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08 September 2025
Vancouver's Fifteen Fifteen by Ole Scheeren Hits Construction Milestone
Büro Ole Scheeren has released new photography of Fifteen Fifteen, a 42-story residential tower that reached a major construction milestone with the successful lift of...
25 July 2025
Indigenous Development in Vancouver with 11 Residential High-Rises Reaches Construction Milestones
Construction is advancing on Sen̓áḵw, a transformative urban development led by the Squamish Nation on its ancestral lands in Vancouver, Canada. With the first three...
02 June 2025
Unveiling of 315-Meter Supertall in Ambitious Vancouver Development Plan
After a decade of planning, Vancouver developer Joo Kim Tiah of Holborn Group has unveiled an ambitious proposal for a new supertall skyscraper in downtown...
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10 April 2025
Vancouver Rezoning in TODs Triples Height of High-Rise Proposal
A rezoning application for a major redevelopment at 2219–2285 Cambie Street in Vancouver has been submitted, significantly increasing the scale from an original design of...
17 January 2025
Updated Vancouver Development Proposal Increases Height and Density
GWL Realty Advisors has shifted plans for the redevelopment of 1220 Station Street in Vancouver’s False Creek Flats. Previously slated for a 13-story office tower,...
22 October 2024
Fire Breaks out in 28-Story Apartment High-Rise in Vancouver
A fire broke out in a high-rise apartment on 1500 Alberni in Vancouver's Coal Harbour on Monday around 4pm Pacific Time on 21 October, prompting...
19 July 2024
18-Story Residential Building Proposed Near Vancouver Rail Station
A 1969-built three-story building with 35 apartments is set for being demolished to make way for a proposed redevelopment of a 18-story, mixed-use high-rise with...
28 March 2024
Vanouver Government Buys Homes Near Train Station for Potential Development of High Density Affordable Housing
Eleven single-family houses by the the SkyTrain Nanaimo Station in Vancouver were bought by the Government of British Columbia. It is expected that property will...
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22 February 2024
Terraced Design for Clinical and Research Center at Hospital in Vancouver
Building design and pre-construction activities are underway at the Clinical Support and Support and Research Centre (CSRC) at the new St. Paul’s Hospital on the...
09 February 2024
Vancouver Proposes Rezoning to Encourage Mass Timber Use
On Tuesday, 6 February, Vancouver City Council took its first steps towards creating a new policy program to "remove barriers to mass timber" and encourage...
03 January 2024
Approval for 19-Story Indigenous Social Housing in Vancouver
The Vancouver City Council approved social housing for Indigenous individuals and families at the end of December 2023, in what CTBUH has confirmed is a...
24 July 2023
City Market to Open New Location at Future Skytrain Station
Last year the construction of a mixed-use tower directly above Vancouver South Granville SkyTrain station was announced. The tower will be 39 stories and 407...
20 January 2023
New Vancouver City Council Approves a 48-Story Residential Tower
The Vancouver City Council has approved its first new building after a rezoning application following reappointments in the council. During the second public hearing of...
23 November 2022
Mixed-Use Tower Above Future Subway Station Moves Forward
A proposed 40-story residential and office building on West Broadway by PCI Developments is progressing down the line as the Vancouver city council has approved...
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21 November 2022
Two Towers in the West End of Vancouver with over 500 Rental Homes Moving Forward
A development proposed by Bosa Partners to bring twin rental towers downtown in Vancouver's West End has had its permit application approved five months after...
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24 October 2022
25-Story Residential Timber High-Rise Proposed in Vancouver
A proposal to build a 25-story rental housing high-rise as the fifth phase of a Main Alley tech campus in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant district is...
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25 August 2022
New 30-Story Hotel Tower Proposed for Downtown Vancouver
Proponents of redeveloping 848 Seymour Street in downtown Vancouver into a major hotel are making it clear they would like to build their project in...
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24 June 2022
Vancouver City Council Approves 557 Rental Homes for the West End
Twin towers on both eastern corners of the intersection of Thurlow Street and Harwood Street in downtown Vancouver’s West End neighborhood have been approved. On Tuesday,...
