Sun Tower

Vancouver, Canada

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Heritage registerCanadian Register of Historic Places↗

The Sun Tower stands as a 17-storey Beaux-Arts landmark at 128 West Pender Street in Vancouver, completed in 1912 and designed by architect William Tuff Whiteway. Rising 82 metres, the building is crowned by a distinctive dome that originally featured faux-patina steel painted to imitate copper; restoration work beginning in 2018 replaced this with authentic penny-coloured copper tiles, completed in early 2021. The façade displays nine sculpted nude muses—the "nine maidens"—supporting the cornice line, their terracotta forms crafted by Gibbs and Canning Limited of Tamworth, Staffordshire, England. Now designated a heritage building, the Sun Tower represents a refined example of early twentieth-century commercial architecture in the Pacific Northwest.