Marine Building
The Marine Building is a skyscraper in the Canadian city of Vancouver . It is considered a sight due to the Art Deco style. The building is around 98 meters high and has 21 floors. The address is 355 Burrard Street.
Construction officially began on March 14, 1929, and the building opened on October 7, 1930. The architects were inspired by the Empire State Building in New York . The Marine Building was the tallest structure in the city until 1939, before it was replaced by the Toronto Dominion Tower in 1977 . It itself had replaced the World Building as the tallest building. The construction costs were 2.3 million CAD (more than double the originally budgeted amount). Because of the Great Depression , the skyscraper was sold to the Irish Guinness brewery family for only CAD 900,000 . Today it is owned by Princeton Developments , OMERS Realty Corporation (real estate investment arm of the Canadian pension fund Ontario Municipal Employees' Retirement System ) and Confederation Life Insurance .
The entrance hall is designed in the style of a Maya temple. The walls are paneled with wood from twelve different native tree species, and the elevator doors are clad in brass . All walls and elevator doors are decorated with depictions of sea snakes, rays, crabs, turtles, carp, mussels, seaweed, seahorses and the means of transport of that era. The floor is made of marble (until the renovation in 1989 linoleum ) and is decorated with the twelve zodiac signs.
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Entrance portal
Entrance portal - detail
Groups of reliefs on the outer wall
Relief over a window
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Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 15 ″ N , 123 ° 7 ′ 1 ″ W.