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Living Shangri-La
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General information
Status Complete
Type Hotel, Residential, Office
Location 1128 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
V6E 0A8
Coordinates 49°17′09″N 123°07′25″W / 49.28583°N 123.12361°W / 49.28583; -123.12361
Construction started 2005
Completed 2008
Cost CDN$ 350 million
Height
Antenna spire 201.2 m (660 ft)
Roof 197 m (646 ft)
Technical details
Floor count 62
Floor area 61,300 square metres (659,828 sq ft)
Design and construction
Architect James K.M. Cheng Architects Inc.
Developer Westbank Projects Corp.
Shangri-la Hotel, Vancouver
Hotel facts and statistics
Opening date January 24, 2009
Developer Peterson Investment Group & Westbank Projects Corp.
Management Shangri-La Hotels & Resorts
No. of rooms 119
No. of floors 15
Footnotes
North America's first Shangri-la property.

Living Shangri-la is a mixed-use skyscraper in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. It is the tallest building in both Metro Vancouver and British Columbia. The tower has a 5-star hotel and the offices on the first 15-floors. The rest of the tower has condominium apartment units occupying it. It is the 22nd tallest building in Canada. The cost of the building is $350 million. The tower crane that is on the top of the building was fitted with Christmas lights on November 13 and was the tallest crane that was illuminated in the city of Vancouver in 2007.

The building was featured as the headquarters of the fictional company ENCOM International in the 2010 movie Tron: Legacy.

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