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Downtown Yellowknife
Downtown Yellowknife during the winter months

This list of tallest buildings in Yellowknife ranks skyscrapers over 30 m (98 ft) tall in the city of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. Yellowknife is the capital of and largest city in the Northwest Territories and the second largest in Northern Canada. As of 2011, the city contains 3 skyscrapers 50 m (164 ft) and over, with a further 7 high-rise buildings that exceed 30 m (98 ft) in height.[1] The tallest building in the city, and the NWT, is the 17-storey, 60 m (200 ft) Centre Square – Northern Heights.[2] This building was constructed in a postmodernist architectural style, representing the city's efforts to add visual interest into the skyline. The second-tallest building in the city is the Watermark Tower (Polar Apartments), standing at 50 m (164 ft) tall with 15 storeys.

Having a population of almost 20,000 people, Yellowknife has a skyline that is disproportionately large, considering its size, population, and location. This is due to Yellowknife's position in a vast resource-rich area in Northern Canada, a region larger than India.[3][4] More specifically it is the capital of the Northwest Territories which compose a large part of Northern Canada. Yellowknife is the largest city in the Northwest Territories, and, as such, many large businesses such as diamond-mining and iron-mining consortiums are headquartered or have bases in the city. The city acts as a distribution point for many of these resources. Yellowknife is connected to the southern Canadian city of Edmonton via the Yellowknife and Mackenzie Highways.

List of tallest buildings

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This list ranks buildings in Yellowknife that stand at least 30 m (98 ft) tall, based on CTBUH height measurement standards. This includes spires and architectural details but does not include antenna masts.

Rank Name Image Height Floors Completed Notes Ref
1 Centre Square – Northern Heights map1
(mixed use)		 60 m (197 ft) 17 1996 [2]
2= Watermark Tower (Polar Apartments) map2
(residential)		 50 m (164 ft) 15 2003 [5]
2= Northwest Tower map3
(office)		 50 m (164 ft) 12 1991 [6]
4 Scotia Centre map4
(office)		 45 m (148 ft) 11 1979 [7]
5 Coast Fraser Tower map5
(hotel)		 42 m (138 ft) 14 1970 [8][9]
6 Precambrian Building map6
(office)		 41 m (135 ft) 11 1976 [10]
7 Anderson – Thomson Tower map7
(residential)		 38 m (125 ft) 11 1986 [11][12]
8 Bellanca Building map8
(office)		 36 m (118 ft) 10 1973 [13][14]
9 Northern United Place 34.5 m (113 ft) 10 1976 [15][16]

Other notable buildings

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Con Mine

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Looking at the Robertson Headframe from above, 2006.

At 76 m (249 ft) the Robertson headframe located at Con Mine was the tallest building in Yellowknife and the Northwest Territories. The headframe which was built in 1977, sat over a mine shaft 1,859 m (6,099 ft) deep.[17] The headframe was demolished on 29 October 2016.[18][19][20]

Explorer Hotel

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The Explorer Hotel is located on 49th Avenue in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. It is an eight-storey-tall modernist concrete structure built in 1974. Located atop an outcrop overlooking downtown, the hotel is one of the most prominent buildings in the city, and claims to be the largest hotel in Northern Canada; it has also been described as the city's best and grandest. It is owned and operated by Nunastar Properties. The building was expanded in 2008 and 2019.

Greenstone Building

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A four-storey stone building with a curved front, broad on the right and narrow on the left, seen from across a street. Its windows are set in darker bands of stone and it has red trim. The first storey is faced in rusticated stone; the ones above are smooth. On the front is the word "Canada" with a miniature Canadian flag on the right, between the third and fourth storeys. In front small deciduous trees are planted, and several flags including the Canadian flag fly from poles in front of the main entrance near the junction of the two curves. Two cars are parked along the street in front.
The Greenstone Government of Canada Building

The Greenstone Building on Franklin Avenue downtown houses offices of 16 different federal government agencies. Before its completion in 2005, on time and under budget, those offices had been scattered in different locations. In 2007 it was certified LEED Gold by the Canadian Green Building Council for its environmental sustainability; among other features it generates some of its own electricity through building-integrated photovoltaics. It was the first building in the Canadian North to receive LEED certification of any level.[21]

Mackenzie Place

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Mackenzie Place, known locally as the High Rise, is a 17-storey building located in Hay River on the south side of Great Slave Lake. Although no accurate height is known it is sometimes called the tallest building in the NWT. An estimated height of 57.64 m (189.1 ft) is given for the building that was completed in 1975 and was until the building of Centre Square – Northern Heights in 1996 the tallest building for 40 years. Unlike Yellowknife there are no other buildings in Hay River of any height so it dominates the skyline and is visible from 75 km (47 mi) away.[22][23][24][25][26]

Northwest Territories Legislative Building

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Northwest Territories Legislative Building

The Northwest Territories Legislative Building is the home of the Government of the Northwest Territories. The most recent building was built in 1993 and commenced usage in 1994. The Legislative Assembly has used many permanent and temporary facilities throughout its history.

