Building
The building is a reinforced concrete structure with a perforated facades and flat slabs. The floor height is usually 3.6 m with a floor area of 950 square meters.
A sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, called Inverted Collar and Tie is set up in front of the entrance.
The building, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, is similar in style to a later building by the same architects, 1250 René-Lévesque in Montreal.
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