Place Ville Marie

Place Ville Marie
Former names	Royal Bank Tower
General information
Type	Office
Architectural style	International
Address	1 Place Ville Marie Montreal, Quebec H3B 2B6
Coordinates	45°30′05″N 73°34′06″W / 45.5015°N 73.5684°W / 45.5015; -73.5684
Construction started	1958
Completed	1962
Owner	Ivanhoé Cambridge
Management	Ivanhoé Cambridge
Height
Roof	188 m (617 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	47
Floor area	95,922 m2 (1,032,500 sq ft)
Lifts/elevators	32
Design and construction
Architect(s)	I.M. Pei & Partners Dimitri Dimakopoulos
Developer	William Zeckendorf
Structural engineer	Severud Associates
Website
www.placevillemarie.com/fr
References
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Place Ville Marie (PVM for short) is a large office and shopping complex skyscraper in Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, comprising four office buildings and an underground shopping plaza. The main building, 1 Place Ville Marie (formerly Royal Bank Tower from its anchor tenant), was built in the International style in 1962 as the headquarters for the Royal Bank of Canada. While RBC's corporate headquarters and the majority of its management operations have been based in Toronto's Royal Bank Plaza since 1976, Place Ville Marie remains RBC's head office, a distinct title from its corporate headquarters.^[5] It is a 188 m (617 ft), 47-storey, cruciform office tower. The complex is a nexus for Montreal's Underground City, the world's busiest, with indoor access to over 1,600 businesses, numerous subway stations, a suburban transportation terminal, and tunnels extending throughout downtown. A counter-clockwise rotating beacon on the rooftop lights up at night, illuminating the surrounding sky with up to four white horizontal beams that can be seen as far as 50 kilometres (31 mi) away. This beacon is not considered as a NAVAID for aviation purposes.