The Bow, downtown Calgary

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The Bow is a 58-storey office, retail and cultural development for two high-profile energy companies in downtown Calgary. Its many notable design features make it one of the most innovative high-rise office buildings in Canada today. These include its diagrid design, which sees the tower’s structural skeleton on the outside of the building, and its stunning and innovative bow shape.

The overall result is an office tower with sensitivity to detail and improved work environment. The Bow’s modern design, where form follows function, is an elegant resolution of the many challenges facing major high-rise office tower construction. This is a quantum leap forward in office building design with many innovative sustainable and “smart” user driven features.