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Landmark Place

Landmark Place is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Landmark Place rather than just read about it. In short: Landmark Place is the tallest building in downtown Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, at the corner of Main Street East and Catharine Street South in the Corktown neighbourhood. This 43-storey building (130 metres/427 feet) was completed in 1974, and was originally known as the Century 21 building.

Landmark Place — main illustration
Landmark Place — illustration

Key takeaways

  • Landmark Place belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
  • Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
  • Connect Landmark Place to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
  • Reproduce the core statement of Landmark Place from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Landmark Place is the tallest building in downtown Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, at the corner of Main Street East and Catharine Street South in the Corktown neighbourhood. This 43-storey building (130 metres/427 feet) was completed in 1974, and was originally known as the Century 21 building. It was built by Al Frisina as a mixed use building; commercial, residential and retail. Original plans included adding a heliport and a revolving rooftop restaurant but those plans were scrapped. Frisina also believes that no other building will be built in Hamilton taller than Landmark Place because as he puts it; 'the demand's not there and nobody's crazy enough to do it.' In the early 1960s, Frisina took on Hamilton's six-storey height limit. He brought in a consultant who told the city it could save money on services by building up instead of out. Frisina won and built the 18-storey Clarendon on Hunter near Bay. Today it is known as The Fontainebleu. The top 5 floors of the building are now occupied by luxury suites.

Images

See also List of tallest buildings in Hamilton, Ontario

References

External links Hamilton Skyscraper page- diagrams Image #1: Landmark Place Image #2: Landmark Place

Illustrations

Landmark Place illustration
Landmark Place illustration
Landmark Place illustration

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Landmark Place

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Landmark Place claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Landmark Place before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Landmark Place ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Landmark Place

In research
Landmark Place appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry
Engineering practice reuses Landmark Place in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom
Landmark Place is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Buildings and structures completed in 1974, Buildings and structures in Hamilton, Ontario, Modernist architecture in Canada, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life
Look for Landmark Place outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Landmark Place in 20 minutes

  1. Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
  2. Close the page and write down what Landmark Place means in your own words.
  3. Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
  4. Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
  5. Explain Landmark Place out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Landmark Place in simple terms?

Landmark Place is the tallest building in downtown Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, at the corner of Main Street East and Catharine Street South in the Corktown neighbourhood. This 43-storey building (130 metres/427 feet) was completed in 1974, and was originally known as the Century 21 building.

Why does Landmark Place matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Landmark Place?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Landmark Place.

Tags

  • Buildings and structures completed in 1974
  • Buildings and structures in Hamilton, Ontario
  • Modernist architecture in Canada
  • Ontario building and structure stubs

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