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Skyscraper located at 650 West Georgia Street in Downtown Vancouver
Scotia Tower
General information
Address
650 West Georgia Street
Town or city
Vancouver, British Columbia
Opened
8 June 1977 (1977-06-08)
Technical details
Floor count
35
Design and construction
Architect(s)
Webb Zerafa and Menkès
49°16′55″N123°07′05″W / 49.281960°N 123.117992°W / 49.281960; -123.117992Scotia Tower is a 35-storey office tower in Vancouver, British Columbia built for the Bank of Nova Scotia. The project was announced in 1971, construction began in 1974, and the building opened officially on 8 June 1977. Architects for the project were Zebb Zerafa and Menkès of Toronto. The building was constructed concurrently with Scotia Centre in Calgary, and the designs of the two towers followed similar concepts. The Scotia Tower was a controversial building at the time of its construction, as the project involved the demolition of the historic Birks Building and Allen/Strand Theatre.
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of 1969. The first office tower in the complex, Duke Tower, was opened on 1 February 1970. The shopping centre, called Scotia Mall, housed tenants such...
shootings and set fires at 16 locations in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, killing 22 people and injuring three others before he was shot and killed...
and the largest town in Nova Scotia by population. Neighbouring communities include Reserve Mines, Dominion, and Tower Road. As early as the 1720s, the...
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impressive tower that commemorates Nova Scotia's achievement of representative government in 1758. Constructed between 1908 and 1912, the Memorial Tower was...
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