Tuesday, March 29, 2022

An Epic Skybridge is Being Built in Melbourne

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBgn2jxhYQ4

Toronto, the quietly booming tech town

 https://www.seattletimes.com/business/toronto-the-quietly-booming-tech-town/

Fortunately, Toronto was never taken over by anything like Vancouverism. Otherwise, instead of become another big and dynamic world city like Chicago, it would have just become a stunted city like Vancouver BC.

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Toronto-Dominion Centre and BVSq....

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto-Dominion_Centre

https://www.heritagetoronto.org/explore-learn/td-centre-54th-floor/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto-Dominion_Centre#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto-Dominion_Centre#Technical_details

As of 2022, Vancouver's-tallest-office-building will a little taller than the 3rd tallest building in the Toronto-Dominion_Centre's,_TD_Waterhouse_Tower

The shortest office tower in the TD_complex isn't even 25 stories, but it would still rival any office building in provincial backwater Victoria,_British_Columbia.


https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bentall-centre-vancouver-renovations-2020

https://viewpointvancouver.ca/2021/06/25/buildings-that-changed-vancouver-bentall-centre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentall_Centre_(Vancouver) No 39 or 37 story buildings there.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/Bentall_Centre.jpg

Unlike the Bentall_Centre_in_VancouverBow_Valley_Square was built a little taller in Calgary.


1171972SE
239143 m (469 ft)1975NE
332116 m (381 ft)1979NW
437134 m (440 ft)1981SW

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_Valley_Square


https://upload.wikimedia.org/Bow_Valley_Square.JPG

https://upload.wikimedia.org/TD_Tower_Vancouver.jpg Of course the TD Tower in Vancouver wasn't allowed to have a 50th, 40th or even a 35th floor. Thus, it just became another 30 story stump, by Toronto, Calgary & Seattle standards. Back in 1972, the TD_Tower_(Vancouver) was the first office building in BC to have at least 30 stories. In 2022, no office tower in BC has been permitted to have a 40th floor. Although Vancouver has a lot of little buildings, no Vancouver office tower has been allowed to rival the two tallest office towers in_Auckland

Victoria won't permit any office building to have a 20th floor. So far, no office building in Victoria or anywhere on Vancouver Island can be as tall as 95-Wellington-St-W-in_Toronto-ON and that building is a stump by Toronto standards. Victoria might be almost as scenic as Wellington, NZ, but Victoria won't permit its office buildings to rival the tallest_buildings_in_Wellington

Of course Wellington is a national capital, whereas Victoria is a provincial backwater capital. Unlike BC, NZ doesn't use its scenic setting as an excuse to hold back the scale of its buildings. 

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cf-pacific-centre-new-hotel-design-four-seasons-tower

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/cf-pacific-centre-new-hotel-design-four-seasons-tower

Deloitte-summit-tower-at 410-west-Georgia-street-Vancouver

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/deloitte-summit-tower-410-west-georgia-street-vancouver-westbank

Once again, Vancouver only allowed a stump, in spite of the land being very expensive. Nothing like the scale of the Lippo_Centre_in_Hong_Kong

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lippo_Centre_(Hong_Kong)

Toronto ranked the 3rd-largest tech hub in North America

 https://globalnews.ca/news/8702628/toronto-3rd-largest-tech-hub-north-america

It makes a lot of sense that Toronto would become a major tech hub.

https://dailyhive.com/toronto/toronto-tech-hub

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/toronto-quietly-experiences-massive-tech-boom-new-york-times

https://www.blogto.com/tech/2022/03/toronto-third-largest-tech-hub-north-america

https://www.toronto.ca/business-economy/industry-sector-support/technology

Montreal-Toronto-via-rail-with-cheap fare

 https://dailyhive.com/montreal/montreal-toronto-via-rail-train-cheap