Having been disappointed by many of our recent proposals, it seems like Vancouver's architectural evolution has stagnated. Looking back at past projects, many of the early ones in the list below were way ahead of their time. It is quite likely that from the 90's till early 2000's, the world's nicest residential highrises were in Vancouver. With Carina's 3D convex curve curtain wall, I think 2003 was the peak of architectural quality here relative to elsewhere.
In the ensuing decade, the rest of the world has caught up and surpassed us. If you take away all the projects in this list, the "average" tower built today has had almost zero progress from the Concord Pacific towers of the 90's. Like, why can't some of our mid-market boxes look as well-resolved as the one from 1998? Looking among the better projects though, it looks like there's a shift from curves to sharp angles over the last decade too.
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