Tallest Building UC in Your City

Chadillaccc · #1 Posted **Apr 26, 2021, 4:09 AM**

A thread for cities with buildings UC over 100 meters. Feel free to post your city's tallest UC even if it's under. It just won't be on the OP list. All heights on list are rounded to the nearest meter.

City (# of buildings UC over 100 meters within city): Name of Tallest UC - Height of building UC

Urban Cores

Toronto (103): Pinnacle One Yonge - 313 meters

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Montreal (17): Maestria - 202 meters

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Vancouver (11): The Butterfly - 179 meters

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Calgary (6): West Village One / Two - 150 meters

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Winnipeg (1): 300 Main - 142 meters

Ottawa (3): Claridge Icon - 143 meters

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London (4): Centro One - 129 meters

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KWC (2): DTK Condos - 128 meters

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Kelowna (2): Landmark VII - 120 meters

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Edmonton (1): CNIB Tower - 106 meters

By Grandinite on SRC : https://edmonton.skyrisecities.com/f....24160/page-16

Halifax (1): Richmond Yards - 103 meters

By KPH06 on SSP

Suburbs

Mississauga: M3 at M City - 260 meters

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Burnaby: Two Gilmore Place - 215 meters

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Vaughan: CG Tower - 189 meters

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New Westminster: Pier 1 West - 180 meters

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Coquitlam: 567 Clarke + Como - 162 meters

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Markham: Riverview One / Two - 130 meters

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Surrey: Park Boulevard - 128 meters

Photo courtesy of EhJay

Coldrsx · #2 Posted **Apr 26, 2021, 4:13 AM**

Ice District Tower B is not u/c, only the podium.

Chadillaccc · #3 Posted **Apr 26, 2021, 4:14 AM**

Ah. It is listed as UC in the database. I will make the revision. What is the height of CNIB Tower? It's the only other one near or over 100 m in Edmonton.

Hali87 · #4 Posted **Apr 26, 2021, 4:20 AM**

Richmond Yards (103m) is the tallest project UC in Halifax right now, as far as I know this will be the city's tallest once completed (possibly second to Fenwick Tower):

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Chadillaccc · #5 Posted **Apr 26, 2021, 4:28 AM**

If that is the case, it will be the first 100 meter in the Atlantic provinces. Thanks for letting me know.

travis3000 · #6 Posted **Apr 26, 2021, 4:28 AM**

If The ONE gets it new proposed height approved it will move into #1 in Toronto.

Hali87 · #7 Posted **Apr 26, 2021, 4:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

If that is the case, it will be the first 100 meter in the Atlantic provinces. Thanks for letting me know.

Yeah this one was a bit of a surprise, it's in a part of the North End that isn't subject to the same height/envelope restrictions as downtown.

Fenwick Tower is also being renovated and originally the renos would have pushed it a bit over 100m. The plans changed a lot over the years though and I'm not sure whether or not it ended up getting any taller in the end.

There's also plans for a 100m+ building at King's Wharf in Dartmouth, although AFAIK that particular building isn't UC yet.

It's true that the 100m mark has always seemed like a major psychological barrier here.

Edit: I nearly forgot, there's a hotel currently UC in Bayer's Lake (western suburbs) that was supposed to be well over 100m but somehow the excavation involved ended up eating up a huge part of their budget and the project got scaled back into something really disappointing and bland.

Chadillaccc · #8 Posted **Apr 26, 2021, 4:39 AM**

King's Wharf is now a stale proposal as there has been no movement on it in years, and yeah I remember the original Fenwick proposal from when I was a teenager. Crazy. The final result is awful and didn't even add the height. I love Richmond Yards though, very cool.

someone123 · #9 Posted **Apr 26, 2021, 4:54 AM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

King's Wharf is now a stale proposal as there has been no movement on it in years, and yeah I remember the original Fenwick proposal from when I was a teenager. Crazy. The final result is awful and didn't even add the height. I love Richmond Yards though, very cool.

There is also 7177 Quinpool Road under construction. 32 floors.

King's Wharf is not really stale. It is an active multi-phase development that has been adjusted a few times. Next up is a 26 storey tower and the 12 storey Brightwork. The main tower is a future phase. I would not consider it under construction.

Hali87 · #10 Posted **Apr 26, 2021, 5:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

King's Wharf is now a stale proposal as there has been no movement on it in years, and yeah I remember the original Fenwick proposal from when I was a teenager. Crazy. The final result is awful and didn't even add the height. I love Richmond Yards though, very cool.

I guess it depends what you mean by a "stale proposal". King's Wharf is a large, multi-phased project and construction has been ongoing

The largest tower could end up getting a redesign but I'm confident that it will be built.

Chadillaccc · #11 Posted **Apr 26, 2021, 5:37 AM**

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Originally Posted by someone123

There is also 7177 Quinpool Road under construction. 32 floors.

King's Wharf is not really stale. It is an active multi-phase development that has been adjusted a few times. Next up is a 26 storey tower and the 12 storey Brightwork. The main tower is a future phase. I would not consider it under construction.

I meant that the main tower is a stale proposal, I'm well aware of the scope of the entire project. There has been no movement or announcements relating to the signature tower though. I'm sure it will *eventually* be built, but as of now there is essentially no set design and no timeline.

