TD Tower, International Style skyscraper in Downtown Vancouver, Canada
The TD Tower is an International Style skyscraper with a black glass facade in the downtown business district of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The building has 30 floors and connects directly to the Pacific Centre shopping complex through an underground passage.
Completed in 1972 on the site of the former second Hotel Vancouver, the tower's black-glass facing earned it the press nickname "the Black Tower". Paired with the white Eaton's building next door, it was called an architectural disaster by some critics.
Press writers nicknamed the black-glass tower "the Black Tower" when it opened, and some critics called it, together with the white Eaton's building next door, an architectural disaster. The pairing of black and white facades on West Georgia Street is what passers-by still see today.
The easiest way to enter is through the ground-floor entrance on West Georgia Street, from which you can also reach Pacific Centre without stepping outside. Upper floors are office space and generally not open to the public.
The first tenant to move in, a law firm that arrived in January 1972, still occupies the top floors today under a different name. That makes it one of the longest-running tenants in any downtown Vancouver office tower.
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