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Melbourne is the most enviable place to be in the world right now. It's absolutely booming. It's also been called the most liveable city in the world for the third time in the past three years. I'd say Melbourne trumps Toronto, Montreal and Sydney - although I love Sydney for its climate and natural beauty, which Toronto and Montreal simply cannot match:
Melbourne is the most enviable place to be in the world right now. It's absolutely booming. It's also been called the most liveable city in the world for the third time in the past three years. I'd say Melbourne trumps Toronto, Montreal and Sydney - although I love Sydney for its climate and natural beauty, which Toronto and Montreal simply cannot match:
^^Very nice, without doubt. But I hope you aren't comparing the Sydney skyline with Toronto's.
Torontos skyline is impressive, but during the day, all the buildings look the same. They need a skyscraper that will stand out, and I don't mean in terms of height, because it already has that. Rather in appearance. Otherwise they all look like boxes and there's very little variation.
^^Very nice, without doubt. But I hope you aren't comparing the Sydney skyline with Toronto's.
Sydney's skyline is prettier than Toronto's, from pretty much every vantage point. Downtown Toronto may have more skyscrapers (maybe, maybe not - Toronto certainly has more total skyscrapers but they are scattered around the city) but their arrangement and stylistic quality leaves a lot to be desired.
Torontos skyline is impressive, but during the day, all the buildings look the same. They need a skyscraper that will stand out, and I don't mean in terms of height, because it already has that. Rather in appearance. Otherwise they all look like boxes and there's very little variation.
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Originally Posted by Fitzrovian
Sydney's skyline is prettier than Toronto's, from pretty much every vantage point. Downtown Toronto may have more skyscrapers (maybe, maybe not - Toronto certainly has more total skyscrapers but they are scattered around the city) but their arrangement and stylistic quality leaves a lot to be desired.
Sydney's skyline is prettier than Toronto's, from pretty much every vantage point. Downtown Toronto may have more skyscrapers (maybe, maybe not - Toronto certainly has more total skyscrapers but they are scattered around the city) but their arrangement and stylistic quality leaves a lot to be desired.
I wondered if architects think about context when they design these funky, overly designed skyscrapers. I think they may work on their own but sometimes they just look so out of place that I wondered if it can affect the skyline in a bad way. I was looking at Foster's supertall and to a lesser extend Gehry's three towers which are in the works for the city of Toronto. Sometimes I wondered if I am the only one who thinks that it'll actually the the skyline look worse given the overwhelmingly positive reaction in topics and threads. I was there a couple of months back and there is this massive tower near completion in the northern edge of the CBD of the city that absolutely dwarfs everything around it. It just seems like such a bad idea to me lol.
For me I much prefer something like Aurora place in Sydney or something like TD Centre in Toronto. These are towers, in terms of height, design, material, that fits quite well to the skyline of the city. But I can understand why developers are choosing to go the other direction.
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