Sun Tower (Vancouver)
The Sun Tower is a skyscraper in the Canadian city of Vancouver . It is 82 meters high, has 17 floors and is built in the Beaux Arts style. The address is 100 West Pender Street. The most striking part of the building is the green painted dome on the tower. Nine muses support the cornice . The terracotta bricks come from Tamworth in England .
The building was built in 1912 on behalf of Louis Denison Taylor for the Vancouver World newspaper and was initially called the World Building . It was the tallest building in the entire British Empire until 1914, and was always the tallest building in the city from 1914 to 1930, before being replaced by the Hotel Vancouver as the tallest building in the city. When the Vancouver Sun newspaper bought the building in 1937, it was renamed the Sun Tower.
Parts of the television series The Crow: Stairway to Heaven were filmed in the Sun Tower.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 16 ′ 51.6 " N , 123 ° 6 ′ 30.2" W.