1 James Street North is a 5-storey low-rise office building in
Hamilton, Ontario
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,
Canada
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.
The building was completed in 1972, and is part of the
Lloyd D. Jackson Square complex.
The building was originally named the Bank of Montreal Pavilion, after the
Bank of Montreal, the building's original anchor tenant.
History
In 1972, when the Pavilion was constructed, the Bank of Montreal occupied the entire building. However, in 1997, BMO left the building and moved to a new location at the corner of Main and Bay streets, leaving the entire building vacant for almost 18 years.
In 2014,
McMaster University
McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main McMaster campus is on of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale, adjacent to the Royal Botanical Ga ...
discovered that the
courthouse that they were leasing from the city of Hamilton was to be converted back into a courthouse, and that the university would have to vacate the building. McMaster then decided to lease the old BMO pavilion, as the amount of square footage that the building offered was just the right amount. In April 2015, the
McMaster Centre for Continuing Education, occupying the entire building, opened its doors to students and educators.
Description
The building's facade consists of glass windows, segmented into 7 sections by 8 large
Stelcoloy steel columns on the East and West sides of the building. The interior features a lobby with granite floors and a steel-clad
elevator
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bank. The elevator bank features 2
Otis elevators that serve the plaza level (labeled "floor 2" on the elevator buttons), floors 3 and 4, as well as the underground parking lot. The building also features
stairs that lead from the main level (lobby and mall) to the plaza level. The plaza level of 1 James Street North features 14 foot floor-to-ceiling windows, and the building features column-free floor plates. The Jackson Square mall, as well as the
3 other office buildings in the complex are accessible from the lobby level. The building features a large common underground parking lot with a capacity of 1300 vehicles.
Images
File:BMOPavilionPlaza.jpg, Bank of Montreal Pavilion viewed from the Jackson Square rooftop plaza
File:BMOPavilionLobby.jpg, BMO Pavilion lobby
File:BMOPavilionElevatorBank.jpg, BMO Pavilion elevator bank
See also
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Lloyd D. Jackson Square
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100 King Street West
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Robert Thomson Building
The Robert Thomson Building is a 9-storey low-rise office building in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The building was completed in 1977, and is part of the Lloyd D. Jackson Square complex. The building is still officially known as the ''Robert Thomson ...
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120 King Street West
References
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Buildings and structures in Hamilton, Ontario
Modernist architecture in Canada
Office buildings completed in 1972