Your City's Tallest U/C - Page 19

lake of the nations · #**361** Posted **Apr 27, 2012, 6:57 PM**

Updated list

01. 282m - 60fl - The Trump - Toronto (ON)
02. 238m - 58fl - The Bow - Calgary (AB)
03. 160m - 50fl - Absolute World North - Mississauga (ON)
04. 155.8m - 45fl - The Sovereign - Burnaby (BC)
05. 136m - 40fl - Ville-Marie Marriott Courtyard - Montréal (QC)
06. 123.4m - 41fl - The Mark - Vancouver (BC)
07. 120m - 39fl - Oasis - Coquitlam (BC)
08. 113m - 35fl - The Pearl - Edmonton (AB)
09. 109m - 28fl - Jules-Dalaires II - Québec (QC)
10. 102m - 40fl - Ultra - Surrey (BC)
11. 100m - 12fl - CMHR - Winnipeg (MN)
11. 100m - 30fl - Potash Towers - Kings County (NB)
13. 93.2m - 28fl - The Renaissance South - London (ON)
14. 90.5m - 22fl - 150 Elgin - Ottawa (ON)
15. 83m - 24fl - Viceroy - New Westminster (BC)
16. 81m - 20fl - Mosaic Potash Tower - Regina (SK)
16. 81m - 18fl - Landmark VI - Kelowna (BC)
18. 66.3m - 21fl - Promontory - Victoria (BC)
19. 49m - 11fl - Fortis Building - St. John's (NL)
20. 41m - 14fl - The 834 - Victoria (BC)
21. 40m - 14fl - King's Wharf Residences - Dartmouth (NS)
22. 18.5m - 04fl - First Leaside Building - Uxbridge (ON)
23. 15m - 04fl - Extendicare Homes- Sault Ste. Marie (ON)
24. m - 27fl - Park Place - Brampton (ON)
25. m - 25fl - Citypoint - Surrey (BC)
26. m - 21fl - Strata - Burlington (ON)
27. m - 19fl - Le Viu - Gatineau (QC)
28. m - 18fl - Urbania - Laval (QC)
29. m - 18fl - Centre Park Towers - Vaughan (ON)
30. m - 15fl - Cité Desjardins de la Coopération - Lévis (QC)
31. m - 14fl - ALT Airport Hotel - Halifax (NS)
32. m - 13fl - Unknown Building - Richmond (BC)
32. m - 13fl - Barrett Place - Kingston (ON)
32. m - 13fl - Eden Park Towers - Markham (ON)
35. m - 12fl - Le Havre de l'Estuaire (tour ouest) - Rimouski (QC)
35. m - 12fl - Amica at Windsor - Windsor (ON)
37. m - 11fl - Holiday Inn - Saskatoon (SK)
38. m - 10fl - The Shores - Oakville (ON)
38. m - 10fl - Solaris - Pitt Meadows (BC)
40. m - 09fl - City Square Condo - Hamilton (ON)
40. m - 09fl - Harbourfront Residences - Saint John (NB)
42. m - 07fl - Sax Longueuil- Longueuil (QC)
42. m - 07fl - Altéa - Repentigny (QC)
42. m - 07fl - Victoria Street Apartments - Fredericton (NB)
45. m - 06fl - Membertou Hotel - Cape Breton (NS)
45. m - 06fl - Student Residence Building - North Bay (ON)
47. m - 05fl - Cité du Parc II - Sherbrooke (QC)
48. m - 03fl - The Lofts at 359 Water St - Summerside (PE)
48. m - 03fl - Champlain Apartments - Dieppe (NB)
48. m - 03fl - Sobeys Head Office - Stellarton (NS)

Chadillaccc · #**362** Posted **Apr 27, 2012, 9:03 PM**

Corrections:

1133 West Georgia (Vancouver's Turn) is now the tallest UC in Van at 188 meters.

You have no height listed for Mosaic Potash Tower in Regina when it's height is listed as 81 meters.

The Pearl is 113 meters.

Carlyle at Victoria Hill has been complete for years. The current tallest in New Westminster is Viceroy at 83 meters.

The office tower in Kelowna is called Landmark VI and is to be the city's new tallest at 81 meters.

Oasis in Coquitlam is estimated to be 120 meters to the pinnacle.

and you have 2 buildings listed for Victoria BC.

oh and I'm pretty sure Luxe in Waterloo is done. I think?

LeftCoaster · #**363** Posted **Apr 27, 2012, 9:24 PM**

Fairly certain its a little early to put 1133 West Georgia back into the U/C pile since no work on the tower itself has actually resumed and they are only digging again.

Nouvellecosse · #**364** Posted **Apr 28, 2012, 1:02 AM**

The airport is closer to Dartmouth than it is to Halifax. If something that far from Halifax can count under its heading it, you may as well just list the dartmouth project as Halifax and eliminate Dartmouth as a separate category. Dartmouth isn't actually a separate city now anyway.

