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3. St. James Cathedral
10. Fairmont Royal York
11.Union Station
12. Royal Bank Plaza
9. Toronto Dominion Centre
13. Brookfield (BCE) Place
15. St. Lawrence Centre for the Performing Arts
1. St. Lawrence Market
16. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts
17. Flatiron Building
4Consumers’ Gas building5.
Toronto St. Post Office
2.St. Lawrence Hall
Architectural History – HIST12797Tour starts and ends at St-Lawrence Market.
We have 2 hours to complete this walking tour - it’s about 3kms.
GOOD LUCK!
8. First Canadian Place 6.
Scotia Bank
7. CIBC – old & new
14. Hockey Hall of Fame
18. Beardmore Bldg.
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You can walk through Brookfield Place to the Hockey Hall of Fame –‘map my walk’ wouldn’t let me though!
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Architects: Henry Bowyer Lane
Year: 1845
Use: Toronto City Hall and Jail House - currently large marketplace
Architectural construction and materials: Tinted glass, limestone, granite, red brick, white stone.
Other information: Built in Georgian tradition and influenced by Romanesque style.
Resources:St. Lawrence Market.” A little piece of history”. St.Lawrence Market,2011. http://www.stlawrencemarket.com/history
ST-LAWRENCE HALL
Architect: William Thomas
Year: 1849
Architectural Style: Renaissance Revival
Use: Amphitheatre inside. Past - hall for abolition meetings, balls, receptions, concerts, lectures, political and cultural center Now - weddings, galas, private events
Architectural construction and materials:- 16 Corinthian capitals columns- plastered tall ceiling, 34 feet above the wooden floor- Stone construction on bulk of exterior
Other information:Designated as historic site in 1967- Housed several important Abolition meetings in the
years when Canada was receiving thousands of Underground Railroad refugees from American slavery
- Fell into despair for nearly 70 years until restored by the city of toronto ofr the countries 100th celebration
Resources:http://www.torontoboutiquecondos.ca/account/293cf56311025868/Gallery/carousel/3.jphttp://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/st-lawrence-hall/
ST. JAMES CATHEDRALArchitect: Frederick William Cumberland and Thomas RidoutYear: 1850 - 1874Architectural Style: Gothic RevivalUse: ChurchArchitectural construction: stone structure, arch, flying buttress, vault
Architectural material: Local stone and brick, glass, copperOther information: The Tower and spire remain the tallest in Canada and second tallest in North AmericaDestroyed by fire three times.
CONSUMER’S GAS BUILDING
Architect: David B. Dick (facade in 1899)
Year: 1852, bought building to north in 1876 (designed by DIck and Grant Architects) facade covering both buildings was done in 1899 (by David B DIck)
Architectural Style: Neo-Renaissance/Revival Renaissance
Use: Consumer’s Gas head office -- now it is the Rosewater supper club
Materials built with: Stone with granite columns
Other Information: Renovated in 1983 by Stone and Kohn Architects for the Counsel Trust Company
Source: http://torontoplaques.com/Pages/Consumers_Gas_Building.html
TORONTO STREET POST OFFICE
Architect: Frederick William Cumberland and Thomas Ridout
Year: 1851-53
Architectural Style: Greek Revival
Use: It served as the city’s seventh post office, then became home to the internal revenue service and the Bank of CanadaThe Toronto Street Post Office Building is now home to the Morgan Meighen and Associates, a private investment company
Materials: The building was primarily made out of stone
Other: sold to its current tenant as the most expensive real estate per square foot in Canada
Source: http://heritagetoronto.org/torontos-first-post-offices/
SCOTIA PLAZA
Architects: WZMH Architects
Year: 1986-88
Architectural Style: Post-modern
Use: Office tower, bank headquarters, gold-bullion vault in the basement (only one in Canada)
Architectural Construction and materials: Red Napoleon Granite, quarried in Sweden, cut and polished in Italy, then imported to Canada, covers much of the exterior and many interior surfaces. Windows are dark tinted glass framed by the granite. Reinforced concrete.
Other information: 3RD tallest building in Canada
Architects: Mathers and Haldenby with Beck and Eadie
Year: constructed between 1946 and 1951
Architectural Style: Beaux-Arts
Use: Banking Headquarters, office space
Architectural Construction and materials: Limestone, concrete, steel
Other information: Heritage status, 1975
Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotia_Plaza
Original Beaux-Arts Building:Architects:Pearson and Darling, with York and SawyerYear: 1930
Style: Beaux-ArtsMaterials/Construction: concrete, limestone, steelUse: commercial/banking
Tower:Architects: Pie Cob Freed and Partners, with Page and Steele
Year: 1972-76Style: InternationalMaterials/Construction: glass curtain wall, stainless steel
Use:headquaters of canadian bank of commerceOther: 65 retail shops in below gradeResources:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Court
CIBC Plaza or Commerce Court
Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Year: Completion date of all 6 Towers (1967-1991)
Architectural Style: International Style
Use: Commercial Leasing in Financial District
Architectural Construction & Materials: Bronze-tinted glass and black steel and aluminum.
Other Info: First modern architectural structure and tallest at its time in Canada.