02 June 2022
Next Tech Giant Office Hub in Downtown Vancouver Develops
Microsoft is set to open a new additional major office location in downtown Vancouver, which will make it the fifth in the city center. The...
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27 May 2022
Squamish First Nation and City of Vancouver Reach Agreement on Development
A milestone on the massive Sen̓áḵw redevelopment has been reached, with the Squamish First Nation announcing it has achieved a services agreement with the City...
04 May 2022
Condo Tower Proposed for Central Lonsdale in North Vancouver
A 1986-built, two-story retail and office building at 114-132 West 15th Street — just west of the intersection of Lonsdale Avenue and 15th Avenue West...
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20 April 2022
Vancouver City Council Approves 180 Rental Homes at SkyTrain Station
In mid-April 2022, Vancouver City Council approved the rezoning application for 2406-2484 Renfrew Street—the northeast corner of the intersection of East Broadway and Renfrew Street,...
03 March 2022
Waterfront Property in Mission Listed for Large-Scale Development in Vancouver
A major site on Mission’s central waterfront with the Fraser River carries the real potential to be a large-scale development site. Goodman Commercial has newly listed...
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25 February 2022
Redevelopment Plans for Historic Vancouver Building Revealed
The plan to redevelop Vancouver's 100-year-old The Bay Building has been revealed. Located at 674 Granville St. the building will be redeveloped and updated, with...
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04 February 2022
Vancouver Residential Buildings Redesigned to Reflect Pandemic Accomodations
Heatherwick Studio has redesigned a pair of residential towers in Vancouver, Canada, to reflect post-pandemic living requirements. The studio has scrapped its previous designs for...
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12 January 2022
An Extruded Residential Tower is Proposed in Vancouver
Fifteen Fifteen by Ole Scheeren is a branded luxury condominium that introduces a new kind of three-dimensional urban living to Vancouver, with an unparalleled high-rise...
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22 November 2021
Vancouver Museum Project Redesigns for Better Cultural Alignment
A CAD$100 million (US$78,800) gift from the Audain Foundation to the construction of the Vancouver Art Gallery has precipitated a redesign of the project. This...
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11 November 2021
New Developers Appointed to Stalled Project in Vancouver
At the end of October, the British Columbia Court of Appeal overturned a ruling made by the British Columbia Supreme Court over which developer will...
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09 November 2021
Designs Revealed for Forest Inspired Project in Vancouver
Urban Agency Architects has designed a project for Vancouver called Vancouver Forest. The materiality of the building takes inspiration from the scenic forests in the...
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01 November 2021
Pre-Sales Beginning for Vancouver Project
Fifteen Fifteen, a proposed residential project for Vancouver, is moving forward. Pre-sales for the project’s apartments open this month. The project is located at 1515...
07 October 2021
Vancouver Affordable Housing by Women, for Women
Plans for an affordable housing development, 546 West 13th Avenue, have been approved by the City of Vancouver Council. Designed by an all-female team at...
01 October 2021
Hybrid Mass Timber Office Building Planned in Vancouver
A new 16-story hybrid mass timber office and retail development called Burrard Exchange at Bentall Centre in Vancouver has been proposed by Hudson Pacific Properties,...
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29 July 2021
Proposed Vancouver Residential Building Features Waterfall
A project proposed for 1698 West Georgia Street in Vancouver’s Coal Harbour area would reach 100 meters and provide 125 residential units. Designed by Kohn...
15 July 2021
Vancouver Waterfront School and Social Housing Project Moving Forward
Plans to build an elementary school and social housing on the Coal Harbour waterfront in downtown Vancouver are moving forward. The surface parking lot next...
07 July 2021
Proposed Vancouver Project Would Redevelop Several Sites in Metrotown
A 66-story mixed-use building is being proposed in Vancouver to redevelop a site in Burnaby’s Metrotown area. Anthem Properties has submitted a rezoning application for...
05 July 2021
Angular Office Building Proposed in Vancouver
A 24-story office building is being proposed in Vancouver and would redevelop a former car dealership. Situated at 1395 West Broadway, Yuanheng Holdings acquired the...
23 June 2021
Sixth Tower in Vancouver Complex to Deliver 443 Homes
Another component of the massive The Amazing Brentwood (TAB) development is proceeding, with the mall owner now pushing forward with the sixth tower. A new...
