Scotia Plaza, Toronto, Canada

Scotia Plaza is a commercial skyscraper in the financial district of the downtown core of the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. At 275 m (902 ft), Scotia Plaza is Canada's third tallest skyscraper. The tower incorporates the historic Beaux-Arts Bank of Nova Scotia Building at 44 King Street West. WZMH Architects designed the modern tower which was built between 1985 and 1988. Excavation for the tower extended 33.5 m (110 ft), the deepest for a building in Canada's history. The tower consists of 68 storeys above ground and 6 storeys below ground with a parallelogram floorplan. Red Napoleon Granite, quarried in Sweden, cut and polished in Italy, then imported to Canada, covers much of the exterior and many interior surfaces. Windows are dark tinted glass framed by the granite. The north and south facades follow a step profile giving many floors over 12 desirable corner offices. The east and west façades feature a deeply recessed, stepped-chevron extending between floors 56 and 68.