With its 360-degree viewing deck, it also serves as a tourist attraction, offering a physically unobstructed view of the city.
The hippo area will have a below-water viewing deck similar to that in the Northwest Passage Exhibit.
The upper floors were planned to contain restaurants and the second-largest public viewing deck in the UK, behind the Shard's.
The centerpiece, a 54-story office tower topped by a six-story art museum and a panoramic viewing deck, is expected to draw 100,000 visitors a day on weekends.
Some lodges have spacious verandahs and wooden viewing decks and are set on the Mlawula River.
Immediately below it an outside viewing deck; at ground level, there is a shopping center with major world brands.
The restaurant is a tourist attraction, with a wraparound viewing deck and an atrium containing an artificial geyser.
Under the crown will be an open-air viewing deck.
The terminal does not have a public viewing deck, which has attracted public criticism.
"High" is certainly how you feel 114 stories above Toronto, scoping the city from the central viewing deck of the science-fictional CN Tower.