Place Ville Marie
Office skyscraper and shopping complex in Montreal, Quebec, Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Place Ville Marie (PVM for short) is a large office and shopping complex skyscraper in Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, comprising four office buildings and an underground shopping plaza. The main building, 1 Place Ville Marie (formerly Royal Bank Tower from its anchor tenant), was built in the International style in 1962 as the headquarters for the Royal Bank of Canada. While RBC's corporate headquarters and the majority of its management operations have been based in Toronto's Royal Bank Plaza since 1976, Place Ville Marie remains RBC's head office, a distinct title from its corporate headquarters.[5] It is a 188 m (617 ft), 47-storey, cruciform office tower. The complex is a nexus for Montreal's Underground City, the world's busiest, with indoor access to over 1,600 businesses, numerous subway stations, a suburban transportation terminal, and tunnels extending throughout downtown. A counter-clockwise rotating beacon on the rooftop lights up at night, illuminating the surrounding sky with up to four white horizontal beams that can be seen as far as 50 kilometres (31 mi) away. This beacon is not considered as a NAVAID for aviation purposes.
Place Ville Marie | |
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Former names | Royal Bank Tower |
General information | |
Type | Office |
Architectural style | International |
Address | 1 Place Ville Marie Montreal, Quebec H3B 2B6 |
Coordinates | 45.5015°N 73.5684°W / 45.5015; -73.5684 |
Construction started | 1958 |
Completed | 1962 |
Owner | Ivanhoé Cambridge |
Management | Ivanhoé Cambridge |
Height | |
Roof | 188 m (617 ft) |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 47 |
Floor area | 95,922 m2 (1,032,500 sq ft) |
Lifts/elevators | 32 |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | I.M. Pei & Partners Dimitri Dimakopoulos |
Developer | William Zeckendorf |
Structural engineer | Severud Associates |
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References | |
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