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- The Greenstone Building, officially the Greenstone Government of Canada Building, and sometimes known as the Greenstone Government Building, is located on Franklin (50th) Avenue in downtown Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. It is a four-storey building faced in stone, completed and opened in 2005. Within are the local offices of 16 federal government agencies. Prior to the building's construction they were scattered in different buildings around the city. The name comes from greenstone, a rock found in great quantity in the area, from which the gold that led to Yellowknife's development was extracted. The building reflects that past in two other ways. Its interior stair tower is sided in slanted boards that recall the mineshaft towers still standing, and the location of a prominent local fault beneath the building is marked on the lobby floor. It was designed by the Edmonton firm of Manasc Isaac to be environmentally sustainable. Its central atrium has a curtain wall with photovoltaic cells, the largest such structure in Canada, and the second largest worldwide, at the time of the building's completion. Five percent of the building's electricity comes from that wall; it is used to heat water, some of which comes from the building's green roof and local groundwater, resulting in the building using half as much water as a comparably sized building. Heating efficiency is such that the building remains adequately warm during subzero winter days when many adjacent offices have to close. The building's green design reportedly saves CDN$80,000 in energy costs and reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 370 tonnes (410 short tons) each year. Two years after its completion, on time and under budget, the Greenstone Building was recognized with LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certification by the Canada Green Building Council. It was the first building in Northern Canada to achieve that designation, and the first LEED Gold for the architects. In 2007 the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada further honored it with an Innovation in Architecture Award of Excellence. (en)
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- Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, Innovation in Architecture Award of Excellence (en)
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- Various Canadian government agencies (en)
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- Williams Engineering (en)
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- From the rock under Yellowknife where the extensive gold deposits that led to the city's growth were found (en)
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- A four-storey stone building with a curved front, broad on the right and narrow on the left, seen from across a street. Its windows are set in darker bands of stone and it has red trim. The first storey is faced in rusticated stone; the ones above are smooth. On the front is the word "Canada" with a miniature Canadian flag on the right, between the third and fourth storeys. In front small deciduous trees are planted, and several flags including the Canadian flag fly from poles in front of the main entrance near the junction of the two curves. Two cars are parked along the street in front. (en)
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- West elevation, 2015 (en)
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- A yellow map of Canada with a red dot on the north side of Great Slave Lake (en)
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- Location of Yellowknife within Canada (en)
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- Stone, glass, stucco (en)
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- This is a northern building with a northern energy, and yet it is unlike any other building in the north. More than the NWT Legislative Assembly, the Greenstone Building captures and celebrates the precious light — endless hours in the summer and brief fleeting hours in the winter: that is the north. (en)
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- – Vivian Manasc, architect (en)
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- The Greenstone Building, officially the Greenstone Government of Canada Building, and sometimes known as the Greenstone Government Building, is located on Franklin (50th) Avenue in downtown Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. It is a four-storey building faced in stone, completed and opened in 2005. Within are the local offices of 16 federal government agencies. Prior to the building's construction they were scattered in different buildings around the city. (en)
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