List of tallest buildings in Vancouver

Skyline of Vancouver
Downtown Vancouver, surrounded by fog
Tallest buildingLiving Shangri-La (2010)
Tallest building height200.9 m (659 ft)
First 150 m+ buildingLiving Shangri-La (2010)
Number of tall buildings (2026)
Taller than 100 m (328 ft)72
Taller than 150 m (492 ft)7
Taller than 200 m (656 ft)1

Vancouver is the most populous city in the Canadian province of British Columbia. With a metropolitan area population of 2,642,825 as of 2021, it is the third largest metropolitan area in Canada. Vancouver's skyline is characterized by its abundance and density of residential towers, unique amongst cities in North America, as well as its position on a peninsula on the Burrard Inlet. As of 2026, Vancouver has 72 buildings that reach a height of 100 m (328 ft), and Greater Vancouver is the metropolitan area with the second most skyscrapers and high-rises in Canada, behind Greater Toronto.

One of the earliest tall buildings in the city was the Hotel Vancouver, one of Canada's grand railway hotels. Vancouver underwent a building boom starting in the mid-1960s, with many notable office towers such as TD Tower and the Harbour Centre being added to the skyline in the 1970s. From the 1980s onwards, Vancouver's urban planning in downtown has been highly influenced by the philosophy of Vancouverism, which encouraged mixed-use developments, narrow high-rise residential towers atop a commercial base, and reliance on public transit. The majority of high-rise construction since the early 1990s has been residential, and this boom has continued to the present.

The city has 27 protected view corridors which limit the construction of tall buildings that interfere with the line of sight to the North Shore Mountains, the downtown skyline, and the waters of English Bay and the Strait of Georgia. Nevertheless, there are seven buildings taller than 150 m (492 ft) in Vancouver today. The tallest building in the city is the 62-storey, 201 (659) Living Shangri-La, completed in 2010. It took the title from One Wall Centre, another mixed-use skyscraper with hotel and residential components, which was completed in 2001. Living Shangri-La was the first building in Vancouver to surpass 150 metres, marking a trend in increasingly tall buildings since the 2010s. Some notable additions include Paradox Hotel Vancouver (2016), Vancouver House (2019), and The Butterfly (2024), currently the city's second, seventh, and fifth-tallest buildings respectively. A relaxation of the view corridor policy in 2024 will likely encourage further growth across the Downtown Peninsula. In 2025, a proposal surfaced for a three-tower complex with a 315 m (1,033) supertall skyscraper, which would become the tallest building in the city and in all of Western Canada if built.

Almost all of the city's buildings that exceed 100 metres in height are located in Downtown Vancouver and the nearby areas that make up the Downtown Peninsula, including Yaletown and Coal Harbour. Shorter high-rises can be found more sparsely in neighbourhoods such as Gastown and Fairview that surround the Peninsula. A growing number of high-rise developments have occurred outside of the peninsula in recent years, including a cluster of high-rises around Marine Drive station in South Vancouver that appeared in the 2010s. The indigenous-led Sen̓áḵw development, currently under construction at the foot of the Burrard Bridge, will extend the skyline to the southwest, while the Oakridge Center redevelopment around Oakridge Park will result in a new high-rise cluster in Oakridge.