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Today I took a look around the neighborhood of my new company. Nice contrasts, aside to this building there are buildings that may be 100 years old.
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Die Zwillingstürme der Deutschen Bank sind 155 Meter hoch.
The twin towers of Deutsche Bank are 155 meters high.
Les tours jumelles de Deutsche Bank de 155 mètres de haut.
la tour CMA CGM (aussi appelée "French Line", de l'architecte Zaha Hadid), gratte-ciel et futur siège social de la compagnie (33 étages, 147 mètres, plus haute construction de la ville) situé dans le quartier d'affaires Euroméditerranée (Arenc), à Marseille (photo mai 2008) [13002]
la tour CMA CGM (aussi appelée "French Line", de l'architecte Zaha Hadid), gratte-ciel et futur siège social de la compagnie (33 étages, 147 mètres, plus haute construction de la ville) situé dans le quartier d'affaires Euroméditerranée (Arenc), à Marseille (photo mai 2008) [13002]
Frankfurt am Main, Maintower, Höhe 200m (mit Spitze 240 m), erbaut 1996 - 1999, rechts daneben Commerbank Tower und Japan Center
Fort Bonifacio Global City, Taguig
Metro Manila, Philippines
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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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