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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
For a city as well known and as populated as Vancouver I've never been blown away by their skyline. They have one building over 200ft and a bunch of wannabes after that.
Mind you, that could be as a Calgarian we are spoiled in big towers for our size.
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Vancouver has by-laws that prevent the construction of tall buildings. They want to preserve the skyline that allows you to see the mountains in the background behind the buildings.
The Shangri-La is the tallets building in Vancouver, and they needed an exception to construct that. There are plans for a few more tall buildings, but the plan in Vancouver is many 20-30 story buildings, as oppossed to the 50+ story monsters.