Canadian City Skyscraper Proposals (150m+)

[WhipperSnapper]

Hope it never gets built. Terrible development

[yaletown_fella]

I wouldnt have minded the original version if it had included 2-3 floors of a retail atrium. But it's just a boring lobby taking up prime space on Bloor.

The updated design posted on UT is a huge downgrade. More window-wall and a lot less curved accents.

[ssiguy]

Originally Posted by niwell

Development is welcome but if I were to move to London there's no way I'm living in a highrise of that magnitude. The Entertainment District in Toronto at least has some selling points, though the only part I'd ever consider is West of Spadina.

I get what you are saying but you also have to put into context exactly where these buildings are located in London.

The towers are at the Fork of the Thames and right up against several parks, beside heritage buildings, opposite Budweiser Gardens, and at the far end of the Downtown. This means that no matter what side of the building you are on, there is no threat of having your views blocked by another high-rise. On one side you have a stellar skyline view and on the other you have a view of the Thames, and the entire city with the sunset over London's huge tree canopy.

This is quite unlike 99% of the high-rises in Toronto were your view maybe fantastic right now but just looking into someone else's apt 5 years from now.

[Metro-One]

Updated list for Metro-Vancouver. Two more towers added to the list, officially up to 71 towers!

Vancouver
Burnaby
Surrey
New Westminster
Coquitlam
Squamish Nation


Current Position --- Name --- Height in M --- Status


1 --- Pinnacle Tower Two --- 255.3 --- Proposed
2 --- Pinnacle Tower One --- 238.5 --- Proposed
3 --- Concord Metrotown Grand Tower --- 230.1 --- U/C
4 --- Centre Block --- 225 --- Proposed
5 --- Gilmore Place Tower 2 --- 215.4 --- U/C
6 --- Citizen --- 210.8 --- Proposed
7 --- 10227 King George --- 207 --- Proposed
8 --- Brentwood Block Tower 1 --- 202 --- Proposed
9 --- Willingdon & Halifax --- 198.7 --- Proposed
10 --- Living Shangri-La --- 196.9 --- Complete
11 --- Concord Metrotown T 7 --- 196 --- Proposed
12 --- Concord Metrotown T 8 --- 193 --- Proposed
NEW --- 13 --- Amacon Rosser Ave --- 191 --- Proposed
14 --- Paradox Hotel --- 187.8 --- Complete
15 --- Concord Metrotown T 9 --- 187 --- Proposed
16 --- 3695 North Road T1 --- 186.5 --- Proposed
17 --- Brentwood One --- 186.5 --- Completed
18 --- Brentwood Two --- 186.5 --- Completed
19 --- TriCity Central --- N3 --- 183.5 --- Proposed
20 --- TriCity Central --- N4 --- 183.4 --- Proposed
21 --- Brentwood Three --- 182 --- Completed
22 --- Whalley Station --- 182 --- Proposed
NEW --- 23 --- Brentwood 8 --- 181 --- Proposed
24 --- Pier West, West Tower --- 180 --- U/C
25 --- The Butterfly --- 178.6 --- U/C
26 --- 1059-1075 Nelson --- 178.5 --- Proposed
27 --- TriCity Central --- N1 --- 177 --- Proposed
28 --- 1045 Haro Street --- 177 --- Proposed
29 --- Brentwood Block 2 --- 177 --- Proposed
30 --- Highline --- 177 --- U/C
31 --- Solo District, Altus --- 175.6 --- Complete
32 --- 6450-6508 Telford Avenue --- 175.3 --- Proposed
33 --- 1040-1080 Barclay Street Tower One --- 174.5 --- Proposed
34 --- Gilmore Place Tower 1 --- 173.5 --- U/C
35 --- 1040-1080 Barclay Tower Two --- 173 --- Proposed
36 --- 6000 Mckay (SS5) --- 172 --- Complete
37 --- Senakw Tower 9 --- 171 --- Proposed
38 --- One Burrard Place --- 167.6 --- Complete
39 --- Brightside Phase 2 --- 167.6 --- Proposed
40 --- Station Square Tower Two --- 166.2 --- Completed
41 --- 601 Beach Crescent --- 166 --- Proposed
42 --- Concord Metrotown Central Tower --- 166 --- U/C
43 --- GEC Education Centre --- 165 --- Proposed
44 --- Gilmore Place Tower 5 --- 164.4 --- Proposed
45 --- Wilson 2 --- 164 --- Proposed
46 --- 3 Civic Plaza --- 164 --- Complete
47 --- 567 Clarke+Como --- 162 --- Comlete
48 --- 13425 107A Avenue --- 161.7 --- Proposed
49 --- 1133 Melville --- 161 --- Complete
50 --- Highpoint --- 161 --- U/C
51 --- 6465 Dow 'Building A' --- 160.2 --- Proposed
52 --- Senakw Tower 7 --- 158.6 --- Proposed
53 --- Lougheed Centre, T1 --- 158.5 --- U/C
54 --- Hotel Georgia --- 157.6 --- Complete
55 --- Concord Brentwood Phase 3 Tower 2 --- 157.5 --- Proposed
56 --- Concord Brentwood Phase 3 Tower 5 --- 157.5 --- Proposed
57 --- 1445 W. Georgia --- 157 --- Stale
58 --- 1175 Pinetree Way - Tower A --- 156.7 --- proposed
59 --- The Sovereign --- 155.8 --- Complete
60 --- Brightside Phase 3 --- 155.1 --- Proposed
61 --- Heart of Burquitlam: Myriad --- 154.6 --- U/C
62 --- 1157 Burrard --- 154.4 --- Proposed
63 --- Oakridge Tower 5 --- 154 --- Proposed
64 --- Senakw Tower 10 --- 153.8 --- Proposed
65 --- 3695 North Road T2 --- 153.6 --- Proposed
66 --- T3 - Etoile Gold --- 153.1 --- Proposed
67 --- Triomphe Residences --- 152.4 --- Complete
68 --- 1450 West Georgia --- 151.6 --- Proposed
69 --- Vancouver House --- 151.5 --- Complete
70 --- Gilmore Place Tower 6 --- 150.3 --- Proposed
71 --- Smith & Farrow North Tower --- 150.2 --- U/C


