
Winnipeg
http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/3706/100_1762.jpg
33 floors
128 m
1990

vid
October 19th, 2005, 06:24 PM
Sudbury has a couple of 17 storey slab apartments, and the Provincial Office tower at Sudbury Civic Square is a 12 storey office building, which may be just as tall or taller than the 17 storey apartments.

North Bay's tallest is currently an 11 storey slab apartment (which is actually about as tall as a typical 14 storey apartment) that was built on the same site as a previous 14 storey apartment tower that was imploded in 1982 because it was found to be structurally unsound. A new 12 storey twin tower condo development was approved by city council last year, but construction has yet to begin.

If only city council would have alowed extra traffic on Red River Road.. We would have had a 20 story building.

Oh well. Our city doesn't need development anyway! :|

And it wasn't the best looking tower, either. Sort of a less-ugly Hallmark Place, with a glass top floor.

Not 75000+, but Kenora Ontario's (17,000) tallest is this

http://www.travelblog.ca/photos/471.jpg

Best Western Lakeside Inn. Tallest Hotel in Northwestern Ontario, and probably the tallest circular building in Northern Ontario, unless there's something else in Sudbury I don't know about.

doady
October 19th, 2005, 07:00 PM
Here is Mississauga's tallest: Citygate (the green pointy buildings) at 34 stories tall. There are buildings that are 36 story and 35 story tall, but not as tall height-wise.

http://www.pbase.com/doady/image/44721706/original.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/doady/image/50999713/original.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/doady/image/48997677/original.jpg

jeicow
October 20th, 2005, 02:34 AM
Citygate 1 is 124m tall

Thanks for the info. I thought originally that Citygate 1 was taller. I saw the one I post on Emporis, but I don't remember ever seeing it in person so I figured I was wrong about Citygate, but thanks for the actual number.

Rhino
October 20th, 2005, 03:24 PM
thanks everyone for making this thread kick ass