The Marine Building

lobby The Marine Building is a skyscraper located at 355 Burrard Street in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada near the Financial District. Completed in 1930, at the fourth dimension of its opening it was the city ‘s tallest skyscraper and it is one of the most iconic buildings in Vancouver and listed among the best art Deco buildings in the world. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It owes its name to the overplus of fine marine-themed ornaments that decorate it. Because of its iconic computer architecture and juicy interior decorations, the build has been chosen as the adjust of a number of film and television productions. [ 3 ]

history [edit ]

The build was conceived by Lt. Commander J.W. Hobbs, an entrepreneur from Toronto. Hobbs recognized that the open of the Panama Canal in 1914 would greatly increase Vancouver ‘s importance as a commercial larboard, and decided that the city needed a deluxe, iconic build, in the venue of the newly constructed Chrysler Building in New York. [ 4 ] The invention was assigned to McCarter Nairne and Partners, who had never worked on the plan of a skyscraper before. [ 4 ] Construction started on March 13, 1929 [ 2 ] [ 1 ] as reported by a local anesthetic newspaper :

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Yesterday morning, His Worship Mayor W.H. Malkin blew a blast on a golden whistle and with it set in motion the steam shovel that will excavate the site for the new Burrard Street Marine skyscraper.

The construction was completed on 7 October 1930. At 97.8 metres ( 321 foot ) ( 22 floors ) it was the tallest skyscraper in the city until 1939. [ 5 ] According to the architects, McCarter & Nairne, the build was intended to evoke “ some great crag rising from the ocean, clinging with sea flora and fauna, tinted in sea-green, touched with amber. ” [ 6 ] The build cost $ 2.3 million to build – $ 1.1 million over budget—but due to the Great Depression it was sold to the Guinness family of Ireland for lone $ 900,000. The 2016 property assessment is $ 90 million. There was an notice deck, but during the natural depression in the 1930s the 25-cent admission price proved unaffordable for most. presently, there are no public galleries in the build. Inside the massive brass-doored elevators the walls are inlaid with 12 varieties of local hardwoods. All over the walls and polish boldness doors are depictions of ocean snails, skate, cancer, turtles, carp, scallops, seaweed and sea horses, american samoa well as the fare means of the earned run average. The floor presents the zodiac signs. The exterior is studded with flora and fauna, tinted in sea-green and touched with aureate. During a renovation from 1982-1989 to update the electrical, mechanical and air-cool systems, the “ battleship linoleum ” ( imported from Scotland ) in the lobby was replaced with marble. The erstwhile Merchant Exchange was besides gutted, and is nowadays a restaurant called Tractor Foods. This build was besides the management center for Oneworld, of one of the three largest airline alliances in the world, from its establish in May 2000 until it was relocated to New York City in June 2011 .

In popular culture [edit ]

The build up has often been used in filmmaking and television receiver production. It was the set for the final scene in the movie, Timecop and it was used as the headquarters of the Daily Planet in the democratic television receiver show Smallville and as the Freelancers headquarter in the television show Continuum. The construct was used in the movie Blade: Trinity. It stood in for the Baxter Building in New York City in 2005 ‘s Fantastic Four and its sequel, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. [ 7 ]

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Marine Building in 1929.

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Marine Building in 2006, as seen from the overlap of Burrard and Pender Streets .
One of the tiles depicting nautical history .
External wall word picture of zeppelin, transcontinental mode of flight at the time
Marine build from West Hastings Street