11 June 2021
Vancouver Startup's Roomba-Like Robot Tower Window Cleaner Could Replace Humans
The business of washing windows on a tower with human labor is a dangerous, inefficient, and costly practice, but a Vancouver innovator’s robotic solution could...
07 June 2021
Social Housing Tower Proposed Next to Oppenheimer Park in Vancouver
Atira Women’s Resource Society and TL Housing Solutions have submitted a rezoning application to build a 17-story social housing tower just north of Oppenheimer Park...
07 May 2021
Development Targeting Essential Workers Proposed in Vancouver
A Vancouver parking structure could be redeveloped into a 46-story, 100 percent rental housing tower, if the project can clear rezoning requirements. The proposed development...
05 May 2021
Two Stories Cut From Upcoming Vancouver Tower
The height of one of downtown Vancouver’s upcoming towers has been slightly reduced, and the top of the tower sculpted. 601 Beach Crescent will still...
04 May 2021
Tall Mass Timber Office Building Planned for Vancouver
A 10-story mixed-use project aims to be among the tallest and largest mass timber office buildings in western Canada. The 18,200-square-meter (196,000-square-foot) T3 Mount Pleasant...
22 April 2021
With City Approval, Vancouver Stepped Residential Tower Moves Forward
An application was granted in mid-April, 2021 to rezone the Kohn Pedersen Fox-designed residential tower, 1698 West Georgia Street. Located at the southeast corner of...
03 February 2021
The Squamish Nation Shapes a New Multi-Building Development in Vancouver
Imagine: It’s 2035. As you look across False Creek toward downtown Vancouver, the two arms of a ceremonial gate rise alongside the Burrard Street Bridge....
20 January 2021
Office Tower in Downtown Vancouver Tops Out
One of the most intriguing tower developments under construction in downtown Vancouver recently passed a major milestone. Deloitte Summit office tower at 400 West Georgia...
02 December 2020
1,200 Rental Homes in Three Towers Proposed in Vancouver
Even more rental housing is now planned for the infill development project of Lougheed Village, located just west of SkyTrain’s Lougheed Town Centre Station and...
17 November 2020
Social Housing Tower Proposed for Vancouver
A new mixed-use redevelopment in downtown Vancouver will have new cultural uses and 100 percent social housing for its residential component. On behalf of MCYH...
30 October 2020
Rental Tower with Wood Cladding Gains Approval in Vancouver
For over 20 years, the Vancouver Westside’s True Confections cake shop was located at the retail building located at the northwest corner of the intersection...
01 October 2020
Skinny 24-Story Office Tower Proposed for Granville Street in Vancouver
Despite the devastating economic effects of COVID-19, downtown Vancouver’s office market remains amongst North America’s tightest and most competitive office markets due to the city’s...
29 September 2020
Vancouver to Consider Rezoning for Taller Residential Tower
Vancouver city council is scheduled to debate and vote on a rezoning application for what could be the city's fourth tallest building—a condo tower at...
22 September 2020
Green-Walled Vancouver Proposal Shifts to Rental Properties
During a public hearing in early October 2020, Vancouver City Council will deliberate on Westbank’s rezoning application to build a residential tower at 5055 Joyce...
18 September 2020
Renovations Revitalizing Vancouver Tower Center
It didn’t take long for the new joint owners of the Bentall Centre towers to begin revitalizing the central business district office and retail complex...
02 September 2020
Hotel in Vancouver Closes Its Doors, Citing Pandemic
Vancouver’s Trump Hotel has permanently closed, citing the pandemic, but it could reopen under another brand. The land and building is owned by TA Global...
20 August 2020
14-Story Condo Tower Proposed for Vancouver Station
A land assembly of four single-family houses immediately east of SkyTrain’s Langara-49th Avenue Station could be redeveloped into a 173-foot-tall (52.7-meter-tall) 14-story, mixed-use tower. A...
29 July 2020
Condo Tower and Family Housing Proposed for Vancouver
Qualex Landmark in partnership with YWCA has submitted a rezoning and development application to the City of Burnaby to build a 316-foot-tall (96-meter-tall), 31-story condominium...
