Shangri-La - Vancouver's Tallest | 197m | 62 fl | Completed

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it sure looks quite tall from the kits beach area, especially at night with the crane lit up

[j4893k]

Looks like the crane's height was increased within the last couple of days. Will that be the final raise?

[LeftCoaster]

There should probably be one more, but im not certain about that.

[hi123]

great tower! It will look fantastic next to the ritz.

[204]

Looking tall!


Lisa Brideau via Pricetags

[towerguy3]

On the Thurlow side there's a placard with a huge photo of a sunset view taken from the 52nd floor.

It looks higher than I thought. In fact it looks like it was taken from higher up in a helicopter cause it's quite a bit higher than the roof of Wall Center, but I guess looks are deceiving

the view is spectacular; check it out from in front of the Ritz Carlton sales Center

[excel]

dope pic.

[towerguy3]

I wish we could get a daytime pic from the crane's operator cab

[Hed Kandi]

Originally Posted by towerguy3

I wish we could get a daytime pic from the crane's operator cab

I'll climb up there tomoroow and take one for ya.

[Delirium]

shangri-la from my place yesterday

[nikw]

Here are some quick shots i took on the 22nd...not the greatest quality but some good perspective of the construction.









its not too hard to see the shanri-la on this one.....growing tall now

[vanman]

^picture no work

[SpongeG]

Originally Posted by Delirium

shangri-la from my place yesterday

damn your view cones are destroyed

[officedweller]

Noticed a good angle for a pic today - From the west sidewalk of the Burrard Bridge looking north directly up Thurlow Street - you can see much of the height of the tower.

[agrant]

Yea. I notice that too. There's not really anything blocking it from that angle.

[Delirium]

came across this article on building.ca. interesting

Illuminating Architecture

By: Albert Warson

"Paris is called the City of Light for the flair with which most of its historic monuments and many of its architectural gems are illuminated externally after dark.

Then there is Vancouver, which isn't Paris, but in its own unassuming yet adventurous style may well be leading the world in "green" architectural illumination. The 60-storey Shangri-La hotel/condo tower, for example - the city's tallest building upon its completion in 2008 (until a taller one surfaces in the meantime) - will literally "glow in the dark" with a new photo-luminescent paint product, developed by Luna Technologies International, New York (corporate) and Coquitlam, B.C. (research, development and production).

Luna calls itself a "world leader in the emerging field of high-performance photo-luminescent materials," which typically illuminate building and aircraft "exit" and other escape signage. The new lighting application for buildings is charged by ambient light, especially ultra-violet rays, and can glow for hours, releasing stored light without any electricity. Luna reasoned that the system could find vastly larger applications than signage. Lighting up building exteriors, for example, and Vancouver is the first city to use it in that format.

James KM Cheng Architects in Vancouver, the firm that designed the Shangri-La hotel, the first to be built in North America, chose the Luna system, which is being applied on the exterior as the tower rises. Cheng explains that the "lighting absorbs and reflects ultra-violet light during the day into a spectrum of changing colours, and glows softly at night." No electricity or light bulbs are used, and there is no maintenance, except to clean the button-like fixtures occasionally."

full article (good read); http://www.building.ca/issues/ISarti...e=04012007&PC=

[nikw]

That will really stand out at night, hopefully more like what the rendering of shangri-la is like in the woodwards rendering.

btw. my damn photos wont upload to the forum

[vanman]

Did you try uploading them to a photo sharing site like photobucket first?

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by Delirium

.... which is being applied on the exterior as the tower rises.

I haven't noticed the squares glowing at night. Has anyone else?

*****

Also try uploading the pics to imageshack, sometimes Flickr doesn't work:

http://www.imageshack.us/

[Canadian Mind]

Are we sure that it is these panels that will actually glow in the dark, and not something else? I always wondered why the spandrels along the corners of the building were a different colour every third floor... maybe we should be looking at those for illumination (painted glass?)