Talk:List of tallest buildings in Toronto

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	List of tallest buildings in Toronto is a featured list, which means it has been identified as one of the best lists produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do.
March 17, 2008 Featured list candidate Promoted

This article is within the scope of the following WikiProjects:

Architecture WikiProject (Rated FL-Class) Architecture Portal This article covers subjects of relevance to Architecture. To participate, visit the WikiProject Architecture for more information. The current monthly improvement drive is Johannes Itten. FL This article has been rated as FL-Class on the assessment scale. Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the assessment scale. WikiProject Skyscrapers (Rated FL-Class) Architecture Portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Skyscrapers, which aims to create, expand, and maintain articles that relate to skyscrapers, high-rises and towers. To participate, visit the project page for more information. FL This article has been rated as FL-Class on the assessment scale. Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the assessment scale. WikiProject Toronto This article is within the scope of WikiProject Toronto, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Toronto articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale. ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale. WikiProject Canada / Ontario (Rated FL-Class) Canada Portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Canada and related WikiProjects, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to articles on Canada-related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project member page, to join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. FL This article has been rated as FL-Class on the quality scale. Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale. Ontario Portal This article is part of the Ontario WikiProject (Discuss/Join).

57.250.242.249, the CN Tower is not a skyscraper. It's a structure. This is not the correct list to mention the CN Tower. Shandro 05:24, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Height of FCP 2 Definition of "building" 3 Title of Article(s) 4 Image Section 5 Use of Original Names

[edit] Height of FCP

should the height of First Canadian place include the broadcasting tower atop of it? because without it it is only 298 metres

[edit] Definition of "building"

Phrases like "technically, it is not a building" (in the article) are frequently heard in reference to the CN Tower. This is left uncited. And the "technically" qualification acknolwedges that this may not be an intuitive concept. So can someone offer a citation for whose notable or technical definition of "building" we are using when we say the CN Tower is not a building? I'm not disagreeing with this classification, but it needs to be verifiable for inclusion in Wikipedia. Even the CN Tower's own article refers to it as a building a few times. --Ds13 07:06, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Quoting http://www.designcommunity.com/discussion/30450.html - "A 'building' is a structure which has floors, walls and roofs to enclose space to house people." Despite what it says in the CN Tower article, it is a 'freestanding structure', not a building. wbm 03:40, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Erm, the CN Tower has floors, walls and roofs. It doesn't house people in the sense of people living there (but then again, neither does First Canadian Place or the TD Towers), but people certainly work and eat there. 91.164.150.94 01:55, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

It does not have all of its floors which can house people, though. Only a few. Simalto (talk) 03:28, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Title of Article(s)

Noting that the CN Tower is listed in this article and the Calgary Tower is listed in List of tallest buildings in Calgary, perhaps, in the interest of accuracy, all of the articles listed in the See Also section should be renamed 'List of Architectural Structures in X', with the search item 'Tallest Buildings' redirected to them? I have no idea how this would be pulled off. wbm 03:49, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image Section

The old format had a box for an image of each building. Why remove that? A.Roz (talk) 05:58, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

-(Done)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by A.Roz (talk • contribs) 23:13, 7 January 2008 (UTC) 

I think there should be consistency per Wikipedia:WikiProject Skyscrapers/Tallest building lists. Take a look at other height ranking lists. The helpfulness of tiny thumbnails to a reader is limited anyway. — Kelw (talk) 18:34, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

It was nice to have link to the photo, because the article might be of little interest to someone. For the sake of consistency I'll leave it alone. A.Roz (talk) 05:58, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Use of Original Names

Why are some towers' original names used over the contemporary? Is that in a wiki guideline, or just preference? A.Roz (talk) 01:11, 5 March 2008 (UTC) +And why has the list been reduced to 14 buildings? A.Roz (talk) 01:12, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Which names are original names (and what are their contemporary names)? The list has been reduced to 14 buildings because the previous cut-off of 145 metres was too arbitrary and so it was upped to 150 metres (since we didn't have any towers below 145 meters). Gary King (talk) 01:16, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

The Eaton Tower is now called "The 250" I believe. I thought that the TD Canada Trust Tower also had a name change, but it turns out that it's still goes by that name. So it just comes down to the Eaton Tower... A.Roz (talk) 03:40, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Do you have a reference for that name? Gary King (talk) 04:41, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes, it's in the references in the notes section, #30, 31. It's also referred as "the 250" here: http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Cadillac+Fairview+refinances+debt+of+$250+million+to+fund+Limeridge...-a020523186 ("The 250, a 35-storey office tower at 250 Yonge Street, is undergoing a major renovation of its lobby to give the building a stronger presence on Yonge Street"). A.Roz (talk) 06:34, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Changed. Gary King (talk) 07:23, 5 March 2008 (UTC)