Paradox Hotel (1151 W Georgia) | 188m | 67 Fl | Completed - Page 166

dleung · #**3301** Posted **Jan 14, 2015, 1:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by Delirium

Are the glass guards really high on those balconies or are the ceilings very low??

mcminsen · #**3302** Posted **Jan 14, 2015, 3:54 AM**

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Originally Posted by trofirhen

There's a neat view of it if you look at it from up the curve of the Melville Connector from Dunsmuir.
Either stand beside Burrard Skytrain Station, or on the corner directly by Park Place. You're surrounded by some of the snazziest architecture in the city, on Burrard.
Then look west up the curve of Melville, past Bentall and Past the Hyatt and you can feel how it looms over the others. Dramatic feeling to the city at that point, IMO.

Yes, that intersection is a sweet spot for viewing in all directions. And it's one of the places where you can see most of the Trump from top to (almost the) bottom.

Jan.13 '15, my pic

Jan.13 '15, my pic

Monolith · #**3303** Posted **Jan 14, 2015, 6:09 AM**

Taken January 8th

Vancouver Marina by nickandrosemary, on Flickr

Denscity · #**3304** Posted **Jan 14, 2015, 12:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by Monolith

Taken January 8th

Vancouver Marina by nickandrosemary, on Flickr

Dense City!

trofirhen · #**3305** Posted **Jan 14, 2015, 4:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by Prometheus

Trofirhen, let me see if I understand your concept of VERY PRACTICAL: If people want to discuss any issue relevant to the Trump Tower, then they should discuss it in the Trump Tower thread, unless the issue has to do with how many floors the Trump Tower has or how many more floors remain to be constructed. If people have any questions or thoughts regarding how many floors the Trump Tower has or how many more floors remain to be constructed, then they should have to exit the very thread specifically dedicated to discussing all issues regarding the construction of the Trump Tower and go to a completely different thread.

That's what you consider a "VERY PRACTICAL" idea?

LOL!

Sorry, I expressed myself wrong. I was thinking that a thread for viewcones/no viecones, or building height debates IN GENERAL might have be worth a seperate thread, but obviously anything but anything relating directly to the TrumpTower should go on the Trump Tower thread.

GMasterAres · #**3306** Posted **Jan 14, 2015, 5:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by dleung

Are the glass guards really high on those balconies or are the ceilings very low??

May be part angle but they do look quite high. Higher than normal at least. Maybe it is due to the height of the building so higher floors they wanted the guards a bit higher and you need to make things uniform on all floors.

The floor height looks to be standard so my guess is either it is angle of the picture or the guards are slightly higher than what you normally see.

Just a guess though on my part someone with more intimate knowledge of the building I'm sure can answer with surety.

Vanelevatorman · #**3307** Posted **Jan 14, 2015, 6:49 PM**

The balcony glass "railings" do look a bit high in that shot, but perhaps its just the angle of the shot?

officedweller · #**3308** Posted **Jan 14, 2015, 10:03 PM**

The balcony glass does look high, but maybe it's a hotel liability issue - with patrons coming up from that pool bar?
(rumour has it Vegas hotels usually don't have balconies because of casino suicides and drunks).

I hope they are the same height all the way up, though.

Dimswitch · #**3309** Posted **Jan 14, 2015, 11:15 PM**

My pic from yesterday Robson & Bute. From this angle imagine another 7 or 8 floors, think would be taller than Shangri-La, can it be???

Dimswitch · #**3310** Posted **Jan 14, 2015, 11:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by Vin

Being a nerd n all, I physically counted the floors of the building yesterday and it totalled 57 so far. Hope that relieves a little of the itch for some of you.

I too am a nerd and I counted 58 altho at one point I momentarily lost my balance and almost got hit by a bus!

trofirhen · #**3311** Posted **Jan 15, 2015, 12:39 AM**

How much more "shelf-life" do the small surrounding buildings, like the small white one centre-right, or the (in my opinion ugly) concrete HSBC have? Decades, I presume.
I wish we could see something like that I.M. PEI never-built beauty built somewhere there. In due time, of course.
Such buildings would complement, not compete with the Trump or Shangrila, being somewat shorter, and lend even more of that "purely, solidly downtown" feeling to W. Georgia.