Suncor Energy Centre | |
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General information | |
Status | Completed |
Type | Office |
Location | 150 6th Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
Coordinates | 51°02′53″N 114°03′48″W / 51.04806°N 114.06333°W |
Construction started | April 2, 1982[1] |
Topped-out | May 26, 1983 (West) |
Completed | 1984 |
Cost | CAD$200-million (equivalent to $714-million in 2023) |
Owner | Brookfield Properties & ARCI Inc. |
Management | Brookfield Properties |
Height | |
Roof | 215 m (705 ft) (west),[3] 130 m (427 ft) (east)[4] |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 53 (west), 32 (east) |
Floor area | 101,258 m2 (1,089,930 sq ft) (west) 45,410 m2 (488,800 sq ft) (east)[2] |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | WZMH Architects |
Developer | Brookfield Properties |
Main contractor | CANA Construction Company Limited |
The Suncor Energy Centre,[5] formerly the Petro-Canada Centre, is a 181,000-square-metre (1,950,000 sq ft) project composed of two granite and reflective glass-clad office towers of 32 floors and 52 floors, in the office core of downtown Calgary, Alberta. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat lists the west tower (215 m or 705 ft as measured to top of the structure), as the 23rd tallest building in Canada and the 6th tallest skyscraper outside of Toronto, as of 2023[update].[2] The west tower overtook the Calgary Tower as the tallest free-standing structure in Calgary from its completion in 1984, until being surpassed by the neighbouring Bow in 2010.[6] The office towers encompass 158,000 m2 (1,700,000 sq ft) of rentable office space with the complex also containing 23,000 m2 (250,000 sq ft) of retail and underground parking area. A glass-enclosed walkway (part of the +15 System) provides shelter and easy access to the surrounding buildings.
The building was often called Red Square in its early years, a derisive reference to its primary occupant Petro-Canada, which was a federal Crown Corporation created under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's National Energy Program.[7] Following the completion of the complex in 1984, one writer for the Calgary Herald described the buildings as "a twin-towered, $200-million monument to socialism", and later Premier Peter Lougheed would blame Petro-Canada and the two towers for the collapse of the Calgary real-estate boom, in part by flooding the market.[8] Petro-Canada was privatized in 1991 under the Brian Mulroney government and acquired in 2009 by the complex's current namesake, Suncor Energy, which continues to operate the company as a subsidiary.[9]
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