Chadillaccc · #**365** Posted **Apr 28, 2012, 1:56 AM**

Excavation = UC... since Sovereign in Burnaby and half those other towers on the list have been on the list since they were just excavating, so should the Turn.

someone123 · #**366** Posted **Apr 28, 2012, 3:54 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

The airport is closer to Dartmouth than it is to Halifax. If something that far from Halifax can count under its heading it, you may as well just list the dartmouth project as Halifax and eliminate Dartmouth as a separate category. Dartmouth isn't actually a separate city now anyway.

Though next year there will supposedly be a 30 storey building under construction in Halifax (Fenwick) and one under construction in Dartmouth (King's Wharf).

For now there doesn't seem to be an immediate successor to Trillium on the Halifax side, unfortunately. There are a couple of approved buildings that could be built but I don't know that they will. A lot of buildings in the Halifax area are right around the 12-14 storey range.

Chadillaccc · #**367** Posted **Apr 28, 2012, 3:57 AM**

Fenwick is already built... we don't consider redevelopments as new constructions in the database.

LeftCoaster · #**368** Posted **Apr 28, 2012, 7:14 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

Excavation = UC... since Sovereign in Burnaby and half those other towers on the list have been on the list since they were just excavating, so should the Turn.

Well in that case hasn't the turn been U/C for about 5 years now?

I've had this debate on here before, so I wont venture down it again, but I do not consider digging a hole to be the construction of a building.

If I'm in the minority then so be it.

WhipperSnapper · #**369** Posted **Apr 29, 2012, 2:46 PM**

Most people do not consider digging a hole as part of building a building. However when presented with two options, either proposed or under construction, I suspect most will agree the heavy equipment and visible progress relates more with construction than paperwork.

"Under construction" implies progress and not a spoonful of earth has left The Turn's pit for the last few years.

I haven't seen one picture of movement on The Turn's site posted in this section.

Nouvellecosse · #**370** Posted **Apr 29, 2012, 6:51 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by someone123

Though next year there will supposedly be a 30 storey building under construction in Halifax (Fenwick) and one under construction in Dartmouth (King's Wharf).

For now there doesn't seem to be an immediate successor to Trillium on the Halifax side, unfortunately. There are a couple of approved buildings that could be built but I don't know that they will. A lot of buildings in the Halifax area are right around the 12-14 storey range.

Would be great if the new King's Wharf building represents a new regional tallest. It's possible since Fenwick has very low ceiling heights, but technically it is 32 stories rather than 30, so it may still be taller. It seems on average, a non-upscale residential building in Canada has floor heights of about 3.2m per level, so that would put it at 96m.

someone123 · #**371** Posted **Apr 29, 2012, 7:50 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

Would be great if the new King's Wharf building represents a new regional tallest. It's possible since Fenwick has very low ceiling heights, but technically it is 32 stories rather than 30, so it may still be taller. It seems on average, a non-upscale residential building in Canada has floor heights of about 3.2m per level, so that would put it at 96m.

In the Fenwick report there's an elevation that shows the old and new rooflines. The roof looks like it will be going up by the equivalent of about two floors, or around 6 m. The height won't be changing much, but they are building an addition up the side of the building so it will be wider after the renos. I don't remember if they have officially settled on a height or floor count for King's Wharf. I could be wrong, but I thought one of the towers was supposed to be 34 floors.

The TD reno is also going to result in a pretty big tower by Halifax standards. Right now I don't really think of it as a "major" office tower but I guess it will be one of the larger ones after they add a few floors and about 100,000 square feet of space.

TD and Fenwick are in my opinion some of the least attractive of the prominent buildings. Combine them with the new buildings going up and the skyline should look dramatically nicer in a few years.

vanman · #**372** Posted **Apr 30, 2012, 11:13 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

I haven't seen one picture of movement on The Turn's site posted in this section.

There hasn't been any work done on the Turn site since the project was halted, but now there is some recent good news:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kinetic

Minor update - They blocked off a lane on Georgia Street today to crane in two big excavators and some other equipment into the pit of lost dreams. Work didn't start, but they had them fired up testing out the equipment.

Vaillant · #**373** Posted **Apr 30, 2012, 2:00 PM**

FROM : Gledger on mtlurb.com

Marriott Courtyard Montréal Centre-ville 40 F/136 M

Metro-One · #**374** Posted **Apr 30, 2012, 9:44 PM**

I have to agree that given there is only proposed and u/c, that excavation does count as construction. it is actually physical progress.

Given that Vancouver's Turn has been dormant through the last couple years, it did not count, hence being listed as "on hold." Even a tower that is half built on hold does not count as the tallest u/c for me as well (if it happens to be the tallest project).

But, as of today, we now have photo evidence of digging occurring on site again today:

So, one could argue this could be Vancouver's tallest u/c again.

This photo was taken by Jimbo604 in the Vancouver section today.