The Canada Life building on Osborne Street has been a landmark since it was first built in 1959.

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The building, mostly unchanged since the ’60s, was updated to reflect modern values, practices and designs. The Number TEN design team kept some key elements of the original design for their aesthetic appeal and their connection to this history of the building.

Among them was a wooden screen that originally separated a coat room from a hallway on the third floor. The design team had the screen reinstalled on the first floor, where it lends a flourish of mid-century elegance to a high-traffic corridor.

The wood and brass screen, carefully restored and proudly mounted a new refurbished marble base, is a reminder to carry the best of the past into the future.