The Old City Hall and The Simpson Tower in Toronto

The Old_City_Hall opened in 1899 at a height of 103.64 m (340.0 ft).  Even in the 21st century, many parts of Downtown Vancouver aren't allowed to have buildings taller than Toronto's Old City Hall.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Torontos_Old_City_Hall_2009.jpg If you are visiting from Toronto or Montreal, Sydney or Melbourne, you might be shocked as to seeing how small and backwards Vancouver is. Various imposed restrictions have cause a multigenerational watering down of what should actually be a properly functioning big city and greater metropolitan region.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Front_of_Old_City_Hall_in_July_2024.jpg Being from backwater Vancouver, its always amazing to see what cities like Toronto, Montreal, Sydney,  Melbourne, Seattle, SF & LA are permitted to do. They and most other cities just don't have anything like the Vancouver Mind Virus (VMV) to thwart them.

The Post is a stumpy building+complex in Vancouver. Despite the high land costs, strict Vancouver wouldn't permit it to be taller than Toronto's Old City Hall. The Stump, rather The Post, should have been taller than the LA City Hall, the Philadelphia_City_Hall and the Manhattan_Municipal_Building. It should have really been closer in size to that of the Seattle_Municipal_Tower or even the Tokyo_Metropolitan_Government_Building. 

Library Square in Vancouver just like The Post, wasn't allowed to have 25 floors, when they both should have been well over 50 stories.

https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/library-square/25126 84.1 m / 276 ft

https://www.da-architects.ca/projects/library-square Strict Vancouver just doesnt allow buildings in that part of the downtown to be taller than The Old City Hall in Toronto.

https://viewpointvancouver.ca/2018/10/05/library-square-best-new-public-space-in-vancouver 

https://montecristomagazine.com/design/secret-garden-top-vancouvers-library-stayed-hidden-20-years#gsc.tab=0 

Unfortunatly, Library Square and The Post are so scaled back or watered down, they would hardly be impressive in most proper big cities around the world. Library Square and The Post should have both been in the 50-60 story range, but don't even have a 25th floor. This was a lost opportunity for Downtown Vancouver to have a proper size big city and government complex.

The Simpson_Tower opened in 1968. It has 33 floors and is 144 m (472 ft) high. It would be equivalent to being the tallest building in BC until 1973. Even in 2025, most office towers in Vancouver aren't allowed to be taller than this 1968 Toronto stump.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Simpson_Tower_2022.jpg 

The Simpson-Tower is only 18 feet taller than the LA+City+Hall.

The Simpson Tower has become just like another Vancouver size stump in Toronto.

It's really astounding that not only did The+Post+in+Vancouver have to be shorter than the Toronto Simpson Tower and the LA+City+Hall, it had to be shorter than the Old City Hall in Toronto. Now that's very small, but it fits in with the small-minded Vancouver mentality. Indeed, Vancouverization is about a backward, rainy city that has a multigenerational restrictive agenda to water everything down. Even the mountains north of Vancouver are shorter than the mountains north of L.A. WTH?   

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Post+building+complex

The Post building in Vancouver

The+Post should have been the first 2-3 million sq.ft. building+complex in Vancouver. However, due to the rainy cities watering down agenda, it's only a little more than one million sq.ft. Thus, instead of being in the 55-60 story range, it wasn't even permitted to have 25 floors. 

https://www.mcmparchitects.com/projects/the-post-on-georgia-archived

Not only did The-Post-on-Georgia Street have to be shorter than Toronto's small Simpson-Tower, The Post had to be shorter than the Old+City+Hall+in+Toronto.

https://storeys.com/quadreal-graeme-scott-the-post-vancouver-heritage-revitalization-amazon

https://thepostvancouver.com/experience While its a nice looking structure, its amazing how short the complex is.

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/photos-take-a-behind-the-scenes-look-inside-amazons-new-vancouver-office-7577284

While one side of Manulife+Centre+in+Toronto was Vancouverized with a stump of less than 25 stories, the other side of the complex has more than 50 floors.

