Skyscrapers of Windsor, Ontario

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A list of skyscrapers in the city of Windsor, Ontario.

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75 Riverside Drive

75 Riverside Drive is a tall office tower, a residential condominium with commercial space on the ground floor. It was constructed just east of the Detroit–Windsor Tunnel (the engineering group TROW monitored the effects of the building upon the tunnel) in downtown Windsor, Ontario. It is located down the street from the Bank of Commerce Building.

The building was built in 1974 and stands at 15 storeys tall. It is across Riverside Drive from the Riverfront Bike Trail, and stands across Goyeau Avenue from LeGoyeau Apartments, and stands next to the Windsor Downtown Travelodge Hotel.

The building also used to house The New WI's (now AChannel Windsor) news studios, before they moved down to a location at the corner of Ouellette Avenue and Park Street, next to the Cineplex Odeon downtown theatre and they (CTV Windsor) have now moved to the Bell Canada building on Goyeau Street.

Bank of Commerce Building

The Bank of Commerce Building is one of Windsor's most-recognizable buildings. It stands at the corner of Ouellette Avenue and Riverside Drive on the Detroit River waterfront. It was formerly the "CIBC Building" until around 1998, when the CIBC pulled its regional offices out. The vacancy was soon filled by the International Joint Commission's offices, however.

Bell Canada Building

The Bell Canada Building is an Art Deco structure located in Downtown Windsor, at 1149 Goyeau Street. The building houses the regional Bell Canada offices for Windsor and area, and also has a large antenna on the roof. It was constructed sometime in 1929 by Montreal architect F.J. McNabb. In 2013 it became home to local television station CHWI-DT. [1]

Canada Building

The Canada Building is an Art Deco office building located on Ouellette Avenue in downtown Windsor. The building was constructed in the 1930s, and looks similar to the Bell Canada Building.

Caesars Windsor

Caesars Windsor's main tower stands at 21 floors, and was constructed in 1998.

Caesars Windsor's second tower (nicknamed "Augustus") is finished and is open to the public. The tower stands at 27 floors, and is the tallest building in Windsor at 111 metres (364 ft). Once built, it exceeded the Victoria Park Place apartment tower, which is 86 metres (282 ft) as Windsor's tallest building. Currently, the top floor remains partially unfinished, until the casino makes a final decision on into what to turn it, with the leading idea being a nightclub or dance club, as it has views of Windsor and Detroit. [2]

Falom Office Tower

The Falom Office Tower is a 10-storey lowrise office tower in Windsor, Ontario, and also goes by its address, of "880 Ouellette Avenue". It was built in 1969 and has 9 above-ground floors, and one basement floor.

It is located just north of Ouellette Manor, on the same side of the street.

Hilton Windsor

The Hilton Windsor hotel is located at 277 Riverside Drive West, and stands at 22 floors, one of Windsor's taller buildings. The hotel was constructed in 1983.

LeGoyeau Apartments

LeGoyeau Condo is the name of an elegant upscale Condo building along Riverside Drive in Windsor. It is on the corner of Goyeau Avenue and Riverside Drive. Across the street to the west is 75 Riverside Drive, and to the east is the Raymond Desmarais Manor.

The building is notable for having a T-shape (oriented upside-down), slender curves, and a large underground parking garage. The LeGoyeau Apartments stand at 17 floors, 15 above ground, and two below ground.

One Riverside Drive West

One Riverside Drive West was built in 2002, and is Windsor's newest office tower (as the Casino Windsor - West Tower is still under construction). It is a mixed-use residential and office high-rise. It is located next to the Cleary International Centre (to which it is connected), at the corner of Ouellette Avenue and Riverside Drive. The building stands at 14 storeys and is the current headquarters of Chrysler Canada. The building's original name was to be the "Chrysler Building", and was to stand at 32 storeys (See the external links for comparisons). The final result of the building was drastically different from the original planned building, which would have been the tallest building in Ontario outside of Toronto and London.

