HSBC Bank Building

Kitty-corner to the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, this building has a five-story-high public atrium with a branch of the Sciué Italian café minichain (see Where to Eat), regularly changing art exhibitions, and one of the city's more intriguing public-art installations: Pendulum, by BC artist Alan Storey, is a 90-foot-long hollow aluminum sculpture that arcs hypnotically overhead.

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