Tallest Building UC in Your City
 

A thread for cities with buildings UC over 100 meters. Feel free to post your city's tallest UC even if it's under. It just won't be on the OP list. All heights on list are rounded to the nearest meter.

Ice District Tower B is not u/c, only the podium.

Ah. It is listed as UC in the database. I will make the revision. What is the height of CNIB Tower? It's the only other one near or over 100 m in Edmonton.

Richmond Yards (103m) is the tallest project UC in Halifax right now, as far as I know this will be the city's tallest once completed (possibly second to Fenwick Tower):

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If that is the case, it will be the first 100 meter in the Atlantic provinces. Thanks for letting me know.

If The ONE gets it new proposed height approved it will move into #1 in Toronto.

Yeah this one was a bit of a surprise, it's in a part of the North End that isn't subject to the same height/envelope restrictions as downtown.

Fenwick Tower is also being renovated and originally the renos would have pushed it a bit over 100m. The plans changed a lot over the years though and I'm not sure whether or not it ended up getting any taller in the end.

There's also plans for a 100m+ building at King's Wharf in Dartmouth, although AFAIK that particular building isn't UC yet.

It's true that the 100m mark has always seemed like a major psychological barrier here.

Edit: I nearly forgot, there's a hotel currently UC in Bayer's Lake (western suburbs) that was supposed to be well over 100m but somehow the excavation involved ended up eating up a huge part of their budget and the project got scaled back into something really disappointing and bland.

King's Wharf is now a stale proposal as there has been no movement on it in years, and yeah I remember the original Fenwick proposal from when I was a teenager. Crazy. The final result is awful and didn't even add the height. I love Richmond Yards though, very cool.

There is also 7177 Quinpool Road under construction. 32 floors.

King's Wharf is not really stale. It is an active multi-phase development that has been adjusted a few times. Next up is a 26 storey tower and the 12 storey Brightwork. The main tower is a future phase. I would not consider it under construction.

I guess it depends what you mean by a "stale proposal". King's Wharf is a large, multi-phased project and construction has been ongoing :shrug:

The largest tower could end up getting a redesign but I'm confident that it will be built.

I meant that the main tower is a stale proposal, I'm well aware of the scope of the entire project. There has been no movement or announcements relating to the signature tower though. I'm sure it will *eventually* be built, but as of now there is essentially no set design and no timeline.

Is 7177 Quinpool 100 meters?

I don't think the height of 7177 Quinpool has been confirmed yet. 7177 Quinpool is an old grandfathered project that didn't require public consultation and it didn't have the usual renderings and elevation drawings online. I think some forumers have said that they've seen the plans in person or that they are available in a municipal office. Maybe they'll appear online sometime or maybe we will need to wait and see what materializes and if it is taller than Richmond Yards.

I don't think 32 floors could be much below 100 m just based on required ceiling heights.

Depressing thread to think about with regard to St. John's. I'm sure somewhere in the suburbs someone is building a house with a 3rd floor.

I noticed I could see DTK Kitchener - 419 feet/40 storeys - from Hwy 7 & Wellington Rd 32 yesterday, making me wonder if you could see Guelph's Basilica of Our Lady Immaculate's spire from the top? Anyway I think it's going to become Kitchener's CN Tower - from far away you'll be able to tell where downtown is. Until Kitchener got these highrise condos it was easy to get lost.

As for you NFLDers, I remember 20 year's ago working in Waterloo I met a bunch of folks from NFLD with amusing tales about getting off the train/greyhound bus in downtown Toronto, walking up Yonge St and being intimidated by the "freaks" and tall buildings. So they moved to Galt & Kitchener - which they said was more like St John's. (Driving on the south side of Galt recently I came across a Newfoundland grocery store.)

Iinm, you can already see Guelph from the top of some K-W towers (it's 25km away). Cambridge has had a substantial Newfoundlander population since WWII, when they started coming for work.

Ottawa's Trinity Centre at Bayview Station ([900 Albert St] | 234/203/105m | 65/56/23f;) is suppose to break ground in Q3 or Q4 2021.

Updated design and ground floor plan with some perspective tenants.

I don't think Regina has a building over 3 stories under construction right now.

Oméga Condos Urbains, not sure about the exact height probably around 24 meters
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March 31st
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I'm confused.. this picture of the building is hideous.. but the pic Chad posted is of a really stunning building... what happened?.. which version is the correct one?.. Please be the first one.

I think they are both up to date, but show two different angles. The tower is wide along one axis and narrow along another (sort of an 8 shape? the planning materials aren't very clear about it, but include renderings side-by-side from different angles).

I'm optimistic that it will look decent because this is one of the larger and more established developers who seem to get better with each round of projects and they plan on using curtain wall on this project.

Richmond Yards is part of this scene below (white cranes, not currently at their full height). It's interesting in that it's more of an extension to the urban core rather than just some infill projects replacing already pretty good buildings downtown. This is around 2-3 km north of downtown, and most of the new construction is happening on underused former industrial sites. There are a couple of 20-ish storey towers under construction here too, so it won't just be one 30 storey tower and a bunch of 8-12 storey stuff.

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... ok.. that makes more sense. Glad to hear it because in that first pic it's stunning!

For Hamilton, it's the Cobalt.

Two 30 storey buildings, both at 97.5 m.
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It's been taking a while for them to build this. I think it's now been an entire year where they are still working below ground. The big dig, there's an underground river under much of the downtown area, so it's been slow.