In 1998, the City of Windsor was at the center of numerous lawsuits from storeowners who operated a block of historic 1920s-era buildings (the "Norwich Block") in the spot at which One Riverside Drive now sits. The storeowners cited they were not offered a fair market value for their properties, and this was settled by 2001, but the city compromised with the expropriated storeowners on having a lower building.

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Ouellette Manor

Ouellette Manor is a high-rise apartment building in downtown Windsor, Ontario. It stands at 24 storeys and was completed in 1976. The building contains one basement floor, with 400 units inside. It was constructed in the modern architecture style, incorporating a great deal of concrete.

It borders the Falom Office Tower on that lowrise tower's south side.

Paul Martin Sr. Building

The Paul Martin Sr. Building is named after Paul Martin Sr., father of former Prime Minister of Canada, Paul Martin. The building is an Art Deco building standing at 5 storeys in height, and was known as the "Post Office Building", until Canada Post moved its downtown offices into a larger building down the street in 1994. The building currently holds offices for the Canada Revenue Agency. Canada Post recently announced that its remaining staff in the building are moving to the Canada Post processing plant on Walker Road.

The Portofino

The Portofino apartment building is one of Windsor's newest apartment buildings, having been completed in 2006. The building stands at 17 floors, and is a semicircle in shape, with its curved end facing the Detroit River. The apartment Building was constructed in close proximity to Fujisawa Gardens and the Riverfront Trail. The building has 123 units available for occupation, and a fitness center, games room, party room/lounge, and a sauna are all available on the top floor.

Radisson Windsor

The Radisson Windsor hotel (Formerly "Clarion Windsor", and also known as the Radisson Riverfront Hotel) is a hotel that stands at 333 Riverside Drive West. The building stands at 19 storeys, and is next to the Hilton Windsor (to the east), and the now-filled-in Docherty Hole (to the west).

Raymond Desmarais Manor

The Raymond Desmarais Manor is a seniors' residence and high-rise apartment building in downtown Windsor, Ontario. It was constructed in 1973, and completed a year later. It stands at 20 floors and has 346 units inside. This residential high-rise was built using the modern architecture style, and incorporates a great deal of red brick. The building is run by the Windsor-Essex County Housing Corporation.

Royal Windsor Terrace

The Royal Windsor Terrace is a high rise luxury condominium in Downtown Windsor. At 27 floors, it is one of the tallest residential properties in the city. In terms of amenities, it is well equipped, including a full sized salt water swimming pool, with 10 person jacuzzi, shower and change facilities with dry saunas, fully equipped gymnasium, and squash, racquet ball and basketball courts. The second floor amenities area also includes a common reading area with big screen satellite TV, and a games room with billiards and table tennis. It features an underground multi-level parking garage with car wash and detailing facilities on the 5th level underground. The building's construction began 1969, and finished in 1981. It stands at 380 Pelissier Street at the corner of Park and Pelissier.

Victoria Park Place

Victoria Park Place is the second tallest building in Windsor, at 33 floors. It is a luxury apartment building, much like the Royal Windsor Terrace that neighbours it to the east. The building also holds CHWI-TV's CHWI-TV-60 translator antenna on its roof.

Westcourt Place

Westcourt Place is a mixed-use building standing at 251 Goyeau Street, at the corner of Chatham Street and Goyeau Street in downtown Windsor. The building's first 10 or so floors are office space, with apartments and condominiums occupying the remaining 11 floors. Constructed in 1975, it is built in the modern architectural style, with some international style and Brutalist features.

Windsor Downtown Travelodge Hotel

The Windsor Downtown Travelodge Hotel is a hotel that stands at 33 Riverside Drive East, between 75 Riverside Drive east, and the Bank of Commerce Building. It was built in 1983 and opened in 1985, and stands at 12 floors in height.

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David Whitney Building

The David Whitney Building is a historic class-A skyscraper located at 1 Park Avenue, on the northern edge of Downtown Detroit, Michigan, within the Grand Circus Park Historic District. The building stands on a wedge-shaped site at the junction of Park Avenue, Woodward Avenue, and Washington Boulevard. Construction on the 19-floor structure began in 1914.

