1985 – Air Canada Building, 355 Portage Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba

Large office building set back from the street on all four sides. Plan based on a series of rotated squares, even the main entrance is approached on the diagonal. This gives the building an excess of corners and angles at the lower floors where projections of differing heights provide light into the interior. The upper storeys intended as a data centre are largely windowless and stepped out from the levels below. The park to Portage Avenue was created after the demolition of the Sharpe Block and Bettes Block in the early 1980s.

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