Eighth Avenue Place Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids Eighth Avenue Place
Eighth Avenue Place in 2017
General information
Status	Complete
Type	Office
Location	Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Coordinates	51°02′44″N 114°04′22″W / 51.045522°N 114.07289°W / 51.045522; -114.07289
Construction started	2008
Completed	East tower April 11, 2011, West tower 2014
Owner	AIMCo, Ivanhoe Cambridge, Matco
Height
Roof	212 m (East), 177 m (West)
Top floor	51 rooftop (East), 41 rooftop (West)
Technical details
Floor count	49 floors (East), 40 (West)
Floor area	1,850,000 sq ft (172,000 m²)
Lifts/elevators	21 elevators (East), 16 elevators (West), 4 parkade elevators
Design and construction
Architect	Pickard Chilton, Gibbs Gage Architects, Kendall Heaton Associates
Developer	Hines
Main contractor	EllisDon

Eighth Avenue Place is a huge building complex in downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It has two tall towers and even an indoor park! The East tower is 49 stories high, and the West tower is 40 stories. Together, they cover a massive area of about 172,000 square meters (1.85 million square feet).

This complex was built where an old shopping center called Penny Lane Mall used to be. At first, the project was going to be called "Penny Lane Towers," but they decided to change the name to Eighth Avenue Place instead.

Building the Towers
Cool Design Features
Eco-Friendly Building
Gallery
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Building the Towers

The old Penny Lane Mall was taken down by September 2007. Workers then started digging out the underground parking garage in December 2007. The building of the 49-story East tower and the parking garage began in the summer of 2008.

The East tower of Eighth Avenue Place was finished in 2011. It is currently one of the tallest buildings in Calgary. The West tower was completed a few years later, in 2014.

Cool Design Features

The buildings were designed by Gibbs Gage Architects. They wanted the towers to look like the Rocky Mountains. The side of the building facing west has pale-green glass walls. These walls are meant to look like mountain waters and glaciers.

The rest of the building uses dark gray layers. This design represents the shifting tectonic plates that helped create the mountains. The complex also connects to Calgary's Plus 15 skywalk system. This system lets people walk between buildings high above the streets.

Eighth Avenue Place has a large underground parking garage with over 1,100 parking spots. It also features beautiful outdoor areas with plants and a special green roof that is about 2,800 square meters (30,000 square feet) in size. There's even an indoor garden called a winter garden.

In 2018, Eighth Avenue Place won an award called the BOMA Canada Earth Award. This award is given for being excellent at saving resources and managing commercial buildings in a way that is good for the environment.

Eco-Friendly Building

Eighth Avenue Place is known for being very eco-friendly. It has received a special certification called LEED Platinum for Core and Shell. This means the building was designed and built using strategies that are good for the environment. It helps save energy, water, and other resources.