Shangri-La - Vancouver's Tallest | 197m | 62 fl | Completed - Page 4

ckkelley · #61 Posted **Oct 1, 2007, 10:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by jlousa

They did add a floor, they added a floor below the sub penthouse, but w/o increasing height. If you look thru the DPB you will find the documentation. The tower was originally 60 floors and was ammended to 61. This was done around 1 year ago. There is gossip here about another floor, that is just gossip though.

Furthermore, the top floor of a "62" storey tower would not have 6 suites.

2 max.

officedweller · #62 Posted **Oct 1, 2007, 10:19 PM**

Actually, the floor that was added last year was added in the upper middle of the tower (for the purposes of floorplate suite layouts), not at the subpenthouse level.

I think there was a rescinded contract regarding one of the penthouse suites.

BTW - I think you can now see the "box" being formed on the tower.

jlousa · #63 Posted **Oct 1, 2007, 10:25 PM**

The penthouse for sale is not a rescinded contract, it's an assignment, which I'm sure is what you meant, there are acutally numerous assingments on the market, they have been selling quite well.

Cypherus · #64 Posted **Oct 1, 2007, 10:34 PM**

They did add a floor, they added a floor below the sub penthouse, but w/o increasing height. If you look thru the DPB you will find the documentation. The tower was originally 60 floors and was ammended to 61. This was done around 1 year ago. There is gossip here about another floor, that is just gossip though.

The original comment was to address towerguy that they did not add another floor recently, as he claims construction workers are telling him.

officedweller · #65 Posted **Oct 1, 2007, 11:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by jlousa

The penthouse for sale is not a rescinded contract, it's an assignment, which I'm sure is what you meant, there are acutally numerous assingments on the market, they have been selling quite well.

OK. I just heard someone wanted out due to the Ritz-Carleton blocking the view. Don't know how it was resolved.

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They did add a floor, they added a floor below the sub penthouse, but w/o increasing height. If you look thru the DPB you will find the documentation.

Heres the excerpt from the Staff Report. The extra floor added last year was added above the 42nd floor, not at the subpenthouse level.

The proposal involves the construction of one additional floor in the tower, inserted above
the 42nd level, providing seven General Office/Live-Work units; and, at the roof garden level,
changing the use of previously approved mechanical spaces to residential use.

http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/cclerk/...cuments/a2.pdf

hollywoodnorth · #66 Posted **Oct 2, 2007, 12:24 AM**

The Restaurant for the tower has been announced for a while. The sign on Georgia @ Thurlow say it will be a "KI RESTURANT".

squeezied · #67 Posted **Oct 2, 2007, 2:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by towerguy3

those 6 units that are apparently unsold must be on that additional floor that they added.

Yes, they are on the 48th Numbered floor (46th actual real floor). At the 46th floor starts the protruding box on the NE corner; you can see the shape of the protruding box when you satnd at Georgia and Thurlow and look straight up. Looks kinda cute!

I'm sure a pop champagne ceremony is being planned when the first column hits 491 feet. Nice if someone could figure out when that happens. Then again, mabey no ceremony; due to the Civic Strike the Mayor may be wanting to keep a low profile

i just walked around shangri-la today, they're on the 50th numbered floor

excel · #68 Posted **Oct 2, 2007, 7:21 AM**

How come the 6 new suits are between 4 million and 15 million if its just an addition of 6 standard suits. I thought the penthouse was sold for 13 million or something around there?

SpongeG · #69 Posted **Oct 4, 2007, 2:37 AM**

there is an add in todays Sun Newspaper

it says Today - 45 floors

Dec 2007 - 61 floors

its on the back of the westcoast news section i think...

towerguy3 · #70 Posted **Oct 4, 2007, 3:50 PM**

I'm going by the floor number signs posted on the side beside the lift. We have to use that as the official guide as that's what the workers are going by, and they HAVE to know the correct floor they're on! At this point they must be on level with Wall Center so I have no idea why they're not making a big deal out of this.

When is the new World Almanac and Book of Facts out? I want to see if Shangri-La is listed.

Any idea when GoogleEarth will have new images out of B.C.?

Is the elevator shaft the strongest part structurally of a building? Is the elevator shaft always inside the core?

towerguy3 · #71 Posted **Oct 4, 2007, 5:58 PM**

no the ad says they're at 48 floors. No matter which way you count floors, they've got 13 to go

osirisboy · #72 Posted **Oct 4, 2007, 10:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by towerguy3

I'm going by the floor number signs posted on the side beside the lift. We have to use that as the official guide as that's what the workers are going by, and they HAVE to know the correct floor they're on! At this point they must be on level with Wall Center so I have no idea why they're not making a big deal out of this.

you arent talking about the large numbers on the right side of the lift are you? because that doesnt refer to actual floors. look at where number 7 is in the picture above on this page.

Mininari · #73 Posted **Oct 4, 2007, 11:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by osirisboy

you arent talking about the large numbers on the right side of the lift are you? because that doesnt refer to actual floors. look at where number 7 is in the picture above on this page.

Actually, those numbers ARE correct.

The number 7 is in fact the number 17.
Consider this: they are not using the numbers 4 and 13, correct?
So that 17 is actually the 17th floor as would be numbered in an elevator.
It is, however, the 15th storey.

They have numbered the floors precisely how they will be numbered in the elevators when the building is complete.

This makes sense to me, and I hope it helps settle this debate over which floor they're on, once and for all.

Go ask the woman in the overalls and steel-toed boots.

towerguy3 · #74 Posted **Oct 4, 2007, 11:18 PM**

so it's settled, 59 stories and 61 floors... sounds good to me !

mr.x · #75 Posted **Oct 5, 2007, 5:21 AM**

Taken by SKYMASTER at SSC:

New pictures from today:

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Pictures from Last weekend:

osirisboy · #76 Posted **Oct 6, 2007, 12:15 AM**

heres some pics of shangri-la from different perspectives from around downtown.

(all pics taken by me, today)

entheosfog · #77 Posted **Oct 6, 2007, 1:08 AM**

Because you can never have too many pics of Shangri-La, here's a couple from me:

nikw · #78 Posted **Oct 6, 2007, 2:44 AM**

i dont know if anyone has seen this yet, its a render of vancouver with the top floors of shangri-la, created for the Woodwards Project. The only way that i have found to view it is at on the woodwards home page at http://www.woodwardsdistrict.com

dont know if its to scale, renders it as very tall compared to the rest of the downtown buildings.

Cypherus · #79 Posted **Oct 6, 2007, 6:41 AM**

Thanks for the pictures guys. This tower is an emerald within the downtown core. I can't wait until all of the cladding is finished - it looks amazing.

In reference to the Woodward's rendering, Shangri-la is known to be seen in the background, and its relative height is rather accurate given its depiction in the diagram.

raggedy13 · #80 Posted **Oct 6, 2007, 7:50 AM**

Here's the rendering...