Shangri-La - Vancouver's Tallest | 197m | 62 fl | Completed

[mr.x]

The lower 15 floors will house the Shangri-La Hotel, the first Shangri-La location in North America. Hugely famous in Asia, it will likely have the highest room rates in Canada.

Standing 150 feet higher than Vancouver's current tallest building and ends in 2008, in time for 2010 olympics

Vancouver: Hong Kong-based Shangri-La Hotels & Resorts has signed a deal that will see 15 floors of the city's tallest tower made into an opulent, five-star luxury hotel. It is Shangri-La's first venture in North America. The full-service 120 guest rooms will all be between 500 and 750 square feet and will likely garner the city's highest room rates. The chain, with 42 hotel properties and 28 more in development, was attracted to Vancouver because of its reputation as an Asian gateway.

Locating in the city's new 642-foot high signature tower was an easy decision as the project is destined to be an instant landmark. The Shangri-La entry marks the first hotel brand to come to Canada in five years. CEO Giovanni Angelini says the chain is looking at expansion into other North American locations such as New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

CDN$350 million.

-Plans include a curated public sculpture garden.
-A 120-room hotel, including restaurants and spa, takes up the first 15 floors. General live-work homes (227 units) are on floors 16 to 42 and private access residential units on floors 43-59 (63 units) with penthouse on floor 60.
- The hotel guestrooms, averaging 550 square feet, are among the largest in Canada.
- Penthouse listed at $7.4 million (June 2005).
- During the height of construction activity 1,000 workers will be on site constructing 1 floor per week.

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[Mike K.]

What floor are they currently on?

[mr.x]

What floor are they currently on?

between the 42nd and 44th floors, i'm not too sure exactly which.

[Canadian Mind]

I think they have hit the 45th floor now.

oh, and for the record, there are 59 floors. ;) dunno if someone can change the title or not.

[gumgum]

I know this may have been discussed to death in ssp at some point, but how did this developer manage to get permission for this unprecedented height in Vancouver?

[Canadian Mind]

They were building it in a zone whereby Density is the only practical limiting factor in height. Any building can be build up to 450 feet here, with exceptions up to 600 feet plus 10% for mechanical (so 660 feet), all within density retrictions.

in this case the building is over the density limit, however the developer "bought" density by refurbishing an old church.

[mr.x]

^ plus, the tower is triangular to avoid blocking a view cone.

[squeezied]

canadian mind and others as well, there's a counting issue i want to adress. we've seen floor numbers posted on the shangri-la construction site and it's undisputed that shangri-la is on the 48th numbered floor. now, how many actual floors are there then? count it! as u've done so, there are 45. but 48-45=3, which is not the conventional "numbered floor - 2 = actual floor." so where is this discrepancy from? there's the missing 4th and 13th floor, that's only 2 so where's the third? what people aren't aware is that apparent ground floor actually consist in two "floors". the first floor for the hotel and residential entry and the second floor for the live/work entry.(http://www.livingshangri-la.com/documents/planA3_1.pdf look at the upper right corner that says levels 1 and 2) having said that, whether you choose to consider those floors as two separate or one floor is to your own accord. however, for the sake of clarity, please also remember to add in the correct respective total floors, ie 45/58 or 46/59 or 48/61.

surprise! you could say there's only 58 floors... depending on how you count...

[Mike K.]

I wasn't aware of the different takes on the floor numbers. Nice to know, though.

[raggedy13]

Pic from yesterday...

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g296/raggedy13/Sept%2022%202007/100_9428.jpg

[Canadian Mind]

canadian mind and others as well, there's a counting issue i want to adress. we've seen floor numbers posted on the shangri-la construction site and it's undisputed that shangri-la is on the 48th numbered floor. now, how many actual floors are there then? count it! as u've done so, there are 45. but 48-45=3, which is not the conventional "numbered floor - 2 = actual floor." so where is this discrepancy from? there's the missing 4th and 13th floor, that's only 2 so where's the third? what people aren't aware is that apparent ground floor actually consist in two "floors". the first floor for the hotel and residential entry and the second floor for the live/work entry.(http://www.livingshangri-la.com/documents/planA3_1.pdf look at the upper right corner that says levels 1 and 2) having said that, whether you choose to consider those floors as two separate or one floor is to your own accord. however, for the sake of clarity, please also remember to add in the correct respective total floors, ie 45/58 or 46/59 or 48/61.

