Purdy's Wharf

Purdy 's Wharf called an office complex in Halifax, Canada. The two different high and interconnected via a skywalk high-rises on the outskirts of the port are named after a jetty Purdy 's Landing. Both from 1980 to 1985 built skyscrapers dominate the skyline since then. The planning of high-rise buildings was the architectural firm Shore Tilbe Irwin Partners from Toronto.

The southern Purdy 's Wharf Tower I is 74 meters (18 storeys) high. The higher, northerly Purdy 's Wharf Tower II has a height of 88 meters (22 floors). The latter is the same after the Fenwick Tower is the second tallest building in the city of Halifax. Both building project with the help of a support structure partly on the shoreline out into the harbor. The floor plan and in its external form the same building are supported by a reinforced concrete structure, whose white beams are visible externally in the vertical direction along the entire height of the building. Offset slightly inwards surrounds a glass facade, the building envelope. Both high-rise buildings are air-conditioned with a water circuit, the water is removed from the dock. On average, the cooling is sufficient solely by this fed by seawater circulation for ten and a half months out of the year. For the remaining six weeks conventional refrigeration units are used.