Fifth Avenue Place is a high-rise skyscraper complex in
Calgary
Calgary () is a major city in the Canadian province of Alberta. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806 making it the third-largest city and fifth-largest metropolitan area in C ...
,
Alberta
Alberta is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three Canadian Prairies, prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to its west, Saskatchewan to its east, t ...
, Canada. It was originally called ''
Esso Plaza''. It occupies the entire area of a city block, between 4th and 5th Avenue South and 1st and 2nd Street West in
Downtown Calgary
Downtown Calgary is a dense urban district in central Calgary, Alberta. It contains the second largest concentration of head offices in Canada, despite only being the country's fourth largest city in terms of population. The downtown is divided in ...
.
The buildings are managed by ''Brookfield Properties''.
Towers
The complex consists of two structures, East Tower and West Tower, both with 35 floors and a height of . Construction started in 1979 and the complex was completed in 1981, at the height of the 1980s oil boom. Although the towers are almost identical, they are arranged in an "L" shape, with the West Tower oriented east–west, and the East Tower places on a north–south direction. Fifth Avenue Place was built in late
modernist
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 soc ...
style and has
curtain walls with alternating vision glass on all sides. The three level underground parkade provides 793 parking stalls.
The two towers are connected by a two level shopping galleria, which is connected by the
Plus 15 skywalk network to nearby structures.
See also
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List of tallest buildings in Calgary
This is a list of tallest buildings in Calgary, Alberta, namely buildings that are at least tall.
Calgary is both the largest city and largest metropolitan area in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Alberta, with a mun ...
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Imperial Oil Building, the Imperial Oil Company's former Toronto headquarters
References
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Fifth Avenue Place
Headquarters in Canada
Skyscraper office buildings in Calgary
Office buildings completed in 1981
ExxonMobil buildings and structures
Brookfield Properties buildings
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