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A 64-storey residential tower approved by Burnaby City Hall is set to become the tallest building in B.C., but is it the tallest in the West?

Two Gilmore Place, at the corner of Gilmore Avenue and Lougheed Highway, at least 214 metres when built, would be taller than Vancouver’s two tallest buildings: Living Shangri-La (200.9 m and 59 storeys) and the Trump International Hotel and Tower (187.8 m and 63 storeys).

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And Two Gilmore Place is also set to climb more than 25-metres higher than Burnaby’s completed tallest buildings — Solo District Altus, at 188 m, and Brentwood One and Brentwood Two, at 186-m each.

It’s the “tallest residential tower in Western Canada,” Duncan Wlodarczak, spokesman for the Onni Group, said in an email.

But there are six buildings (completed or under construction) in Calgary and Edmonton that are or will be taller, according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), which ranks the world’s tallest buildings on skyscrapercentre.com.