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Maritime Centre (Halifax)
The Maritime Centre is an office building in Downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, home to the regional telecommunications company Bell Aliant (formerly the Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company, after which it is named). The main entrance is located at the corner of Barrington Street and Spring Garden Road. History Planning and construction The project was launched in an effort to consolidate various Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company, MT&T departments and offices. In 1972, the company had around 1,100 administrative staff working from over a dozen locations in Halifax. MT&T already owned land at the corner of Spring Garden Road and Barrington Street, and the Capitol Theatre was for sale, allowing the company to enlarge the site. On 7November 1973, MT&T announced that they would purchase and demolish the theatre, which was at that time the largest auditorium with a stage in Halifax. A citizen's group called "Save the Capitol Society" was quickly formed. The group tried ...
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Modern Architecture
Modern architecture, also called modernist architecture, or the modern movement, is an architectural movement and style that was prominent in the 20th century, between the earlier Art Deco and later postmodern movements. Modern architecture was based upon new and innovative technologies of construction (particularly the use of glass, steel, and concrete); the principle functionalism (i.e. that form should follow function); an embrace of minimalism; and a rejection of ornament. According to Le Corbusier, the roots of the movement were to be found in the works of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, while Mies van der Rohe was heavily inspired by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The movement emerged in the first half of the 20th century and became dominant after World War II until the 1980s, when it was gradually replaced as the principal style for institutional and corporate buildings by postmodern architecture. Origins Modern architecture emerged at the end of the 19th century from ...
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Fortis Inc
Fortis may refer to: Business * Fortis (Swiss watchmaker), a Swiss watch company * Fortis Films, an American film and television production company founded by actress and producer Sandra Bullock * Fortis Healthcare, a chain of hospitals in India * Fortis Inc., a Canadian utility holding company * Fortis Group, a defunct banking, financial services, and insurance company, based in the Benelux or their successors: ** Ageas, formed from the insurance operations of Fortis ** ASR Nederland, formed from the Dutch insurance operations of Fortis ** BNP Paribas Fortis, formed from the Belgian banking operations of Fortis, now owned by BNP Paribas ** ABN AMRO, formed from the Netherlands banking operations of Fortis, now owned by the Dutch government ** BGL BNP Paribas, formed from the Luxembourg banking operations of Fortis, now owned by BNP Paribas People * Alberto Fortis (1741–1803), Venetian writer, naturalist and cartographer * Alberto Fortis (musician) (born 1955), I ...
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Office Buildings Completed In 1977
An office is a space where the employees of an organization perform administrative work in order to support and realize the various goals of the organization. The word "office" may also denote a position within an organization with specific duties attached to it (see officer or official); the latter is an earlier usage, as "office" originally referred to the location of one's duty. In its adjective form, the term "office" may refer to business-related tasks. In law, a company or organization has offices in any place where it has an official presence, even if that presence consists of a storage silo. For example, instead of a more traditional establishment with a desk and chair, an office is also an architectural and design phenomenon, including small offices, such as a bench in the corner of a small business or a room in someone's home (see small office/home office), entire floors of buildings, and massive buildings dedicated entirely to one company. In modern terms, an office i ...
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Modernist Architecture In Canada
Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and social issues were all aspects of this movement. Modernism centered around beliefs in a "growing Marx's theory of alienation, alienation" from prevailing "morality, optimism, and Convention (norm), convention" and a desire to change how "social organization, human beings in a society interact and live together". The modernist movement emerged during the late 19th century in response to significant changes in Western culture, including secularization and the growing influence of science. It is characterized by a self-conscious rejection of tradition and the search for newer means of cultural expressions, cultural expression. Modernism was influenced by widespread technological innovation, industrialization, and urbanization, as well as the cul ...
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1977 Establishments In Nova Scotia
Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). * January 17 – 49 marines from the and are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain. * January 18 ** Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. ** Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead. ** SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina. * January 19 – An Ejército del Aire CASA C-207C Azor (registration T.7-15) plane crashes into the side of a mountain near Chiva, on approach to Valencia Airport in Spain, killing all 11 people on board. * January 23 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India calls ...
