Your City's Tallest U/C
 

Since the U/C threads seem to be dieing off lately I think a nice new thread with some rivalry included in it might shoot some more activity into the Canada section again. I'm going to begin compiling a list but it'll go a lot faster if you can just tell me what it is;

01. 282m - 60fl - The Trump - Toronto (ON)
02. 238m - 58fl - The Bow - Calgary (AB)
03. 178m - 56fl - Absolute World - Mississauga (ON)
04. 157m - 48fl - The Georgia - Vancouver (BC)
05. 149m - 29fl - Epcor - Edmonton (AB)
06. 115m - 32fl - Altitude - Montreal (QC)
07. 109m - 25fl - Metrotower III - Burnaby (BC)
08. 100m - 12fl - CMHR - Winnipeg (MN)
08. 100m - 30fl - Potash Towers - Kings County (NB)
10. 84m - 20fl - Mosaic Potash Tower - Regina (SK)
10. 84m - 27fl - Tribeca - Ottawa (ON)
12. 75m - 25fl - Blu Rivage - Longueuil (QC)
13. 72m - 17fl - Jules-Dallaire - Quebec City (QC)
14. 65m - 19fl - Trillium - Halifax (NS)
15. 57m - 18fl - X-Flats - Kitchener-Waterloo (ON)
16. 41m - 14fl - The 834 - Victoria (BC)
17. 40m - 14fl - King's Wharf Residences - Dartmouth (NS)
18. 39m - 10fl - Holman's Grand Hotel - Charlottetown (PE)
19. 27m - 9fl - Harbour Court Condominiums - St. John's (NL)
20. m - 27fl - Pakr Place - Brampton (ON)
21. m - 25fl - Citypoint - Surrey (BC)
22. m - 24fl - Medallion - London (ON)
23. m - 21fl - Strata - Burlington (ON)
24. m - 18fl - Carlyle at Victoria Hill - New Westminster (BC)
25. m - 18fl - Centre Park Towers - Vaughan (ON)
26. m - 16fl - Wall Centre - Richmond (BC)
27. m - 15fl - Parc des Seigneurs - Laval (QC)
27. m - 15fl - Stone Church - Hamilton (ON)
29. m - 13fl - Barrett Place - Kingston (ON)
29. m - 13fl - Eden Park Towers - Markham (ON)
31. m - 12fl - Amica at Windsor - Windsor (ON)
32. m - 11fl - Holiday Inn - Saskatoon (SK)
33. m - 10fl - The Shores - Oakville (ON)
33. m - 10fl - Solaris - Pitt Meadows (BC)
35. m - 09fl - Manoir Champlain - Saguenay (PQ)
35. m - 09fl - Harbourfront Residences - Saint John (NB)
37. m - 08fl - 72 Laval - Gatineau (PQ)*
38. m - 07fl - Le Dynastie - Sherbrooke (QC)
38. m - 07fl - Victoria Street Apartments - Fredericton (NB)
40. m - 06fl - Membertou Hotel - Cape Breton (NS)
41. m - 05fl - Courthouse - Moncton (NB)
41. m - 05fl - Manoir Les Générations - Rimouski (QC)
43. m - 03fl - The Lofts at 359 Water St - Summerside (PE)
43. m - 03fl - Champlain Apartments - Dieppe (NB)

*Recently completed. Project and City will be removed if new Tallest U/C is not found within 7 days.

