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

[Canadian Mind]

I really wished they applied to the city to increase the height of the architectural top... I's going to be so out of proportion when it's all said and done.

[bils]

sorry i know this is some terrible photoshopping - but here's another 15 storeys on top of the current height ... to give us an idea of the final product

[Mike K.]

Holy...

[mr.x]

damn.....i didn't think it would look that tall....

[bils]

yea pretty crazy, i thought maybe i did my math wrong.... but that's stitched assuming we're at floor ~44 now.... so i just tacked on another 15 storeys. gonna be some sick views up there.

[Canadian Mind]

wholly fuck that is a beauty. looks about right though, shangri-la is twice as tall as teresen in the picture, and it is on paper too.

[towerguy3]

There's an easier way around all this floor confusion. Are they at the point now where the corner sticks out (the box corner)? Is so, then look at the model and count up to the top the number of floors left to build before they hit the Pentouse. That gives an idea of how much further they have.

One thing that would be helpful that no one can supply is the actual height in feet above sidewalk of the floor they're on. It must be reaching the 491 feet magic # of Wall Center and it is no doubt taller than Royal Center. Are there no plans showing the elevation of each floor?

How are we supposed to know at what point to pop the champagne? I suppose we could use shadow analysis or someone up there could use a GPS or a watch altimeter. With BurjDubai they were very careful about measuring right to the point when they beat the CN Tower. Not as much fanfare here I guess. Kinda like comparing the BC Lions to the Seattle Seahawks

[Canadian Mind]

there was an architectural rendering somoene stole a photo of awhile back... but it is buried deeply in the old construction thread.

Kinda drives home the point of havign a thread liek this eh?

[graupner]

Very nice and slim tower. Very tall also, nice once that makes any city jalous!!

[excel]

That photo makes it look huge. I'm sure from some angles it will appear much more dominant than others.

[giallo]

Originally Posted by bils

sorry i know this is some terrible photoshopping - but here's another 15 storeys on top of the current height ... to give us an idea of the final product

I'm speechless over here. It looks like a 750ft-800ft tower.

[Hot Rod]

sweet!!!

[Canadian Mind]

think you could to the same thing with the http://www.numinous.ca/Webcam%20Page.htm webcam?

[bils]

here it is:



i wanted to throw the RC into this shot too but i figure it'll be behind Shangri-La?

[Canadian Mind]

No, it would be beside it. See the short, blue and white apartment building to the west of Shangri-la, RC will be behind and a little bit further west of that.

Nice to see that the building is a good three or four stories higher than wall centre from this view.

[officedweller]

But still a far cry from the marketing materials' English Bay view.

[mr.x]

nice work!

[excel]

Thanks for making the renderings.

[vanman]

Awesome renderings! Shangri-la is the best example of why Vancouver's policy of thin point towers is so great. Buildings look much taller than they actually are. Thankfully the suburbs have also followed this strategy and for the most part Greater Vancouver isn't blighted with wide slabs like other Canadian cities.

BTW I climbed the Grouse Grind today and took the tram down.The view from the tram was cool and through breaks in the clouds I could cleary see Shangri-la towering over the skyline. After driving over the Lionsgate Bridge it definitely looks like it is the tallest tower in the city now accept for maybe HC. I wonder how tall it is in feet.

[Hed Kandi]

The Ritz Carlton's thin design also leads to deceiving heights