<P> Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada has more high - rise buildings per capita than most North American metropolitan centres with populations exceeding 1,000,000 . Vancouver's population density is the 4th - highest in North America and the city has more residential high - rises per capita than any other city on the continent . </P> <P> There are roughly 650 high - rise buildings that equal or exceed 35 m (115 ft)., and roughly 50 buildings that equal or exceed 100 metres (328 ft). Vancouver has 27 protected view corridors which limit the construction of tall buildings which interfere with the line of sight to the North Shore Mountains, the downtown skyline, and the waters of English Bay and the Strait of Georgia . </P> <P> The tallest building in Vancouver is the 62 - storey, 201 m (659 ft) Living Shangri - La and represents the city's efforts to add visual interest into Vancouver's skyline . The Private Residences at Hotel Georgia completed in 2012 at 157 m (515 ft) and 48 stories is currently the second - tallest in the city . One Wall Centre, at 150 m (492 ft) tall, with 48 storeys, is currently the city's third tallest building . One Wall Centre has the distinction of being the first building in the world to use a tuned liquid column damper to control wind vibrations . One tower currently under construction, Trump Vancouver at 188 metres will become the city's 2nd tallest building when completed in 2016 . </P> <P> Vancouver's history of skyscrapers began with the Dominion Building (1909), the Sun Tower (1911) (originally named the World Tower, then the News - Advertiser Tower, after the newspaper it was home to in each case), the Vancouver Block (1912), the second Hotel Vancouver (1916) and the Marine Building (1929). The third Hotel Vancouver was completed in 1939 at 111 m (364 ft) tall, and was the first building to have stood taller than 100 m (328 ft) in the city . </P>

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