Tall Buildings in Numbers

Canada Rising xxx m Key height of city’s Given the announcement of Absolute World Towers, 00 Building Canada Figures % tallest building 00.0 silhouette of city’s Mississauga, as the CTBUH 2012 Best Tall Building xxx m Population: 33,476,6884 of total tallest building Americas, and its profi ling as the case study in this journal, Total 150 m+ buildings: 56 average height of city’s we thought it would be timely to have a look at tall tallest ten buildings 298 meters 0,000,000 Tallest building height: number of city’s completed buildings in Canada. Here we look at the seven tallest 0.0% buildings 150 m+ average height: 188 meters 150m+ in height and urban agglomerations1 in Canada, and study the 150m+ of pop percentage of country’s total 150 m+ buildings under construction: 18 city’s population and percentage 2 buildings in those agglomerations.  of total country population (TCP) 1. An urban agglomeration is an extended city or town area comprising the built-up area of Building Name Average age of agglomeration’s finished the central place (usually a municipality) plus any cities and suburbs linked in a continuous City 150m+ buildings. Each bar = 1 year. urban area. 2. The focus on buildings over 150 meters in height is driven by the need to ensure accuracy of data, rather than suggesting that this is the threshold for a tall building.

201 m 4,869,621 174 m 2,090,110 1,214,839 % 6.2% 3.6% 14.5 of pop. of pop. of pop. 236 m 226 m 183 m 3 Buildings 14 Buildings 186 m % 29 Buildings 298 m 3,824,221 5.4 Shangri-La of total Vancouver % 25% 190 m 11.4 Vancouver 51.8% of pop. of total

156 m 7 Buildings 223,218 The Bow of total 0.7% Le 1250 Boulevard Calgary 12.5% Rene-Levesque of pop. 0 First Bank Tower of total Montréal buildings Sovereign3 Burnaby 177 m 3. The Sovereign Project is scheduled to be completed 176 m in 2014, and included here 167 m 392,184 as Burnaby currently has no 20,149,052 713,443 1.2% 150m+ buildings. 2.1% of pop. 60.2% of pop. 1 Building 1. 8 % Rest of Canada of population 2 Buildings of total Niagara Falls % Hilton Fallsview 0 Absolute World 3.6 North Tower Towers - Tower D of total buildings Mississauga St. Catharines-Niagara

Rank Geographic Name Population4 Land Area4 Population Density150m+ Buildings5 Combined Height5 Average Bldg Age5 People : Height Ratio

1 Toronto (excluding Mississauga), Ontario 4,869,621 5,614 sq km 867 people per sq km 29 buildings 5,610 meters 16 years 868 people per meter 2 Montréal, Québec 3,824,221 4,258 sq km 898 people per sq km 7 buildings 1,303 meters 35 years 2,935 people per meter 3 Vancouver (excluding Burnaby), British Columbia 2,090,110 2,792 sq km 749 people per sq km 3 buildings 509 meters 7 years 4,106 people per meter

t ions in Canada 4 Ottawa–Gatineau, Ontario 1,236,324 6,287 sq km 197 people per sq km –– –– –– –– 5 Calgary, Alberta 1,214,839 5,108 sq km 238 people per sq km 14 buildings 2,567 meters 19 years 473 people per meter 6 Edmonton, Alberta 1,159,869 9,427 sq km 123 people per sq km –– –– –– –– 7 Québec, Québec 765,706 3,349 sq km 229 people per sq km –– –– –– –– 8 Winnipeg, Manitoba 730,018 5,303 sq km 138 people per sq km –– –– –– ––

by population 9 Hamilton, Ontario 721,053 1,372 sq km 526 people per sq km –– –– –– –– 10 Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo, Ontario 477,160 827 sq km 577 people per sq km –– –– –– –– 11 London, Ontario 474,786 2,666 sq km 178 per sq km –– –– –– –– 12 St. Catharines–Niagara, Ontario 392,184 1,398 sq km 281 people per sq km 1 building 177 meters 3 years 2,216 people per meter

Mississauga, Ontario6 713,443 292 sq km 2,443 per sq km 2 buildings 334 meters Less than 1 year 2,136 people per meter

Burnaby, British Columbia6 223,218 91 sq km 2,453 per sq km –– –– –– –– t Urban Agglomera 12 Larges The Footnotes: 4. Canadian information accurate as of 2011. Data gathered from Statistics Canada. www.statcan.gc.ca 5. Data from The CTBUH Skyscraper Center. www.skyscrapercenter. 6. Since Mississauga and Burnaby have numerous 150m+ buildings themselves, they have been shown separately in this study from the urban agglomerations which contain them.

