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Nexen Building, Calgary

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801 Seventh Avenue S.W., commonly known as the Nexen Building, is a high rise office building in downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada.It is a 37-storey skyscraper, with a height of 153 m (502 ft). It was designed by CPV Group Architects and Engineers Ltd and built by CANA Construction Company Limited. The late-modernist building was completed in 1982. The Nexen Building employs a composite stub-girder steel-frame floor system, originally developed in part by Joseph Colaco.It is unique in that it is one of the few buildings in Calgary that do not follow the traditional grid pattern of the downtown core. Instead of facing south–north, or east–west, it stands diagonally.

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Nexen Building, Calgary
7 Avenue SW, Calgary Downtown West End

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7 Avenue SW 801
T2P 0V0 Calgary, Downtown West End
Alberta, Canada
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