Tour Scotia
Encyclopedia
Tour Scotia is a skyscraper in downtown
Montreal
, Quebec
, Canada
. It is 27 stories, and 127.64 metres (418.8 ft) tall. It was designed by WZMH Architects
and constructed in 1990. It was built in the postmodern architectural style, with granite
and glass facades. Tour Scotia is located at 1002 Sherbrooke Street West opposite McTavish Street
, and is linked to Montreal's Underground City
and Peel station
on the Montreal Metro
.
Downtown Montreal
Downtown Montreal is the central business district of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is nearly enitirely located at the southern most slope of Mount Royal and is approximately bounded by Sherbrooke Street to the north, Papineau Avenue to the east, Guy Street or until Shaughnessy Village to the west,...
Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, 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 27 stories, and 127.64 metres (418.8 ft) tall. It was designed by WZMH Architects
WZMH Architects
WZMH Architects is an architecture company based in Toronto, Canada. The firm was founded in 1961, and is known for the design of landmark structures, skyscrapers, major mixed use, commercial, institutional, residential and hospitality projects, as well as renovation and retrofit projects...
and constructed in 1990. It was built in the postmodern architectural style, with granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
and glass facades. Tour Scotia is located at 1002 Sherbrooke Street West opposite McTavish Street
McTavish Street
McTavish Street is a street in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This street runs up the slope of Mount Royal, from Sherbrooke Street at its southern end, to Pine Avenue. Adjacent to the main campus of McGill University, as of May 28, 2010 the lower half of the street is a car-free zone.Plans call for the...
, and is linked to Montreal's Underground City
Underground city, Montreal
Montreal's Underground City is the set of interconnected complexes in and around Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada...
and Peel station
Peel (Montreal Metro)
Peel is a station on the Green Line of the Metro rapid transit system operated by the Société de transport de Montréal . It is downtown in the borough of Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec, Canada...
on the Montreal Metro
Montreal Metro
The Montreal Metro is a rubber-tired metro system, and the main form of public transportation underground in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada....
.
See also
- List of tallest buildings in Montreal
- Scotia PlazaScotia PlazaScotia Plaza is a Postmodern commercial office complex in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The complex is situated in the financial district of the downtown core, and is generally bordered by Yonge Street on the east, King Street West on the south, Bay Street on the west, and Adelaide Street...
- Toronto corporate offices - Scotia PlaceScotia PlaceScotia Place is an office tower complex in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada that was completed in 1983. It is located at 10060 Jasper Avenue in the heart of Edmonton's Downtown. It is home to several long term tenants such as Grant Thornton, APEGGA, Ernst & Young and Edmonton Transit...
in EdmontonEdmontonEdmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...