This fifteen-floor office tower rises 172ft in Centretown, occupying Kent Street between Gloucester and Laurier. As the name suggests, the Centennial Towers were built in 1967 for Canada’s Centennial celebration.

The building has a cross-shaped plan, offering outdoor spaces in each of the resulting corners. The corner plazas are more public and open fronting Kent Street, and become more semi-enclosed on Laurier Ave. W. and Gloucester St. The areas are all hardscaped with planters, the base of the tower itself is clad in granite.

The towers are clad in very reflective blue tinted glass, which does make it difficult to see the articulations in the volume of the façade at times. However, the reflective cladding provides incredible reflections of the surrounding context, and the building tends to blend into the sky on sunny days.