hkskyline
Active Member
Canada's COVID caseload has stabilized recently and Ontario's daily case numbers have trended below 600 in early October, and the country has slowly and surely opened up to international tourism once again. Flying internationally to Canada was relatively simple although unpredictable due to a reduced flight schedule and many unexpected changes along the way. With over a year and a half grounded due to the pandemic, I was very happy to make my way across the Pacific to a familiar place.
A good social distancing activity is to send the drone up into the sky. Mississauga is a suburb west of Toronto that is trying hard to build their own urban downtown around its Square One shopping mall. The vision is aggressive and with a charistmatic mayor Hazel McCallion who could make things happen, results are starting to show. Perhaps they'll end up as successful as Mel Lastman's North York Centre.
Mississauga appeared on the architectural map in 2012 when the "Marilyn Monroe" towers were built. Since then, the buildings kept popping up.
You can see downtown Toronto's skyline in the far distance.
More skyscrapers are rising on the west and south sides of the mall. Although with autumn temperatures, not many were on the sidewalks walking from these office and residential towers to the mall. They will get more deserted as winter approaches. Despite so much construction happening, there are no covered walkways to connect all the buildings together to encourage more walking rather than driving a short distance to the mall.
However, shortly outside the downtown quadrant, the density reduces drastically to lowrise houses.
More photos on my website : https://www.globalphotos.org/toronto.htm
I would also like to pay tribute to Jasonzed, who unfortunately passed away earlier in the year and provided many drone photos of this area.
A good social distancing activity is to send the drone up into the sky. Mississauga is a suburb west of Toronto that is trying hard to build their own urban downtown around its Square One shopping mall. The vision is aggressive and with a charistmatic mayor Hazel McCallion who could make things happen, results are starting to show. Perhaps they'll end up as successful as Mel Lastman's North York Centre.
Mississauga appeared on the architectural map in 2012 when the "Marilyn Monroe" towers were built. Since then, the buildings kept popping up.
You can see downtown Toronto's skyline in the far distance.
More skyscrapers are rising on the west and south sides of the mall. Although with autumn temperatures, not many were on the sidewalks walking from these office and residential towers to the mall. They will get more deserted as winter approaches. Despite so much construction happening, there are no covered walkways to connect all the buildings together to encourage more walking rather than driving a short distance to the mall.
However, shortly outside the downtown quadrant, the density reduces drastically to lowrise houses.
More photos on my website : https://www.globalphotos.org/toronto.htm
I would also like to pay tribute to Jasonzed, who unfortunately passed away earlier in the year and provided many drone photos of this area.