The current building is two stories tall with two round halls, the Great Hall and the Caucus Room. It is located in Yellowknife, and overlooks Frame Lake. It was designed by Ferguson Simek Clark/Pin Matthews (of Yellowknife) in association with Matsuzaki Wright Architects (of Vancouver), and landscape architect Cornelia Oberlander.

Timeline of tallest buildings

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Period Name Height Floors Completed
1970 – 1979 Coast Fraser Tower[8][9] map5 41 m (135 ft) 11 1970
1979 – 1991 Scotia Centre[7] map4 45 m (148 ft) 11 1979
1991 – 1996 Northwest Tower[6] map3 50 m (164 ft) 12 1991
1996 – present Centre Square – Northern Heights[2] map1 60 m (197 ft) 17 1996

Nunavut and Yukon

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Tukturjuk Tower is the tallest building of the Astro Hill Complex in Iqaluit.

Of the three northern territories, the Northwest Territories is the only one that has buildings over 30 m (98 ft) (or 8 storeys) tall.

The tallest building in Nunavut is the 29 m (95 ft) tall Tukturjuk Tower in Iqaluit.

The tallest building in Yukon is the 20 m (66 ft) tall Mah's Point condos in Whitehorse. The city of Whitehorse had, for many years, a by-law restricting the height of buildings to 20 m (66 ft). The by-law was changed in 2012 allowing for 8 storeys and a height of 25 m (82 ft).[27][28][23]

See also

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Maps

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References

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  1. ^ "Yellowknife Skyscraper map". Skyscraperpage.com. Retrieved 2011-02-14.
  2. ^ a b c "Centre Square – Northern Heights". Retrieved 2011-02-14.
  3. ^ "Total Area of India" (PDF). Country Studies, India. Library of Congress – Federal Research Division. December 2004. Retrieved 3 January 2011. The country's exact size is subject to debate because some borders are disputed. The Indian government lists the total area as 3,287,260 km2 (1,269,220 sq mi) and the total land area as 3,060,500 km2 (1,181,700 sq mi); the United Nations lists the total area as 3,287,263 km2 (1,269,219 sq mi) and total land area as 2,973,190 km2 (1,147,960 sq mi).
  4. ^ Land and freshwater area, by province and territory Archived 2011-05-24 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Polar Apartments (Watermark Tower)
  6. ^ a b "Northwest Tower". Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  7. ^ a b "Scotia Centre, Yellowknife - SkyscraperPage.com". Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  8. ^ a b "Coast Fraser Tower, Yellowknife - SkyscraperPage.com". Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  9. ^ a b Yellowknife highrise fire caused by human error
  10. ^ "Precambrian Building". Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  11. ^ "Anderson - Thomson Tower, Yellowknife - SkyscraperPage.com". Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  12. ^ "Anderson Thomson Tower, Yellowknife | 1172573 | EMPORIS". Emporis. Archived from the original on October 23, 2019. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  13. ^ "Bellanca Building, Yellowknife - SkyscraperPage.com". Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  14. ^ Bellanca Developments Ltd.
  15. ^ "Northern United Place, Yellowknife - SkyscraperPage.com". skyscraperpage.com. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  16. ^ "Northern United Place, Yellowknife | 1171031 | EMPORIS". Emporis. Archived from the original on October 23, 2019. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
  17. ^ Services, Northern News. "A tower over Yellowknife". Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  18. ^ "So long, Robertson headframe: Yellowknife landmark comes down Saturday". CBC.ca. 29 October 2016.
  19. ^ "Yellowknife lost an Iconic structure this evening #yellowknife #conmine #con tower #demoilition #spe – barfoot12". Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  20. ^ Corey Halliwell (29 October 2016). "Demolition of The Robertson Headframe. Yellowknife, NT Canada". Retrieved 16 February 2017 – via YouTube.
  21. ^ "Yellowknife's Greenstone Government of Canada building receives LEED Gold standard". Daily Commercial News. August 30, 2007. Retrieved September 3, 2015.
  22. ^ "Life in Hay River's High Rise – Northern Public Affairs". Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  23. ^ a b "Who's Next?". 17 March 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  24. ^ GmbH, Emporis. "Mackenzie Place, Hay River – 125135 – EMPORIS". Archived from the original on November 1, 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  25. ^ "Balconies off-limits at N.W.T.'s tallest apartment building". Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  26. ^ "Mackenzie Place". SkyscraperPage. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  27. ^ "Ketza Group Multi-Residential Projects > Mah's Point Condos". Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  28. ^ "Whitehorse Daily Star: Towering crane gives young Yukoner's career a big lift". Retrieved 16 February 2017.
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