World Trade Centre Vancouver
| Canada Place | |
|---|---|
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| General information | |
| Status | Complete |
| Type |
Convention center Cruise ship terminal |
| Location | 999 Canada Place Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 3T4 |
| Coordinates | 49°17′19″N 123°06′40″W / 49.288635°N 123.111119°WCoordinates: 49°17′19″N 123°06′40″W / 49.288635°N 123.111119°W |
| Current tenants |
Vancouver Convention Centre Pan Pacific Vancouver Hotel Vancouver World Trade Centre |
| Construction started | March 9, 1983 |
| Opened | May 2, 1986 |
| Renovated | 2011 |
| Cost | $400 million CAD |
| Renovation cost | $21 million CAD |
| Owner | Port Metro Vancouver |
| Height | 81.5 metres (267 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 23 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Eberhard Zeidler / Barry Downs |
| Architecture firm | Joint Venture: Zeidler Roberts Partnership, MCMP & DA Architects + Planners |
| Renovating team | |
| Renovating firm | Ledcor Group of Companies |
| Website | |
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| References | |
Canada Place is a building situated on the Burrard Inlet waterfront of Vancouver, British Columbia. It is the home of the Vancouver Convention Centre, the Pan Pacific Vancouver Hotel, Vancouver's World Trade Centre, and the virtual flight ride FlyOver Canada. The building's exterior is covered by fabric roofs resembling sails. It is also the main cruise ship terminal for the region, where Vancouver's famous cruises to Alaska originate. The building was designed by architects Zeidler Roberts Partnership in joint venture with Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership and DA Architects + Planners.
Canada Place can be reached via the SkyTrain line at the nearby Waterfront Station terminus or via West Cordova Street in Vancouver. The white sails of the building have made it a prominent landmark for the city, as well as drawing comparisons to the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia and the Denver International Airport in Denver, Colorado.
The structure was expanded in 2001 to accommodate another cruise ship berth and in 2009/10, for the 2010 Winter Olympics, Canada Place served as the Main Press Centre.
Canada Place was built on the land which was originally the Canadian Pacific Railway's Pier B-C. Built in 1927, its primary purpose was to serve CPR and other shipping lines trading across the Pacific Ocean.
In 1978 Federal, Provincial and Municipal governments commenced planning for development of convention, cruise ship and hotel facilities. Four years later, the Government of Canada created a crown corporation, Canada Harbour Place Corporation (known as Canada Place Corporation until 2012), to develop the Canada Place project on the Pier B-C site. Construction began when HM Queen Elizabeth II arrived on the Royal Yacht Britannia with The Right Hon. Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada and The Hon. William R. Bennett, Premier of BC to initiate the first concrete pour.
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