Vancouver Suburb to See Tallest Building in British Columbia
A 64-story residential tower in Burnaby, east of Vancouver, is set to become the tallest building in British Columbia, but is it the tallest in the Canadian West?
Two Gilmore Place, at the corner of Gilmore Avenue and Lougheed Highway, at least 214 meters when built, will be taller than Vancouver’s two tallest buildings: Living Shangri-La (201 meters and 59 stories) and the Trump International Hotel and Tower (188 meters and 63 stories).
And Two Gilmore Place is also set to climb more than 25 meters higher than Burnaby’s completed tallest buildings, Solo District Altus, at 188 meters, and Brentwood One and Brentwood Two, at 186 meters each.
“It’s the tallest residential tower in Western Canada.”
It’s the “tallest residential tower in Western Canada,” Duncan Wlodarczak, spokesman for the Onni Group, said in an email. But there are six buildings (completed or under construction) in Calgary and Edmonton that are or will be taller, according to the CTBUH Skyscraper Center.
“We didn’t plan for it to be (the tallest building),” said Johannes Schumann, assistant director of current planning for Burnaby. “There was no hubris in our decision. It was just the right decision for the site.”
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