One Hundred Million Dollar Facelift for First Canadian Place
By Brian Madigan LL.B.
First Canadian Place is a landmark office tower in the centre of Toronto's financial district.
It was clad with 16 miles of carrara marble. This was affixed to the exterior façade in 45,000 separate slabs.
But, that was 1975, and today there is a little problem. The pieces are falling off. And, the ones that don't fall off are turning yellow as they age and absorb some of the local air pollution.
So, First Canadian Place is getting a new white coloured glass façade at a cost of $100,000 million.
It makes you wonder why they didn't just use concrete like they did in the 60's.
Brian Madigan LL.B., Realtor is an author and commentator on real estate matters, Royal LePage Innovators Realty
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