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World Exchange PlazaThe World Exchange Plaza is a building in downtown Ottawa, Canada. The first phase of the project was completed in 1991. It covered an entire city block between Metcalf and O'Connor south of Queen Street. The twenty-storey building was unusual in Ottawa for its visual flair. The eastern side was marked by a large plaza modeled after the Roman Coliseum. The building opened in the middle of a deep recession and initially had trouble being filled. The 1990s boom solved this and work began on a second tower, which was completed in 2001. This second tower greatly increased the available office space, but also made the structure far less visually arresting. The two towers hold offices for a variety of companies, most notably TD Canada Trust, whose logo stands atop the building. The base of the structure holds a shopping mall known as the World Exchange Centre. It is home to a number of stores and a Cineplex Odeon movie theatre, one of the only cinemas in downtown. The mall is also noted for the life size models of narwhales and belugas that hang from the ceiling. External link:
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