Scotia Tower
Scotia Tower is a prominent skyscraper located at 650 West Georgia Street in Downtown Vancouver.
The 12th tallest building in the city, it stands at 138 m or 34 storeys tall and completed in 1977 and is a landmark skyscraper near the end of the central business district. The building houses Scotiabank operations for British Columbia and the underground Vancouver Centre, with its various shoppes and attendant street retail and theatres. The malls are linked to Pacific Centre and the Bay and a SkyTrain subway station via subterranean passages beneath Georgia and Granville Streets.
The Georgia and Granville corner of the site was the former location of the Birk's Store in Vancouver, an ornate Edwardian edifice that was torn down in 1974 to make way for construction of the Scotia Tower and Vancouver Centre. Birk's was the first tenant in the new corner-retail location after the Centre'es construction but has since moved to Granville and West Hastings; that location is now the main downtown store of London Drugs.
Scotia Tower (Montreal)
The Scotia Tower is a skyscraper in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is 27 stories, and 127.64 metres (418.8 ft) tall. It was designed by WZMH Architects and constructed in 1990. It was built in the postmodern architectural style, with granite and glass facades. Tour Scotia is located at 1002 Sherbrooke Street West opposite McTavish Street, and is linked to Montreal's Underground City and Peel station on the Montreal Metro.
