A CN Tower-less Toronto

[Automation Gallery]

A CN Tower-less Toronto

http://www.blogto.com/city/2009/07/a...-less_toronto/

[condovo]

A CN Tower-less Toronto

http://www.blogto.com/city/2009/07/a...-less_toronto/

What an amazing blog entry. Poetic even. It's renewed my appreciation for the CN Tower. Thanks for the link.

[TOBoy]

My heart skipped a beat looking at those horrific pix. I can feel something's missing. Not to mention no point of reference.

[SP!RE]

Yeah. The CN Tower pretty much gives Torontonians their sense of place and direction lol. I love that beast so deeply.

[W. K. Lis]

The City Hall is too short and and not located on the waterfront for it is be recognized from a distance. While the City Hall is part of Toronto's logo, it is the skyline with a visible CN Tower that identifies Toronto for most people.

[Automation Gallery]

I think even the Skydome is more iconic to Toronto in world pics than City Hall, but then again it may be because its right next to tne CN Tower.

[Solaris]

A CN Tower-less Toronto

http://www.blogto.com/city/2009/07/a...-less_toronto/

wow this was a great read ... thanks for posting AG !

its scary to see TO in absence of the CN Tower ... it feels like just some typical mid-sized American city

Some images from the above article:

"after becoming relatively proficient with the digital manipulation of photographs, I decided to go ahead and remove the Tower from a few. Liking what I saw, I proceeded to do a more extended series, of which these are some of my favourites. All of the photographs here depict a scene of the city in which the Tower is included in so-called real life."

[junctionist]

The absence of the CN Tower would have stirred more interest in a new iconic office tower in Toronto.

[wyliepoon]

its scary to see TO in absence of the CN Tower ... it feels like just some typical mid-sized American city

Some images from the above article:

I don't see "mid-sized American city" in Toronto's skyline at all, with or without the CN Tower, especially with this aerial. That's a slice of Chicago, even Manhattan, I see in the aerial.

I think why Torontonians are so "scared" or "horrified" at seeing the CN Tower photoshopped from the skyline is because we live in a post-911 world where huge landmarks like WTC could go away in a terrorist attack (which was the inspiration of the blogto article). I imagine the effect would be even greater if FCP or the TD Centre was photoshopped away.

[SP!RE]

The absence of the CN Tower would have stirred more interest in a new iconic office tower in Toronto.

CN Tower >>>>>> "iconic" office tower

[Solaris]

ditto SP!RE ... agree with you entirely without doubt ~

[Long Island Mike]

Solaris: Good Toronto airview and skyline pics posted above!
I was thinking that if the CN Tower had not been built that Toronto would have a megatall building rivaling Chicago's Sears Tower in height standing out on the skyline perhaps. This shows how the CN Tower dominates Toronto's skyline! Thoughts by LI MIKE


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[andomano]

Aren't views of a CN Tower-less Toronto always seen in movies set elsewhere?

[W. K. Lis]

During all those thunder and lightning storms we had recently, without the CN Tower around, all that lightning would be hitting the lower buildings.




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[Second_in_pie]

I've always thought what Toronto would look like without the CN Tower as well. But I usually think of it from a different angle. I look at the City and the Core and think that it all looks so tiny, mostly because the Tower dwarfs everything else. But I would never wish the CN Tower out of the city. It really provides a centrepoint for the city, and I think it will look better and better the more the City develops.