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Vancouver? It’s full of residential condos not office buildings. It’s a second home community to half of Asia. It’s not a full scale city but man is the location incredible. Boston by a landslide.
Sounds like you have never been to Vancouver
It has a CBD that is mostly office towers and commercial buildings as show in this video
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Even though I'm from the Northeast and only seen Vancouver in pictures and video, I went with it. From what I've seen:
Vancouver's skyline to me literally looks like take Manhattan and cut the height of the buildings in half. But, especially due to the mountains, the density thins out quickly, kind of like some Third World cities like Cairo where you have NYC level density for about 100 sq miles or so but then it goes quickly to rural with little suburbia in between.
Boston in general to me is more like NYC set to a smaller scale. In that you have the skyline and an area that resembles Manhattan, you have similarly styled subways and stations that have been there over a century, you have dense areas outside downtown that resemble the outer boros, but it's all for a shorter area and distance.
Even though I'm from the Northeast and only seen Vancouver in pictures and video, I went with it. From what I've seen:
Vancouver's skyline to me literally looks like take Manhattan and cut the height of the buildings in half. But, especially due to the mountains, the density thins out quickly, kind of like some Third World cities like Cairo where you have NYC level density for about 100 sq miles or so but then it goes quickly to rural with little suburbia in between.
Boston in general to me is more like NYC set to a smaller scale. In that you have the skyline and an area that resembles Manhattan, you have similarly styled subways and stations that have been there over a century, you have dense areas outside downtown that resemble the outer boros, but it's all for a shorter area and distance.
Suburban Vancouver has some incredible densities
35 of the 50 tallest buildings in the metro are in the suburbs, include the 2 tallest buildings when you include all the towers under construction
Vancouver the city is still building a lot but its suburbs are where the real highrises boom is now. https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=102121381
Highrises under construction
Vancouver: 36
Suburban Vancouver: 97
Vancouver's skyline to me literally looks like take Manhattan and cut the height of the buildings in half. But, especially due to the mountains, the density thins out quickly, kind of like some Third World cities like Cairo where you have NYC level density for about 100 sq miles or so but then it goes quickly to rural with little suburbia in between.
A big difference between Manhattan and Vancouver is the architecture. The former as a wide array of styles spaced out over 100 years of construction. The latter has mostly contemporary buildings from the last 30 years or so with a couple from the 70s/80s peppered in.
Boston doesn’t have Manhattan’s spread of skyscrapers styles, however it does have much more variety than Vancouver. Afaik, there’s nothing like the Custom House Tower in the west coast city.
A big difference between Manhattan and Vancouver is the architecture. The former as a wide array of styles spaced out over 100 years of construction. The latter has mostly contemporary buildings from the last 30 years or so with a couple from the 70s/80s peppered in.
Boston doesn’t have Manhattan’s spread of skyscrapers styles, however it does have much more variety than Vancouver. Afaik, there’s nothing like the Custom House Tower in the west coast city.
Boston had six times the population of Vancouver when the Custom House Tower was built in 1915.
That said, Vancouver did build in 1910 a new post office, which has a clock tower. Much shorter than the Custom House Tower, but still an impressive building for a city that had only around 93,000 people.
Both are great walkable cities and obviously Boston has more impressive Pre WWII stock - however this is a skyline battle and Vancouver is just much more impressive. It would be nice if it had a bit more height variation but it is still an impressively dense package. I also think there is a good amount of variation in Vancouver and it is not as cookie cutter as some represent.
Both are great walkable cities and obviously Boston has more impressive Pre WWII stock - however this is a skyline battle and Vancouver is just much more impressive. It would be nice if it had a bit more height variation but it is still an impressively dense package. I also think there is a good amount of variation in Vancouver and it is not as cookie cutter as some represent.
Agreed.
It's really only Concord Pacific's development, a thin strip of land along False Creek, from the Cambie Street Bridge to just shy of the Burrard Street Bridge.
When looking at the skyline from across False Creek, it may look like the whole downtown looks like this.
It doesn't. Just a block off of these building are buildings built mainly in the early 1900's, a few earlier.
Then the West End is a mixture of 1950's 3 storey walk up, 1960's apartment blocks, taller 1970's blocks and some newer ones, like the Butterfly I linked earlier.
It also gives the impression of a concrete jungle. It isn't. There are so many parks, schoolyards, mini-parks and of course the seawall connecting it all, and of course Stanley Park.
No sexy glossy, but still no older character-filled older buildings. Way too much white and tan with tons of windows small windows. All at the same height Looks like a giant ruin or like limestone or something. Kind of gives me chills/heebie-jeebies. Trypophobia...
It's really only Concord Pacific's development, a thin strip of land along False Creek, from the Cambie Street Bridge to just shy of the Burrard Street Bridge.
Concords stuff in Toronto - Cityplace is not that great either - I should say stuff before 2015. There has been a noticable improvement in stuff around cityplace after 2015.
I do like Yaletown a lot. Great place to grab a brew and laze away on a patio - of course if it is coworkers - meh lol.
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Kind of gives me chills/heebie-jeebies. Trypophobia...
No sexy glossy, but still no older character-filled older buildings. Way too much white and tan with tons of windows small windows. All at the same height Looks like a giant ruin or like limestone or something. Kind of gives me chills/heebie-jeebies. Trypophobia...
You seem to be judging the city from one view of the skyline.
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