Tour de la Banque Nationale
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Tour de la Banque Nationale (National Bank Tower) is a skyscraper in downtown
Montreal
, Quebec
, Canada
. Tour de la Banque Nationale and its twin tower, Tour Bell, are known as Complexe Maisonneuve, and the two towers share an underground base six floors deep. It is 28 stories, and 128 metres (419.9 ft) tall. It was designed by American
architect
Sylvia Gottwald-Thapar and constructed in 1983. It was built in the modernist
architectural style, and along with Tour Bell, were the only all-steel structures built in Montreal since the 1960s. Tour de la Banque Nationale is located at 600 De la Gauchetière Street West opposite Victoria Square
, and is linked to Montreal's Underground City
and Square-Victoria station
on the Montreal Metro
.
The building is home to the headquarters of the National Bank of Canada
and Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton
.
Downtown Montreal
Downtown Montreal is the central business district of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is nearly enitirely located at the southern most slope of Mount Royal and is approximately bounded by Sherbrooke Street to the north, Papineau Avenue to the east, Guy Street or until Shaughnessy Village to the west,...
Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. Tour de la Banque Nationale and its twin tower, Tour Bell, are known as Complexe Maisonneuve, and the two towers share an underground base six floors deep. It is 28 stories, and 128 metres (419.9 ft) tall. It was designed by American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
architect
Architect
An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
Sylvia Gottwald-Thapar and constructed in 1983. It was built in the modernist
Modernism
Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...
architectural style, and along with Tour Bell, were the only all-steel structures built in Montreal since the 1960s. Tour de la Banque Nationale is located at 600 De la Gauchetière Street West opposite Victoria Square
Victoria Square, Montreal
Victoria Square is a town square and public space in the Quartier International de Montréal area of downtown Montreal, Quebec, at the intersection of Beaver Hall Hill and McGill Street. The Square forms an integral component of the city's urban public transit system and constitutes a 'prestige...
, and is linked to Montreal's Underground City
Underground city, Montreal
Montreal's Underground City is the set of interconnected complexes in and around Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada...
and Square-Victoria station
Square-Victoria (Montreal Metro)
Square-Victoria is a station on the Orange Line of the Montreal Metro rapid transit system, operated by the Société de transport de Montréal...
on the Montreal Metro
Montreal Metro
The Montreal Metro is a rubber-tired metro system, and the main form of public transportation underground in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada....
.
The building is home to the headquarters of the National Bank of Canada
National Bank of Canada
National Bank of Canada is the 6th largest bank and 8th largest financial institution in Canada. The bank's headquarters are in Montreal, Quebec....
and Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton
Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton
Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton is a Quebec-based accounting firm, the largest independent accounting firm in Quebec, and one of the largest in Canada, with over 95 offices across Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick....
.