Scotia Plaza

Scotia Plaza is a complex of buildings in the Canadian city of Toronto. The 275 meter high building is named after the First Canadian Place ( 298 meters) is the second tallest skyscraper in the city and also the country and ranked 25th in North America. It is located in the financial district of Toronto between Yonge Street to the east, King Street West to the south, Bay Street to the west, and Adelaide Street West to the north. It is used as the headquarters of Scotiabank.

Scotia Plaza consists of two components:

The historic headquarters of the Bank of Nova Scotia at 44 King Street West was built by the architects Mathers and Haldenby 1946-1951. The building is 115 meters high and has 27 floors. In 1975, the city of Toronto is under a preservation order.

The modern main building with 68 floors and six underground floors at King Street West, with two smaller extensions. The additions include the historic facades of the former Wood Gundy building on Adelaide Street and Dunfield Building on Yonge Street. Built by the architects Architects WZMH building was built between 1985 and 1988. Architecturally it resembles the Southeast Financial Center in Miami.

Scotia Plaza is connected to PATH, a vast underground network of pedestrian and shopping arcades. The building has 190,000 m² of office space and 40 stores. In addition to the Scotiabank also find the Borden Ladner Gervais LLP law firms, Miller Thomson LLP, Cassels Brock LLP and Gardiner Roberts LLP are housed.

During the construction phase a baby were scenes in the film Three Men and the high-rise, still rotated.

Views

The building in the city context

Detail of the top

View from the road