Vancouver House from Lorne Brown Park, immediately adjacent.
This illustrates that, duh, the perceived height of a building depends on where you are. (Vancouver House is probably close to twice the height of the tower on the left.)
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What about “Vancouver House” that Daniel Sung built on the NW corner of Seymour and Robson in the mid-1990s? I believe there is still a plaque new the entry door that speaks to the naming of this building. Is this new BIG building appropriating that name?
That’s a good point Bob. Maybe we’ll eventually have a whole bunch of Vancouver House’s.
Good question Bob – I’ve also been thinking over the last few weeks, “Wait, don’t we already have a Vancouver House?” You’re correct (605 Robson), and here’s a blog post on this building, as part of an overall site history: https://changingvancouver.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/the-orillia-robson-street/
As for the protocol on naming buildings, the city relatively recently developed a policy on civic-owned facilities:
https://www.creativecity.ca/database/files/library/van_policy_report_naming_rights.pdf
A quick web search in private building naming yields nothing, suggesting there *may* be nothing to preclude any owner from naming their building similarly. If readers know more about this, please let us know.
Just across the street, 52 storeys:
https://urbanyvr.com/pinnacle-601-beach-crescent
Yup, that’s the other “twin” Granville “gateway” site.
Not as slick as Vancouver House, but certainly more likely to remain upright after The BIG One (is there a pun in there?).
I suspect that the stepped nature of the wiondows and mullions forming the “curves” is a nod to Vancouver House’s design, but could come across as being a cheap cop-out instead of graceful curved mullions that would require more customization.
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PS on tower naming, we also have 2 Shaw Towers and 2 TD Towers
Shaw Tower (as in the cable company, at Burrard Landing)
Shaw Tower (as in Sir Run Run Shaw, at Cathedral Place)
Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower at Pacific Centre
Bentall IV is also called the TD-Canada Trust Tower or TD Tower