The Erickson rises on the Concord site – the first (and for a while maybe the last) example of the twisted-tower trend in Vancouver.
The twisting tower is one of those architectural trends that works so long as its not used everywhere, or even a lot. It needs the contrast of our right-angled world to work well.
I’m not sure I would call this a twisting tower. It has some curves in places, but it doesn’t really twist.
I think the twisting tower title should go to the Ritz-Carlton on Georgia, assuming it manages to ever finish construction.
All 3 of the twisty projects in town are Arthur Erickson projects – the Canada House buildings at the Olympic Village, the Ritz-Carlton and the Erickson.
I agree that the Erickson just wavers back and forth rather than having a torqued twist to it. And the Canada House buildings aren’t really tall enough to really twist – during construction at least it looks more like the builders made a mistake.
The Ritz-Carlton will be the best of the 3 buildings in town (and yes, it’s still being built, after the stop work order caused by the developer trespassing on the neighbouring building’s property with it’s shotcrete wall tieback rods -pics posted on SkyscraperPage show the underground parkade redesign that brings the wall inwards (which appears as a ledge in the excavation pit) so that the tieback rods remain on its own property without trespassing.)