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Thursday, July 30, 2026

Concord Pacific tower in Metrotown now weeks away from becoming Metro Vancouver's tallest building

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/concord-metrotown-sky-house-metro-vancouver-tallest-building-construction-progress

https://skyscraperpage.com/b114729/burnaby/grand-tower-at-sky-park

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=31

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=31&status=15

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?stateID=1

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

Saturday, June 13, 2026

Concord Metrotown Is Nearly Topped Out in Burnaby, BC, Canada

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcQqiPa-Qa0 Unlike most of the buildings in Vancouver, this one in Burnaby would actually be one of the taller buildings in Calgary and Seattle.

https://skyscraperpage.com/b114729/burnaby/grand-tower-at-sky-park 230 m or 755 feet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Park_(Burnaby)

All possible, because its not under the extreme controls and restrictions that Vancouver imposes.

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=31 BC https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?stateID=1

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=31&status=15 BC https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?stateID=1&status=15

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?countryID=1 Can https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?countryID=1&status=15

Friday, May 15, 2026

Metrotown, Burnaby

https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/1tegbb6/clearest_full_rainbow_ive_ever_seen/

https://skyscraperpage.com/b114729/burnaby/grand-tower-at-sky-park

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=31&status=15

Friday, May 1, 2026

ARO (building) in NYC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARO_(building)

"ARO is a 62-story, 700-foot-tall (210 m) glass tower with a steel lattice exterior." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARO_(building)#Architecture 210 m vs 150 m

"Calgary House, (formerly known as TELUS Sky) is a 60-storey, 222.3 m (729 ft)" tower. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telus_Sky 222 vs 150 m

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quay_Quarter_Tower "The AMP Centre re-opened as Quay Quarter Tower in early 2022, and stands at a height of 216 metres (709 ft) with 54 floors." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quay_Quarter_Tower#AMP_Centre 216 m vs 150 m.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_House Another Vancouver stump under 500' vs. 700' and 729'.

Height
Architectural	150.3 m (493 ft)^[1]
Technical details
Material	Concrete
Floor count	49
Floor area	60,670 square metres (653,046 sq ft)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_House#Design Only 150 m.

As usual, things must always be scaled back or watered down in small, rainy Vancouver.

Thursday, April 30, 2026

Burnaby's future 863-ft-tall tower in Lougheed to feature a hotel with a sky-high restaurant and bar destination on the 86th floor

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/pinnacle-lougheed-burnaby-hotel-restaurant-revised-concept

And Vancouver can't stop it, because Vancouver's restrictions have no control over Burnaby.

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Seattle, Calgary and Edmonton are all allowed to have residential floors higher above the street than what stumpy little Vancouver permits

Seattle's Tallest Luxury Residential Tower: The Residences @ Rainier Square https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i2DivRATcg

2022 OCEA Award Winner - Rainier Square Redevelopment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HegSZiVNQx0

New Rainier Square Tower becomes Seattle’s second tallest building https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5yKXkCeAGg

At 60-storeys, TELUS Sky is the leading example of a dynamic community of urban living and working. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qWRYwK8z_E

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sRpGYPQY3RY The 3rd tallest in Calgary

Telus Sky top floors view https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HirkgwyphUk

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

The Vancouver Harbour Air Control Tower

https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/1p7kqyv/did_you_know_the_vancouver_harbour_air_control

https://panethos.wordpress.com/2025/01/02/worlds-sky-high-civilian-air-traffic-control-towers

https://www.airport-technology.com/features/the-top-10-tallest-atc-towers-in-the-world/

https://simpleflying.com/tallest-air-traffic-control-towers , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sab2yAg5e8

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

Monday, September 29, 2025

Vancouver buildings over 152.4 meters or 500 feet

It took a very long time for Vancouver to have its first building permitted to rise over 500 feet in height.

152.4 meters = 500 feet and 150 meters = 492.12 feet

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=1

https://www.straight.com/article-371138/vancouver/city-approves-new-policy-taller-buildings-downtown-vancouver While there are some taller resedential towers, Vancouver still has no office tower with at least a 40th floor. Portland,_Oregon has 2. Perth, WA has 2 office towers with at least 50 floors. The_Bow tower in Calgary has 60 floors, when you count all the levels. The Columbia_Center in Seattle has 80 floors in total.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Vancouver#Cityscape

450 feet is equal to about 137.16 meters and that was the height restriction imposed on Vancouver for most of its restrictive, red-tape history.

