Vancouver city council has approved rezoning for a downtown block, making way for the city’s three largest towers to be built including Western Canada’s tallest skyscraper. The project will feature 920-room hotel and 70,000 square foot conference centre that will be the tallest building in Western Canada, at 315 metres, plus two residential towers with 1,546 market homes. Informed by the sea sponge’s structural ingenuity and ecological purpose, the towers offer a uniquely Vancouver expression of sustainability, beauty, and vertical urbanism.” The hotel tower, if built to the approved height, would become the first “supertall” building (300 metres or taller) west of Toronto. The two residential towers would rank among the tallest in Metro Vancouver.