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List Of Tallest Buildings In Halifax, Nova Scotia
This list of tallest buildings in Halifax ranks the tallest buildings in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia by height. Halifax is the capital and largest city of Nova Scotia, a Canadian province in Atlantic Canada. With an estimated population of 439,819 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Atlantic Canada. The tallest building in Halifax is One 77, which topped out in 2023 and was completed in 2025. It is 34 storeys tall and reaches 111 m (364 ft) in height. It supplanted the previous 52-year record-holder, Fenwick Tower (Halifax), The Vüze, which is 33 storeys and in height. One 77 is part of a recent residential high-rise boom in the city, beginning from the early 2020s. Besides Downtown Halifax, this boom has also seen the growth of new high-rise buildings in the community of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Dartmouth. Dartmouth received a new tallest building in 2024, with the completion of The Kevel, a 27-storey, 82.5 m (271 ft) residential high-rise. According to the ...
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Georges Island (Nova Scotia)
Georges Island (named after King George II) is a glacial drumlin and the largest island entirely within the harbour limits of Halifax Harbour located in Nova Scotia's Halifax Regional Municipality. The Island is the location of Fort Charlotte - named after King George III's wife Charlotte. Fort Charlotte was built during Father Le Loutre's War, a year after Citadel Hill (Fort George). The island is now a National Historic Site of Canada. As of August 6, 2020, the island is open to the public on the weekends (and Fridays during peak summer season), from June until Thanksgiving weekend. History The island was originally named ''île à la Raquette'' which means Snowshoe Island. For a brief time, the Island was known as ''île d'Enville'', named after the leader of the great Duc d’Anville Expedition who was buried on the island for a number of years. In 1749, the island was named "George Island" after King George II, and then finally, in 1963, it was renamed "Georges Is ...
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Citadel Hill (Fort George)
Citadel Hill is a National Historic Site in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Four fortifications have been constructed on Citadel Hill since the city was founded by the British in 1749, and were referred to as Fort George—but only the third fort (built between 1794 and 1800) was officially named Fort George. According to General Orders of October 20, 1798, it was named after King George III. The first two and the fourth and current fort, were officially called the Halifax Citadel. The last is a concrete star fort. The Citadel is the fortified summit of Citadel Hill. The hill was first fortified in 1749, the year that Edward Cornwallis oversaw the development of the town of Halifax. Those fortifications were successively rebuilt to defend the town from various enemies. Construction and leveling have lowered the summit by ten to twelve metres. While never attacked, the Citadel was long the keystone to defence of the strategically important Halifax Harbour and its Royal Navy Dockya ...
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Fault (geology)
In geology, a fault is a Fracture (geology), planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of Rock (geology), rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements. Large faults within Earth's crust (geology), crust result from the action of Plate tectonics, plate tectonic forces, with the largest forming the boundaries between the plates, such as the megathrust faults of subduction, subduction zones or transform faults. Energy release associated with rapid movement on active faults is the cause of most earthquakes. Faults may also displace slowly, by aseismic creep. A ''fault plane'' is the Plane (geometry), plane that represents the fracture surface of a fault. A ''fault trace'' or ''fault line'' is a place where the fault can be seen or mapped on the surface. A fault trace is also the line commonly plotted on geological maps to represent a fault. A ''fault zone'' is a cluster of parallel faults. However, the term is also used for the zone ...
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Barrington Street
View southward on Barrington StreetBarrington Street is a major street in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, running from the MacKay Bridge in the North End approximately 7 km south, through Downtown Halifax to Inglis Street in the South End. Its civic numbers range from 950 to 4756 on the Halifax Peninsula street grid numbering system. Barrington Street is centrally located within the original Halifax street grid, laid out in the 18th century. It remains one of the main streets of the city and is home to numerous shops, office buildings, and the Halifax City Hall. History Barrington Street is part of the original street grid laid out by engineer John Bruce and surveyor Charles Morris when Halifax was established as a British fortress. The streets were named after leading British statesmen, but the origin of the name Barrington Street is reportedly unclear. One account suggests the street is named after William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington, who served as a Secretary of W ...
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