Burrard Place | 168m, 112m, 56m | 54fl, 36fl, 13fl | 938,000 sqft | U/C

[Coldrsx]

Reminds me of the Shangri-la Toronto... well a little bit.

Love the balconies.

[Denscity]

Why isn't the tallest tower actually on burrard? View cones?

[LeftCoaster]

Just a small complaint but can someone change the title to height in metres?

466 feet means very little to me.

[Metro-One]

It is 142 meters. I feel the same way, why do we continue to discus towers in feet in Canada? Feet also means very little to me. When judging building height I need meters as well. Under 100 is a short tower, 120 is a decent height tower, 140+ is tall for Vancouver (and looks decently tall from the pedestrian perspective), 150 is the threshold for a true skyscraper (Vancouver currently has 3, one of the u/c), 200 is big (monolithic for Vancouver, hehe), 300 is a super-tall, and anything above 500 is ridiculously tall.

[martinishaker]

The Georgia is 100 feet taller than Capital and Patina

[SpongeG]

Originally Posted by Denscity

Why isn't the tallest tower actually on burrard? View cones?

thats where the toyota dealership is - business on burrard - residential on hornby

[wrenegade]

I would kinda like the heights in feet, or both. Yes Canada is metric, but most development is still done in feet, sq. ft, etc.

[dleung]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

thats where the toyota dealership is - business on burrard - residential on hornby

Why can't they stick the tower over the dealership? Vancouver's really annoying with the "here's the podium; there's the tower" mentality..

[Yume-sama]

The renders are very nice~

[peters]

www.burrardgateway.ca

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by dleung

Why can't they stick the tower over the dealership? Vancouver's really annoying with the "here's the podium; there's the tower" mentality..

Probably the desire for column free space in the showroom and/or a "grand" lobby for the residential tower (which generally means directly adjacent to the elevator core. Vancouver doesn't have any skylobbies as far as I know...(other than the Pan Pacific Hotel)

[jlousa]

I wonder if a certain member could provide us with additional details about the project... like is the supermarket option still on the table, and just how involved is Toyota in what will become their Flagship dealership.

[sono65]

Why do they keep saying it's the same height as One Wall? One Wall is 157.7 m to the spire. This is only 142 m. Are they saying it's 142 m to the roof? Then mechanical and what-not puts it up to One Walls height of 157.7 m?

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by sono65

Why do they keep saying it's the same height as One Wall?

Probably because both are 48 storeys...

[wrenegade]

More renderings:

From Hornby & Davie:



From Horby & Drake:



South elevation (Drake):



Image credit: Hoodsurf

[Hed Kandi]

This tower is just awful. And those balconies...I have no words to describe my distaste for them.

[SpongeG]

i like it - it looks like the grocery store could be on hornby

[wrenegade]

Doesn't really look like it. Unfortunately this is the largest photo I could find.



Photo via burrardgateway.com

[SpongeG]

oh well not like we need a nother friggin pattison store downtown anyway

[wrenegade]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

oh well not like we need a nother friggin pattison store downtown anyway

Perhaps not, but it would be nice to save a Nesters in this development. Maybe they can acquire the rest of the block on Hornby and put one there. Probably won't happen, but I don't really see anywhere else they could fit +/- 25,000 sq. ft. of grocery store.