Iconic oak tree replaced atop Vancouver West End high-rise

An oak tree that that has been part of the English Bay skyline for three decades has been replaced.
Crews used a crane on Wednesday to lift the 10-metre high, three metre wide pin oak tree up 60 metres to the roof deck of a condo tower on Beach Avenue in Vancouver’s West End.
The first tree, also a pin oak, was planted on the roof deck in 1987 but was removed earlier this year after it died.
Ron Rule, the  landscape architect who installed the first tree and oversaw the