The renderings are awesome because it's the phase when architects let their true artistic vision shine without much thought to cost. Then reality hits, and the

The renderings are awesome because it's the phase when architects let their true artistic vision shine without much thought to cost. Then reality hits, and the buildings (usually) never look even 25% as nice. But in this case if they can get 25% of that vision in reality they'll still be better looker buildings than 98% of what you see in Vancouver today.