Landmark Place is the tallest building in downtown
Hamilton, Ontario
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, Canada, at the corner of
Main Street East and
Catharine Street South in the Corktown neighbourhood. This 43-storey building (130 metres/427 feet) was completed in 1974, and was originally known as the ''Century 21 building''.
It was built by Al Frisina as a mixed use building; commercial, residential and retail. Original plans included adding a
heliport
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and a revolving rooftop restaurant but those plans were scrapped. Frisina also believes that no other building will be built in Hamilton taller than ''Landmark Place'' because as he puts it; 'the demand's not there and nobody's crazy enough to do it.' In the early 1960s, Frisina took on Hamilton's six-storey height limit. He brought in a consultant who told the city it could save money on services by building up instead of out. Frisina won and built the 18-storey ''Clarendon'' on
Hunter
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near
Bay
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. Today it is known as ''The Fontainebleu''.
The top 5 floors of the building are now occupied by luxury suites.
Images
Image:MainEastHamilton.JPG, Main Street, looking East
Image:Landmark Place Hamilton.JPG, Landmark Place
See also
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List of tallest buildings in Hamilton, Ontario
This list of tallest buildings in Hamilton ranks buildings in the city by height. Hamilton, Ontario, Hamilton is the fifth-largest city in Ontario, Canada. In Hamilton, there are 21 buildings that stand taller than 75 metres (230 f ...
References
External links
Hamilton Skyscraper page- diagramsImage #1: Landmark Place
Buildings and structures completed in 1974
Buildings and structures in Hamilton, Ontario
Modernist architecture in Canada
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