Canada's biggest East Coast city (population 365 000):

http://www.worldcityphotos.org/Canada/CAN-NS-Halifax-webshotsconk_91.jpg
http://www.worldcityphotos.org/Canada/CAN-NS-Halifax-urbanphotocom1.jpg
http://www.worldcityphotos.org/Canada/CAN-NS-Halifax-RNelson1.jpg

Nice city... don't care for the skyline though... 6.5

:Sigh: :(

7/10

Nice city... don't care for the skyline though

It's not that tall or large, but I think you'd have a hard time finding a better skyline for a city this small. For that it deserves at least an 8.

http://explore.gov.ns.ca/images/i_halifax_pic1.jpg
http://www.greaterhalifax.com/media/images/image_Halifax_dusk.jpg

No size, 4.

6.5/10

god the skyline is awsome for a city of 350,000

the forum world needs some updated halifax skyline photos!

someone needs to go to sydney and take a couple shots!...and try to get that bringe in i too!

now get to it! lol

6.5/10

7.5/10



not that tall or big, but it looks great with the water.

5.5

Halifax has an incredible skyline for being such a puny village

Those blue glass towers on the water are neat!

ok keeping in mind that you probably couldnt find a city with this skyline for its population
heres some more pictures

http://www.clock.org/~nevin/big/halifax.jpg

http://explore.gov.ns.ca/morephotos/zoom/halifaxaerial.jpg

http://explore.gov.ns.ca/morephotos/zoom/georgesislandlight.jpg

http://explore.gov.ns.ca/morephotos/zoom/titanicgraves.jpg

http://explore.gov.ns.ca/images/i_halifax_pic1.jpg

http://www.ajfroggie.com/roadpics/halifax/hollis-barrington.jpg

http://www.ajfroggie.com/roadpics/halifax/halifax-bridges.jpg

http://www.ajfroggie.com/roadpics/halifax/halifax-skyline.jpg

http://www.greaterhalifax.com/media/images/image_Halifax_dusk.jpg

http://www.globalserve.net/~martha/images/halifax-11.jpg

http://www.globalserve.net/~martha/images/halifax-01.jpg

http://www.spench.com/panos/canada/halifax/1500/sheraton1500.jpg

http://www.kwapartners.com/images/Halifax_OFF1301_2.jpg

http://jvangurp.com/halifaxcams/images/5_fishermen_w.jpg

http://jvangurp.com/halifaxcams/images/gallery2.jpg

http://www.novascotiabusiness.com/nsbusiness/BusinessCase/Gallery/Harbour.jpg

Some heights please?

Halifax is a beautiful town but its skyline leaves much to be desired.

5/10

Its 300,000 people !

it may not be huge or tall, but the buildings are placed almost perfectly, and its very dense

if you could imagine all those buildings much taller, it would kick a lot of other skylines ass'

Think about its size

6.5/10 nice skyline

6/10

7/10

Small and nice skyline ... very beautiful

7.5/10

like the skyline overall, especially with the harbor in front. just on the side, i read somewhere a description of those two twin glass buildings which described them as "milk cartons" pretty accurate i think

In my unbiased opinion: I would give it a 10/10.

Just visited Halifax. Great city! Here is a panoramic I took just yesterday (Sept 13, 2004)

http://www.seaquence-graphics.com/images2/halifaxskyline.jpg

No size, 4.

what do you expect! only 365,000 ppl live there.

You should the beaches of the Harbour and the Arm. Instead of lines of dead seaweed there are piles of garbage. It's gross if you tip while sailing.

For its size its perfect. All these poeple says " size please", and other non intellegent comments , Thing of location and pop. It is a wonderfull city, nice enough to be in BC even. :) just kidden .

For a city as old as Halifax i'd expect it to have a lot larger of a built up downtown than that, it looks like a half-ass suburban downtown with a few office parks. Is it that people in Halifax don't want development in their downtown or is it that the economy is stagnant there

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/697/5468hermod_heavy_lift_vessel.jpg

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/697/4pudysfromharbour.jpg

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/697/5468halifax_skyline_02.jpg

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/697/5468halifax_cbd05.jpg

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/697/5468halifax_cbd06.jpg

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/697/41801.jpg

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/697/4halifaxdartmouth.jpg

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/697/4towersharbour.jpg

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/697/4cbdfog.jpg

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/697/4skyline.jpg

A good skyline for a city of that size - 8

7 for its skyline considering its size

7.5/10. The height restrictions are a shame.