24 July 2020
Vancouver Council Approves 28-Story Residential Tower
Vancouver council voted 6-5 Tuesday 21 July 2020 to approve a controversial proposal for a 28-story rental tower on West Broadway at Birch Street.The following...
01 July 2020
Tower Will Replace Parking Garage on Historic Vancouver Block
Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) has revealed that the firm’s commercial high-rise development project at 601 West Pender Street in downtown Vancouver received unanimous consent to...
29 June 2020
Luxury Condo Tower in Vancouver Hits Financial Challenge
The pace of Terrace House‘s construction over the past two-and-a-half years has been far slower than normal, as if it has been suspended, and a...
08 June 2020
Coronavirus Delays New Student Housing Complex in Vancouver
The University of British Columbia’s Vancouver campus typically sees an annual waitlist of 6,000 people for its on-campus student residences, but COVID-19 has forced the...
20 May 2020
Flora-Inspired Tower Proposed for Downtown Vancouver
The northeast corner of the intersection of Barclay Street and Thurlow Street could be redeveloped into a 47-story residential tower that adds to downtown Vancouver’s...
05 May 2020
Proposed Passive House Vancouver Tower to Contain Large Social Housing Component
A proposed skyscraper in downtown Vancouver’s West End is attempting to achieve a wide range of mixed residential uses and a new green design standard...
17 March 2020
Renderings Released for Athletic Apparel Headquarters in Vancouver
Morphosis will design a new high-tech global headquarters for Lululemon Athletica in Vancouver, Canada. Working with Francl Architecture and Clive Wilkinson Architects, the team will...
25 February 2020
Proposed Building Along Vancouver Waterfront Remains Divisive After Redesign
In late 2014, Anthony Norfolk was one of two members of the Vancouver Heritage Commission who voted against Cadillac Fairview’s development proposal to build a...
13 February 2020
New Vancouver Condominium Development at River District Targets First-Time Home Buyers
Paradigm consists of three components: a 22-story tower, five-story mid-rise, and three-story town homes, with units ranging from 455 to 1,600 square feet (42 to...
07 February 2020
Plans Revealed for Large-Scale Development in Downtown Vancouver
For years, there has been much speculation over the planned future redevelopment of the Hudson’s Bay parkade site in downtown Vancouver. The city block-sized site—framed...
18 December 2019
Vancouver-Area Proposals Move Forward
Alison Brooks Architects has won approval for a residential-led scheme in Vancouver, Canada, featuring a series of towers, the tallest a 38-story skyscraper. The project...
22 November 2019
Office Tower Proposed to Replace Parking Garage on Vancouver’s Alley Oop
A rezoning application has been submitted by local developer Reliance Properties to turn the property of a 1969-built, six-story car park in downtown Vancouver into...
15 November 2019
Large-Scale Urban Scheme to Rise in Vancouver Neighborhood
The Squamish First Nation has extensive plans to build upon their land in Vancouver. The proposal includes 6,000 units across 11 towers within a 500-acre...
22 August 2019
Proposed Vancouver Skyscraper Could Become One of World's Largest Passive House Buildings
Henson Developments has proposed a massive 60-story Passive House tower in Vancouver, which could become one of the largest in the world if completed. Passive...
15 August 2019
Suburban Mall to be Transformed in New Vancouver Regeneration Scheme
Henriquez Partners Architects have filed a development application for a five-story civic center, a 22-story non-market-housing building, and a portion of a nine-acre park—all of...
19 July 2019
Major Tech Developer set to Move into Futuristic Vancouver Tower
According to a new report, Apple is planning to open new offices in a quickly-growing Vancouver development. Apple will join the likes of Deloitte and...
21 June 2019
Vancouver’s New Tallest Office Tower to Reach Completion in 2022
What was once the site of a multi-level parking garage with a few office levels on the top floors of the structure is now a...
08 May 2019
Developer Proposes Timber Skyscraper in Vancouver
Delta Land Development and its team is in the process of planning what could be the world’s tallest mass timber building in Vancouver’s Broadway Corridor....
01 May 2019
Vancouver Skyscraper Design Inspired by Nearby Mountains
A 99-meter-tall, 33-story residential tower that will incorporate elements of the nearby mountains is being proposed at the site of a former gas station...
