A scale model on display at Vancouver City Hall showcases what is shaping up to be among the most significant of new skyscrapers in the city's recent building boom. Approved back in April, Oxford Properties and James KM Cheng Architects are teaming up to add another glass pinnacle to the dense downtown skyline, invoking an aesthetic of stacked volumes that has become a bit of a worldwide trend lately.

1155 Melville Street, image via Oxford Properties

The 36-storey proposal spells the end of a parking garage at 1133 Melville Street, which is already showing signs of impending demolition. Photos from the Forum portray the shuttered garage with orange sheets bulging from the lower apertures of the building, a symbol of obsolescence in an increasingly walkable and intensifying core.

Scale model at City Hall, image by Forum contributor Roundabout

Scale model at City Hall, image by Forum contributor Roundabout

Poised to climb to a height just shy of 168 metres, the project would come with retail space on the ground floor. Renderings portray the southern corner punctuated by supports forming the shape of a triangle, seemingly hoisting the cantilevered floors above. The shifting of the stacked boxes open up spaces for outdoor terraces, seven in total, with vegetation and a sky garden providing additional unique places to work.

The parking garage readies for demolition, image by Forum contributor Roundabout

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