Until 2001, 26 of 27 buildings 150m+ First Bank Tower, in Toronto, was in height were non-residential constructed in 1975. At 298 meters (predominantly offi ce) buildings. 44 Charles Street West, in Toronto, tall, it is still the tallest building th was the only residential building. in Canada, and currently the 67 Today, 17 of the 18 buildings 150m+ tallest building in the world.5 currently under construction are The average age of 150 m+ 5. According to The CTBUH Skyscraper Center. www.skyscrapercenter. entirely or partially residential. buildings in Canada is 19.

40 | Tall Building in Numbers CTBUH Journal | 2012 Issue IV Timeline of Canadian Skyscraper Completion, Since 1985 Bars represent total number of buildings in existence at the end of each year. Dots represent building type, completion year and height.

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Complete 150 m+ Buildings in Canada (in order of cities with current most 150 m+ buildings) 1985 1995 2005 2012 2015 70 bldgs 1 Toronto 7 11 13 30 44 290 m 2 Calgary 5 8 10 14 15 3 Montréal 4 7 7 7 7 4 Vancouver 0 0 1 3 4 2012: Trump International 1989: Scotia Tower, Toronto 5 Mississauga 0 0 0 2 2 Hotel and Tower, Toronto 60 bldgs 6 Niagara Falls 0 0 0 1 1 270 m 7 Burnaby 0 0 0 0 1 2014: at College PPark,ark, TorToroonto 1990: Brookfield Place, Toronto Rest of Canada 0 0 0 0 0 Canada Total 16 26 31 57 74

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40 bldgs 230 m 1992: Le 1250 Boulevard René-Lévesque, Montréal 20011:11: EiEightgh AvenuAvenuee Place 2010: Bay-Adelaide Centre,, TTorontooronto Eaastst Tower,Tower CalgaryCalgary 1991: Bay-Wellington Tower, Toronto 30 bldgs No buildings over 150 meters were 2013: ,Tower, Toronto 210 m construc te d in Cana da from 1993–1999 2009: SShangri-La,hangri La, VancoVancouver 1989: Bankers Hall East Tower, Calgary 19992:92: Le 11000000 De LaL GauchGauchetiere,tiere, MoMontréal 2000:2000: BankersBankers HallHa l West Tower,Tower, CalgCa gary 20 bldgs 190 m

20001:01: TransCanadaTTran CanadaTower, Calgary 1988: CanterraC nterra TTower,ower, CCalga gary 2005:005: 1 KKingng West,Wes TorontoToronto 10 bldgs 170 m 2006:6 ResideResidencesces of CCollegeollege PParkrk I, ToroToronto

2008:8 QQuantumuantum 2, ToTororonto 1985:1985: 7799 WellingtonWelling on StreetStreet West, Tooronto 0 bldgs 150 m 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015

Note: We can predict 2015 building completions with some accuracy due to projects now in advanced construction.

Future Tallest Ten: 2015 Tallest: 298 meters Average: 256 meters Note: All buildings below are complete or currently under construction, scheduled to be completed by the end of 2015 (see years indicated for completion).

First Bank Tower Trump International Scotia Tower Aura at College Park Brookfi eld Place West Number The Bow Ice Condos at York Le 1250 Boulevard 298 m / 978 ft Hotel and Tower 275 m / 902 ft 272 m / 892 ft 261 m / 856 ft 239 m / 784 ft 238 m / 780 ft 236 m / 774 ft Centre 2 René-Lévesque Toronto, 1975 277 m / 908 ft Toronto, 1989 Toronto, 2014 Toronto, 1990 Toronto, 1973 Toronto, 2015 Calgary, 2012 234 m / 768 ft 226 m / 743 ft Toronto, 2012 Toronto, 2015 Montréal, 1992

CN Tower, in Toronto, is 553 Ontario has 38% of Canada’s meters and the tallest structure Toronto has fi fteen 150 population and six of the

0.1% in Canada, but does not - 15 Toronto 0.1% <0.1% m+ buildings under Istanbul - 14 twelve most populated qualify as a tall building. To be City - 8 York New 2% construction, more than 13% 11% urban agglomerations. eligible for the “CTBUH Tallest 4%3% 24% (Toronto, Ottawa-Gatineau, Hamilton, any other city in the

0.4% - 4 London 38% Building” lists at least 50% of 3% Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, 2% Western World. London and St. Catharines-Niagra) the building’s height must be occupied by usable fl oor area.

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