08 September 2025
Vancouver's Fifteen Fifteen by Ole Scheeren Hits Construction Milestone
Büro Ole Scheeren has released new photography of Fifteen Fifteen, a 42-story residential tower that reached a major construction milestone with the successful lift of...
25 July 2025
Indigenous Development in Vancouver with 11 Residential High-Rises Reaches Construction Milestones
Construction is advancing on Sen̓áḵw, a transformative urban development led by the Squamish Nation on its ancestral lands in Vancouver, Canada. With the first three...
02 June 2025
Unveiling of 315-Meter Supertall in Ambitious Vancouver Development Plan
After a decade of planning, Vancouver developer Joo Kim Tiah of Holborn Group has unveiled an ambitious proposal for a new supertall skyscraper in downtown...
10 April 2025
Vancouver Rezoning in TODs Triples Height of High-Rise Proposal
A rezoning application for a major redevelopment at 2219–2285 Cambie Street in Vancouver has been submitted, significantly increasing the scale from an original design of...
17 January 2025
Updated Vancouver Development Proposal Increases Height and Density
GWL Realty Advisors has shifted plans for the redevelopment of 1220 Station Street in Vancouver’s False Creek Flats. Previously slated for a 13-story office tower,...
22 October 2024
Fire Breaks out in 28-Story Apartment High-Rise in Vancouver
A fire broke out in a high-rise apartment on 1500 Alberni in Vancouver's Coal Harbour on Monday around 4pm Pacific Time on 21 October, prompting...
19 July 2024
18-Story Residential Building Proposed Near Vancouver Rail Station
A 1969-built three-story building with 35 apartments is set for being demolished to make way for a proposed redevelopment of a 18-story, mixed-use high-rise with...
28 March 2024
Vanouver Government Buys Homes Near Train Station for Potential Development of High Density Affordable Housing
Eleven single-family houses by the the SkyTrain Nanaimo Station in Vancouver were bought by the Government of British Columbia. It is expected that property will...
22 February 2024
Terraced Design for Clinical and Research Center at Hospital in Vancouver
Building design and pre-construction activities are underway at the Clinical Support and Support and Research Centre (CSRC) at the new St. Paul’s Hospital on the...
09 February 2024
Vancouver Proposes Rezoning to Encourage Mass Timber Use
On Tuesday, 6 February, Vancouver City Council took its first steps towards creating a new policy program to "remove barriers to mass timber" and encourage...
03 January 2024
Approval for 19-Story Indigenous Social Housing in Vancouver
The Vancouver City Council approved social housing for Indigenous individuals and families at the end of December 2023, in what CTBUH has confirmed is a...
24 July 2023
City Market to Open New Location at Future Skytrain Station
Last year the construction of a mixed-use tower directly above Vancouver South Granville SkyTrain station was announced. The tower will be 39 stories and 407...
20 January 2023
New Vancouver City Council Approves a 48-Story Residential Tower
The Vancouver City Council has approved its first new building after a rezoning application following reappointments in the council. During the second public hearing of...
23 November 2022
Mixed-Use Tower Above Future Subway Station Moves Forward
A proposed 40-story residential and office building on West Broadway by PCI Developments is progressing down the line as the Vancouver city council has approved...
21 November 2022
Two Towers in the West End of Vancouver with over 500 Rental Homes Moving Forward
A development proposed by Bosa Partners to bring twin rental towers downtown in Vancouver's West End has had its permit application approved five months after...
24 October 2022
25-Story Residential Timber High-Rise Proposed in Vancouver
A proposal to build a 25-story rental housing high-rise as the fifth phase of a Main Alley tech campus in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant district is...
25 August 2022
New 30-Story Hotel Tower Proposed for Downtown Vancouver
Proponents of redeveloping 848 Seymour Street in downtown Vancouver into a major hotel are making it clear they would like to build their project in...
24 June 2022
Vancouver City Council Approves 557 Rental Homes for the West End
Twin towers on both eastern corners of the intersection of Thurlow Street and Harwood Street in downtown Vancouver’s West End neighborhood have been approved. On Tuesday,...