Fun Stats:

All official top 71 towers in Metro-Van are after 2000. So we have indeed grown quite a bit in recent years.
Burnaby 35, Vancouver 16, Coquitlam 8, Surrey 8, Squamish Nation 3, New Westminster 1

[Nouvellecosse]

Paradox Hotel

[WhipperSnapper]

Vaughan has 89 unofficial towers since 2020. LOL

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

Paradox Hotel

Trump is a paradox

[Maldive]

1891 Eglinton Avenue East | 167.08m | 52s | Mattamy Homes | Arch. Unfolded l pre-construction

52, 48, 46, 42 and 41 storey towers and a 12 storey mid-rise. 2700 residential units, office, retail, community centre and park/public space. One of many proposals along Scarborough’s Golden Mile and the Eglinton Crosstown LRT.

Tallest tower is 167 metres (52s)… ironically(?) no renderings released of the towers lol.


UT

UT

UT

[Maldive]

522 University | 232.92m | 62s | Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services Inc | WZMH l pre-construction

Presented at the Design Review Panel with some positive changes. 2/3 of the Parkin-designed legacy building is retained (1/3 rebuilt under a re-designed residential tower), big improvements to the streetscape, and a much nicer (square-ish) building envelope for the tower which now occupies just the south portion of the site.

Most of the panel gave it a thumbs up.


Northern Light

Northern Light

Original plan was to demolish the handsome 15 storey building and replace it with a forgettable new office building and a very wide residential tower.


UT

[Maldive]

Grand Hotel Redevelopment | ?m | 68s+ | Amexon | Core Architects l pre-construction

Cart before the horse?

This is odd… a 68 storey (+ mechanical levels) scale model has appeared in a (soon to open) new sales centre for the project. Submitted at 49 storeys (154 metres), there appears to be no resubmission to the city for this added height, likely topping out above 200 metres. A note to would-be purchasers of the penthouse… don’t write the cheque yet ;-).

The model:


Softee

Softee

49 storey (submitted) version:


UT

[TorontoDrew]

522 University is much better now. The Grand Building is such a mess. I thought we were shifting away from these random patterns. This will join a cluster of buildings that look like that now. I hope the height increase doesn't happen.

[WhipperSnapper]

Only because the first one was that bad. Keeping two thirds of the office building attached to the new tower looks silly. It's disrespectful viewing it as preserving the architectural essence of the international style building. You're altering the dimensions. It's worst than slapping the entirety of the facade on a new build. The first one was right with complete demolition if the desire is another 60 storey residential tower on University.

[WhipperSnapper]

The return of the sales office. Sign of fleeing international investors than a decline in local demand. Hopefully, that leads to better spaces.

Preselling unapproved units isn't new. Selling units without a submitted application is not something I remember seeing before. Maybe they submitted or received approval elsewhere? The 68 storey version has been around for a year.

[Maldive]

372 Yonge | 278m | 85s | Yonge & Gerrard Partners | DIALOG l pre-construction

As expected, this has been value-engineered big-time :-(. What wasn’t expected is an 11 storey height increase along with 50% more residential units.


Northern Light

Northern Light

The original 74 storey fantasy version:


UT

[WhipperSnapper]

I can't tell. Are you saying the 11 storey height increase with 50% more residential units is a good thing?

[WhipperSnapper]

91 completed skyscrapers in Toronto. Should hit 100 by spring.

[niwell]

I suspect that's a zoning exercise but 600+ units with four elevators seems... troubling.

[giallo]

Originally Posted by niwell

I suspect that's a zoning exercise but 600+ units with four elevators seems... troubling.

That's one elevator for every 150 units (150-250 people). That's.....nuts.

[TorontoDrew]

To be fair the original design at least at the base looked like little thought went into it. Almost like the artist just used a lattice to stretch out the the building at the base. 50% more units with an 11 floor increase seems insane. Is it 11 floors of 250sq/ft studios?


source: urbantoronto.ca



This looks more realistic and still pretty cool and unique.


Looking at these figures the original design had zero studio apartments, the new design they take up 29% of the tower now. It's gone from 406 units to 628 units. The amount of retail has also been drastically scaled back, it's probably now just the space in the old bank building.


I wonder if they will use double decker elevators in this tower if they only have 4 shafts.

[WhipperSnapper]

628 units in 41,000 square metres with 4 elevators and 44 times lot coverage. Extremely worrisome. No one immigrating to Canada with the smarts and strive for a better life is going to put with this shit for too long. International students benefit few Canadians. They cost the rest of us with housing shortages, full hospitals and, entry level jobs.