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However, it now looks like the buildings will be at grade very soon, so we should see this rise above ground very soon.

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London - Centro - 129 metres

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Thanks for putting this together, nice to see what’s going on around the country.

Seeing all those cranes in that Halifax shot is awesome.

Agreed. I look forward to keeping up to date with some of these especially the ones in suburbs and smaller towns that don't seem to be talked about much on here.

Good idea for a thread Chad ;)

I agree - great thread to get to know what’s happenning in the different cities.

One question - shouldn’t “Cobalt” be blue ? :P

Toronto getting a new tallest for the first time in 45 years.

The new tallest(s) in Halifax are surpassing Fenwick Tower which was completed in 1971. Interesting partly because it would have been very ambitious to build a 33 storey building in Halifax starting in the 1960's. Same thing for buildings like First Canadian Place which seem like they must have been much more ambitious than any modern projects in Canada right now. FCP in its time was like the tallest buildings being built in Asia these days.

There are a bunch of buildings in Halifax all around the same height scattered around the city so the designation of "tallest" isn't very dramatic and doesn't seem like something most people there talk about much. It is not like American cities where some company builds a new office tower every few years that dramatically outclasses the older one across the street. Richmond Yards did not get much fanfare and I think in a few years a 30 storey or so residential tower will just fit into the fabric of the city and many parts of town will have them.

Centro is already on the OP. I just need a progress pic of it.

First Canadian Place was the 6th tallest building in the world to structural top (currently 103rd) and the tallest building overall outside of Chicago and New York when built in 1975.

The Bank of Montreal "M-bar" logo at the top of the building was the highest sign in the world from 1975 until overtaken by the sign atop CITIC Plaza (Hong Kong) in 1997.

Sorry, I didn't originally see it. Think there might be a link in the London sub-forum

A lot of construction in Quebec City at the moment but as always, nothing very high. Simply not in the city's DNA. I believe this is the tallest under construction: 800 Charest Est.

Let's hope same time next year, we'll be able to post about Cogir's new 200m tower...


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The audacity of the '70s giants. You gotta love it.

It was like a hard slap back from the '60s military-industrial technocracy after it all got weird for a minute.

Like "no it all still works we're knocking down a landmark block to build a vague prism the size of God".

It's one of those things where it might not have been for the best, but it had a purity of vision and the force of spite.

Helps you understand the time.

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Yes, it was in the Guinness Book of World Records for highest sign. It used to be that all of the top ten buildings in the world were in New York, Chicago and Toronto.

I worked there for a while around 30 years ago. In fact I've worked in two towers that could claim to have been Canada's tallest office buildings: the Union Bank/Royal Tower in Winnipeg (tallest from 1904-1906, I think) and FCP (actually First Bank Tower) (1975-present).

Didn't even know about the Pinnacle One building in Toronto..

And somehow, PANAM signifies this audacity more than the carriers of today. Just like how the bad assed Pan Am building in New York loomed over Park Avenue in a way that is somehow not as imposing now that it is Met Life.

It may have been brutish, it may have been overpowering. But this image from National Geographic, as much as any other, kindled my fascination with skyscrapers and New York City.
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but I digress, as this is the 60s, not the 70s. Don Draper-land. The New York City of cigarettes and noon-hour martinis. the 60s were so glamorous in certain respects. I certainly like the image of Margot Robbie as a flight attendant.

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I am pretty sure that Surrey One Central at 134 metres is the tallest currently U/C in Surrey.

I'd like to see a recent pic of the Kitchener skyline from a distance with the new DTK Tower. It's a major game changer, IMO.

Wow look at Halifax go! Impressive what's happening over there.

The Union bank building was still 4m shorter than the NY Life insurance on Place d'Armes. Although the Union was a legit steel-framed building with a full ten floors of office space, whereas the NYL is a hybrid of masonry on the lower floors and steel in the top, and it's 9th and 10th floors were apparently a legal library, whatever that means.

Interestingly, both towers are the same height when measured to the roofline (46m), but the NYL has that 4m little turret.

Well it must be very close I guess since the Union Bank has (or had) a structure on the roof as well.

Oh sure. As per my calculations (thanks to Google Earth), the Union Bank including its mechanical penthouse is 49m tall. The NYL with its turret is 52m, even though the official height is 50m.

This is all pointless late-night SSP nonsense though. I don't know why, but measuring and comparing the heights of obscure Canadian skyscrapers after a long day of work is strangely relaxing. Such is life I guess.

What about to the top of its flagpole? That was always said to be the highest in the British Empire. I'll take that as my standard going forward!

Hey Chad Surrey's tallest U/C should be One Central at 44fl/134m:

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Oméga Condos Urbains in Rimouski on April 29
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Looks like Toronto's needs to be changed as it looks like The One got the green light for it's height increase and will now be 338.3m or 1,110 ft. :cheers:

Ottawa's will very soon be changed to the Trinity Centre at Bayview developement at 234m (tallest tower). Digging should start any day now.

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i really wish the trinity project was closer to the cbd but it's close enough I guess.. I'm really excited to see some height finally in Ottawa! This should be a good one

Its placement will make for an interesting skyline in the future. From the CBD's gothic spires, down to modern towers of varying heights at LeBreton Flats and the tower cluster of impressive height around Bayview station.