Manitoba Hydro Place (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
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Manitoba Hydro Place is Manitoba Hydro's new headquarters in downtown Winnipeg, located at 360 Portage Avenue. Its projected budget was $278 million CAD. It is the 4th tallest building in the city at 112.5 meters to the top of the solar chimney, with a total of 22 mechanical floors and street-scaled podium which ranges from two to three stories.
Construction of a downtown headquarters building was part of the purchase agreement between Manitoba Hydro and the City of Winnipeg for purchase of the former Winnipeg Hydro city-owned electric utility.
Manitoba Hydro employess started moving into the building December 22, 2008. The building was officially opened September 29, 2009 with 1650 Hydro employees working in the building.
The building is one of the most energy-efficient buildings of its size in North America, it is currently consuming 65% less energy than the national building code requirements. The building was designed by Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects of Toronto.
The Toronto and Winnipeg architectural firms have won the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's 2009 award for the best tall building in the Americas. Based at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, the CTBUH is the world's leading organization on tall buildings. Its annual awards recognize outstanding buildings in four geographical areas: the Americas, Asia and Australia, Europe, and the Middle East and Africa. According to its jury award statement, Manitoba Hydro Place "was designed to be completely site specific. The design could not be transplanted to another city and still work, thus making it the perfect response to the seeming homogenization of the world's skylines."
Manitoba Hydro Place is Manitoba Hydro's new headquarters in downtown Winnipeg, located at 360 Portage Avenue. Its projected budget was $278 million CAD. It is the 4th tallest building in the city at 112.5 meters to the top of the solar chimney, with a total of 22 mechanical floors and street-scaled podium which ranges from two to three stories.
Construction of a downtown headquarters building was part of the purchase agreement between Manitoba Hydro and the City of Winnipeg for purchase of the former Winnipeg Hydro city-owned electric utility.
Manitoba Hydro employess started moving into the building December 22, 2008. The building was officially opened September 29, 2009 with 1650 Hydro employees working in the building.
The building is one of the most energy-efficient buildings of its size in North America, it is currently consuming 65% less energy than the national building code requirements. The building was designed by Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects of Toronto.
The Toronto and Winnipeg architectural firms have won the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's 2009 award for the best tall building in the Americas. Based at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, the CTBUH is the world's leading organization on tall buildings. Its annual awards recognize outstanding buildings in four geographical areas: the Americas, Asia and Australia, Europe, and the Middle East and Africa. According to its jury award statement, Manitoba Hydro Place "was designed to be completely site specific. The design could not be transplanted to another city and still work, thus making it the perfect response to the seeming homogenization of the world's skylines."
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitoba_Hydro_Place
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Coordinates: 49°53'30"N 97°8'46"W
- Air Canada Centre 0.3 km
- Canwest Global Place 0.6 km
- Grain Exchange Building 0.9 km
- Canadian Pacific Railway Station - Aboriginal Health & Wellness Centre 1.7 km
- Eastgate Centre 5.1 km
- , 1109 6 km
- , 1099 6 km
- McPhillips Street, 2200 6.8 km
- City of Kenora operations centre 191 km
- Business Centre 478 km
- Downtown Winnipeg 0.3 km
- West End 1.9 km
- Norwood Flats 2.3 km
- St. Boniface 2.5 km
- Wolseley 2.5 km
- Riverview 3.5 km
- River Heights 4.5 km
- Tuxedo 6.2 km
- Linden Woods 7.2 km
- St Vital 7.5 km
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