Global InformationList of tallest buildings in Vancouver information
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, has a significant concentration of high-rise buildings. Vancouver's population density is the 4th-highest in North America and the city has more residential high-rises per capita than any other city on the continent.[1]
There are roughly 650 high-rise buildings that equal or exceed 35 m (115 ft),[2] and roughly 50 buildings that equal or exceed 100 metres (328 ft). Vancouver has 27 protected view corridors which limit the construction of tall buildings which interfere with the line of sight to the North Shore Mountains, the downtown skyline, and the waters of English Bay and the Strait of Georgia.[3] Almost all of Vancouver's buildings that exceed 100 metres in height are located within Downtown Vancouver.[4]
The tallest building in Vancouver is the 62-storey, 201 m (659 ft) Living Shangri-La;[5] the building represents the city's efforts to add visual interest into Vancouver's skyline.[6] The recently completed Paradox Hotel Vancouver, also known as Vancouver's Turn, is now the city's second tallest building, at 188 metres (616 ft).[7] The Private Residences at Hotel Georgia, completed in 2012 at 157 m (515 ft) and 48 stories, is currently the third-tallest in the city.[8] One Wall Centre, at 150 m (492 ft) tall, with 48 storeys, is currently the city's fourth tallest building.[9] One Wall Centre has the distinction of being the first building in the world to use a tuned liquid column damper to control wind vibrations.[9]
Vancouver's history of skyscrapers began with the Dominion Building (1909), the Sun Tower (1911) (originally named the World Tower, then the News-Advertiser Tower, after the newspaper it was home to in each case), the Vancouver Block (1912), the second Hotel Vancouver (1916) and the Marine Building (1929). The third Hotel Vancouver was completed in 1939 at 111 m (364 ft) tall, and was the first building in the city to have stood taller than 100 m (328 ft).[10]
Building construction remained slow in the city until the late 1960s, other than the completion of the new BC Electric headquarters (soon renamed BC Hydro headquarters, and today the Electra condominiums). From 1968 to 1981, Vancouver witnessed a major expansion of skyscraper and high-rise construction. Many of the city's office towers were completed during this period, such as the Harbour Centre, Bentall Centre, Royal Centre, Granville Square and Pacific Centre office tower/mall complexes.[11][12] A ten-year lull in building construction came after the expansion, though Vancouver experienced a larger second building expansion beginning in 1991 and continuing into the present.[1]
In the last two decades Vancouver's pioneering urbanism, with its density and innovative developments, has been emulated by major cities throughout the world.[citation needed] As part of the city's push for liveable high-density areas (called Vancouverism by planning theorists),[13] many mixed-use and residential buildings were built, such as Concord Pacific Place[clarification needed], the largest master-planned residential complex in North America.[14] One Wall Centre and Living Shangri-La were the city's first buildings to break the 150 m (492 ft) and 200 m (656 ft) marks, respectively.[5][9]
While highrise development outside of the downtown core had been nearly nonexistent due to zoning restrictions and view cones, recent transit oriented developments like Marine Gateway and the upcoming Oakridge Park are centered around Canada line stations of the Skytrain, Metro Vancouver's light metro system, in order to increase residential density and reduce car reliance. They will have the tallest building heights outside of Downtown Vancouver.
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- ^ City of Vancouver (February 2011). View Protection Guidelines (PDF) (Report). City of Vancouver Planning Department. Retrieved August 18, 2013.
- ^ "Vancouver". The Skyscraper Center. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
- ^ a b "Living Shangri-La". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on December 9, 2006. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
- ^ "Downtown Vancouver Skyline Study" (PDF). Special Council Meeting Minutes. City of Vancouver. 7–23 April 1997. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
- ^ "Trump International Hotel & Tower Vancouver". The Skyscraper Center. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
- ^ "The Private Residences". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on March 25, 2007. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
- ^ a b c "One Wall Centre". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on January 20, 2007. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
- ^ "The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on February 6, 2007. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
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- ^ "Concord Pacific Place, Vancouver". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on 2007-05-06. Retrieved 2008-12-13.