Obligatory big pointy thing thread

No postings from Toronto would be complete without the obligatory big pointy thing mention. The CN Tower. Less than five minutes walk to the east, just round the other side of the Rogers Centre (SkyDome to some of you) we have the former world's largest freestanding structure (darn you Dubai). Still it's relatively impressive, as is the view from the top.

You can see a fair bit from the top, including the United States if you really want to. All the city is there before you and you realise it's actually relatively green, though it may not seem it when you're wandering through the downtown core. From the top you can see the green areas start not far from the main financial core. There is a fair amount of green downtown with large parks and the like anyway, and a big campaign to make more out of parking lots and such, but some just want to build more towers instead.



Anyway our place is in a complex called CityPlace as shown below. We're the tallish building in the bottom left corner (not the brown one, the one a bit further over on the right of the expressway). The section we are in is now complete, but the complex is part of a larger development that extends to the west side of Spadina Avenue (note, north is to the right of the image, south to the lake), the road running under the expressway and over the railway tracks at the bottom. There are a few more towers to go up there, plus a school and a relatively large park. Interestingly if you click on the image you can see it's actually high enough up in the CN Tower that you can see the curve of the earth in the distance.


For those interested in history you can see some low buildings sandwiched between the railway tracks and the expressway surrounded by green and a low wall. That is a recreation of Fort York, the original of which was burnt to the ground by the United States in the war of 1812 and marks the furthest north they got. Other sights include the harbour airport on the island in the south, and Exhibition Place along the coast with the dome.