The Trump Towers

http://www.buzzbuzzhome.com/trump-towers

http://www.vancouverobserver.com/blogs/realestate/trump-tower-vancouver-update-site-not-cursed-and-donald-does-not-take-unsolicited

http://changingcitybook.com/2013/06/19/1055
Not everyone is impressed with such a tower.
http://rabble.ca/news/2013/06/excess-luxury-housing-suffocating-vancouver-open-letter-to-donald-trump

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?p=4557719

http://business.financialpost.com/2012/01/31/trump-opens-canadas-tallest-condo-tower-with-6-million-suites/?__lsa=4579-d45e

http://metronews.ca/news/toronto/447979/torontos-trump-tower-sales-tactics-face-probe-as-buyers-revolt

http://gocanada.about.com/od/torontowheretostay/tp/Trump-Hotel-Toronto.htm

http://life.nationalpost.com/2012/01/31/trump-opens-canadas-tallest-condo-tower-with-6-million-suites

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/11/29/donald-trump-tower-toronto_n_2206080.html

http://www.biv.com/article/20130418/BIV0111/130419924/-1/BIV/vancouver-has-canada-8217-s-priciest-office-space

Space Planes and Ships

http://photos.ca.msn.com/slideshow/photo/what-the-future-of-flight-looks-like/2t35mars

The Towers of Benidorm, Spain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benidorm#Tourism,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/josago/2559041804,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Benidorm

Although Benidorm isn't a rival to the scale & excitement of Rio_de_Janeiro, there is a similar pattern of tall buildings near the beach.

Monaco is a much smaller & more exclusive place.
http://jfmoneymatters.blogspot.ca/2013/04/odeon-tower-of-monaco.html

Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco and Sydney, etc.

MNP is just another BC office tower (stump) that hasn't been permitted to have a 40th floor. Not even offices on a 39th floor, like tower 2 of Bow_Valley_Square,_Calgary. (2BVS) Portland has two office towers taller than 2BVS. However, Portland still doesn't have anything on the horizon to rival Seattle or Calgary's tallest.

http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2012/02/development-buzz-mnp-office-tower-renderings
Any 36 story office building in Calgary & Seattle is practically like a stump now, but in BC its still a giant office tower. While a 36 story office building is big time for Vancouver, Seattle has had a 76 story office tower since the 1980s.
Vancouver height limitations have never allowed any office tower to rival the Smith_Tower that opened in  1914.

http://seattletimes.com/ABPub/2013/01/23/2020190819.gif

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=144400&page=2
Seattle has 2 office towers over 600 feet & 1 just under that. There are 3 over 700 feet & the big one that's well over 900 feet.
Two of the tallest office buildings in BC still don't even reach 500 feet & hardly make Canada's or Australia's tallest office towers.

Unlike most cities, even the ones in scenic settings, an excessive view corridor plan & mentality was created. It continually fueled it self through the decades, while other cities were able to build things on a much larger scale. After a while a tremendous momentum developed & many people just don't see a need for Vancouver to become a real city like Sydney & SF. So many office workers continue to go to Seattle & Calgary while Vancouver has small office buildings.
http://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/view-from-spanish-banks-end-of-dome-shaped-skyline-policy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_San_Francisco#Tallest_buildings,
50_California_Street would be the tallest office tower in Vancouver. Most Vancouver office buildings aren't allowed to even be taller than, 650_California_Street.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Sydney#Tallest_buildings_and_structures_150m.2B
The tallest office building in Vancouver doesn't even make it onto the Sydney list, because no Vancouver office building reaches 150 meters or 492 feet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Seattle#Tallest_buildings
The smaller building in this Seattle complex would be among the tallest office buildings in BC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Union_Square
Its like there are powerful forces that have ensured that upon the 100th anniversary of the 1914 Smith_Tower, there still will be no Vancouver office building taller than it. The main reasons that Seattle & Calgary have office buildings over 500, 600, 700 feet..., is that they don't have to adhere to the Vancouver limitations & the small thinking BC mentality.

