Challenger Cities EP70: Building a Village in the Sky with Anson Kwok

Challenger Cities by Iain Montgomery

Episode notes

Anson Kwok has spent fourteen years building Canada's tallest tower at the foot of Yonge Street. As VP of Sales and Marketing at Pinnacle International, he's had a front row seat to how Toronto has transformed from a city of downtown parking lots to one of the most dense urban skylines in North America. We talk about what it actually takes to build a vertical city inside a city that wasn't designed for one, why the rules written for 20-storey buildings don't survive contact with a 106-storey one, and what patience has to do with getting any of it right.

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torontoCanadaontarioarchitectureskyscrapersupertallcommunitybuildingresidential