CIBC Tower
| La Tour CIBC | |
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| Alternative names | Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Building |
| General information | |
| Type | Commercial offices |
| Location | 1155 Boulevard René-Lévesque Ouest Montreal, Quebec |
| Coordinates | 45°29′55″N 73°34′15″W / 45.4985°N 73.5709°WCoordinates: 45°29′55″N 73°34′15″W / 45.4985°N 73.5709°W |
| Completed | 1962 |
| Owner | British Columbia Investment Management Corporation |
| Management | British Columbia Investment Management Corporation |
| Height | |
| Antenna spire | 250 m (820 ft) |
| Roof | 187 m (614 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 45 |
| Floor area | 54,154 m2 (582,910 sq ft) |
| Lifts/elevators | 16 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Dickinson Ross Fish and Barret |
| Developer | CIBC |
| References | |
La Tour CIBC is a 187 m (614 ft) forty-five-storey skyscraper in Montreal, Quebec. With the communications antenna on the roof, the total height is 225 m (738 ft). The International Style office tower was built by Peter Dickinson, Ross, Fish, Duschenes and Barrett and was the city's tallest building from 1962 to 1963. The building holds offices for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the corporate law firm Stikeman Elliott, as well as numerous other businesses.
The building is located at 1155 René Lévesque Boulevard West next to Dorchester Square facing the imposing but dwarfed Sun Life Building. Part of the fire-damaged Windsor Hotel was demolished to make room for construction, with the remaining portion being converted to offices in the 1980s.
Completed in 1962 only a few months before Place Ville-Marie, the CIBC Tower was the tallest building in Canada and the entire Commonwealth of Nations when it was first built, until being surpassed later that year by Place Ville-Marie where a penthouse was added by the competing Royal Bank for that express purpose.
The Consulate of Israel was on the 26th floor of the building and as such, it was sometimes the site of demonstrations related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The consulate has since relocated to Westmount Square in Westmount.
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