New York City’s 432 Park Avenue building is a supertall, classified as over 300 meters tall and 100 meters taller than Vancouver’s Shangri-La. This latest court decision allows a class action certification meaning that all condo unit owners in the Shangri-La’s two stratas can take part in the claim, seeking to have costs paid for replacement of the curtain-wall four-sided glass units “ which are said to be integral to the proper functioning of the building and separate the exterior and interior environments.” ![]() You can imagine the challenge for the strata owners where they want to go forward to have the window issue addressed, but still not frighten off potential strata unit buyers interested in the building. Vancouver Sun journalist Joanne Lee-Young has been reporting on the Shangri-La window debacle, including the fact that one set of strata minutes of the tower (there are two residential stratas in the building) were allegedly rewritten omitting some of the shattering window detail. That decision which you can read here has been released by the Supreme Court of British Columbia. A lengthy court trial reviewed the liability, in a case that was reserved 130 days of court time. In 2021 the cost of replacing those exterior windows was north of 60 million dollars. The tower’s strata minutes document challenges in this Westbank development built by Ledcor which includes heat stress fractures in the windows potentially causing the windows to instantaneously shatter, which could be a problem to passing pedestrians or users of the tower’s pool area. ![]() In Vancouver the tallest building at 62 storeys and 201 meters in vertical height is the Shangri-La, 1100 block of Georgia Street completed in 2009. At Viewpoint Vancouver we previously wrote about some of the ongoing issues that happen in tall tower strata buildings which can be very expensive and frustrating for strata owners.
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