Architecture
Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas St W
Frank Gehry’s magnificent $276-million expansion, which includes the addition of a titanium-covered tower, has added 47 per cent more exhibit spac...
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Brookfield Place: Allen Lambert Galleria and Sam Pollock Square
181 Bay St
At first glance, Brookfield Place is a straightforward skyscraper complex, consisting of two towers by Bregman and Hamann. Yet between these bland tower...
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CN Tower
301 Front St W
Try as we might to reinvigorate the local architecture scene with revitalized cultural centres and impressive condos, one monolith continues to dominate...
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Celia Franca Centre National Ballet School
400 Jarvis St
Created by Goldsmith Borgal & Co. and Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg, NBS’s new campus (completed in 2005) breathes new life onto Jarvis Stre...
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Chef's House
George Brown College
George Brown College’s east-end campus has gone through some major overhauls in recent years, but nothing is quite as unique as the Chefs&rsq...
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City Hall
100 Queen St W
Finnish architect Viljo Revell won the worldwide competition to design Toronto’s new City Hall in 1958. His design included two curved towers, one...
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Cloud Garden
14 Temperance St
A variegated urban oasis nestled into the fabric of downtown, Cloud Garden was designed by Baird Sampson Neuert Architects. A series of ramps and terrac...
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Distillery District
55 Mill St
Yorkshire immigrant James Worts built a wind-powered gristmill here in 1832, partnered with William Gooderham, and within a decade transformed the enter...
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Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
145 Queen St W
Diamond + Schmitt Architects’ dark manganese iron-spot brickwork and glorious glass facade is a beacon at the busy corner of Queen Street West and...
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Green Roof Demonstration Project
100 Queen St W
Installed in 2000, the Green Roof Demonstration Project, located at the podium roof of City Hall, is now a thriving rooftop garden. A pilot project desi...
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Leslie L. Dan Pharmacy Building, U of T
144 College St
Sir Norman Foster completed the University of Toronto’s pharmacy building in 2006 – the British architect’s first in Canada. Given tha...
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Morrison Hall University of Toronto
75 St George St
Situated on a former parking lot, Zeidler Partnership Architects’ undergraduate residence, Morrison Hall, makes the most of its slender site. Lowe...
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OCAD Sharp Centre for Design
100 McCaul St
Toronto has never been known for having an overabundance of architecture that could be called cheeky, unorthodox or controversial. All that changed when...
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Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen's Park
Most people know the ROM for its iceberg-like shape, a major expansion by Daniel Libeskind that locals love to hate. Inside is a world-class collection ...
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SAS Canada Building
280 King St E
While the SAS Canada building, with its no-fuss glass and aluminum exterior, may not exude that architectural wow! factor, the real wonder of this build...
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Terrence Donnelly Centre, U of T
160 College St
The faculties of medicine, pharmacy, applied science and engineering have access to state-of-the-art laboratory facilities in the University of Toronto&...
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The Royal Conservatory
TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning
A new star has been added to Bloor West’s walk of architectural fame – a jaunty strip that includes within a few blocks the KPMB-designed Ga...
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Toronto Botanical Garden
777 Lawrence Ave E
Designed by the local firm Montgomery Sisam Architects, the Toronto Botanical Garden’s expansion is not only a wonder to look at — with an e...
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Toronto Music Garden
475 Queens Quay W
This free-form garden interprets – in landscape – Bach’s First Suite for Unaccompanied Cello. The contemplative Allemande, for example...
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Toronto-Dominion Centre
Bay and King St
The Toronto-Dominion Centre is German-American master architect Mies van der Rohe’s largest work and one of his most significant worldwide. Comple...
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Varsity Centre
Bloor Street and Devonshire Place
Varsity Stadium was one of the country’s premiere sporting and concert venues for more than a century, host to such historic events as the 1950 Gr...
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Wellesley Community Centre
495 Sherbourne St
Community centres can often be confusing structures, with networks of dimly lit corridors. This light-filled building, located on a busy corner in St. J...
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Young Centre for the Performing Arts
55 Mill St, Bldg 49
In 2003, Soulpepper Theatre Company and George Brown Theatre School announced plans to join forces and build the Young Centre for the Performing Arts, a...
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