If you are visiting from Calgary or Montreal and especially Toronto, you might be shocked to see how short the buildings are in Vancouver.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Post+in+Vancouver 

Downtown Vancouver's post office redevelopment

https://vancouversun.com/business/commercial-real-estate/loblaws-citymarket-added-to-downtown-vancouver-post-office-redevelopment 

Nevermind 60 stories, it won't even have 25 floors. This building+complex would just be another stump in Melbourne, Sydney, Toronto, Calgary, Seattle, SF & L.A.

https://urbanyvr.com/transformation-of-former-post-office-into-the-post-by-quadreal-well-underway ,

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-post-redevelopment-vancouver-construction-march-2019 ,

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/loblaws-city-market-canada-post-vancouver ,

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/the-post-canada-post-redevelopment-renderings-2018 ,

https://www.quadreal.com/post , https://www.urbanyvr.com/amazon-vancouver-post-office

https://www.retail-insider.com/retail-insider/2018/7/retail-a-key-component-to-downtown-vancouvers-canada-post-centre-redevelopment-exclusive-interview 

https://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applications/349wgeorgia/index.htm 

https://urbanyvr.com/tag/downtown-vancouver-office-space 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/45379817@N08/albums/72157625226575294

https://it-iq.com/exec-news/4-new-offices-that-will-change-vancouvers-skyline No officice building in Vancouver is allowed to have 40 floors.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Post+in+Vancouver

The (stumpy) Post in Vancouver

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/sony-pictures-imageworks-global-headquarters-vancouver-the-post

https://storeys.com/quadreal-graeme-scott-the-post-vancouver-heritage-revitalization-amazon/

What could have been a nice, impressive double 55 story office complex is just another Vancouver stumpy building+complex. In that part of the very restrictive city, the building complex wasn't even allowed to have a 25th floor.

It's all part of the Vancouver stump agenda.

Had Bankers_Hall 1 & 2 in Calgary only been 26 stories, they would just be another stump complex. However, at 52 stories, they remain impressive.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Bankers-Hall-Szmurlo.jpg

Although Bankers_Hall isn't quite as tall as City_National_Plaza in L.A., both are 52 story complexes. 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/PaulHastingsCityNationalTwinTowers.jpg

https://thelocationportal.com/city-national-plaza Fortunately, these towers in L.A. and Calgary weren't Vancouverized stumps.

https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/city-national-tower/1395

https://buildingsdb.com/CA/los-angeles/city-national-plaza/

The stump mentality was firmly in place for LA until the late 1960s, when a building was finally allowed to be taller than the 454' LA+City+Hall.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Post+in+Vancouver

SkyTrain's Canada Line service disruption

(service disruption ends after 14 hours) https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/skytrain-canada-line-service-disruptions-january-14-2026 

For a rapid transit line that opened in 2009, on the surface, it sure wasn't designed to be an efficient high capacity line for the future. It's still just a 2 car joke of a train. Fortunately, most real cities around the world planned for not only 6 car trains, but even 8-10 car trains. 

Unfortunatly, Vancouver has been hit very hard with a multigenerational agenda of continually imposed small scale infrastructure. Vancouver has water on 3 sides, as its on a peninsula. Since the powers that be couldn't build a Boundary+Road moat or trench, the next best thing was to symbolically show the reluctance to build proper big city size infrastructure. This stunted approach to things is about symbolically holding the scale of the city back for as long as possible. 

Despite backwards Vancouver not being able to apply a castle-moat-and-drawbridge control system, the next best thing was to symbolically keep things smaller than what normal or proper big cities allow. 

Here are some of the best examples of holding the size of things back. The 3 lane joke that is the Lions+Gate+Bridge has never had a rapid transit rail tunnel and no express bus tunnel next to it. Especially, no 6 lane highway tunnel. It's a classic BC bottleneck-chokepoint, by design.

From a 3 lane joke of a bridge to a two car Canada+Line joke of a train. It met the symbolic requirement to be shorter than the LRT in Edmonton, the C Train in Calgary and the trains in Seattle and Portland. 

The+Post+building+complex could have been Vancouver's first 50 story office tower, it's not even 25 floors. It would be impressive if it were in Victoria, Kelowna, Kamloops or Prince George. That's the unfortunate thing about Vancouver, so much is done to only be impressive to small cities or towns.  

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+small+Westin+Bayshore+Hotel+in+Vancouver

Things have been kept so small in Vancouver throughout its history, that any big city stuff might seem overwhelming. There has been an unofficial KEEP THEM OUT mentality, but since the city cant have checkpoints, building things small symbolically demonstrates the perpetual reluctance to not allow a big city in backwater BC. 

