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Originally Posted by Welkin
Regardless of their design styles (I find that both Canada and Australia have enough interesting buildings) I am disappointed that both countries lack a super tall. Most of Sydney's buildings range in the 200-230M range and Melbourne only has one building pushing the 250M range. Every developer in Toronto seems afraid to go past First Canadian's 298M and that was in 1975. I was so disappointed that Scotia Plaza did not push the 300-350M range. Everyone seems happy with just a new 235M building. Imagine downtown Toronto with something like the 500M Shanghai World Financial Center. It may have 101 floors, but downtown Toronto does have a 5% vacancy rate and has over 150 floors of proposed office space. Why put it in three mediocre buildings when the market would support at least one super tall.
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Market values play into this quite a bit. Toronto's core was in a Coma really until the early 00's a few builds here and there but nothing substantial. Now was we see development ramping up there is still only one area where a corporate super tall could be built and that is the traditional Bay Street corridor.
I am happy with Scotia's height as many as stated I will take design over size any day. BAC is tall but since all the costs we're pumped into making the thing LEED the design took a big flop for cost reasons, if it will a shorter tower it would of been constructed with way better design.