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The Vüze, formerly known as Fenwick Place and Fenwick Tower, [1] is a residential apartment building in the south end of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. At 106 metres and 33 storeys in height, it was the tallest building in Atlantic Canada from its construction in 1971 until 2023.
Downtown Halifax in 2015. Halifax, Nova Scotia, with an estimated population of 439,819 in 2021, is the most populous municipality in Atlantic Canada. [1]According to the now-defunct website Emporis, the municipality contained 105 high-rise buildings over 35 m (115 ft) tall in 2022. [2]
The tallest building in the downtown core of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Royal Centre: 5161 George Street Halifax Office Building 12 52 m (171 ft) 1960 Office tower in the downtown core of Halifax. Scotia Square Complex: 5201 Duke Street Halifax Shopping Centre 2 1960s-1970s A system of buildings connected by pedways and tunnels.
Over the 20th century the city continued to grow outward. Numerous apartment towers were built in the western, less commercial part of Spring Garden Road. Spring Garden Terrace, a 201-unit apartment building, was designed by Ian Martin of Montreal and opened in 1963. [5] Embassy Towers opened in 1967. [6]
This list includes the tallest buildings in the region of Atlantic Canada, which consists of the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Prince Edward Island. Buildings in five cities are included in this list; Halifax , Moncton , Saint John , Fredericton , and St. John's , each having buildings at least ...
Clayton Park was created as an upper middle class community and its prime developer was the Shaw company, which placed certain architectural requirements for houses and apartments, among which was a high percentage of brick; Shaw being the largest brick manufacturer in Atlantic Canada. Primary house colours consisted of earthy tones of browns ...
In early 2023, the south-facing concrete façade of the tower was replaced with solar panels in order to reduce the university's carbon footprint. Retrofitted at a cost of C$8.5 million, the installation is expected to generate around 100,000 kWh yearly, and makes the Loyola Residence the tallest solar-integrated building in North America.
In 1918, one of Halifax's largest projects saw the completion of a major railway line, to serve a new railway station at the south end of the city's central business district. The new railway line had been under construction by the Intercolonial Railway and later Canadian Government Railways at the time of the Halifax Explosion , which blocked ...