The Bow is a 158,000-square-metre (1.7 million sq ft) office building currently under construction for the headquarters of EnCana Corporation. The skyscraper will be built in downtown Calgary, Canada. The building will be the tallest office tower in Canada outside of Toronto, a title currently held by the Suncor Energy Centre's West tower. The Bow is also considered the start of redevelopment in Downtown East Village.
The proposed highrise was an...
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The Bow is a 158,000-square-metre (1.7 million sq ft) office building currently under construction for the headquarters of EnCana Corporation. The skyscraper will be built in downtown Calgary, Canada. The building will be the tallest office tower in Canada outside of Toronto, a title currently held by the Suncor Energy Centre's West tower. The Bow is also considered the start of redevelopment in Downtown East Village.
The proposed highrise was announced in 2006 by EnCana Corporation, North America's second largest natural gas producer. Early designs suggested that the project would consist of a complex of towers (perhaps two or more) over two blocks. The tallest of these towers could be 60-stories tall, which would make it taller than the current tallest tower in Western Canada, the Suncor Energy Centre (also in Calgary). Conflicting reports suggested that it would be one single tower around 70 stories tall and possibly over 1,000 feet (300 m), making it the tallest building in Canada...
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