How tall is First Canadian Place?

[hawc]

Flew around it today. I had to be up over 300 meters to comfortably move around it. Not sure of the exact height to clear the antennas, but I was definitely over 300 meters just for the roof.

 

[kris]

I measured it on Google earth pro it was like 292m if I recall while other buildings were accurate to what they claim.

@hawc the drone uses a barometer for height which is not calibrated perfectly

 

[Koops65]

Seems the staff has little interest in making the call about this. Seems they would rather leave the height at 298 metres with no known source. I tried...

 

[ProjectEnd]

I've just learned that upon completion, O&Y registered the building with Guinness as 'the tallest bank building in the world', for which I assume they would have had to supply some documentation. The record was set at 935 feet or 284.9m. It is unclear from what and to what Guinness measured / measures that record though.

 

[innsertnamehere]

I've just learned that upon completion, O&Y registered the building with Guinness as 'the tallest bank building in the world', for which I assume they would have had to supply some documentation. The record was set at 935 feet or 284.9m. It is unclear from what and to what Guinness measured / measures that record though.

That seems accurate to the roof, minus the mechanical penthouse. Google Earth measures that at around 286 metres - with lines up with Google Earth generally measuring a little bit above actual height.

I would say that it's pretty safe to say actual height is 291m to mechanical penthouse.

 

[ProjectEnd]

That seems accurate to the roof, minus the mechanical penthouse. Google Earth measures that at around 286 metres - with lines up with Google Earth generally measuring a little bit above actual height.

I would say that it's pretty safe to say actual height is 291m to mechanical penthouse.

The City's shapefile has FCP at 287m so that's almost exactly Google's listing too.