Vancouver, BC’s Mount Pleasant Neighborhood Could Be Site of City’s Tallest Hybrid-Timber Tower

Vancouver, BC’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood could soon be home to the city’s tallest hybrid-timber tower, as an application from Henriquez Partners Architects on behalf of Westbank Projects Corp. goes to a public hearing on January 23rd for a 25-story rental high-rise, Business in Vancouver (BIV) reported (1-12-23). The project calls for 210 rental units.

Hybrid-timber construction has become very popular in Vancouver, with a staff report indicating that the city is a leader in North America, with an increasing number of large developments incorporating mass timber as the primary structural element, according to BIV. Hybrid-timber construction includes a combination of heavy steel columns and beams, a concrete core, and CLT floor slabs topped in concrete. The method has fewer design and functional limitations than an all-mass timber construction.