Canada Place (Edmonton)

It neighbors the Edmonton Convention Centre and overlooks the North Saskatchewan River valley.

[1] The building consists of two stepped office blocks, ranging from 15 to 13 storeys in height, connected by an atrium.

The original design of the building had an additional, taller, third office block at the rear; however, this plan was scaled back to two blocks, due to concerns that demand for new office space in downtown Edmonton at the time was not high enough to justify the larger building.

[3] The firms concluded it was more prudent for the Crown to sell and leaseback the building to a private developer, along with eight other Crown-owned properties across Canada.

All nine buildings were sold in 2007 to Larco Investments Ltd., a Vancouver, BC-based company, and leased for 25 years.