surprise! you could say there's only 58 floors... depending on how you count...

ok, so there are 61 floors, 59 "true" floors, and 58 levels then??? That work :P

if so, when doing the titles, will we list number of official floors, number of true floors, or number of levels?

either way, the title is still wrong. :shrug:

[squeezied]

ok, so there are 61 floors, 59 "true" floors, and 58 levels then??? That work :P

if so, when doing the titles, will we list number of official floors, number of true floors, or number of levels?

either way, the title is still wrong. :shrug:

someone back then described the difference between floor and level, i cant remember now haha. but 61, 59, 58 it's of frivolous dispute. lately i've noticed people not take into account that the ground floor consist in 2 floors so they don't add an extra floor to their count, which is fine, but then there would only be 58 floors in total. owell just wanted to bring that up

[Canadian Mind]

someone back then described the difference between floor and level, i cant remember now haha. but 61, 59, 58 it's of frivolous dispute. lately i've noticed people not take into account that the ground floor consist in 2 floors so they don't add an extra floor to their count, which is fine, but then there would only be 58 floors in total. ohwell just wanted to bring that up

well, in my opinion, a level is basically that, level. even if there are two "floors" to it, the floors are really just adjacent to each other, with a meager difference in the height above ground. a floor meanwhile, is any change in a level elevation from one portion of the building to the next.

[officedweller]

From the webcam - podium superstructure being erected:

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/4484/untitledam9.jpg

[nathan6969]

Driving by, i'm really impressed with how the podium is starting to emerge, i didn't think it would rise more than a floor above street level.

[SFUVancouver]

I am pleased with the podium as well. I also thought it would be no more than a couple of storeys tall and instead it looks like it might be a reasonably sized building in its own right. I saw in the Georgia Straight's Best-Of issue that Shangri-La was voted best condo project in the city.

[entheosfog]

well, in my opinion, a level is basically that, level. even if there are two "floors" to it, the floors are really just adjacent to each other, with a meager difference in the height above ground. a floor meanwhile, is any change in a level elevation from one portion of the building to the next.

Maybe it's just easier to describe it in terms of feet or metres. Less complicated for people like me! :rolleyes:

[Delirium]

love this picture! from www.flickr.com

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/oct2gon/1423627995_e910631a9d_o.jpg

btw, here's a video showing the scale model that was used in the presentation centre. you get a good view of what the podium looks like..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H1oabdfD9M

[raggedy13]

^Great find. So I guess that was taken from The Melville?

[mr.x]

that picture is amazing, the anticipation of seeing this thing top is unbearable!

[Canadian Mind]

I really wished they applied to the city to increase the height of the architectural top... I's going to be so out of proportion when it's all said and done. :(

[bils]

sorry i know this is some terrible photoshopping - but here's another 15 storeys on top of the current height ... to give us an idea of the final product :banana:

http://www.bilsproductions.com/shangrilatopped.jpg

[Mike K.]

Holy...

[mr.x]

damn.....i didn't think it would look that tall....

[bils]

yea pretty crazy, i thought maybe i did my math wrong.... but that's stitched assuming we're at floor ~44 now.... so i just tacked on another 15 storeys. gonna be some sick views up there.

[Canadian Mind]

wholly fuck that is a beauty. looks about right though, shangri-la is twice as tall as teresen in the picture, and it is on paper too.

[towerguy3]

There's an easier way around all this floor confusion. Are they at the point now where the corner sticks out (the box corner)? Is so, then look at the model and count up to the top the number of floors left to build before they hit the Pentouse. That gives an idea of how much further they have.

One thing that would be helpful that no one can supply is the actual height in feet above sidewalk of the floor they're on. It must be reaching the 491 feet magic # of Wall Center and it is no doubt taller than Royal Center. Are there no plans showing the elevation of each floor?

How are we supposed to know at what point to pop the champagne? I suppose we could use shadow analysis or someone up there could use a GPS or a watch altimeter. With BurjDubai they were very careful about measuring right to the point when they beat the CN Tower. Not as much fanfare here I guess. Kinda like comparing the BC Lions to the Seattle Seahawks

[Canadian Mind]

there was an architectural rendering somoene stole a photo of awhile back... but it is buried deeply in the old construction thread.