Since Vancouver can't control Burnaby and can't stop Surrey from eventually becoming the biggest city in BC, they are able to build things on a larger scale than Vancouver.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=YVR-Canada+Line

Zara's billionaire founder buys Amazon-anchored The Post office complex from QuadReal in downtown Vancouver

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/the-post-amazon-vancouver-quadreal-pontegadea-acquisition 

This stump building+complex isn't even 26 floors.

https://www.biv.com/news/real-estate/quadreal-sells-the-post-in-largest-office-transaction-in-vancouver-history-11514776 

It's so incredibly small when compared to what big cities allow. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankers_Hall 52 stories in Calgary. 

https://www.stockaerialphotos.com/-/galleries/cities/calgary/-/medias/a1d07eb9-561e-4f75-9235-64c07d7320ee-penn-west-plaza-calgary The Post isn't that much higher than this stump in Calgary. https://www.stockaerialphotos.com/media/8e457764-fd2f-4e0c-9944-09fc86185f5d-penn-west-plaza-i-and-ii  

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Post+building+complex

The tallest buildings in Vancouver, BC

http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=1&status=15


https://www.vancourier.com/real-estate/12-architecturally-interesting-developments-coming-to-vancouver-1.24056597


https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-house-westbank-beach-district

https://images.dailyhive.com/20200705174716/Screen-Shot-2020-07-05-at-5.46.52-PM.png


https://rennie.com/rennie-post/10-of-the-tallest-buildings-in-vancouver


https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/1059-1075-nelson-street-vancouver-tower-rezoning-approved


https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/lougheed-town-centre-tower-pinnacle-international-development-burnaby


http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?stateID=1&status=15 BC

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/construction-site-of-former-canada-post-building-1.5363928

The+Post should have been the first 55 story office complex in 2020s Vancouver. It doesn't even have 25 floors.  

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Post+building+complex

The Post Complex in Vancouver, BC

 https://changingvancouver.wordpress.com/2019/07/01/central-business-district/ 

This is just another watered down Vancouver building+complex.

https://www.quadreal.com/the-post-vancouver/

https://retail-insider.com/retail-insider/2021/03/quadreal-announces-food-hall-culinary-partner-for-the-post-in-downtown-vancouver/

https://www.urbanyvr.com/transformation-of-former-post-office-into-the-post-by-quadreal-well-underway

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Post+building+complex

Redevelopment of the downtown Vancouver post office

A community open house is scheduled for 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver
http://urbanyvr.com/downtown-vancouver-post-office-redevelopment-transform-area-new-retail-residential-office

Not even 30 floors, let alone 60.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/past-and-future-collide-in-downtown-post-office-redevelopment-plans-1.3229313

Just another stumpy building+complex for watered down Vancouver. 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-canada-post-redevelopment-plans-1.3484648

Developer Bentall Kennedy is proposing to add five towers, one of which will be 19-storeys, and an additional 900,000 square feet
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/canada-post-heritage-1.3486402

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/5d/44/74/5d447474afd3196241c0600e634729ca.jpg 

From not even having 15 floors to not rising to 30 stories. Keep buildings and trains short and bridges narrow whenever possible, that's the manifestation of the Vancouverization agenda. 

http://www.vancouverheritagecommunity.com/opportunities/post-office-building

https://changingvancouver.wordpress.com/2015/05/14/post-office-west-georgia-street

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Post+in+Vancouver

The $1.3 BILLION Struggle To Build Houston’s Giant New Bridge

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I3sbe2QRUM 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Houston_Ship_Channel_Bridge Its as if somehow a backwater BC bridge got built in Texas. While a bridge with only 2 lanes each way & no emergency lanes seems to fit with the small-scale Vancouver mentality, such a narrow bridge in Houston was almost inadequate right from the start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Houston_Ship_Channel_Bridge#Future While it doesn't seem to have a provision for rail, it's still on a grand scale like the Samuel-De_Champlain_Bridge in Montreal. Especially like the new Tappan_Zee_Bridge near NYC. 

Several cities around the world are able to build nice wide bridges, because they aren't hindered by anything like the Vancouver Mind Virus (VMV), or the Backwards BC Mentality (BBCM). 

https://www.traveltexas.com/articles/post/everything-is-bigger-in-texas Being from the BC part of Canada, its difficult to grasp that BIG Texas has more people than Australia, yet still has mostly wide open spaces. The THINK BIG mentality in Texas is the total opposite to the BBCM. 

