(05-31-2022, 06:20 PM)Lebronj23 Wrote: Yah true, maybe the region person wrote it down wrong or counted the two underground. I count 44 on the render as well
Yeah they probably included the two underground. I mean...technically those would count as floors but for most people when they see a building from outside they're just counting the ones from the ground elevation up, which in this case would make it 44. Both plans say "44 + (2 U/G LEVELS)" on the architectural plans.
(05-31-2022, 05:28 PM)nms Wrote: What makes 44 floors the magic number (eg this tower and 88 Queen St S)? For the last batch of towers, 25 floors generally seemed to be the topping out number. After 44 floors, what's the next common height?
It could be something to do with zoning in the City of Kitchener...I'm not 100% sure though as I have only worked on 1 skyscraper project in this region (Victoria and Park) so I don't know the nuances of local zoning enough to say.
Either that, or it's just something IN8 is choosing to do. If it's this, it makes sense because 30 Francis was approved with almost no opposition and that had to go through rezoning unlike these two, so maybe they're just hoping that if these two projects are both 44 floors, then they'll be less likely to face opposition from NIMBYs. I'm too lazy to check the architectural plans again but I believe they are, at the very least, different heights despite the same floor count so they will hopefully not look too same-y if that's the case although the cut and paste design of the tower will probably do no no favours. I suspect these 3 skyscrapers will look like horrific monoliths just like Duke Tower does.