Western Canadian Place
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Western Canadian Place is an office tower complex in Calgary, Alberta. It consists of two buildings, the taller North Tower and the shorter South Tower.

It was designed by the architectural firm, Cohos Evamy
Cohos Evamy
Cohos Evamy is an architectural, engineering, interior design and planning firm. It operates as a single office shared between three established studios in Calgary and Edmonton, and Toronto.-History:...

 (the same firm who designed Bankers Hall - East and Bankers Hall - West in Calgary) in late modernist
Modernism
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 style. The office complex was purchased in 2004 for $
Canadian dollar
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230,675,000 by bcIMC and is run for them by GWL Realty Advisors, one of the firms involved in building the structure.

It is the headquarters of Husky Energy
Husky Energy
Husky Energy Inc. is a large integrated Canadian energy company based in Calgary, Alberta. Husky's foundation is in Western Canada, where it has extensive conventional oil and natural gas assets, significant heavy oil production and a range of midstream and downstream operations, including...

 and Apache Corp.
Apache Corp.
Apache Corporation is an American independent oil and gas corporation. It is headquartered in 1 Post Oak Central in the Uptown district of Houston, Texas....

's Canadian subsidiary, Apache Canada.

Towers

The north tower is located at 707 8th Avenue SW, it stands at 164 m (538.1 ft) or 40 storeys. The south tower is shorter, standing only 30 storeys for a height of 128 meters (420 feet). The ensemble was completed in 1983.
Tower Height Storeys Built Address
North Tower 164 m (538.1 ft) 41 1983 707 - 8th Avenue SW
South Tower 128 m (419.9 ft) 31 1983 700 - 9th Avenue SW
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