1910 – Consolidated Building, Pender Street, Vancouver

Unclear if constructed, may have been a project design to gauge interest.

“The accompanying view is the perspective of a building to be erected at the corner of Homer and Pender streets, Vancouver, B.C., by the Consolidated Building Company, Limited. The building will have a frontage of 104 feet on Pender street and 120 feet on Homer street, with a Iane at the rear on the south side. The building will contain 12 storeys and basement, with steel frame work, and will be nearly fireproof as possible. The exterior of the building will be faced with pressed brick and sandstone. All of the steel columns and girders will be encased with fireproof materials and all interior partitions will be constructed of hollow fireproof partition tile, plastered on both sides. The floor will be constructed of steel beams and reinforced concrete. The finished floors in the basement and first storeys and in all lavatories and corridors throughout the upper storeys will be of marble mosaic tile. The finished floor-s for offices in the upper storeys will be of smoothly trowelled cement, covered with cork carpet. All windows will have metal sashes and frames will be glazed with plate glass.

The basement will he arranged for a modern cafe and dining room with accommodations for 500 guests, and will be thoroughly ventilated by means of exhaust fans connected with an air chamber, from which ventilating flues will extend above the roof. The boilers, pumps, engines and electric motors for generating heat, light and power will also be placed in the basement.

The approaches and steps leading to the basement and first storey from the exterior of the building will be of granite. All interior stairs will be of marble, supported on steel framework, and will have ornamental bronze railings and newel posts. The walls and ceilings of the entrance lobby and corridors on the first storey, and the walls and ceilings around the basement entrances will be faced with polished Alaskan marble. All corridors and toilet rooms on the office floors above the first storey will have marble wainscoting.

The first storey of the building will be used for stores. The upper floors will each have 28 offices, making a total of 308 offices on the eleven floors in addition to the toilet rooms. Several of these offices on each storey will be provided with fireproof vaults constructed as parts of the building. The architects are Donnellan & Donnellan, 319 Pender street, Vancouver.”
Engineering and Contract Record, August 24 1910

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