Kinda drives home the point of havign a thread liek this eh? ;)

[graupner]

Very nice and slim tower. Very tall also, nice once that makes any city jalous!!

[excel]

That photo makes it look huge. I'm sure from some angles it will appear much more dominant than others.

[giallo]

sorry i know this is some terrible photoshopping - but here's another 15 storeys on top of the current height ... to give us an idea of the final product :banana:

http://www.bilsproductions.com/shangrilatopped.jpg


I'm speechless over here. It looks like a 750ft-800ft tower.

[Hot Rod]

sweet!!!

[Canadian Mind]

think you could to the same thing with the http://www.numinous.ca/Webcam%20Page.htm webcam?

[bils]

here it is:

http://www.bilsproductions.com/webcam01.jpg

i wanted to throw the RC into this shot too but i figure it'll be behind Shangri-La?

[Canadian Mind]

No, it would be beside it. See the short, blue and white apartment building to the west of Shangri-la, RC will be behind and a little bit further west of that.

Nice to see that the building is a good three or four stories higher than wall centre from this view.

[officedweller]

But still a far cry from the marketing materials' English Bay view.

[mr.x]

nice work!

[excel]

Thanks for making the renderings.

[vanman]

Awesome renderings! Shangri-la is the best example of why Vancouver's policy of thin point towers is so great. Buildings look much taller than they actually are. Thankfully the suburbs have also followed this strategy and for the most part Greater Vancouver isn't blighted with wide slabs like other Canadian cities.

BTW I climbed the Grouse Grind today and took the tram down.The view from the tram was cool and through breaks in the clouds I could cleary see Shangri-la towering over the skyline. After driving over the Lionsgate Bridge it definitely looks like it is the tallest tower in the city now accept for maybe HC. I wonder how tall it is in feet.

[Hed Kandi]

The Ritz Carlton's thin design also leads to deceiving heights

http://www.lestwarog.com/admin/uploads/article/moreimages/2861.jpg

[vanman]

^Well imagine if the city allowed a wide 600 footer downtown, it would completely throw off the scale of the rest of Vancouver's buildings and look completely weird.

[djp]

Is anyone else a little worried that the rest of Vancouver's skyline is going to look a little stunted in comparison after Shangri-La and RC are topped out? Do you think this will take away from the "wall of glass" density look that the city currently has, by making all the other towers appear very short (as they actually are) in comparison?

[Canadian Mind]

I've always thought it looked short as it is. Although my perception of height, especially from a distance, completely change after my trip to New York. No matter what Vancouver is going to look short unless it gets some supertalls. However, that doesn't detract away from the "wall of glass" look, especially from up close.I think it would be kind of neat for tourists on the cruise ships and on the Lions gate to see the taller towers set further in-city, only to have them drowned out by the shorter wall of glass as they approach... Sort of like what happens in New York with regards to the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings... only in New York is a fat wall of brick with intermittent glass.

[officedweller]

Breaching the tabletop skyline with a few towers is a good thing, in my view.

[vanman]

The taller towers will definitely make the tabletop skyline appear shorter, but in time I think it will only attract taller towers. As the city realizes that height done correctly will make the city more attractive not less, they will be more open to even taller towers. I think to some degree this is already the case.

[SpongeG]

i think it will be nice to see some variety in the height

[raggedy13]

I think the scale of Shangri-la will not be too overpowering to the shorter towers as it is in an area close enough to the CBD to allow for a decent transitionary effect, especially now that we have The Melville and soon the RC in close proximity which will create a fairly fluid stepped effect into the West End when viewed from the Coal Harbour angle.

If anything, One Wall Centre and surrounding area suffers much more in this sense due to the vast difference in scales, with the other Wall Centre towers barely helping the transition. I've noticed that particularly while driving north along Oak, One Wall Centre appears to dominate the skyline. Patina should help this area out a bit though.

I also agree with Vanman's last statement. I think once the Shangri-la is topped out, the City will realize that 200m is not all that "monstrously" tall afterall. Already when I look up at the Shangri-la from below it doesn't look very tall to me, even though in my mind I know it is taller than Royal Centre and previously I considered RBC quite a tall looking building (for Vancouver). Perhaps it has more to do with the fact that the curtain wall is not installed too high yet which distorts my impression of its height but I think it is more likely that Shangri-la will lead us to reevaluate our current notion of building height and set a new standard for the city. At the very least, I think developers are already seeing the potential for change when considering some of the current plans they're kicking around.