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

The powers that be tried their damndest to not allow most Vancouver buildings to be taller than the Smith_Tower, Commerce_Court_North and the Los_Angeles_City_Hall until after the year 2000. Of course in 2025 those buildings are like stumps now, but would still be tall by small Vancouver standards.

https://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=6965 , https://www.smithtower.com/about/

https://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=27&searchname=timeline

https://beautifulwashington.com/images/sky-view-observatory/sky-view-observatory-at-columbia-center-9.jpg

https://beautifulwashington.com/king-county/attractions/seattle/448-sky-view-observatory.html

https://www.seattletimes.com/life/heres-a-cheap-way-to-view-seattles-skyline-coffee-at-the-starbucks-on-the-40th-floor-of-the-columbia-tower The 40th floor of an 80 story building, when you count the mechanical or plant floors as well. Perhaps some day strict Vancouver might permit an office building to have a 40th floor.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Vancouver#Tallest_under_construction_or_proposed

stumps and towers

Saturday, July 27, 2024

The Vancouver (stump) House

https://upload.wikimedia.org/Vancouver_House

Vancouver_House is a small building compared to what's allowed in real cities.

155.6 m / 511 ft

Floors52 https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/vancouver-house/13987 Its almost 230 feet shoter than a simialar building in Calgary.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/TELUS_SKY

225.4 m / 740 ft

Floors59 https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/telus-sky/15466

Since Telus_Sky is in Calgary, it's not under any of the Vancouver type restrictions.

https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2020/03/06/lights-out-at-vancouver-house/

So many things are mixed up or upside-down in backward Vancouver.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/Calgary_Skyline_May_2018

https://upload.wikimedia.org In 1984 the taller tower was the tallest in Western Canada. The stump next to it would be equivalent to one of the tallest towers in backwater BC.

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

https://upload.wikimedia.org/Telus_Sky_September_2017

https://upload.wikimedia.org Just another stump in Calgary, but it would be a significant size tower in watered down Vancouver.

125 m / 410 ft

Floors30 https://www.skyscrapercentre.com/building/encana-place/12685

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

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

The Stack Tower, or is it just another stumpy office building in Vancouver, BC?

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/the-stack-office-tower-1133-melville-street-vancouver-tallest-greenest

It's all about Stumps+and+Towers.

There is no office tower in Vancouver or BC that has ever been allowed to have a 40th floor. Seattle has the 76 story B of A tower & Toronto has the 72 story BMO tower. That's because those cities aren't under anything like the restrictions and limitations that Vancouver has. If you can't build a wall around BC, the next best thing is to limit or reduce the scale of things. Then continually fall behind with the overall infrastructure.

Vancouver not only has limited the scale of office towers, but residential towers as well. It would seem that there is more of a demand now for residential towers than office towers.

Seattle, Calgary & Edmonton all have allowed a residential tower to be taller than anything in Vancouver.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Vancouver+House

London, UK for the longest time, refused to permit taller buildings. Then eventually as the land became so expensive, they eventually started to allow some towers that even rivaled that of Paris & Frankfurt. Some of the towers would not even be stumps when compared to those in NYC & Chicago.

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/no-rooms-at-the-inns-knock-on-effects-of-vancouvers-hotel-shortage If the city would allow taller buildings, then the hotel companies could build more rooms on the lower half, while providing condos on the upper half. Or, visa versa.

https://storeys.com/vancouver-hotel-shortage-council-motion Fortunatly, many other cities are able to keep up with getting more hotel rooms built. https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/09/08/vancouver-hotels-shortage-city-councillor/

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metro-vancouver-hotel-supply-shortage-demand

https://www.bcbusiness.ca/Land-Values-How-the-hotel-shortage-in-Vancouver-is-coinciding-with-a-boom-in-tourism

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/city-of-vancouver-hotel-room-shortage-new-policies

Of course by the late 1800s, Montreal & Toronto had a sense of becoming major cities. Then by the early & mid 1900s, it became even more apparent. In the early 21st century, Vancouver is still stuck in a multi-decade rut of wanting to stunt, thwart or hold back the city in any way possible.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+No+Fun+City

Most of the regional bridges or crossings have been deliberately kept so narrow that it's almost impossible to have a proper regional express bus network to compliment the short sighted Skytrain stations.

All the narrow bridges should have had additional Bus+and+HOV+Lane bridges by now.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=HOV

The stump city has so much potential, but only if Vancouver reaches for the sky.

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