Skyline de Montréal ​

[Acajou]

Quelques photos en vrac prises principalement aujourd'hui :

[man with the golden gun]

Merci pour ces superbe photos. Tout le côté ouest de la rue Peel entre Ste Catherine et René Lévesque fait vraiment  dur. C'est désolant car c'est un des coins les plus achalandés du centre-ville.

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20 décembre 

[MartinMtl]

Credit photo: @diversithib on Instagram

Credit photo: @mandagracest on Instagram

Credit photo: @peterrawski on instagram

Credit photo: @rocketqueen696969 on Instagram

Credit photo: @francoisgig on Instagram

 

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Merci pour les belles photos. Joyeux Noël à tous ! 

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13 hours ago, MartinMtl said:

Credit photo: @rocketqueen696969 on Instagram
 

Great shot !

Just add Maestria x2, humanity, 455 Rene Levesque, VslP, BCN and probably some I forgot and it will look quite impressive from this angle. 

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Le 2018-12-07 à 14:42, rufus96 a dit :

That drop off is quite pronounced. That said, my understanding is that it's actually quite deliberate and perhaps underappreciated. 

As I understand it, the early downtown Montreal masterplans deliberately allowed for two skyscraper corridors - one along R.-L. and the other (albeit shorter one) along De Maisonneuve. This is to avoid a cluster effect that would cast shadows on lower built streets situated South of the highrises, especially Ste. Catherine and to a lesser extent Sherbrooke and what's left of the Golden Square Mile. 

Just judging by how many skylines are "clustered" in form, typically radiating out from key intersections, I don't think too many other cities had this kind of vision, agree or disagree with it.

Tout à fait d'accord avec toi. D'ailleurs cette variété de hauteurs met en valeur autant les immeubles plus bas que ceux plus hauts, qui deviennent en quelque sorte complémentaires dans le paysage urbain. On évite en même temps de créer des zones d'ombre permanentes qui s'étendraient sur l'ensemble du secteur entre R-L et Sherbrooke, privant toute cette partie de la ville du précieux soleil d'après-midi, surtout en hiver. 

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/find-out-how-this-rule-of-thumb-helped-shape-montreal-s-skyline-1.4950667

[Djentmaster001]

Ok so I'm going to post old pics I found on the archives, the main reason why I'm doing this is because 1. We can compare Montreal in 1991 to it now in 2018 and 2. I finally found pics where it shows 1501 McGill going up with the big two and couldn't find a thread about it. Anyways, enjoy these pics, we've come a very long way. 

 

https://archivesdemontreal.ica-atom.org/photo-de-montreal-vue-aerienne-denis-labine-30-aout-1991

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7 janvier