Shangri-La - Vancouver's Tallest | 197m | 62 fl | Completed - Page 36

towerguy3 · #**701** Posted **Jan 16, 2008, 8:48 PM**

Shangri-La is under investigation:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-col...stigation.html

Coldrsx · #**702** Posted **Jan 16, 2008, 9:30 PM**

^happens far more often than people think...

towerguy3 · #**703** Posted **Jan 16, 2008, 11:59 PM**

The fire was apparently started by a welder. I suspevted that cause I had seen them arc welding.

The sparks fell down on top of the bin. Not sure why the bin was there or why it wasn't covered.

Furthermore, I have learned why the News crew was there. Not necessarily because of the fire... a far more serious incident apparently happened.

This morning a steel rod fell down and took out a chunk of the sidewalk. As they were covering that story, the fire started. So the news people were actually covering two stories at once. Perfect timing.

This week is truly crazy. Now we've got steel rods falling. Someone is going to get hurt.

I realize every construction story has its ups and downs but this is getting a bit ridiculous

SFUVancouver · #**704** Posted **Jan 17, 2008, 12:18 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by towerguy3

Shangri-La is under investigation:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-col...stigation.html

The picture in the cbc article is actually The Ritz, over on Pender at Bute.

SFUVancouver · #**705** Posted **Jan 17, 2008, 12:20 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by vanman

What time were you out around today?

Between 11 and 2.

towerguy3 · #**706** Posted **Jan 17, 2008, 12:27 AM**

so that was what the cop was saying Monday night about 10 buildings in the area being looked at for falling glass. Did the windows fly out of that one shown in the picture?

jlousa · #**707** Posted **Jan 17, 2008, 1:39 AM**

Towerguy no offense but do you work at the Tim hortons/wendys across the street?

nikw · #**708** Posted **Jan 17, 2008, 4:16 AM**

I noticed that in that cbc article, it referred to Shangri-la as being 62 stories tall. Does this mean anything official?

towerguy3 · #**709** Posted **Jan 17, 2008, 4:31 AM**

No I don't work at Tim Hortons / Wendys and Yes it is 62 stories tall

jlousa · #**710** Posted **Jan 17, 2008, 4:38 AM**

No it's not 62 stories tall.

SpongeG · #**711** Posted **Jan 17, 2008, 5:04 AM**

check it out in this pic

The Martin Mars completes a demonstration drop of its load of water near Canada Place in Vancouver's harbour Wednesday.
Photograph by : Mark van Manen/Vancouver Sun

towerguy3 · #**712** Posted **Jan 17, 2008, 5:15 AM**

Here's the fire:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TVKisZ5LVA

towerguy3 · #**713** Posted **Jan 17, 2008, 5:20 AM**

Imagine your car on fire like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1tKK...eature=related

hollywoodnorth · #**714** Posted **Jan 17, 2008, 5:34 AM**

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Originally Posted by jlousa

Towerguy no offense but do you work at the Tim hortons/wendys across the street?

tee hee hee

coffee sometime?

Hot Rod · #**715** Posted **Jan 17, 2008, 5:45 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by jlousa

No it's not 62 stories tall.

Actually, it IS 62 storeys tall (60 levels).

remember, developer sets the floors.

squeezied · #**716** Posted **Jan 17, 2008, 8:25 AM**

^i dont think that was the issue. i've counted 61 stories(59 levels) PLUS a form at the top but no concrete has been poured. my guess is that it's for the installation for the glass panels

jlousa · #**717** Posted **Jan 17, 2008, 4:21 PM**

Exactly the developer sets the floors. The highest occuppied floor is numbered 61. I'm not even sure why I still bother trying to convince people. I'll get even more proof for you and thats it. I'm done with this thread.

Canadian Mind · #**718** Posted **Jan 18, 2008, 3:11 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hot Rod

Actually, it IS 62 storeys tall (60 levels).

remember, developer sets the floors.

You people make me wanna puke. Developer sets the floors, in this case at 61. How do I know? Because we have a primary contact right here on the forums, and his screen-name is Jlousa.

I'll take his word over third hand information passed from orange-vested dude to weird forumer to us any day. Who knows how many gutters that info went through before it came to us.

raggedy13 · #**719** Posted **Jan 18, 2008, 6:36 AM**

Here's a great pic taken by thedjraw...

Quote:

Originally Posted by thedjraw

A quick pic of downtown taken last night by me from the north shore

excel · #**720** Posted **Jan 18, 2008, 7:22 AM**

sweet.