02 June 2022
Next Tech Giant Office Hub in Downtown Vancouver Develops
Microsoft is set to open a new additional major office location in downtown Vancouver, which will make it the fifth in the city center. The...
27 May 2022
Squamish First Nation and City of Vancouver Reach Agreement on Development
A milestone on the massive Sen̓áḵw redevelopment has been reached, with the Squamish First Nation announcing it has achieved a services agreement with the City...
04 May 2022
Condo Tower Proposed for Central Lonsdale in North Vancouver
A 1986-built, two-story retail and office building at 114-132 West 15th Street — just west of the intersection of Lonsdale Avenue and 15th Avenue West...
20 April 2022
Vancouver City Council Approves 180 Rental Homes at SkyTrain Station
In mid-April 2022, Vancouver City Council approved the rezoning application for 2406-2484 Renfrew Street—the northeast corner of the intersection of East Broadway and Renfrew Street,...
03 March 2022
Waterfront Property in Mission Listed for Large-Scale Development in Vancouver
A major site on Mission’s central waterfront with the Fraser River carries the real potential to be a large-scale development site. Goodman Commercial has newly listed...
25 February 2022
Redevelopment Plans for Historic Vancouver Building Revealed
The plan to redevelop Vancouver's 100-year-old The Bay Building has been revealed. Located at 674 Granville St. the building will be redeveloped and updated, with...
04 February 2022
Vancouver Residential Buildings Redesigned to Reflect Pandemic Accomodations
Heatherwick Studio has redesigned a pair of residential towers in Vancouver, Canada, to reflect post-pandemic living requirements. The studio has scrapped its previous designs for...
12 January 2022
An Extruded Residential Tower is Proposed in Vancouver
Fifteen Fifteen by Ole Scheeren is a branded luxury condominium that introduces a new kind of three-dimensional urban living to Vancouver, with an unparalleled high-rise...
22 November 2021
Vancouver Museum Project Redesigns for Better Cultural Alignment
A CAD$100 million (US$78,800) gift from the Audain Foundation to the construction of the Vancouver Art Gallery has precipitated a redesign of the project. This...
11 November 2021
New Developers Appointed to Stalled Project in Vancouver
At the end of October, the British Columbia Court of Appeal overturned a ruling made by the British Columbia Supreme Court over which developer will...
09 November 2021
Designs Revealed for Forest Inspired Project in Vancouver
Urban Agency Architects has designed a project for Vancouver called Vancouver Forest. The materiality of the building takes inspiration from the scenic forests in the...
01 November 2021
Pre-Sales Beginning for Vancouver Project
Fifteen Fifteen, a proposed residential project for Vancouver, is moving forward. Pre-sales for the project’s apartments open this month. The project is located at 1515...
07 October 2021
Vancouver Affordable Housing by Women, for Women
Plans for an affordable housing development, 546 West 13th Avenue, have been approved by the City of Vancouver Council. Designed by an all-female team at...
01 October 2021
Hybrid Mass Timber Office Building Planned in Vancouver
A new 16-story hybrid mass timber office and retail development called Burrard Exchange at Bentall Centre in Vancouver has been proposed by Hudson Pacific Properties,...
29 July 2021
Proposed Vancouver Residential Building Features Waterfall
A project proposed for 1698 West Georgia Street in Vancouver’s Coal Harbour area would reach 100 meters and provide 125 residential units. Designed by Kohn...
15 July 2021
Vancouver Waterfront School and Social Housing Project Moving Forward
Plans to build an elementary school and social housing on the Coal Harbour waterfront in downtown Vancouver are moving forward. The surface parking lot next...
07 July 2021
Proposed Vancouver Project Would Redevelop Several Sites in Metrotown
A 66-story mixed-use building is being proposed in Vancouver to redevelop a site in Burnaby’s Metrotown area. Anthem Properties has submitted a rezoning application for...
05 July 2021
Angular Office Building Proposed in Vancouver
A 24-story office building is being proposed in Vancouver and would redevelop a former car dealership. Situated at 1395 West Broadway, Yuanheng Holdings acquired the...
23 June 2021
Sixth Tower in Vancouver Complex to Deliver 443 Homes
Another component of the massive The Amazing Brentwood (TAB) development is proceeding, with the mall owner now pushing forward with the sixth tower. A new...