Good skyline for a city its size, especially a city that was blown to bits in the early 1900's!

not bad. 6

The buildings aren't tall, but skyline looks really good. 7/10

Here are a few more Halifax pics:
http://img153.exs.cx/img153/9481/halifax8cu.png

http://img153.exs.cx/img153/9854/halifax21hv.jpg

http://img153.exs.cx/img153/4574/halifax39zb.png

http://img153.exs.cx/img153/2189/halifax41kn.png

A relatively good skyline with some nice buildings. I give it a 6/10.

I gave Halifax a 9/10 for such an incredible skyline for a small city.

For a city of 370 000, I would've given it a rating of 7 or 7.5, but I'm giving a 9 for the de-amalgated city of Halifax, which has a population 115 000. Does Dartmouth have a skyline? There's a few low-rise buildings, I'm sure, but I couldn't find any pics on Dartmouth.

It's like Quebec having a great skyline for a city of 130 000 before amalgating to become a city of 510 000.

Skyline wise (for Halifax), it needs a bit more height for it to be anything over outstanding, but add it with superb background, and it's good enough for me.

those glass buildings look very nice on the lake, would be better with more height 7/10

^ it's the atlantic ocean not a lake

o ya thats rite, sorry

Great for its size, 7/10.

And here are some photos of Dartmouth, NS (from SSP, taken by Kelvin Fields):

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/696/4dartmouth01.jpg

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/696/4dartmouth02.jpg

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/696/4metropolitanplace2.jpg

Like so much and impresive for a city about 350.000 inhabitants. Beautifull talls and very modern city 10/10

I think that the photos look very nice. I would like to go there one day!

i luv this skyline, its size blows me away for its pop, i love the bridges in the city to 8.5

7.5/10

Thank you to JARdan and GeorgeCostanza2 for finally providing some decent pics. It's true that Halifax has an exceptional skyline for its size. It's comparable only to Wellington New Zealand for a city in its pop. bracket.

eek.

4/10

What a pretty looking city!

Not bad skyline

8/10

7/10

6.5/10

Some nice buildings don't make a skyline.

6 out of 10

5,5/10

5.5/10

Empty! 5/10

photos taken by SERGE

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/697/69panohalifax5.jpg

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/697/69panohalifax4.jpg

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/697/69panohalifax3.jpg

Empty! 5/10

I think many people are surprised at how dense the city actually is. It has many traditional NA East Coast features like town/rowhouses and walkable neighbourhoods. Although it isn't hard to understand why people don't realise that with that huge 7 story parking garage sitting right by the waterfront :bash: Of course it's only there because we don't have any room for surface parking, but surface parking can't be seen in the skyline lol.

I have always loved Halifax. I remember the first time I saw a picture of the skyline. I had never even thought Halifax would have a skyline. I heard so much about it in school, especially in History during times of war and the Halifax explosion and always pictured it to be a small town with houses and a few shops. When i saw the picture of a City with an actual skyline i was pretty surprised.

Those buildings right on the ocean are amazing. Its like they are just floating. I came so dam close to visiting the city a few years ago, but my parents picked PEI instead of Nova Scotia:(

Large Pan from wiki

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/Hfxpan.jpg

8/10- nice skyline for it's population.

8/10 That pano is making me want to go there!

Reallllllllllly spread out. Not Canada's finest city. but good for its population.

6.10

6,5/10

7/10

6.5/10

i like halifax's skyline 4 sum reason, very pleasing for a city of its size 8/10

8/10

Halifax, small and beautiful 8/10

We want more pics!!

^ There is quite a good selection of pics in this (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=109810) photothread in SSP.

^ There is quite a good selection of pics in this (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=109810) photothread in SSP.

Hey Nouvellecosse, thanks for the link to those photos... superb!! I'm getting a lot of red x's :redx: for pix at the beginning of the thread. Halifax is definitely a lovely city and underated on these forums! :cheers:
ps two pix stand out in my mind... I love the statue of the lion, and I love those red paving bricks on the harbourfront.

I like It. Nice city, some nice buildings. Not so bad skyline for it pop.
6/10.

In halifax is a quality question, not quantity, and its a beautiful place to be ;) 8/10

looks like a very industrialistic city, I want to see some summer pics.
Would you say it is a vibrant city?