[towerguy3]

Are there not some drawings or schematics available that we can look at that show the exact height of each floor? I mean when they design a tower do the schematics not indicate the height of each floor above street level? Are those schematics abailable at City Hall? I wanna see at what point it reaches 491 feet

[towerguy3]

Shangri-La is 61 floors high, not 58 as you have listed at the top of this thread. I'm going by the info listed on the big sign at the corner of Georgia and Thurlow

[mr.x]

Shangri-La is 61 floors high, not 58 as you have listed at the top of this thread. I'm going by the info listed on the big sign at the corner of Georgia and Thurlow

according to the forumers here, a few floors aren't being built....#13 included.

[SpongeG]

i just noticed in the georgia straight best of issue that shangrla was voted the best condo project

[Canadian Mind]

according to the forumers here, a few floors aren't being built....#13 included.

Just be sure to ass that we have proof to back up our claims.

[jlousa]

No 4th and 13th floors, 2nd floor is arguably if it's really a seperate floor. Anyways offically it's 61 floors on 59 levels, plus mech level above that.

[SFUVancouver]

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/9460/shangrilapodiumsept28xc8.jpg

The podium is starting to come along. It will house an upscale Urban Fare grocery store, a public sculpture garden curated by the Vancouver Art Gallery, and an unnamed fine dining restaurant.

Source (http://lvl.verttech.com:8050/webcam3.htm)

[Delirium]

...and tower progress:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/oct2gon/Imadfgshhge1.jpg

[excel]

The podium looks pretty impressive, nice to see.

[nathan6969]

There was an Rennie ad in the Sun today for Shangri-La, said they were at 48th floor, I didn't realize that they still had units to sell. Says 6 left, priced from $4-15 million, did they hold these ones back??

[towerguy3]

those 6 units that are apparently unsold must be on that additional floor that they added.

Yes, they are on the 48th Numbered floor (46th actual real floor). At the 46th floor starts the protruding box on the NE corner; you can see the shape of the protruding box when you satnd at Georgia and Thurlow and look straight up. Looks kinda cute!

I'm sure a pop champagne ceremony is being planned when the first column hits 491 feet. Nice if someone could figure out when that happens. Then again, mabey no ceremony; due to the Civic Strike the Mayor may be wanting to keep a low profile

[Cypherus]

those 6 units that are apparently unsold must be on that additional floor that they added.

They didn't add any floors. If they did, they would be found in the minutes of meetings at city hall's website. You can't just add floors without approval from DPB and city council.

[jlousa]

They did add a floor, they added a floor below the sub penthouse, but w/o increasing height. If you look thru the DPB you will find the documentation. The tower was originally 60 floors and was ammended to 61. This was done around 1 year ago. There is gossip here about another floor, that is just gossip though.

[ckkelley]

They did add a floor, they added a floor below the sub penthouse, but w/o increasing height. If you look thru the DPB you will find the documentation. The tower was originally 60 floors and was ammended to 61. This was done around 1 year ago. There is gossip here about another floor, that is just gossip though.

Furthermore, the top floor of a "62" storey tower would not have 6 suites.

2 max.

[officedweller]

Actually, the floor that was added last year was added in the upper middle of the tower (for the purposes of floorplate suite layouts), not at the subpenthouse level.

I think there was a rescinded contract regarding one of the penthouse suites.

BTW - I think you can now see the "box" being formed on the tower.

[jlousa]

The penthouse for sale is not a rescinded contract, it's an assignment, which I'm sure is what you meant, there are acutally numerous assingments on the market, they have been selling quite well.

[Cypherus]

They did add a floor, they added a floor below the sub penthouse, but w/o increasing height. If you look thru the DPB you will find the documentation. The tower was originally 60 floors and was ammended to 61. This was done around 1 year ago. There is gossip here about another floor, that is just gossip though.

The original comment was to address towerguy that they did not add another floor recently, as he claims construction workers are telling him.

[officedweller]

The penthouse for sale is not a rescinded contract, it's an assignment, which I'm sure is what you meant, there are acutally numerous assingments on the market, they have been selling quite well.

OK. I just heard someone wanted out due to the Ritz-Carleton blocking the view. Don't know how it was resolved.

They did add a floor, they added a floor below the sub penthouse, but w/o increasing height. If you look thru the DPB you will find the documentation.