11 June 2021
Vancouver Startup's Roomba-Like Robot Tower Window Cleaner Could Replace Humans
The business of washing windows on a tower with human labor is a dangerous, inefficient, and costly practice, but a Vancouver innovator’s robotic solution could...
07 June 2021
Social Housing Tower Proposed Next to Oppenheimer Park in Vancouver
Atira Women’s Resource Society and TL Housing Solutions have submitted a rezoning application to build a 17-story social housing tower just north of Oppenheimer Park...
07 May 2021
Development Targeting Essential Workers Proposed in Vancouver
A Vancouver parking structure could be redeveloped into a 46-story, 100 percent rental housing tower, if the project can clear rezoning requirements. The proposed development...
05 May 2021
Two Stories Cut From Upcoming Vancouver Tower
The height of one of downtown Vancouver’s upcoming towers has been slightly reduced, and the top of the tower sculpted. 601 Beach Crescent will still...
04 May 2021
Tall Mass Timber Office Building Planned for Vancouver
A 10-story mixed-use project aims to be among the tallest and largest mass timber office buildings in western Canada. The 18,200-square-meter (196,000-square-foot) T3 Mount Pleasant...
22 April 2021
With City Approval, Vancouver Stepped Residential Tower Moves Forward
An application was granted in mid-April, 2021 to rezone the Kohn Pedersen Fox-designed residential tower, 1698 West Georgia Street. Located at the southeast corner of...
03 February 2021
The Squamish Nation Shapes a New Multi-Building Development in Vancouver
Imagine: It’s 2035. As you look across False Creek toward downtown Vancouver, the two arms of a ceremonial gate rise alongside the Burrard Street Bridge....
20 January 2021
Office Tower in Downtown Vancouver Tops Out
One of the most intriguing tower developments under construction in downtown Vancouver recently passed a major milestone. Deloitte Summit office tower at 400 West Georgia...
02 December 2020
1,200 Rental Homes in Three Towers Proposed in Vancouver
Even more rental housing is now planned for the infill development project of Lougheed Village, located just west of SkyTrain’s Lougheed Town Centre Station and...
17 November 2020
Social Housing Tower Proposed for Vancouver
A new mixed-use redevelopment in downtown Vancouver will have new cultural uses and 100 percent social housing for its residential component. On behalf of MCYH...
30 October 2020
Rental Tower with Wood Cladding Gains Approval in Vancouver
For over 20 years, the Vancouver Westside’s True Confections cake shop was located at the retail building located at the northwest corner of the intersection...
01 October 2020
Skinny 24-Story Office Tower Proposed for Granville Street in Vancouver
Despite the devastating economic effects of COVID-19, downtown Vancouver’s office market remains amongst North America’s tightest and most competitive office markets due to the city’s...
29 September 2020
Vancouver to Consider Rezoning for Taller Residential Tower
Vancouver city council is scheduled to debate and vote on a rezoning application for what could be the city's fourth tallest building—a condo tower at...
22 September 2020
Green-Walled Vancouver Proposal Shifts to Rental Properties
During a public hearing in early October 2020, Vancouver City Council will deliberate on Westbank’s rezoning application to build a residential tower at 5055 Joyce...
18 September 2020
Renovations Revitalizing Vancouver Tower Center
It didn’t take long for the new joint owners of the Bentall Centre towers to begin revitalizing the central business district office and retail complex...
02 September 2020
Hotel in Vancouver Closes Its Doors, Citing Pandemic
Vancouver’s Trump Hotel has permanently closed, citing the pandemic, but it could reopen under another brand. The land and building is owned by TA Global...
20 August 2020
14-Story Condo Tower Proposed for Vancouver Station
A land assembly of four single-family houses immediately east of SkyTrain’s Langara-49th Avenue Station could be redeveloped into a 173-foot-tall (52.7-meter-tall) 14-story, mixed-use tower. A...
29 July 2020
Condo Tower and Family Housing Proposed for Vancouver
Qualex Landmark in partnership with YWCA has submitted a rezoning and development application to the City of Burnaby to build a 316-foot-tall (96-meter-tall), 31-story condominium...
