Park Hyatt (1128 W Georgia) | 197m | 62 fl | Completed

[phesto]

Soft opening of the hotel just around the corner (next weekend I believe).

Here's a few shots from yesterday:



The glass actually looks a lot better now that it has been cleaned:









Taken on the way back down from Cypress:


(why it pays to have a room near the top):

[Yume-sama]

Damn, I would love to be above the 50th floor on that one. No fair

[osirisboy]

that would be really neat. if you lived up top it would be totally sunny but for everyone else in the lower mainland they would be stuck in a cloud.

nice pics, thanks.

[Metro-One]

I really thought the lobby of the Shangri-La would have been more grand, a good example of a grand entrance is SFU surrey. When going to a 5 star hotel i would expect such a feeling.

[SpongeG]

Originally Posted by Metro-One

I really thought the lobby of the Shangri-La would have been more grand, a good example of a grand entrance is SFU surrey. When going to a 5 star hotel i would expect such a feeling.

i think the new school of thinking is playing the lobby down so the guests are wowed when they get to the room so they put the effort for the wow factor there

[wrenegade]

A couple more with a bit of fog:

[raggedy13]

Originally Posted by awvan

It looks like they've finally started to wash the windows, but for some reason they did the lower ones and then stopped. It seems they've decided to just do the hotel ones for now.

[Vancity]

noticed a crane at the top of the Shang-ri La. Are they going to take that thing down?

[Canadian Mind]

that's the window washing crane.

[Vancity]

too bad they aren't going to put up a shang-ri la logo at the top of the building. that would've been neat

[LeftCoaster]

Who says they arent...

[IdahoMountainBoy]

I'm dumbfounded. What else could've been done to create a wow factor in the lobby? They have relatively limited space so commodiousness isn't possible.

[Metro-One]

It is very easy, you design the lobby in the first place to have space and high ceilings, not very hard. Thats to bad, that is what i love about older buildings is their grand entrances!

[jlousa]

Have you seen the completed lobby? Cuz even I haven't
The height of the lobby definetaly isn't lacking.

[windscar]

Thats good, if anyone has a pic of the completed lobby and/or a render I would love to see it.

[sono65]

In regards to the "S" logo at the top, Leftcoaster you said earlier...

Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

Who says they arent...

Do you know something we don't? I thought in the original renderings there was a red S logo at the top, but they had to remove it because of the higher building policy? Does this mean they will be putting something up there after all?

"The applicant has been refining a proposal for a hotel
logo at the rooftop, which is described to be ‘more art than commerce."

^
Is this still being refined?

[SpongeG]

yeah but if you went to the old hotels the public areas were always grand and the rooms were pretty crappy in comparison its sort of switched these days to being the guest rooms are better - people travel differently and have different needs that didn't exist with the grand old hotels

[hollywoodnorth]

c/o http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3463/...082ac987_o.jpg

[teriyaki]

^ Thats a beautiful shot. One more reason why I love fog. Its by far my favourite "bad" weather.

[MapleLeaf]

Originally Posted by hollywoodnorth

c/o http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3463/...082ac987_o.jpg

Breathtaking! Mind-blowing! Beautiful!