L'esplanade Laurier

[1] It consists of two 23-storey towers, a three storey underground parking garage and a podium containing a two-storey shopping mall.

The entire structure is clad in white carrara marble, making it clearly stand out from the other towers in the city.

[citation needed] Subsequently most of the marble slabs from the lower levels of the building were removed and replaced with white painted plasterboard.

In 2002, the building was closed for several days after an accident caused hundreds of litres of ethylene glycol to enter the water supply.

[3][4] As of 2018 both towers are undergoing major renovations, as most former occupants from the Department of Finance and the Treasury Board Secretariat have moved to their new location in the Flaherty Building at 90 Elgin.