First Canadian Place
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| First Canadian Place | |
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| Information | |
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| Location | Toronto, Canada |
| Status | Complete |
| Constructed | 1975 |
| Use | Office |
| Height | |
| Antenna/Spire | 355 m |
| Roof | 298.1 m |
| Top floor | 289.9 m |
| Technical Details | |
| Floor count | 72 |
| Floor area | 250,849 m² |
| Elevator count | 39 |
| Companies | |
| Architect | Bregman + Hamann Architects (Design Consultant: Edward Durrell Stone & Associates) |
First Canadian Place is a skyscraper in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. At 298 metres, or 978 feet (355 metres with antenna included), it is Canada's tallest skyscraper and the eleventh tallest building in North America. It is the third tallest free-standing structure in Canada, after CN Tower, also in Toronto, and the Inco Superstack in Sudbury, Ontario.
First Canadian Place is located at the northwest corner of the intersection of King and Bay streets in Toronto, the centre of Canadian financial industry. It is home to the Toronto headquarters of the Bank of Montreal, the oldest Canadian bank (hence the 'first').
The architect was Bregman + Hamann Architects and the design consultant was Edward Durrell Stone. The building is noted for its white stone finish, unusual in a city of glass, steel, and concrete surfaces. There are six hundred tons of Italian white marble on each floor. When built it was 8th tallest building in the world (currently 34th) to structural top and tallest building in the world outside of Chicago and New York. It was also the tallest building in the Commonwealth of Nations until the completion of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1998. The Bank of Montreal "M-bar" logo at the top of the building was the highest sign in the world from 1975 until overtaken by the sign atop CITIC Plaza in 1997.
The building was constructed in 1976, at the site of the Old Toronto Star Building. It was the last of corners of King and Bay to be redeveloped and a major bidding war began over who would redevelop the site after the Star left. This battle was won by the then little known firm of Olympia and York. However the election of reformist mayor David Crombie led to new rules banning skyscrapers. It took three years of lobbying before permission for the tower was granted.
The building is on the PATH system and has 29 elevators. The roof contains a number of antennas used for radio and television broadcasting. The facade was altered for the first time in 2004, when the former blue bank logo was replaced with blue BMO lettering and the new white-and-red logo.
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[edit] Broadcasting
The following Toronto-area broadcasters have their transmitters atop First Canadian Place [1]:
[edit] FM stations
- CKLN-FM 88.1
- CIRV-FM 88.9
- CIUT-FM 89.5
- CJBC-FM 90.3 (Radio-Canada Espace Musique)
- CJAQ-FM 92.5 (Jack FM)
- CFXJ-FM 93.5 (Flow 93.5)
- CFMZ-FM 96.3 (Classical 96)
- CBLA-FM 99.1 (CBC Radio One)
- CJSA-FM 101.3 (CMR Diversity FM)
- CFNY-FM 102.1 (102.1 The Edge) #
- CKAV-FM 106.5 (Aboriginal Voices Radio)
- CILQ-FM 107.1 (Q107) #
# backup transmitter; main transmitter on CN Tower
[edit] TV stations
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