Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant neighbourhood could soon be home to the city’s tallest “hybrid-timber” residential building. An application from Henriquez Partners Architects on behalf of Westbank Projects Corp. goes to public hearing Jan. 23 for a 25-storey rental highrise at Main Street and 5th Avenue. Hybrid-timber construction has become popular in Vancouver, with a staff report pointing out the city is a leader in North America, with an increasing number of large developments incorporating mass timber as primary structural elements. …Hybrid-timber construction includes a combination of heavy steel columns and beams, a concrete core and cross-laminated timber floor slabs topped in concrete. The method has fewer design and functional limitations than an all-mass timber construction. The project calls for 210 rental units, 168 of which would be rented at market prices and 42 at below-market rates.