One Wall Centre, also known as the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre North Tower, is a 48-
storey,
skyscraper
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hotel with residential condominiums in the
Wall Centre development at 1088
Burrard Street
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in
Downtown Vancouver
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,
British Columbia
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, Canada. The tower was designed by
Perkins+Will Canada, and completed in 2001, and went on to win the
Emporis Skyscraper Award
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The award was presented annually by Emporis, a real estate data mining company with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany. ...
for the Best New Skyscraper the same year. As of 2023 it is the sixth-tallest building in the city.
The first 27 floors of the building are the 4 Diamond
Sheraton Hotel. Floors 28, 29, and 30 are the
Club Intrawest Resort floors; which are operated independent of Sheraton. Floors 31 to 48 are residential
condominium
A condominium (or condo for short) is an ownership regime in which a building (or group of buildings) is divided into multiple units that are either each separately owned, or owned in common with exclusive rights of occupation by individual own ...
s. The One Wall Centre tower is part of the Wall Centre complex owned by
Wall Financial Corporation and was largely the vision of
Peter Wall.
Construction
To counteract possible
harmonic swaying during high winds, One Wall has a
tuned water damping system at the top level of the building which consists of two specially designed
water tanks. These tanks are designed so that the
harmonic frequency of the sloshing of the water in the tanks counteracts the harmonic frequency of the swaying of the building.
The Sheraton Wall Centre required a deep
excavation — the deepest excavation prior to
Living Shangri-La for a building in the city.
According to the June 2004 edition of Elevator World, Richmond Elevator Maintenance Ltd. won a contract for the lowest bid to supply the building's elevators, one of the local elevator firm's first examples of
traction elevators. The installation features 10 elevators, 8 of which are high speed geared machines. The hotel is served by four traction elevators at , with a group of 3 for public usage and a single private VIP access elevator. There are also two hotel service elevators with capacity each at . The apartments are served by 2 elevators, each with a capacity of at . There are also 2 roped hydraulic elevators: the to serve the parking garage, and the to serve the banquet floors. There are 6 escalators installed by Fujitec.
During construction, as the building's glass was completed on the lower floors, construction was stopped as the City of Vancouver disagreed with the dark colour of glass that being applied.
The building was completed with the upper floors a more translucent shade of glass, resulting in a two-toned appearance.
[ The translucent windows were ultimately defective and replaced with darker windows, resulting in a uniform appearance of the building, in 2013.]
Gallery
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See also
* List of tallest buildings in Vancouver
References
External links
*
One Wall Centre project page
at the Glotman•Simpson Group
*
{{Vancouver landmarks
Skyscrapers in Vancouver
Residential buildings completed in 2001
Residential skyscrapers in Canada
Skyscraper hotels in Canada
Modernist architecture in Canada
Condo hotels in Canada
2001 establishments in British Columbia
Residential buildings in British Columbia