Home Oil Tower is part of a high-rise skyscraper

Skyscraper

A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building of many stories, often designed for office and commercial use. There is no official definition or height above which a building may be classified as a skyscraper...

 complex in Calgary

Calgary

Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...

, Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. It is located at 324 8 Avenue SW, on historic Stephen Avenue

Stephen Avenue

Stephen Avenue is a major pedestrian mall in downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The mall is actually the portion of 8 Avenue SW between 4 Street SW and 1 Street SE. It is open to vehicles only from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m....

 in downtown Calgary

Downtown Calgary

Downtown Calgary is a region of central Calgary, Alberta. It is not a single neighbourhood per se, but is actually a larger community containing three neighbourhoods and a number of districts....

. The base of the structure, shared with its twin, the Dome Tower

Dome Tower, Calgary

Dome Tower is part of a high-rise skyscraper complex in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is located at 333 7th Avenue SW, between the C-Train LRT route and historic Stephen Avenue in downtown Calgary...

, consists of TD Square part of The Core Shopping Centre

The Core Shopping Centre

The CORE Shopping Centre, which consists of TD Square, the Holt Renfrew building, and the former Calgary Eaton Centre, is the dominant shopping complex located in the downtown core of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It spans three city blocks and contains approximately 160 retailers on four levels...

 and the Devonian Gardens

Devonian Gardens (Calgary)

Devonian Gardens is a large indoor park and botanical garden located in the downtown core of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The park is currently closed for a major $23.5-million renovation and is expected to re-open in Summer 2012....

 urban park.

The tower has a height of 137.1 m (449.8 ft) and holds 29 floors. Designed by CPV Group Architects and Engineers Ltd in late modernist

Modernism

Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...

style, it was built by PCL Construction and was completed in 1977. The building is managed by 20 Vic Management.