How well known is the CN tower?

[sysyphus]

One would hope so

hehe. Matter of fact, I'm looking at it right now. Well, the top of it anyway.

I've climbed the stairs in it three times, watched it get built when I was a small child, eaten at the restaurant, and I think I pissed on it once as well (coming out of SkyDome drunk after a Depeche Mode concert).

 

[GarretSidzaka]

No, it's in Toronto

oh well, ive only been to seattle space needle ($42 steak) and then the one in vancouver (at that time, legal smoke)

 

[pboily]

(coming out of SkyDome drunk after a Depeche Mode concert).

see, right there, that's a problem sys. It's ok if you went to a Depeche Mode concert, but you shouldn't spread the word. Don't ask, don't tell.

 

[Grisu]

I was in Toronto in '99 so, yes, I know the CN Tower (before that I had just heard about it)

 

[sysyphus]

see, right there, that's a problem sys. It's ok if you went to a Depeche Mode concert, but you shouldn't spread the word. Don't ask, don't tell.

So I'm to assume that your taste in music is as bad as your taste in hockey teams then.

 

[Rambuchan]

I've heard of it and been up it twice (got family in Toronto). One of those times the Sky Dome was opening up and that was kind of cool (saw a Blue Jays game too in there). It was also funny noticing how kids had no problems with the glass floor, yet adults were terrified by it. What was also cool for a non-North American resident, a citizen of 'the old world' if you like, was looking out over the city and seeing quite how strictly the gridsystem is followed by town planners. No such views in ye old worlde.

All in all, it's an impressive building and a nice landmark for those in Toronto.

 

[Raisin Bran]

I heard about it, saw it once when I went to Toronto but never gotten in.

Nice landmark btw.

 

[sysyphus]

Ram and Rai, glad you like it, but personally I think its kind of dull. A homage to early 1970s architecture really. Of course, maybe I'm just bored of it since I see it just about every day.

I think Casa Loma makes a much nicer landmark for Toronto.

Of course, the CN Tower wasn't built for landmark purposes, it was built as a communications transmitter, and it has done its intended job very well.

 

[aaglo]

To be honest, a better landmark for toronto would be the city hall (designed by Viljo Revell, a Finnish architect)

 

[Rambuchan]

sysyphus: OK OK, well I was just being polite. Truthfully, I think it's a bit dull also and its concrete is looking a bit dated (and potentially ugly) these days. Nevertheless, it is still Toronto's premier landmark, hardly a bad one and it has been serving its function well. Just a little bit dull and 70s-ish.

 

[Phlegmak]

I've heard of CN tower. I don't particularly like it.

 

[Lambert Simnel]

I hadn't heard of it before I visited Toronto and went up it. It's impressive in the way that very tall things are, but not a tenth as famous as Canadians generally seem to imagine.

 

[thetrooper]

How well known is the CN tower?

Never heard of it.

Norway.

 

[Bugfatty300]

I saw it when it was called the Space Needle. Which was before the Canadians stole it and put it in Toronto and renamed it CN Tower.

Of course Seattle built a smaller less impressive replacement.

 

[Che Guava]

sysyphus: OK OK, well I was just being polite. Truthfully, I think it's a bit dull also and its concrete is looking a bit dated (and potentially ugly) these days. Nevertheless, it is still Toronto's premier landmark, hardly a bad one and it has been serving its function well. Just a little bit dull and 70s-ish.

Just you wait! In 40 years, the sexy concrete stylings of the 70's will be the next cool thing in architecture...