Victoria Park Place is Windsor, Ontario's second tallest building, standing at 34 storeys. Its construction started in 1979 and was a jointly built venture by Danzig Enterprises Limited & Wonsch Construction. The building uses reinforced concrete construction and concrete plank. The apartment tower is easily identifiable from its "L" shape. It stands at the corner of Park Street and Victoria Avenue in downtown Windsor, on a site formerly occupied by the old Norton Palmer Hotel. The high-rise apartment building takes up a full city block, and is across Pelissier Street from the Royal Windsor Terrace Condominiums.

One Riverside Drive

One Riverside Drive was built in 2002, and is a skyscraper located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It is an office high-rise with a multi-story parking garage. It is located next to the new downtown St. Clair College, at the corner of Riverside Drive and Ouellette Avenue in Downtown Windsor. The building stands at 14 storeys and is the current headquarters of Chrysler Canada.

Bank of Commerce Building, Windsor

The Bank of Commerce Building is a 15-storey office tower in downtown Windsor, Ontario constructed in 1974.

Canada Building (Windsor)

The Canada Building is an Art Deco office tower built in 1928 in downtown Windsor, Ontario. It stands at 14 storeys and stands on Ouellette Avenue between University Avenue and Park Street. It should not be confused with the nearby similarly-designed Paul Martin Sr. Building, or the Bell Canada Building, located on Goyeau Avenue, which looks nearly identical and is nearly the same in height. The Canada Building is listed on the Ontario Heritage Trust website.

Lafayette Pavilion Apartments

The Lafayette Pavilion Apartments is the name of a high-rise residential apartment building in Detroit, Michigan. It is located at 1 Lafayette Plaisance, near Gratiot Avenue and I-375, near Chene Park.

Lafayette Towers Apartments East

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Lafayette Towers Apartments West Apartment building in Detroit designed by Mies van der Rohe

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Lawyers Building United States historic place

The Lawyers Building is an office building located at 137 Cadillac Square in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It was also known as the American Title Building. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Aqua (skyscraper)

Aqua is an 82-story mixed-use residential skyscraper in the Lakeshore East development in downtown Chicago, Illinois. Designed by a team led by Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang Architects, with James Loewenberg of Loewenberg & Associates as the Architect of Record, it includes five levels of parking below ground. The building's eighty-story, 140,000 sq ft (13,000 m2) base is topped by a 82,550 sq ft (7,669 m2) terrace with gardens, gazebos, pools, hot tubs, a walking/running track and a fire pit. Each floor covers approximately 16,000 sq ft (1,500 m2).

Detroit City Apartments

Detroit City Apartments is a high-rise in downtown Detroit, Michigan. Built in 1981 and named Trolley Plaza for nearby Washington Boulevard trolley line, the residential building stands 28 stories tall. The building is located at 1431 Washington Boulevard and occupies the block bordered by Clifford Street, Grand River Avenue and Washington Boulevard. In 2009, Village Green purchased the building and changed the name of the high-rise apartments to Washington Square. In 2013, Washington Square became the Detroit City Apartments.

Ritz-Carlton Denver

The Ritz-Carlton Denver, formerly known as the Embassy Suites Downtown, is a skyscraper in Denver, Colorado. The building, a part of the Denver Place complex, was completed in 1983, and rises 38 floors and 390 feet (119 m) in height. The building stands as the eighteenth-tallest building in Denver and Colorado.

Plaza Towers

Plaza Towers is a mixed-use highrise building in Grand Rapids, Michigan. At 345 feet (105 m), it was the tallest building in the city until the completion of the River House Condominiums in 2008. The building contains apartments on floors 8–14, individually owned condominiums on floors 15–32, and a 214-room Courtyard by Marriott hotel on floors 1–7.

References

  1. ↑ "CTV Windsor moving to historic Bell Canada building". Windsor, Ontario: CTV News. 10 April 2013. Retrieved October 19, 2014.
  2. ↑ Pearson, Craig (10 June 2013). "Caesars Windsor's grand party room yet to open — but will it?". Windsor, Ontario: The Windsor Star (online). Retrieved October 19, 2014.
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