Heres the excerpt from the Staff Report. The extra floor added last year was added above the 42nd floor, not at the subpenthouse level.

The proposal involves the construction of one additional floor in the tower, inserted above
the 42nd level, providing seven General Office/Live-Work units; and, at the roof garden level,
changing the use of previously approved mechanical spaces to residential use.

http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/cclerk/20060131/documents/a2.pdf

[hollywoodnorth]

The Restaurant for the tower has been announced for a while. The sign on Georgia @ Thurlow say it will be a "KI RESTURANT".

[squeezied]

those 6 units that are apparently unsold must be on that additional floor that they added.

Yes, they are on the 48th Numbered floor (46th actual real floor). At the 46th floor starts the protruding box on the NE corner; you can see the shape of the protruding box when you satnd at Georgia and Thurlow and look straight up. Looks kinda cute!

I'm sure a pop champagne ceremony is being planned when the first column hits 491 feet. Nice if someone could figure out when that happens. Then again, mabey no ceremony; due to the Civic Strike the Mayor may be wanting to keep a low profile

i just walked around shangri-la today, they're on the 50th numbered floor

[excel]

How come the 6 new suits are between 4 million and 15 million if its just an addition of 6 standard suits. I thought the penthouse was sold for 13 million or something around there?

[SpongeG]

there is an add in todays Sun Newspaper

it says Today - 45 floors

Dec 2007 - 61 floors

its on the back of the westcoast news section i think...

[towerguy3]

I'm going by the floor number signs posted on the side beside the lift. We have to use that as the official guide as that's what the workers are going by, and they HAVE to know the correct floor they're on! At this point they must be on level with Wall Center so I have no idea why they're not making a big deal out of this.

When is the new World Almanac and Book of Facts out? I want to see if Shangri-La is listed.

Any idea when GoogleEarth will have new images out of B.C.?

Is the elevator shaft the strongest part structurally of a building? Is the elevator shaft always inside the core?

[towerguy3]

no the ad says they're at 48 floors. No matter which way you count floors, they've got 13 to go

[osirisboy]

I'm going by the floor number signs posted on the side beside the lift. We have to use that as the official guide as that's what the workers are going by, and they HAVE to know the correct floor they're on! At this point they must be on level with Wall Center so I have no idea why they're not making a big deal out of this.


you arent talking about the large numbers on the right side of the lift are you? because that doesnt refer to actual floors. look at where number 7 is in the picture above on this page.

[Mininari]

you arent talking about the large numbers on the right side of the lift are you? because that doesnt refer to actual floors. look at where number 7 is in the picture above on this page.

Actually, those numbers ARE correct.

The number 7 is in fact the number 17.
Consider this: they are not using the numbers 4 and 13, correct?
So that 17 is actually the 17th floor as would be numbered in an elevator.
It is, however, the 15th storey.

They have numbered the floors precisely how they will be numbered in the elevators when the building is complete.

This makes sense to me, and I hope it helps settle this debate over which floor they're on, once and for all.

Go ask the woman in the overalls and steel-toed boots.

[towerguy3]

so it's settled, 59 stories and 61 floors... sounds good to me !:tup:

[mr.x]

Taken by SKYMASTER at SSC:


New pictures from today:

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http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/3725/picture028byu3.jpg

http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/4517/60984914nz0.jpg

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/2179/picture029bsj3.jpg

http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/3737/picture030wg2.jpg

Pictures from Last weekend:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1226/1484248477_4f4fb618b3_o.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1089/1484267443_817b9d1a4b_o.jpg

[osirisboy]

heres some pics of shangri-la from different perspectives from around downtown.

(all pics taken by me, today)

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_1409.jpg

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_1390.jpg

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_1410.jpg

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x89/osirisboy22/IMG_1382.jpg

[entheosfog]

Because you can never have too many pics of Shangri-La, here's a couple from me:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v372/entheos_fog/DSCF4920.jpg?t=1191632751

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v372/entheos_fog/DSCF4923.jpg?t=1191632874

[nikw]

i dont know if anyone has seen this yet, its a render of vancouver with the top floors of shangri-la, created for the Woodwards Project. The only way that i have found to view it is at on the woodwards home page at http://www.woodwardsdistrict.com

dont know if its to scale, renders it as very tall compared to the rest of the downtown buildings.

