I doubt they went 'overboard.' A proper professional engineering job would (of course) suffice.
The key really is that Translink would have been in charge of whatever they determined necessary to keep the guideway supports sound. Usually the structure for the guideway is designed and kept independent of the building structure - isolated within the surrounding construction. (You can see this at the mall around New West Station.)
So, it looks as if tower 1 will be 173.5ish metres tall. Base elevation is 16.61 metres, Mechanical roof says 188.11 metres (171.5 metres) but the crown appears to extend around 2 metres above that, so 173.5 metres.
Do we know what's being built on the south half of the site?
The approved plans have two residential towers, and a large office tower, but Onni appear to still be only selling units in towers 1 to 3, on the north side. Although the tower cranes are now up, they don't seem to have announced the other towers, and they're still leasing the 80,000 sq ft of office in Phase 1, with no mention of Phase 2. The commercial brokers don't seem to think the larger office is under construction yet.
The second phase of a major residential development project at the Gilmore SkyTrain station is set to face the test of public approval next Tuesday.
Towers five and six of the Gilmore Place master plan – highrises reaching 48 storeys and 43 storeys respectively – are heading to public hearing Tuesday after getting first reading from city council earlier this month.
Combined, the two towers would add just over 1,000 apartment units to an area right next to the Gilmore SkyTrain station, according to staff reports on the zoning amendments.
On top of needing to pass a public hearing and gain approval from city council, zoning amendments for the towers also rely on the final approval of a third tower in the Gilmore Place master plan. That building – a 37-storey office tower that includes a three-storey commercial base for all three towers – passed through public hearing unscathed in June and gained second reading in July.
The commercial base will include what staff referred to as a “kiss-and-ride,” which will connect the buildings to the southeast side of the Gilmore SkyTrain station, as well as to buses.
If it all goes ahead, that will mean approval for six of 10 Gilmore Place towers, with three towers currently under construction at the corner of Gilmore Avenue and Lougheed Highway. That includes what will be the tallest residential tower west of Ontario, at 64 storeys.
But to get full approval for towers five and six, the city will also need to reach second reading for the rezoning in phase three of the Gilmore Place plan, located to the east of phase two. That zoning amendment – introduced to council earlier this month, is expected to see the construction of two towers on top of a commercial base.
That includes one tower that will host all of the rental obligations for phases two and three of the plan. According to city regulations, developers of multi-family units must include 20% rentals at a cost of 80% of the average rent recorded by the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
The developer is proposing to consolidate the requirements from all of phase two and three into tower eight, the height of which is not defined in the preliminary rezoning report.
According to staff reports, the properties planned for phases two and three are currently either vacant or occupied by older light-industrial buildings or by parking. At the northeast side of the Gilmore Place plan, where towers nine and 10 are planned to go up, sits a Honda dealership.
The Gilmore Place master plan was given final approval by council in July 2018, and it forms part of the city’s long-term plan for the Brentwood town centre.
Thanks. I guess they would need cranes to finish the below grade parkade for the site however they chose to proceed They could pause and then sell the two towers before they build them, or build them as rental, or (if they can borrow the funds to construct 1,000 units) build and then sell.
It would be amazing if they built that big an office tower with no prelease, and the odd thing is that their websites say "up to 680,000 sq ft" as if there's an option to build less. I guess if there's nothing published, we'll see what happens once the below grade work is complete - which will take a while.
Man, does this project look tall from Highway 1 when driving eastbound. It is hard to believe that the currently taller tower will end up significantly shorter than the other one.
Phase 1 expands south of Skytrain tracks; however to me it looks like they might have started work on phase 2 already as they seem to excavate all the way to Dawson Street.
Phase 1 expands south of Skytrain tracks; however to me it looks like they might have started work on phase 2 already as they seem to excavate all the way to Dawson Street.
This one shows that tower #11 is proposed as 73 storey building!
Thanks - those are a great find! Onni didn't have quite as ambitious a program and the approved masterplan had Lougheed as a commercial node. It looks like the two new tallest towers replace that, with a second slightly shorter office building (tower 9) near the currently approved one (tower 4).
I love the variation in height and the proposed heights are incredible, especially in Phase 3. Several towers over 60 floors is unbelievable.
Density on this block is going to be incredible and many of those lower floor apartments are going to be in shade through much of the day. I can't really say that it looks like an appealing place to live due to the extreme density, but as cityscape and skyline it's going to be unparalleled in the region. This is even bigger than the fully built out City of Lougheed.
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