<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Design and construction </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Architect </Th> <Td> Jean Omer Marchand and John A. Pearson </Td> </Tr> <P> The Peace Tower (in French: Tour de Paix), also known as the Tower of Victory and Peace (in French: tour de Victoire et de Paix), is a focal bell and clock tower sitting on the central axis of the Centre Block of the Canadian parliament buildings in Ottawa, Ontario . The present incarnation replaced the 55 - metre (180 ft) Victoria Tower after the latter burned down in 1916, along with most of the Centre Block; only the Library of Parliament survived . It serves as a Canadian icon and had been featured prominently on the Canadian twenty - dollar bill directly adjacent the queen's visage, until the change to polymer . </P> <P> Designed by Jean Omer Marchand and John A. Pearson, the tower is a campanile whose height reaches 92.2 m (302 ft 6 in), over which are arranged a multitude of stone carvings, including approximately 370 gargoyles, grotesques, and friezes, keeping with the Victorian High Gothic style of the rest of the parliamentary complex . The walls are of Nepean sandstone and the roof is of reinforced concrete covered with copper . </P>

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