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2015/03/11/nyc-big-apple When you live in Vancouver for several decades, its amazing to see what several other cities can do, simply because they aren't hindered by the VMV.

The Precarious state of Hudson's Bay made clear in creditor protection

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/hudsons-bay-canada-creditor-protection

https://vancouversun.com/news/the-bay-vancouver-struggles

https://vancouver.thebaybuilding.ca Looks like an interesting building, but it's a 3rd of the height that it should be.

https://vancouver.thebaybuilding.ca/about/

Not 60 floors or 50, not even 25 stories.

https://www.urbanyvr.com/hudsons-bay-vancouver-redevelopment/

Just another bulky stumpy building+complex, like The+Post.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/hudsons-bay-vancouver-redevelopment-proposal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Building_(Vancouver)

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Bay+Building+in+Vancouver

The Post building construction phase

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/the-post-quadreal-property-group-amazon-construction-september-2020 

In most big cities, a 25 story office complex isn't an impressive height. Even a 50 story building is just average in some cities.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-post-amazon-hq2  

The Vancouver Mind Virus is all about thwarting and scaling back the city.

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Post+building+complex

The 4 Lane Bridge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Bridge_(Seattle) WA 

https://www.seattle.gov/transportation/projects-and-programs/programs/bridges-stairs-and-other-structures/bridges/university-bridge-planning-study

https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2023/08/04/north-u-bridge-project-is-a-huge-opportunity-for-a-safer-and-better-connected-u-district-survey/

https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/100-years-University-Bridge-UW-Seattle-ship-canal-14067372.php

https://www.historylink.org/File/20389

The 2 level, 12 lane Ship_Canal_Bridge is right next to it.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Ship_canal_bridge_and_downtown_skyline%2C_2000.jpg

The north end of the Montlake_Bridge is close to the University_of_Washington_station. The 380-foot-long (120 m) station_layout is almost as long as any underground LRT station in Edmonton. In contrast, the first 2 lines of the Vancouver Skytrain only have only 80 m stations. The 3rd line is a joke that is the Canada Line. It was only designed to have 50 m stations. The Montreal Metro & TTC Subway were designed to have 152 m. Unlike Seattle & Edmonton & especially Montreal & Toronto, building for longer trains isn't a problem. That's because they don't have anything like a backward BC mentality or a water it down, because its Vancouver, approach to things. Being from Vancouver, it's always amazing to see what other cities are able to do, simply because they don't take a backwater BC approach to things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremont_Bridge_(Seattle)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballard_Bridge (Seattle)

MONTREAL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Bizard_Bridge Even a backwater part of Montreal will get an upgrade from a 3 lane joke to a 4 lane bridge with wider sidewalks. https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/bridge-construction-causing-travel-nightmare-for-ile-bizard-residents-1.6564161

https://www.westislandtoday.com/post/the-construction-of-l-%C3%AEle-bizard-s-bridge-is-well-underway

• Expanding to 4 traffic lanes, 1 more than the existing bridge   
• Building a wider two-way bike path and sidewalk   
• Complete redevelopment of the road, water and sewer mains and street lighting system   
• Refurbishing electrical networks and wiring 

https://montreal.ca/en/articles/building-new-bridge-pont-jacques-bizard-26379 Fortunatly, no one from Metro Vancouver was able to stop this Greater Montreal improvement. The backward BC mentality is terrible. It would be devastating if Quebec had ever started to emulate the BC approach to things.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10180724/new-jacques-bizard-bridge-west-island-traffic Unfortunatly, the new bridge won't have a couple of bus-lanes. https://www.ebcinc.com/en/2022/04/05/new-jacques-bizard-bridge A 6 lane bridge would have allowed for that. Perhaps a parallel bus-bridge might eventually be built there, someday. That's what Calgary eventually did with the the+Cushing+Bridge upgrade.

