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Old Posted Feb 19, 2005, 9:58 PM
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Arrow VANCOUVER | Living Shangri-La | 646 FT / 197 M | 61 FLOORS

Living Shangri-La

1120 West Georgia Street
Vancouver BC Canada
http://livingshangri-la.com/

Status: construction
Construction Dates
Started: 2005
Finished: 2007-08 (unknown)
Floor Count: 61
Basement Floors: 6
Floor Area: 61,779 m
Elevator Count: 9

Building Uses
mixed use
hotel
office
residential
retail
Structural Types
highrise
lowrise
Materials
glass

Heights s

Roof 195.1 m To the top of the fins
57th floor 181.8 m
Sky garden 137.0 m

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This building will be the tallest building in Vancouver when completed. Project publicly anounced May 2003.

It will include Vancouver's first public sculpture garden.

This building has a triangular floorplate, due to a view cone restriction that cuts right through the middle of the site, leaving only a triangle where a 183m (600ft) building is permissible

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James K.M. Cheng Architects Inc. - architect
Westbank Projects Corp. - developer

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Old Posted Feb 19, 2005, 10:01 PM
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Old Posted Feb 20, 2005, 2:26 AM
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I thought the tower was 60 floors? As well, 1 year for construction sounds a little too short.

Either way Its good to see this one going up.
     
     
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Old Posted Feb 20, 2005, 6:20 AM
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Nice pictures Jared.

I think TOBoy is correct.

This building has 60 floors to the penthouse, and the skygarden is on 61. There are full size mechanical floors too going to the elevator machine room on floor 63. Some of the lower mezzanine floors are double in height to compensate for skipped numbers. Floor 61 for example is really 61 floors high.

I think this will be the most exciting building to go up in the city since maybe the Harbour Center was opened.

Too bad for no bar or public observatory though.

It will be nice to see it go up in our skyline.
     
     
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Old Posted Feb 20, 2005, 8:29 AM
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that is a great looking building.


btw, in the last pic of the first post, with the model display.... where is that at, it looks like some sort of mall or pedestrian street?
     
     
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Old Posted Feb 20, 2005, 8:34 AM
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That's the lobby at the library...

     
     
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Old Posted Feb 20, 2005, 9:19 AM
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oh i see, very nice. I had thought the neon in the background was the signs of shops.... so is that just the service desk or do they have cafes there?
     
     
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I always thought Vancouver had a 150m height limit?
     
     
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Old Posted Feb 20, 2005, 10:37 PM
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Raptor, Vancouver has a 450ft height limit (+10% xtra for features and mechanical stuff).

However, there are 6 sites where buildings up to 600ft (+10%) are allowed, this is one of those sites. Most of the others are developed, though there is one with a 162m tower that will be built (eventually, it was supposed to be u/c over a year ago)

AJphx, there are cafees and stuff in there
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It will likely be topped out ~spring/summer 2007, and ready for occupancy Spring 2008.

Here's a summary of the levels of the tower:

Levels:

P2 and 3: Parking

P1: Hotel and residential drop-off/ Commercial and residential loading/ Hotel valet parking/ Garbage

P1 Mezzanine: Hotel services

Ground floor: Urban food store/ Public art site/ Retail/ Live work lobby/ Residential/hotel lobby

Mezzaine/3rd: Two restaurants/ Public gardens and walkway/ Hotel restaurant and services

L 5: Spa

L 6: Amenity

L 7-15: Hotel (96 bedrooms)

L 16-17: Mechanical-elevator overrun

L 16-42: General Office Live/work (227 units)

L 43: Mechanical

L 43-60: Residential (66 units)

L 61: Residential roof garden

Note- Level 4 and 13 do not exist
     
     
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Awesome, can't wait to see this one rise. You vancouver boys (and girl) better keep us up to date with pics.
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I guess this will be the official thread for this building.

Truly exciting for such a tall building to rise in Vancouver and change the skyline for good.

The only thing I don't like about it is the name.

"Living Shangri-La"

What the hell is that? Not befitting the tallest building in the city.

Even if it just goes by the name of "Shangri-La". It needs a more corporate "robust" name than that. The name is too dainty for such a building.

I hope they don't end up going with that name.

Compare that name to Vancouver's current tallest "One Wall Center." Now that sounds cool and big time.
     
     
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how do I post a photo?

how do I post a photo of the pit?
     
     
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Apparently as of today (June 1, 2005) they've sold 210 of 227 units. The 17 remaining are the higher range units that typically take longer to sell.

Here is some more factual info on the construction:

Estimated 3.1 million man hours to build.

123,000 cubic metres excavation volume.

51,000 cubic metres of concrete to build.

7,000 tons of concrete reinforcing steel.
     
     
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Exclamation cool info

Where did you get those facts from? That's neat info.

123,000 cubic meters of excavation. At the Ground breaking, Ian Gillespie said they will need to move 15,000 truckloads of dirt. That's one truckload for every seat in the Pacific Coliseum.

123,000 divided by 15,000 truckloads = 8.2 cubic meters per truck

8.2 x (3.28 cubed) = 289 cubic feet of dirt per truck

123,000 x (3.28 cubed) = 123,000 x 35.3 = 4,341,480 cubic feet

The site measues 396 feet x 115 ft = 45,540 square feet

Divide, and you get a hole depth of 95 feet.

That's incredible. A hole 400 feet x 115 feet by 10 stories deep.

Fill it with water and we'd have a pretty nifty swimming pool!
     
     
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Looks nice! This tower will stand out nicely since it is one of the few spots they can put a larger tower.
     
     
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Exclamation deeper and deeper

It's 400 ft across the Shangri-La pit from this spot to the church! Nice big swimming pool when it's done!
     
     
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markers in hole

Looks like they've got less than 11 feet to go to bottom the hole out. The number 49 is spraypainted on the walls to give a reference depth and these's an 11 ft with an arrow pointing down, indicating I guess they've got 11 feet to go.
     
     
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I guess this will be the official thread for this building.

Truly exciting for such a tall building to rise in Vancouver and change the skyline for good.

The only thing I don't like about it is the name.

"Living Shangri-La"

What the hell is that? Not befitting the tallest building in the city.

Even if it just goes by the name of "Shangri-La". It needs a more corporate "robust" name than that. The name is too dainty for such a building.

I hope they don't end up going with that name.

Compare that name to Vancouver's current tallest "One Wall Center." Now that sounds cool and big time.
It's got a Shangri-La hotel in it, hence the name. I doubt the Hotel company would be happy if they couldn't put their name on it.
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The first two renderings give a different impression. The slender side of the building is much more elegant.
     
     
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