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Winch Building

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The Winch Building (also known as the R.V. Winch Building) is a five-storey heritage commercial building located at 739 West Hastings Street in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Completed in 1911, it was designed by architect Thomas Hooper of the firm Hooper & Watkins in the Beaux-Arts Classical style for shipping and canning magnate Richard Vance Winch. The building was Vancouver's first steel-cage construction and was described at the time of its completion as "an entirely modern Class A office building, the first of its kind in British Columbia." Since 1986, the Winch Building has formed part of the Sinclair Centre, a complex of four heritage buildings connected by a glass atrium. It is a Recognized Federal Heritage Building and is listed on the Canadian Register of Historic Places. The building is also listed on the Vancouver Heritage Register with municipal and national heritage protection.

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Winch Building
West Pender Street, Vancouver Downtown

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West Pender Street 717
V6C 1G8 Vancouver, Downtown
British Columbia, Canada
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Sinclair Centre
Sinclair Centre

Sinclair Centre is an upscale shopping mall in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. It is located at 757 West Hastings Street between Granville and Howe streets. The centre comprises four buildings that were restored and connected by a new atrium space designed by Henriquez Partners Architects and Toby Russell Buckwell Architects in 1986. The cost for this work was 38 million. The main post office was housed here from 1910 until the new one opened in 1958. The Post Office Building is in an Edwardian Baroque style, combining English and French influences. It features an atrium clock consisting of four 12-foot-diameter (3.7 m) clocks built in 1909 and is the largest clock movement in Western Canada; the minute hands alone weigh 92 kilograms (202 pounds) each. In addition to the mall, the building has a seven floor office tower occupied by the federal government. The buildings that comprise the centre are the Post Office (1910 - David Ewart), the handsome and architecturally esteemed Winch Building (1911 - Thomas Hooper), the Customs Examining Warehouse (1913 - David Ewart), and the Federal Building (1937 - Thomas W. Fuller). The mall is home to elite boutiques. The complex was renovated in 1986 and announced on November 13, 1983 that it was to be renamed after James Sinclair, member of Parliament for Vancouver North and later Coast—Capilano as well as Minister of Fisheries. Sinclair is the maternal grandfather of 23rd Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.SkyTrain Waterfront Station