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Conçu par la firme d’architectes torontoise, Darling & Pearson, et inauguré en février 1918.
Conceived by the Darling & Pearson architect firm and inaugurated in February 1918, the Sun-Life
head office is the largest building in the british empire built of Beebee granite, which was quarried and worked in and around Beebee, Quebec.
It was built in several stages. The first lower section of the office tower began in 1914. The main section was constructed between 1927 and 1933. When complete, Sun Life's 26 storeys and 400 feet (122 meters) would accommodate 3,000 employees.
Construction required an astonishing 60,000 pieces of granite, including two blocks weighing 17 tons each, and 900 blocks weighing over five tons each! Sun Life was so massive that it occupied one entire side of Dorchester Square in downtown Montreal. When it opened, it breathed life into Montreal’s business district, which was beginning to shift from Old Montreal to the new city.
Built in a layered, almost pyramidical shape, and fronted with an imposing row of four-storey-high Corinthian columns, the building conveys a strong impression. Even today, all who look upon it are struck by the strength, solidity, even confidence it conveys – and what appropriate impressions for what was after all the head office of one of the world’s largest insurance companies!
Legend has it that Sun Life was so secure that during World War II, the British government stashed its gold reserves and even the crown jewels in specially-built, heavily guarded vaults in the building’s third basement. As the story goes, Winston Churchill was so worried about his country’s treasures falling into German hands in an invasion that he had them transported to Canada by boat, in containers labelled “fish.”
Telephone calls to Sun Life could confirm only that the British did store five billion dollars worth of paper securities, shipped across the ocean in absolute secrecy in 1940 – and that the subterranean vaults at Sun Life were guarded around the clock by a 24-man RCMP detachment. (©Townshipsheritage.com)
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Scanned photo from 1969 taken by my mom . 11 Stanwix Street also known as Westinghouse Tower it was also Completed in 1969 and is 23 floors . Building/pic is in Pittsburgh county seat of Allegheny County,Pennsylvania
Although the name is now replaced by a division of ThyssenKrupp, at the time I passed by this building, it still bore the name of Kockums, the Malmö company that had built ships in the city for many years and was best known for an enormous 138m crane that sat in the shipyard from 1974 to 2002.
aaaaaah, ganhei minha Skyscraper azul do meu pai de surpresa *-* eu cheguei hoje da aula a tarde super bad porque tinha ido mal na prova de matemática :/ e cheios de problema na cabeça, e minha Lady ainda não chegou, até chorei D: ai meu pai chegou, falou pra eu fechar os olhos, ai eu vi a caixa do Correios :D mas eu pensava que era a Lady, mas estava escrito Sedex e eu nem me toquei, ai ele abriu e quando eu vi que era a Sky eu fiquei muuuuito feliz! tipo, todas comemora, agora estou melhor õ/ haha
1250 Renè-Lèvesque is the building on the left of the picture. It is also the second tallest building in Montréal.
Designed by the Kohn Pedersen Fox firm.
seen from the Metrobus, en route to the airport, Avenida Hidalgo north of the Alameda
Mexico City, 23 Oct. 2013
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