24 July 2020
Vancouver Council Approves 28-Story Residential Tower
Vancouver council voted 6-5 Tuesday 21 July 2020 to approve a controversial proposal for a 28-story rental tower on West Broadway at Birch Street.The following...
01 July 2020
Tower Will Replace Parking Garage on Historic Vancouver Block
Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) has revealed that the firm’s commercial high-rise development project at 601 West Pender Street in downtown Vancouver received unanimous consent to...
29 June 2020
Luxury Condo Tower in Vancouver Hits Financial Challenge
The pace of Terrace House‘s construction over the past two-and-a-half years has been far slower than normal, as if it has been suspended, and a...
08 June 2020
Coronavirus Delays New Student Housing Complex in Vancouver
The University of British Columbia’s Vancouver campus typically sees an annual waitlist of 6,000 people for its on-campus student residences, but COVID-19 has forced the...
20 May 2020
Flora-Inspired Tower Proposed for Downtown Vancouver
The northeast corner of the intersection of Barclay Street and Thurlow Street could be redeveloped into a 47-story residential tower that adds to downtown Vancouver’s...
05 May 2020
Proposed Passive House Vancouver Tower to Contain Large Social Housing Component
A proposed skyscraper in downtown Vancouver’s West End is attempting to achieve a wide range of mixed residential uses and a new green design standard...
17 March 2020
Renderings Released for Athletic Apparel Headquarters in Vancouver
Morphosis will design a new high-tech global headquarters for Lululemon Athletica in Vancouver, Canada. Working with Francl Architecture and Clive Wilkinson Architects, the team will...
25 February 2020
Proposed Building Along Vancouver Waterfront Remains Divisive After Redesign
In late 2014, Anthony Norfolk was one of two members of the Vancouver Heritage Commission who voted against Cadillac Fairview’s development proposal to build a...
13 February 2020
New Vancouver Condominium Development at River District Targets First-Time Home Buyers
Paradigm consists of three components: a 22-story tower, five-story mid-rise, and three-story town homes, with units ranging from 455 to 1,600 square feet (42 to...
07 February 2020
Plans Revealed for Large-Scale Development in Downtown Vancouver
For years, there has been much speculation over the planned future redevelopment of the Hudson’s Bay parkade site in downtown Vancouver. The city block-sized site—framed...
18 December 2019
Vancouver-Area Proposals Move Forward
Alison Brooks Architects has won approval for a residential-led scheme in Vancouver, Canada, featuring a series of towers, the tallest a 38-story skyscraper. The project...
22 November 2019
Office Tower Proposed to Replace Parking Garage on Vancouver’s Alley Oop
A rezoning application has been submitted by local developer Reliance Properties to turn the property of a 1969-built, six-story car park in downtown Vancouver into...
15 November 2019
Large-Scale Urban Scheme to Rise in Vancouver Neighborhood
The Squamish First Nation has extensive plans to build upon their land in Vancouver. The proposal includes 6,000 units across 11 towers within a 500-acre...
22 August 2019
Proposed Vancouver Skyscraper Could Become One of World's Largest Passive House Buildings
Henson Developments has proposed a massive 60-story Passive House tower in Vancouver, which could become one of the largest in the world if completed. Passive...
15 August 2019
Suburban Mall to be Transformed in New Vancouver Regeneration Scheme
Henriquez Partners Architects have filed a development application for a five-story civic center, a 22-story non-market-housing building, and a portion of a nine-acre park—all of...
19 July 2019
Major Tech Developer set to Move into Futuristic Vancouver Tower
According to a new report, Apple is planning to open new offices in a quickly-growing Vancouver development. Apple will join the likes of Deloitte and...
21 June 2019
Vancouver’s New Tallest Office Tower to Reach Completion in 2022
What was once the site of a multi-level parking garage with a few office levels on the top floors of the structure is now a...
08 May 2019
Developer Proposes Timber Skyscraper in Vancouver
Delta Land Development and its team is in the process of planning what could be the world’s tallest mass timber building in Vancouver’s Broadway Corridor....
01 May 2019
Vancouver Skyscraper Design Inspired by Nearby Mountains
A 99-meter-tall, 33-story residential tower that will incorporate elements of the nearby mountains is being proposed at the site of a former gas station...
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