Tapered Tower with Observation Pod The CN Tower is a 553.3 meter communications and observation tower in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, built on the former Railway Lands and completed in 1976. Its name refers to Canadian National, the railway company that built it; after the railway divested its non-core freight assets ahead of privatization in 1995, ownership passed to the Canada Lands Company, the federal Crown corporation that manages the government's real estate portfolio.
Facts
Building Type Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In Style
Source Wikipedia: CN Tower
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Canada, located there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: CN Tower
WikipediaLead paragraph, opening sentence describing it as a communications and observation tower
The CN Tower is a 553.3-metre-high (1,815.3 ft) communications and observation tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Lead paragraph, opening sentence naming Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The CN Tower is a 553.3-metre-high (1,815.3 ft) communications and observation tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Lead paragraph, sentence giving its 1976 completion date
Completed in 1976, it is located in downtown Toronto, built on the former Railway Lands.
Lead paragraph, opening sentence giving height of 553.3 meters
The CN Tower is a 553.3-metre-high (1,815.3 ft) communications and observation tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
The CN Tower is a 553.3 meter communications and observation tower in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, built on the former Railway Lands and completed in 1976. Its name refers to Canadian National, the railway company that built it; after the railway divested its non-core freight assets ahead of privatization in 1995, ownership passed to the Canada Lands Company, the federal Crown corporation that manages the government's real estate portfolio.
In Style: Modernist Architecture, Wikipedia categories
Category:Modernist architecture in Canada
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