One Wall Centre

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title: "One Wall Centre" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["skyscrapers-in-vancouver", "residential-buildings-completed-in-2001", "residential-skyscrapers-in-canada", "skyscraper-hotels-in-canada", "modernist-architecture-in-canada", "condo-hotels-in-canada", "2001-establishments-in-british-columbia", "residential-buildings-in-british-columbia"] description: "Skyscraper hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Wall_Centre" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Skyscraper hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia ::

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Field	Value
building_name	One Wall Centre
image	One Wall Centre.jpg
location	1088 Burrard Street
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
coordinates
start_date	1998
completion_date	2001
status	Complete
building_type	Residential / Hotel
architectural_style	Modernism
antenna_spire	157.8 m
roof	149.8 m
floor_count	48
unit_count	Rooms = 746
Suites = 70
Condo = 74
elevator_count	8
floor_area	42955 m2
architect	Perkins and Will
structural_engineer	Glotman•Simpson Consulting Engineers
main_contractor	Siemens Development
developer	Wall Financial Corporation
references
website
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One Wall Centre, also known as the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre North Tower, is a 48-storey, 157.8 m skyscraper hotel with residential condominiums in the Wall Centre development at 1088 Burrard Street in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The tower was designed by Perkins+Will Canada, and completed in 2001, and went on to win the Emporis Skyscraper Award for the Best New Skyscraper the same year. As of 2023 it is the sixth-tallest building in the city.

The first 27 floors of the building are the 4 Diamond Sheraton Hotel. Floors 28, 29, and 30 are the Club Intrawest Resort floors; which are operated independent of Sheraton. Floors 31 to 48 are residential condominiums. The One Wall Centre tower is part of the Wall Centre complex owned by Wall Financial Corporation and was largely the vision of Peter Wall.

Construction

To counteract possible harmonic swaying during high winds, One Wall has a tuned water damping system at the top level of the building which consists of two specially designed 50000 impgal water tanks. These tanks are designed so that the harmonic frequency of the sloshing of the water in the tanks counteracts the harmonic frequency of the swaying of the building.

The Sheraton Wall Centre required a 23 m deep excavation — the deepest excavation prior to Living Shangri-La for a building in the city.

According to the June 2004 edition of Elevator World, Richmond Elevator Maintenance Ltd. won a contract for the lowest bid to supply the building's elevators, one of the local elevator firm's first examples of traction elevators. The installation features 10 elevators, 8 of which are high speed geared machines. The hotel is served by four 1400 kg traction elevators at 244 m/min, with a group of 3 for public usage and a single private VIP access elevator. There are also two hotel service elevators with 1800 kg capacity each at 213 m/min. The apartments are served by 2 elevators, each with a capacity of 1600 kg at 305 m/min. There are also 2 roped hydraulic elevators: the 1400 kg to serve the parking garage, and the 2300 kg to serve the banquet floors. There are 6 escalators installed by Fujitec.

During construction, as the building's glass was completed on the lower floors, construction was stopped as the City of Vancouver disagreed with the dark colour of glass that being applied. The building was completed with the upper floors a more translucent shade of glass, resulting in a two-toned appearance.

Gallery

File:Onewallcentre.jpg File:Onewallcentre2.jpg File:Vancouver Wall Centre.jpg

References

References

1. {{CTBUH. 4069
2. "Emporis building ID 112827". [[Emporis]].
3. {{SkyscraperPage. 3
4. {{Structurae. 20024443
5. "One Wall Centre Project". Glotman•Simpson.
6. (2013-01-22). "Wall Centre gets window makeover".
7. (2013-07-19). "Vancouver Wall Centre in $7M window fix". CBC News.

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