Note that the 601 Beach Cres. site comes right to Beach along its southern border,
so the tower may be oriented more to the south than Vancouver House.
There are a couple of sleek looking towers on the JYOM website - (Civil Aviation Center and Marriott Wuxi).
Looking at Pinnacle's One Yonge project in Toronto for guidance (as opposed to Pinnacle's Vancouver projects),
I could see them proposing a sleek tapered tower with a conventional floorpate (square with curved corners)
on the southern end of the site.
It'll be interesting to see if they propose a tower as wide on it's southern face as Vancouver House - to form a symmetrical gateway.
If they do that, that may mean a triangular floorplate - but the angled side of a triangular floorplate would face northwest, rather than directly to English Bay.
A square or rectangular floorplate (of the same width as Vancouver House) would require a lot more FSR to get to the same height as Vancouver House.
A square floorplate building closer to Beach Ave. than Vancouver House could catch views of English Bay to the south of Vancouver House.
Context Plan from Vancouver House rezoning application.
Seems like there's a bias for a trapezoidal / triangular floorplate.
http://rezoning.vancouver.ca/applica...howe/index.htm