Landmark Place

Landmark Place is the tallest building in downtown Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, at the corner of Main Street East and Catharine Street South in the Corktown neighbourhood. This 43-storey building (130 metres/427 feet) was completed in 1974, and was originally known as the Century 21 building.^[1] It was built by Al Frisina as a mixed use building; commercial, residential and retail. Original plans included adding a heliport and a revolving rooftop restaurant but those plans were scrapped. Frisina also believes that no other building will be built in Hamilton taller than Landmark Place because as he puts it; 'the demand's not there and nobody's crazy enough to do it.' In the early 1960s, Frisina took on Hamilton's six-storey height limit. He brought in a consultant who told the city it could save money on services by building up instead of out. Frisina won and built the 18-storey Clarendon on Hunter near Bay. Today it is known as The Fontainebleu.^[2]

Landmark Place
General information
Type	Residential/ retail
Architectural style	Brutalist / Modernist
Location	Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Completed	1974
Height
Roof	127 m (417 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	44 including observation deck
Lifts/elevators	6

The top 5 floors of the building are now occupied by luxury suites.^[1]

Images

• 
  Main Street, looking East
• 
  Landmark Place

See also

• List of tallest buildings in Hamilton, Ontario