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Vancouver House is more than just another condo highrise, it’s become a building that almost everyone has an opinion about. Some love it for standing out in a sea of rectangular cuboid towers; others hate it as a symbol of the city’s real estate mania.

The first residential move-ins are expected next month, four years after construction began in 2015.

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From the start, the 60-storey Vancouver House hasn’t been a typical condo project.

The differences that set it apart include how the unique challenges of the site were solved by a Danish architect and the contradiction between looking unsteady but being built to withstand double the most extreme earthquake predicted for Vancouver.

The site is one of a handful singled out by the City of Vancouver for special treatment. Situated by the southbound Howe Street on-ramp to the Granville Street Bridge, it was designated for a tall, distinct building at a gateway to downtown.