[Cypherus]

Thanks for the pictures guys. This tower is an emerald within the downtown core. I can't wait until all of the cladding is finished - it looks amazing.

In reference to the Woodward's rendering, Shangri-la is known to be seen in the background, and its relative height is rather accurate given its depiction in the diagram.

[raggedy13]

Here's the rendering...

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g296/raggedy13/Woodwards.jpg

[squeezied]

In reference to the Woodward's rendering, Shangri-la is known to be seen in the background, and its relative height is rather accurate given its depiction in the diagram.

unfortunately, the brightly lite floors arent

[SpongeG]

i just found this on miss 604's blog - taken from the empire landmark restaurant

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2394/1501310921_d9afbdc2ba.jpg

[SFUVancouver]

Alberni Street elevation
http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/8798/shangrilaconstructionalhz2.jpg
http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.png (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ca/) My photo, taken October 7th, 2007.


West Georgia flatiron elevation
http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/5051/shangrilaconstructionwent1.jpg
http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.png (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/ca/) My photo, taken October 7th, 2007.

[Coldrsx]

a picture by me while driving top down on sunday...

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x164/coldrsx/DSC01795.jpg

[Delirium]

^ nice shot!

here's a cool pic i found on www.flickr.com
shangri-la is really starting to poke out
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/oct2gon/1521467521_6baee5baa4_b.jpg

[officedweller]

I saw it from the Lions Gate Bridge yesterday - looked great.

[vanman]

Insane density. From that last pic it looks as though the core is so crowded with buildings that from street level you would hardly be able to see the sun. In actuality when you are downtown in most places there is plenty of open sky. Props to the UDP.

[SFUVancouver]

^ I couldn't agree more, but really it is the city's height guidelines and tower separation requirements that give downtown its airy feel despite being surrounded by so many towers.

[Delirium]

different view of shangri-la
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/oct2gon/1512233051_45a824344b_o.jpg
from flickr.com

[Hed Kandi]

Nice Glass ! :yes:

[towerguy3]

Is it now taller than Wall Center? If it is, it's the city's best kept secret:shrug:

[jlousa]

It's been taller then wallcentre (not in absolute terms) for about 10 days now, the developer doesn't see it as a cause for celebration, they will wait until the building is topped out for that. Rennie started running the Icon ads in the Sun when it surpassed Wall Centre.

[officedweller]

Pic of the top showing the double height scaffolding for the box taken by me today, October 11, 2007 (taken through dirty tinted glass). Also note where the secondary elevator core tops out - level 43 (the inserted floor) is I think the last floor with that elevator - that could be that floor unless there's space for elevator mechanical in the core shown - I'll let someone else figure that out.

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/8416/pa110551cropjl0.jpg

[cjohnny4]

This afternoon was the first time I have crossed Lions Gate Bridge since Shangri-La has made a real mark on the skyline. I think the most impressive thing about the view from the bridge is that nearly the full height of Shangri-La is visible from the bridge. This is certainly not true, say for the Wall Centre or Royal Bank; you can only see the upper part of those buildings as they are behind other shorter buildings. Seeing Shangri-La's full height from the bridge makes it seem even taller.

[Delirium]

here;s the 'icon' ad. did they add two antenna's?
http://cdn.travidia.com/rop-ad/5154515

http://cdn.travidia.com/rop-sub/17958703

[giallo]

Beautiful shot

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/oct2gon/1512233051_45a824344b_o.jpg


How predominant is Shangri-la in the skyline when coming over the Granville Bridge? I've always wondered how it would look from there.

[nikw]

Whenever i go over the Lions Gate bridge and see Shangri-La from the bridge i think wow thats getting tall, but as soon as you leave the causway onto Georgia Street it seems to shrink and you think...how did it look so tall over the bridge...

[Cypherus]

Whenever i go over the Lions Gate bridge and see Shangri-La from the bridge i think wow thats getting tall, but as soon as you leave the causway onto Georgia Street it seems to shrink and you think...how did it look so tall over the bridge...

I noticed that too when crossing LG bridge to work. The tower looks likes its 700 feet, but when you get into the downtown core, it looks like its 450 feet.

[Mike K.]

I blame Chris Angel :)

[Pinion]

I can't believe how fast it's grown. I took this pic in June (from the top of TD tower, see sig for more) and now it dwarfs the TD tower.

http://www.canuckscentral.com/myvancouver/1.JPG