When the Suncor_Energy_Centre was built, it was the tallest office tower in Canada outside of Toronto. The smaller tower is still taller than any office building in BC, outside of Vancouver. Although this is a stump in Calgary, its equivalent to one of the tallest office buildings in Vancouver.
http://www.emporis.com/building/suncor-energy-centre-east-tower-calgary-canada

This really shows the scale of difference between Alberta & BC.
http://www.emporis.com/complex/suncor-energy-centre-calgary-canada

Its as if tower 1 was built to show the Vancouver, BC small scale & tower 2 was built to the impressive Seattle size. http://www.emporis.com/complex/union-square-seattle-wa-usa

The 978 feet (298m) tower and the 479 feet (146m) stump.
http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=58678341&page=7
One of the best examples is this stump in Toronto which is the equivalent to the largest office tower in all of Vancouver & BC. Where as this one was built as the tallest office tower in Toronto and all of Canada.
http://www.emporis.com/complex/first-canadian-place-toronto-canada

Unlike Vancouver, Melbourne retained its trams, like the Toronto_streetcar_system & of course, the SF Muni_Metro & San_Francisco_Municipal_Railway#System_expansion. These cities would be in utter transit chaos if they had followed the Vancouver example. Vancouver like many cities, was convinced to get rid of its trams & streetcars. There is hope but as usual, things move slowly in BC. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/03/11/bc-granville-streetcar-rebuild.html
Trams can be quaint & very functional, but sometimes there is no substitute for a subway.
http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2012/12/torontos-cautionary-tale-for-broadway-rapid-transit
A west side subway would need to have longer stations, not the little ones on the Canada Line.
http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2013/03/province-build-ubc-broadway-subway-surrey-rapid-transit

V, BC: City of Limitations and Possibilities

Although Vancouver & other parts of BC have high-rise clusters, they are mostly at on small scale when compared to whats in Toronto, Calgary & Montreal or whats in many of the Australian cities.
http://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/tag/tall-buildings

http://www.emporis.com/images/list/city/sydney-australia

http://www.emporis.com/images/list/city/sanfrancisco-ca-usa/2

Syd TVT http://www.emporis.com/images/details/176873


http://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/photos-feb21-big52-storey-proposal

http://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/view-from-spanish-banks-end-of-dome-shaped-skyline-policy

Calgary vs the Pacific Northwest

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/pulseofcanada/calgary-best-place-live-canada-141350596.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest#Population
BC isn't allowed to have office buildings taller than the tallest buildings in Alberta, Washington State & Oregon.

BC http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?stateID=1
AB http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?stateID=2
WA http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?stateID=24
OR http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?stateID=26

MNP is another BC office tower that hasn't been permitted to have a 40th floor. Not even offices on a 39th floor, like tower 2 of Bow_Valley_Square,_Calgary. (2BVS) Portland has two office towers taller than 2BVS.
http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2012/02/development-buzz-mnp-office-tower-renderings
Any 36 story office building in Calgary & Seattle is almost like a stump now, but in BC its still a giant office tower. While a 36 story office building is big time for Vancouver, Seattle has a 76 story office tower.
Vancouver has never allowed any office tower to rival the Smith_Tower & that 1914 era building has become a stump long before 2014.

http://seattletimes.com/ABPub/2013/01/23/2020190819.gif

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=144400&page=2
Seattle has 2 office towers over 600 feet, 3 over 700 feet & one over 900 feet.
Two of the tallest office buildings in BC don't even reach 500 feet & hardly make Canada's or Australia's tallest office towers.
http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=58623205&page=7

Its impressive to see that Calgary is rivaling some of the tallest buildings in Denver.
Calgary http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=3
Denver http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=129

INDEX

http://moneytowers.blogspot.ca/2009/08/index-page.html