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Telus Tower

Canada

The 1019th tallest building in the world

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The Telus Tower is a 34-storey office tower in Montreal. The project was conceived and managed by Ionel Rudberg (1906–1965), and the building was owned originally by Dorchester-University Holdings Limited, a joint venture of Rudberg, the Royal Trust Company, and the Bank of Montreal. The building was announced in January 1959, and in May of that year, Canadian Industries Limited signed as the main tenant and received naming rights. Accordingly, the building was called C-I-L House at the time it opened. Designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft from the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill with local architects Greenspoon, Freedlander and Dunne, it stands 135.6 m (445 ft) and 34 storeys tall. In 1960, Bunshaft had recently completed his seminal work, Lever House in New York City.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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