Amazon opens major office atrium as part of its phased growth within The Post building in Vancouver

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/amazon-office-atrium-the-post-vancouver-expansion 

Perhaps if you are from Prince George, Kamloops, Kelowna or Victoria, a double office stump complex might seems impressive. However, for most big cities, a building complex that doesn't even have 25 floors isn't that impressive. 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Post+building+complex

The Post building complex sells for over $1.1 billion

 https://vancouversun.com/news/quadreal-sells-the-post-heritage-building-vancouver This stump building+complex doesn't even have 26 floors. It's not much taller than this 22 story stump in LA. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_National_Plaza This was the first office complex to rise over 50 floors in LA.

https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=2301 52 stories opened in 1972. 

https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/city-national-tower/1395

LA and then Calgary were able to have a double tower complex of over 50 floors, but Vancouver just has a double stump thats not even 25 floors.

https://www.brookfieldproperties.com/en/our-properties/bankers-hall-west-175 47 stories

https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=6993 1989 

https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=7073 2000 

52 floors in total.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bankers_Hall_Towers_%281%29_%288068206826%29.jpg 

https://www.stockaerialphotos.com/media/7c75217e-6cc2-4918-a259-888bc934fd8f-bankers-hall-towers-calgary    

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Post+building+complex

The BC Quagmire

Vancouver & Victoria & BC in general, have so many imposed restrictions which continually stunt & thwart the place. Switzerland can approximately fit into BC 23 times. Yet, BC doesn't even have the population of one Switzerland. Canada is the world's 2nd largest country in overall area. Yet, it hasn't been allowed to have 1% of the world's population.

Environmental restrictions while intentionally good, can also really slow down the growth & energy of a region.

https://vancouversun.com/news/david-suzuki-foundation-disavows-suzukis-warning-that-pipelines-will-be-blown-up-if-there-is-no-climate-change-action/wcm/715b0e4c-0ed6-4792-a255-2a51be3adcc2 Pipes can be dangerous, but so are some of the proposals to deal with them.

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2021/11/23/david-suzuki-pipeline-alberta-bc-criticism Alberta & Washington State just never became a pipedream like thwarted BC is.

https://davidsuzuki.org/story/it-will-take-more-than-electric-cars-to-drive-down-emissions/

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-april-26-2018-1.4636157/david-suzuki-should-not-be-celebrated-in-alberta-says-former-dragons-den-star-1.4636160

https://davidsuzuki.org/story/residents-spur-climate-ready-cities/

There should be a focus on various reliable power sources, not just from electric power. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_fuel#Biofuel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_fuel#Carbon-neutral_and_negative_fuels

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_fuel#Compressed_natural_gas

There should also be a reasonable amount of time to transition away from oil & gas, instead of such a madrush push.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_fuel#Nuclear_reactors Such power systems might be great for bases on the moon & Mars, etc. However, for the systemically active earth, there is always a risk. But nothing could ever go wrong, except for...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident 1979

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster 1986

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_accident 2011

Hopefully, and some actually believe, that there will never be a mega-earthquake in California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant#Post-Fukushima_developments

Of course if there ever is a major earthquake in that part of California, the result might be a Chernobyl & Fukushima, all at once. That would be a hell of a way to reduce the population of California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_earthquake_vulnerability

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_nuclear_disasters_and_radioactive_incidents

First Amazon workers move into The Post office complex in downtown Vancouver

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/amazon-office-space-south-tower-the-post-vancouver-occupancy  

Trying to imagine two 60 story office towers, or at least two at 55, would have been very impressive by Vancouver standards. Of course the restrictive view cone, Vancouverization agenda, made sure that those buildings wouldn't even have a 25th floor. 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Post+building+complex

Urban Tech Links, etc...

Some UTL posts might occasionally just have a few links that will eventually become part of a more complete post with more data added much later on.

The Vancouver, BC infrastructure is quite lacking when compared to what's allowed in Calgary and Seattle...

https://twitter.com/TrishJewison/status/1525349620120899586/photo/1 Views of downtown Vancouver. https://twitter.com/TrishJewison/status/1523561566817316866/photo/1

https://twitter.com/TrishJewison/status/1525235043869675520/photo/1 , https://twitter.com/TrishJewison/status/1525235043869675520

 https://twitter.com/TrishJewison/status/1525348528070922240/photo/1 The RBC tower that opened in 1973. The building wasn't permitted to have a 40th floor, let alone be a 50 or 60 story office tower. The building only has 39 levels above the ground & the windows only go up to the 36 floor. In contrast, the B of A Tower in Seattle has windows up to the 76th floor. 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=building+complex

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=UTL 

Bankers Hall in Calgary

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankers_Hall 52 stories, but The+Post in stumpy Vancouver wasn't even permitted to have 25 floors, let alone 50. 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Post+building+complex

City National Plaza in L.A.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_National_Plaza 52 stories at CNP.

Several decades later, Vancouver would have The+Post, which doesn't even have 25 floors. 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Post+building+complex