400 West Georgia Street | 91.74m | 24s | Westbank | Merrick Architecture

[Surrealplaces]

Similar to Calgary. There were some older buildings built using steel frame, and then everything seemed to go to concrete for a while. There still seems to be a toss up though, as some of the recent buildings have been concrete and some steel. Most of the office towers (EAP, Brookfield Place, 707-5th and The Bow) have been steel with concrete core. The Bow was entirely steel.

IIRC steel in NA has flopped flopped between China and the US for the past decade or two. At times then the cost of oil was high US mills were producing a lot of it. Maybe it's something to do with that?

I always assumed that steel was more expensive to use in Vancouver since there aren't any local steel mills.
That said, some older buildings are steel frame -
#rd Hotel Vancouver
Old Main Post Office
TD Tower and the other older buildings at Pacific Centre (but that could be an eastern bias as it was built by Fairview Corporation (predecessor to Cadillac Fairview).

 

[officedweller]

If cost of oil was high, maybe transport from China became too expensive?

 

[Surrealplaces]

That is indeed the case. I have some friends in the U.S who work at steel mill , and for the past couple of decades the cycle has been the same.....price of oil goes up and it becomes more expensive to ship from China, next the mills start back up, when oil is cheap they shut down.

If cost of oil was high, maybe transport from China became too expensive?

 

[Roundabout]

 

[City Of Rain]

Glad to see the lower floors are in progress.

 

[Rising Mist]

I'm anxious to see what the glass looks like in real life.

 

[City Of Rain]

My turn

IMG_2271 by Hung Lam, on Flickr
IMG_2273 by Hung Lam, on Flickr
IMG_2276 by Hung Lam, on Flickr
IMG_2278 by Hung Lam, on Flickr
IMG_2310 by Hung Lam, on Flickr
IMG_2311 by Hung Lam, on Flickr
IMG_2312 by Hung Lam, on Flickr
IMG_2313 by Hung Lam, on Flickr
IMG_2315 by Hung Lam, on Flickr
IMG_2317 by Hung Lam, on Flickr

 

[officedweller]

Cantilever pieces being installed - they don't seem to angle out much (yet?)

Pics by me today:

and some earlier pics by McMinsen at SSP:

Some crazy looking pieces of steel (pics 4-7).

Oct.31 '19, my pics

 

[City Of Rain]

This project is going to be unique but just too shame that its just a mid rise in my book.

 

[JWhite]

Totally would be cool to see this tower standout in the skyline.

 

[City Of Rain]

At street level this tower would look cool but I doubt you'd be able to see it from the distance since it 'd be hidden by other taller buildings.

 

[JWhite]

For sure. I mean it would look cool if it was tall enough to see from all over.

 

[Roundabout]

For sure. I mean it would look cool if it was tall enough to see from all over.

Agreed! They should've made it 2x as tall.

 

[officedweller]

Pic by me Thurs Nov 21st.

You can see some temporary columns (supported by guy wires) to support the protruding cubes while being built.

 

[City Of Rain]

Hope there will be some kind of observation deck up there, in the renders it shows people standing on the glass floor looking down at the street level.