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Originally Posted by flight_from_kamakura
wow, weird turn in the posts.
anyway, high or not, it's interesting the extent to which 1021 here could signal a shift in thinking on proximity and density. wandering around the area recently, i was struck as just how many good buildable lots there are down there. od and j-lo mention pender and thurlow, but right adjacent is a parking structure at everleigh and thurlow that, depending on whatever shading issues there are there, could support a tower of 80+ meters. if one of the more interesting consequences of restrictions on residential development in the cbd is much more tightly clustered office buildings, it'd be a nice (unintended?) result. so in that sense, height and skyline are sort of secondary issues
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One issue with building at Everleigh & Thurlow is the Skytrain tunnel that runs there while it curves from Burrard Stn to the portal at Portal Park (Cordova & Thurlow).
Today, its not quite the engineering challenge they had when Bentall Centre and the nearby parkades were built back in '70s.
I've heard that Bentall has done some property transactions along W Pender so they now own (or have a majority stake) in all the properties on the south side of Pender from Burrard to Thurlow. I can see the parkades and the towers at 1050 and 1090 being redeveloped for some new Bentall Centre towers and underground parking.
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Fantastic news, Vancouver could be heading to another major skyline change if this tower, Vancouver's Turn and the Burrard tower all proceed near the same time. 
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