Cities Eligable for Inclusion in List:

Maritimes & Newfoundland:

- Dieppe (NB)
- Bathurst or Gloucester County(NB)
- Miramichi (NB)
- Edmundston (NB)
- Corner Brook (NL)
- Mount Pearl (NL)
- Kings County (NS)
- Colchester County (NS)

Quebec & Ontario:

- Niagra (ON)
- St. Catherine's (ON)
- Oshawa (ON)
- Barrie (ON)
- Trois Rivieres (PQ)
- Guelph (ON)
- Sudbury (ON)
- Chicoutimi (PQ)
- Brantford (ON)
- Kanata (ON)
- Sarnia (ON)
- Saint Jean (PQ)
- Peterborough (ON)


Manitboa & Saskatchewan:

- Moose Jaw (SK)
- Brandon (MN)

Alberta & British Columbia:

- Nanaimo (BC)
- Chilliwack (BC)
- Medicine Hat (AB)
- Red Deer (AB)
- Lethbridge (AB)
- White Rock (BC)
- Kamloops (BC)

Northern Territories:

- Iqaluit (NU)
- Yellowknife (NW)
- Whitehorse (YT)

And just to start it off;

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2667/...849ca451_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2642/...5edb0a2e_b.jpg

Calgary - The Bow, 58 storeys, 238m

Shanghai - Shanghai Tower, 128 storeys, 632m :D

No shortage of construction here (mostly infill) but sadly our tallest here is the Louis-Boheme, 28 floors and its topped off. Once this building will be finished I believe our tallest will be some barn in the west-island or some triplex on Rene-Levesque....


photo by francely
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2...C/IMG_4066.jpg

Now that's a tallest U/C!

winnipeg: CMHR 100m (328')

wont win tallest but it will certainly win goofiest:

http://architecture.myninjaplease.co...7/05/cmhr3.jpg


http://www.danharperphotography.com/...s/D3X_6781.jpg

http://www.danharperphotography.com/...s/D3X_6557.jpg

Montrea: Some ugly 100m slab

Move on...

I don't ever want to see something that ridiculously tall in Calgary, we don't need anything like that and it would just ruin our skyline.

It sure would, but a well located 300m would be nice.:)

Maybe even a 350m!

I like how Canadian skylines just have a lot of smaller towers, not a few really tall ones. Makes for a more visually pleasing skyline IMO.

Edmonton has Epcor Tower under construction. Will be about 450 feet/137m, or Edmonton second tallest.

After the Louis-Boheme, the tallest U/C in Greater Montreal will be the Blu Rivage in Longueuil at 25 stories.

yeah but i don't consider longueuil part of montreal...i reckon le vistal (25 fl) will still be u/c or maybe by then that 31 floor hotel on cathcart will be u/c.


bedford, the Louis-Boheme is 87m by the way.

Any pics of Epcor? I haven't seen how it's doing in a long time.

from Edmonton Construction Thread

In Vancouver it is currently The Georgia at 157m (48 floors)

Thanks for all the numbers so far. :)

In terms of large(r) cities I'm still missing Victoria, Saskatoon, Regina, Windsor, Toronto and Quebec.

Quebec City tallest U/C is Complexe Jules-Dallaire... The official height is unknown I think. I would guess something around 75m.

http://www.quebecurbain.qc.ca/wordpr...er-225x300.jpg

quebecurbain.qc.ca

Toronto - Trump International Hotel & Residences - 282 m

pic by Caltrane

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2641/...beb77cfa_b.jpg

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What about Hamilton, London and K-W?

Further along than I thought, thanks :tup:

Yep those too.

Mississauga's tallest U/C- Absolute World 167 m

pic by Jasonzed at SSC
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/m...0091024081.jpg

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/m...a5fc72b58e.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smaku/309517493/

Ottawa's tallest currently under construction is EDC (Export Development Canada). At 78m it's another stumpy box for our CBD, but a nice box and a LEED Gold box at that!

Current (just reached ground level):

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2496/...b034e13d_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2427/...1a4f9b03_b.jpg

Rendering:

http://www.broccolini.com/UploadedIm...dc3%20copy.jpg

Looks pretty nice!

Yes, you're right, it would. But in Shanghai it's perfectly suited to the skyline, given its location near a 421m, 492m, and a whole bunch of 200-300m towers.

A nice 300-350m tower would look REALLY good in Calgary, in the right location.

maybe winnipeg's wouldnt win goofiesst either, now that i see mississauga's...i didnt know they were actually building that....cant wait to see how it turns out.

ottawa's box is nice.

