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Originally Posted by Phil McAvity
You didn't specify which tower might not get built but based on the pictures, i'm assuming the shorter one might not.
The interesting thing about this tower (for us skyscraper nerds anyways) is that it is the exact same height that Petro-Can was for a long time (689 feet). It is only recently that someone changed the height so Petro-Can is now slightly over 700 feet. I expect some slick salesman from Calgary talked some official skyscraper committee member somewhere to include the mechanical penthouse so Calgary can say it has a 700 footer!
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Could be the case. I'm not sure where the actual extra height comes from as the Petro Canada tower has a flat roof. It must be the basic structural height, which is what should be used anyway. Petro Canada tower is the least guilty of any tower for lame ways adding height.
What I don't care for are heights that include an antenna/spire as an official height. One of the notable ones is 1250 Rene Levesque in Montreal where they've added the antenna (they call it a Spire) to give it a height of 755'.