Maritime Centre, Office building in Downtown Halifax, Canada

Maritime Centre is a 21-storey office tower at the corner of Barrington Street and Spring Garden Road in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia. Designed by Webb Zerafa Menkes Housden of Toronto with Dumaresq and Byrne of Halifax, it rises 78 metres, with two retail levels below the office floors. Its main entrance faces the busy intersection, and the tower creates a strong wind tunnel effect at street level.

The Maritime Centre was announced in May 1974 by MT&T and developer Trizec Equities, on land MT&T owned at Barrington Street and Spring Garden Road. The Capitol Theatre, then Halifax's largest auditorium with a stage, was demolished in 1974 despite the Save the Capitol Society's efforts. The first phase, with a shopping centre, mezzanine and 12 office floors, opened on 1 August 1977; seven more storeys followed in 1984.

The building is named after the Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company, which launched the project to gather about 1,100 administrative staff working from more than a dozen Halifax locations in 1972. Its main entrance sits at the corner of Barrington Street and Spring Garden Road, and the tower is known for the strong wind tunnel effect it creates at street level.

The building stands on Barrington Street, one of the main streets in downtown Halifax, and is easy to reach on foot from most central points. As it is primarily an office building, the area around the entrance is most active on weekdays during the day.

The first phase opened on 1 August 1977 with a shopping centre, mezzanine and 12 office floors; extra empty elevator shafts were built in, then put into service when seven more storeys were added in 1984, lifting leasable area to 622,000 square feet.