A few more pictures:

BIG pano: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

http://k41.pbase.com/v3/31/75831/1/44534846.halifax_skyline.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h140/halpic/pic_1_lg.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h140/halpic/pic_9_lg.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h140/halpic/halifax-waterfront-ns.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/mucker/image/68361093/original.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/mucker/image/68361511/original.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/mucker/image/68361501/original.jpg

The biggest future addition in 15 years to the skyline can be seen here:

http://www.unitedgulf.ca/

5/10, not a great skyline but nice for a 365,000 people city!

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i257/tibu18/EPSN1378.jpg

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i257/tibu18/EPSN1384.jpg

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i257/tibu18/EPSN1366.jpg

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i257/tibu18/newscotland/EPSN1386.jpg

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i257/tibu18/newscotland/EPSN1381.jpg

the buildings may be small but there SWEET lol i love the desings of some of them

one of my favorite cities in Canadá, i love this city and i can't rate it lesss to 10. is fantatic, this city is fantastic with 300.000 hab.


10/10


but the true is: 17/10

7/10

8/10

New pictures that i took this saturday from Darmouth..

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i257/tibu18/EPSN1987.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i257/tibu18/EPSN1976.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i257/tibu18/EPSN1975.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i257/tibu18/EPSN1980.jpg

Not too impressive 3/10

Gave it a 7/10. Darn good for a city it's size.

Small and nice skyline

6/10

7.5/10

7/10

6/10

7/10

Halifax Canada (372,679)

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By maxcormier (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/maxcormier) at 2008-04-23
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http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/3493/historichalifaxbw9.jpg
By maxcormier (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/maxcormier) at 2008-08-04

i was there a few years ago...after quebec city, this is the most old-school city out there. surprised? have a visit.

^ What about St. John's?

St. John's is old too, but Halifax has always been a more established and important city. The building stock reflects that.

^ You still in town? When can we be expecting a photothread?

I'm back in the Big Smoke, but may be returning to Halifax after the Olympics. I have to say that Halifax is certainly developing its own style. I'm not quite sure how to describe it. Halifax has managed to marry the beauty of a rugged Canadian landscape with modern urbanity better than most other places. It's not big city, but it's certainly sophisticated. It's human scaled-old money-seaport style? What ever it is, Halifax is looking very good these days. No photothread yet, but I'm working on it.

http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/2607/barringtonrgb070308wf6.jpg
By maxcormier (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/maxcormier) at 2008-07-04
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These are all perfectly suited to Halifax and will really solidify this city's reputation for being a beautiful green urban pleasure destination. I hope the last one gets the green light as well.

9/10

hope they can find lots of oil in this area in the future so they can boom like alberta and saskatchewan, and newfoundland. 9

To me this looks like a good average city. The skyline is meh... 4.5/10

7/10

6/10

9/10

10/10 :)

Awesome City 10/10

Lovely city 9/10

Though Halifax is not the largest city population wise, it is a very important city for the region. Given that, I find the skyline to be quite dull. 5/10.

7/10

One of the best looking cities around, but definitely not a great skyline city. 5/10

7/10

7. Regards.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3572/3344185905_581f559a29_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ansonchappell/3344185905/

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2615/3827235376_af73093d60_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29424026@N04/3827235376/

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4097/4761615146_32eeb87c03_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51748447@N03/4761615146/

7,5/10

8/10

Very good for its size.

A beautiful city, very good these last photos of the city center.

7/10

Never realized how spread out Halifax is. This is a great shot of the peninsula, but the city really could do with a lot more development. It really hasn't come any where close to its potential despite being one of Canada's oldest cities. I can see my alma mater in the upper left. :okay:


http://www.pbase.com/mucker/image/68361093/original.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5043/5306976992_7655272f88_z.jpg

This was taken while a forest fire raged in the distance.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/5/8130506_11a72a4a46_o.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rexton/8130506/

Beautiful looking place, looks a bit like Hobart (Aus). 6/10

8/10 for Halifax.

7/10

5.5

5.5/10

I'll give this an 8. Pretty impressive skyline for a city of 400,000 people. Pretty dense. The only thing it could use is a little more height, although I have read that there are some taller projects on the way.

8/10

6/10

7/10

Tall Ships 2009

http://www.visionairimages.com/Boats/Aerial-Tall-Ships-Festival/i-cMcrd5D/0/X2/TallShipsSunsetHalifax09-X2.jpg
Source (http://www.visionairimages.com/Boats/Aerial-Tall-Ships-Festival)

7/10