Not sure if this has been posted elsewhere, or where it should go, but I enjoyed this article looking back at the early history of "tall" buildings in Halifax.
JOHN DeMONT: When 21-storey Park Vic was a giant on the Halifax skyline
https://www.saltwire.com/halifax/opinion...-giant-on-the-halifax-skyline-100933752/
"For the longest time, any building more than a few storeys high was owned by a corporation (the 12-storey Royal Bank Building built in 1960) or the Crown (the 11-storey Dominion Bank Building built in 1936) or was a place for people to lay their head, like the circa-1930, 15-storey hotel that we now know as the Westin Nova Scotian.
Then came a building boom that, though it may not rival today’s, was striking enough to earn a long, laudatory, front-page story in the July 10, 1966, edition of the New York Times with a lede that read “A $29.5-million downtown redevelopment project, together with new office towers, shopping centres, highrise apartments, subsidized housing and university expansion, is taking the wrinkles out of the face of Halifax.”
Before that, it was rare to see a Halifax building push into the heavens. Stephen Archibald, who blogs about the city’s build heritage, recalls that our apartment buildings used to be three or four storeys “at the most” and were built within existing residential neighbourhoods.
During the 1960s construction explosion — which bought us, among other things, Scotia Square, a new nurses residence at the Halifax infirmary, the Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building — apartment highrises began tentatively poking their heads out of the ground."
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