Is 7177 Quinpool 100 meters?

someone123 · #12 Posted **Apr 26, 2021, 6:02 AM**

I don't think the height of 7177 Quinpool has been confirmed yet. 7177 Quinpool is an old grandfathered project that didn't require public consultation and it didn't have the usual renderings and elevation drawings online. I think some forumers have said that they've seen the plans in person or that they are available in a municipal office. Maybe they'll appear online sometime or maybe we will need to wait and see what materializes and if it is taller than Richmond Yards.

I don't think 32 floors could be much below 100 m just based on required ceiling heights.

Marty_Mcfly · #13 Posted **Apr 26, 2021, 12:09 PM**

Depressing thread to think about with regard to St. John's. I'm sure somewhere in the suburbs someone is building a house with a 3rd floor.

urbandreamer · #14 Posted **Apr 26, 2021, 1:41 PM**

I noticed I could see DTK Kitchener - 419 feet/40 storeys - from Hwy 7 & Wellington Rd 32 yesterday, making me wonder if you could see Guelph's Basilica of Our Lady Immaculate's spire from the top? Anyway I think it's going to become Kitchener's CN Tower - from far away you'll be able to tell where downtown is. Until Kitchener got these highrise condos it was easy to get lost.

As for you NFLDers, I remember 20 year's ago working in Waterloo I met a bunch of folks from NFLD with amusing tales about getting off the train/greyhound bus in downtown Toronto, walking up Yonge St and being intimidated by the "freaks" and tall buildings. So they moved to Galt & Kitchener - which they said was more like St John's. (Driving on the south side of Galt recently I came across a Newfoundland grocery store.)

kwoldtimer · #15 Posted **Apr 26, 2021, 1:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by urbandreamer

I noticed I could see DTK Kitchener - 419 feet/40 storeys - from Hwy 7 & Wellington Rd 32 yesterday, making me wonder if you could see Guelph's Basilica of Our Lady Immaculate's spire from the top? Anyway I think it's going to become Kitchener's CN Tower - from far away you'll be able to tell where downtown is. Until Kitchener got these highrise condos it was easy to get lost.

As for you NFLDers, I remember 20 year's ago working in Waterloo I met a bunch of folks from NFLD with amusing tales about getting off the train/greyhound bus in downtown Toronto, walking up Yonge St and being intimidated by the "freaks" and tall buildings. So they moved to Galt & Kitchener - which they said was more like St John's. (Driving on the south side of Galt recently I came across a Newfoundland grocery store.)

Iinm, you can already see Guelph from the top of some K-W towers (it's 25km away). Cambridge has had a substantial Newfoundlander population since WWII, when they started coming for work.

J.OT13 · #16 Posted **Apr 26, 2021, 2:20 PM**

Ottawa's Trinity Centre at Bayview Station ([900 Albert St] | 234/203/105m | 65/56/23f

is suppose to break ground in Q3 or Q4 2021.

Updated design and ground floor plan with some perspective tenants.

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Couple of updates from the trinity site: Firstly, looks like a possible design change based on one of the renderings.

The more I look at the new design, the more I like it - the detailing of the towers is more interesting but its a shame that recessed vertical elements of the crown are gone. Hopefully there will be some sort of lighting feature at least. I wonder if we could see an observation deck being included on the tallest tower now that there's a step back for the top few floors? it would be quite the view...

Overall the new design doesn't seem quite as ominous/monolithic as the previous, which is a plus.

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Secondly, it looks like the major retail tenants are set: Farmboy, LCBO, BMO

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jigglysquishy · #17 Posted **Apr 26, 2021, 2:25 PM**

I don't think Regina has a building over 3 stories under construction right now.

Tone · #18 Posted **Apr 26, 2021, 3:22 PM**

Oméga Condos Urbains, not sure about the exact height probably around 24 meters

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905er · #19 Posted **Apr 26, 2021, 4:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by Hali87

Richmond Yards (103m) is the tallest project UC in Halifax right now, as far as I know this will be the city's tallest once completed (possibly second to Fenwick Tower):

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I'm confused.. this picture of the building is hideous.. but the pic Chad posted is of a really stunning building... what happened?.. which version is the correct one?.. Please be the first one.

someone123 · #20 Posted **Apr 26, 2021, 4:43 PM**

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I'm confused.. this picture of the building is hideous.. but the pic Chad posted is of a really stunning building... what happened?.. which version is the correct one?.. Please be the first one.

I think they are both up to date, but show two different angles. The tower is wide along one axis and narrow along another (sort of an 8 shape? the planning materials aren't very clear about it, but include renderings side-by-side from different angles).

I'm optimistic that it will look decent because this is one of the larger and more established developers who seem to get better with each round of projects and they plan on using curtain wall on this project.

Richmond Yards is part of this scene below (white cranes, not currently at their full height). It's interesting in that it's more of an extension to the urban core rather than just some infill projects replacing already pretty good buildings downtown. This is around 2-3 km north of downtown, and most of the new construction is happening on underused former industrial sites. There are a couple of 20-ish storey towers under construction here too, so it won't just be one 30 storey tower and a bunch of 8-12 storey stuff.

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