This tower, along with a few other recent additions, have helped reduce Vancouver’s tabletop appearance, but how tall is 196.9 metres?
Furthermore, how does Vancouver compare to other major cities in Canada and beyond? In short, the answers are discouraging: “Not very tall,” and “Unfavourably.”
Living Shangri-La is the tallest building in the downtown Vancouver skyline. (Shutterstock)
To start, one has to look no further than the suburbs of Vancouver itself to witness the shrinking height of the downtown skyline.
The general benchmark for a tower to be considered a “skyscraper” is a height of 150 metres or more. Today, there are 25 skyscrapers completed or currently under construction in Metro-Vancouver, yet only eight of them are located within the downtown peninsula.