Resources: http://www.tdcentre.com/en/About/Pages/MoreHistory.aspx
TORONTO-DOMINION CENTRE
BROOKFIELD PLACE (formerly BCE PLACE)** The complex consists of two towers:
• Bay Wellington Tower - by architects Bregman + Hamann Architects and completed in 1992
• TD Canada Trust Tower – by architects Bregman + Hamann Architectsand Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, completed in 1990
• linked by the six-storey Allen Lambert Galleria by Santiago Calatrava
Architectural style: post-modern
Use: Commercial Office Building
Construction material: Concrete, Glass, Steel, Stone
Resources: http://tayloronhistory.com/2013/03/18/torontos-architectural-gems-brookfield-place/
TD Canada Trust Tower
Bay Wellington Tower
FAIRMONT ROYAL YORK
Architects: Ross & Macdonald
Year: 1929
Architectural Style: Chateau-style
Use: Hotel
Architectural Construction and materials:concrete, brick, copper, stone and steel
Other Information: Built by Canadian Pacific Railway, similar style to many of the other grand railway hotels built across the country.
Resources: wikipedia(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairmont_Royal_York)
UNION STATION
Architects: Ross and MacDonald
Year: construction period 1914-1920Opened 1927
Architectural Style: Beaux- Art style, in this case a mixture of both Greek and Roman ArchitectureUse: Transportation Station
Architectural Construction and materials: Indiana, Queenston Limestone, columns-bedford limestone, Zumbro stone from Missouri, Tennessee marble for the floor.
Other information: currently undergoing a billion dollar renovation/restoration.
Resources:http://www.trha.ca/unionstation.html
ROYAL BANK PLAZA
ARCHITECT – WZMH ARCHITECTS / DESIGNER – BORIS ZEFARA
● Royal Bank Plaza - skyscraper ● Located in the downtown of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ● Built in 1979● Headquarters of the Royal Bank of Canada.● Height = 180meters (590feet)● 2 Towers = North Tower (26 Floors) & South Tower (40 Floors)● 14000 windows coated in 24 karat gold (70$ per window) ● Total cost of windows= over $1million ● gold is used to reduce the heating bills as gold is a very excellent insulator.
HOCKEY HALL OF FAME
Architects: Frank Darling and George Curry
Year: 1885
Architectural style: Beaux-Arts style
Use:• 1882-1949 BMO HEAD OFFICE
• 1949-1982- MAIN BRANCH• 1993 Hockey Hall of Fame
Materials: Concrete, stained glass, limestone, steel
Other: one of the few buildings that survived the 1904 Toronto fire.
ST-LAWRENCE CENTRE FOR THE ARTS
Architects: Gordon Adamson & Associates
Year: opened in1970, construction started in 1967 as a Canadian Centennial Project
Architectural Style: Brutalism
Use: Theatre, stage productions, musical events, etc.
Architectural Construction and materials: Concrete, steel, glass.
Other information: contains two theatres,
Resources: http://www.stlc.com/about-the-centre/
THE SONY CENTRE for THE PERFORMING ARTS
Architects: Peter Dickinson (who also designed social housing buildings at Regent Park)Year: 1960
Architectural style: Mid-century Modern
Use: Always used as a performing arts center
Architectural construction: Alabama limestone, glazing, granite, copper, bronze, Carrara marble, carpet, cherry plywood panels and Brazilian Rosewood, concrete
Other Information: Formerly the O’Keefe Centre and the Hummingbird CentreThe building seats 3000 people largest soft seat theatre in Canada.Male ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defected from the USSR from this theatreResources:http://urbantoronto.ca/news/tags/sony-centrehttp://www.sonycentre.ca/
GOODER HAM / FLATIRON BUILDING
Architect: David Roberts, JrYear: 1892Architectural Style: Romanesque and French GothicUse: previously used as office space for the Gooderham family distillery businessConstruction Material: red brick, copper and ironOther: The name "Flatiron" derives from its resemblance to a cast-iron clothes iron
Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gooderham_Building
Architect: Walter Strickland
Year: 1872-1873
Architectural Style: Second Empire
Use: Store-house until the 1940s
Construction Material: Cast iron facade over a basic warehouse of timber-frame construction with brick load-bearing walls. Slate roof.
Other info: Also known as the Griffiths BuildingThis type of construction allows for larger window openings.
Resources: http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=8837
BEARDMORE BUILDING
Architectural StylesBeaux-Arts • popular in the US/Canada between 1880 and 1920, but was taught from the
late 1600s onward• Architects were trained at the Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Paris• The style was classically inspired by the Italian Renaissance, Imperial
Roman architecture, Baroque, and in North American had a large Greek influence.
• Example: Union Station in Toronto.
Chateau Style• This is a revival style of architecture, based on the French Renaissance style
of French country houses built in the late fifteenth century to the early seventeenth century
• Popular in Canada with many of the grand railway hotels, starting in the late 1800s
• Example: The Fairmont Royal Hotel
International Style• Came of age in the 1920s and 30s• First defined in the US by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock• Characterized by: rectilinear forms light, taut plane surfaces that have been completely stripped of applied
ornamentation and decoration open interior spaces a visually weightless quality engendered by the use of cantilever construction glass and steel, in combination with usually less visible reinforced concrete, are
the characteristic materials of the construction• Example: Toronto Dominion Centre, First Canadian Place
Brutalist• 1950s to the mid-1970s, • popular with governmental and institutional clients to convey strength and power• typically massive in character • exposed concrete construction as an expression of material purity• There is often an emphasis on graphically expressing in the external elevations
and in the whole-site plan the main functions and people-flows of the buildings. • Example: St-Lawrence Centre for the Arts