99% sure the Hilton in Hamilton is not under construction. I don't know what is the tallest either

London - a toss up between 4 12 storey apartment blocks (60,70 capulet, 180 mill, 1503 Hyde)
Windsor - 12 storeys "Amica at Windsor"
Brampon - 27 storeys "Park Place"
Richmond Hill - 14 storeys "The Richmond"
Markham - 13 storeys "Eden Park Towers"
Vaughan - 18 storey "Centre Park Towers"

Thanks for the numbers. The Ontario section is very diffucult to get numbers off of.

We have a 31 storey building approved...

And here is a rendering and a pic I took Saturday of its progress:

http://www.overseaspropertymall.com/...ntitledmh1.jpg
from http://www.overseaspropertymall.com/...und-the-world/

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2433/...0bfbfd80_b.jpg

yeah now I know that its approved! Construction in a few weeks i reckon!


jesus, all excited over some 31 floor hotel which we won't see anyways because it's gonna be permanently hidden under Place Ville-Marie's shadow.

Wow O-Town!, I had never seen these renderings. It's nicer than I had expected. The feds are still creating the boxes for downtown Ottawa but at least, with this one, they're trying something different... or should I say, they're trying something for once. I bet that top corner terrace will be a sweet spot for an espresso bar in the summer. mmm... food for thought.

I guess we can have a bit of hope for the other 4-5 buildings they will soon need.

It's hard to get anything over 30 floors to be built in Montreal.

These 5 towers are approved too: I don't know which one is going to be our tallest U/C between those or Altitude Montréal... Probably Altitude. (~115m)

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/j...intenord-1.jpg
mtlurb.com

^yeah i think altitude is taller, something like 100m...


http://www.broccolini.com/UploadedIm...dc3%20copy.jpg

now that's one fine lookin' er...box. Were it like 50 storeys it'd be the nicest office tower in the country.

I thought it was confirmed to go to 149m, making it slightly taller than our current tallest?

Here is a photo of the new courthouse U/C in Moncton. At five storeys, it is currently the tallest building under construction in the city.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y65...Courthouse.jpg
photo by JimiThing

There are other five storey buildings under construction in Moncton as well (it seems like a popular number), including the new Casino NB hotel. The casino is the most expensive project under way in the city at present, with a value of about $100M.

Here's a live webcam feed of EDC under construction:

http://www.broccolini.com/150%20slater.html

The diagram for Edmonton has EPCOR listed as 149.4m, making it taller than Manulife place at 146m.

Cool list, thanks!

If i may make one comment : if you're going to consider Mississauga as a separate city (and not part of greater Toronto) then Longueuil and its 25-storey Blu Rivage project should be distinct from Montreal.

Could you add Blu Rivage to the list?

Thanks :)

:banana:

What i like about this style of listing is it allows all areas of the country to participate.

Finally a list that Ottawa can be on... We couldn't make 'ten tallest u/c,' 'tallest u/c #11-30', 'Top 15 proposals' or 'The Great Canadian Skyline thread for cities 500,000 and under' :D

LOL, you have company, Montreal neither. ;)

Whistler was really angry when he made the top ten lists in the main thread..

(.ie top ten tallest, top ten proposals, top ten whatever)


He felt he was being harrassed by certain members here and that was his chance to stick it.. but I kinda like them(those threads) in the fact they let people outside the country see how we stack up against their tallest building proposals in a pretty concise way.

How tall would you say the Blu Rivage will be? 75-80m range?

I'll add it for you. :)

Lol. I remember last year there was another thread that I tried really hard to get Ottawa on but it just didn't work ... :haha:

That's actually why I created this thread. I like the current threads and all but they are Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto dominated and well how often do you see photos of Saskatoon or Moncton in the Canada section?

Made an excel spreadsheet out of it.
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/364...stbyheight.png

North Bay's current tallest U/C is a 5 story apartment building. :P

Nice :)

BTW the Halifax one is 19 floors.