The first 27 floors of the building are the 4 Diamond Sheraton Hotel. Floors 28, 29, and 30 are the Club Intrawest Resort floors; which are operated independent of Sheraton. Floors 31 to 48 are residential condominiums. The One Wall Centre tower is part of the Wall Centre complex owned by Wall Financial Corporation and was largely the vision of Peter Wall.
Construction
To counteract possible harmonic swaying during high winds, One Wall has a tuned water damping system at the top level of the building which consists of two specially designed water tanks. These tanks are designed so that the harmonic frequency of the sloshing of the water in the tanks counteracts the harmonic frequency of the swaying of the building. The Sheraton Wall Centre required a deep excavation — the deepest excavation prior to Living Shangri-La for a building in the city. According to the June 2004 edition of Elevator World, Richmond Elevator Maintenance Ltd. won a contract for the lowest bid to supply the building's elevators, one of the local elevator firm's first examples of traction elevators. The installation features 10 elevators, 8 of which are high speed geared machines. The hotel is served by four traction elevators at, with a group of 3 for public usage and a single private VIP access elevator. There are also two hotel service elevators with capacity each at. The apartments are served by 2 elevators, each with a capacity of at. There are also 2 roped hydraulic elevators: the to serve the parking garage, and the to serve the banquet floors. There are 6 escalators installed by Fujitec.
Cultural references
This building was featured in the movie ' as one of the buildings they used to give the cure to the mutants.
The opening sequence of The Core, where a man collapses at a business meeting and the camera pans out to the street to show a number of simultaneous accidents, was filmed here.
The plaza directly in front of this building was used in exterior shots for the 1996 Fox TV seriesProfit to represent the immediate area outside the corporate offices of fictional Gracen & Gracen Inc. While the One Wall Centre building did not exist in 1996 when the series was filmed, the two towersimmediately adjacent to this building were featured prominently in the series as the corporate headquarters for G&G.
The courtyard of the Wall Centre appears in ''Capricas season 1 episode, "Retribution".
