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Nicholas Tower 
General information Type Office Location Independence Square, Port of Spain, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago Construction started 2002 Completed 2003 Height Roof 88 metres (289 ft) Technical details Floor count 21 Design and construction Architect Bynoe Rowe Wiltshire Partnership 
Nicholas Tower
Port of Spain, viewed from the harbour, December 2002. The Nicholas Tower, then under construction, is to the right of the image.Nicholas Tower, situated on Independence Square, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago is the second tallest building in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as in the English-speaking Caribbean. It has an elliptical floor plate and stands 21[1] floors tall and 88 Meters high. Construction was completed in 2003 and each floor, 8,000 square feet (700 m2) of space, was rented out at a cost of $96,000 a month[2] (as of 2005). It is a blue glass tower.
The building was constructed on the site of the Trinidad Union Club, a 136-year-old private club.,[3] which now occupies the penthouse suite of the Nicholas Tower.[3] The Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange, another former tenant of the Union Club building,[3] also occupies this building. Insurance Giant Clico occupies the 9th floor of the tower. Caribbean Airlines' (The national airline of Trinidad and Tobago) head office is also located in the Nicholas Tower.[3][4]
While the Nicholas Tower is currently the second tallest building in Port of Spain, the proposed Waterfront International Project is slated to include two 26-storey office towers.[1]
References
- ^ a b Chouti, Sandra, Changing the face of PoS, Trinidad Guardian, February 9, 2006.
- ^ Javeed, Asha, Mobile provider wants to stay downtown, Trinidad Guardian, August 25, 2005
- ^ a b c d Javeed, Asha, Union Club enters new eraTrinidad Guardian, July 27, 2006
- ^ Long, Sherwin, TTSE finds new home, Trinidad Guardian, November 10, 2005.
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