Toronto Architecture

The places below are grouped from the newest bunch to the oldest bunch of architecture, not by actual dates.


Check out Doors Open (May 28/29) if you're interested in architecture. www.toronto.ca/doorsopen
150 buildings of architectural, historic, cultural and/or social significance open their doors to the public. Admission is free.

AGO (Architect: Frank Gehry)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ago

ROM (Architect: Daniel Libeskind)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Ontario_Museum

Sharp Centre for Design, OCAD University (Architect: Wil Alsop)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCAD_University

Gardiner Museum (Architects: KPMB Architects)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardiner_Museum

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts (Architect: Diamond + Schmitt)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Seasons_Centre

Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research (Architects: Behnisch Architects with architectsAlliance)
www.galinsky.com/buildings/ccbr/index.htm

Graduate House (Architect: Thom Mayne, Morphosis with Teeple Architects)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Toronto_Graduate_House

Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy (Architect: Norman Foster)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Dan_Faculty_of_Pharmacy

BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (elaborate Hindu temple) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAPS_Shri_Swaminarayan_Mandir_Toronto

Roy Thomson Hall (Architects: Arthur Erickson and Mathers and Haldenby)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Thomson_Hall

Cinesphere IMAX (the world's first)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinesphere

Rogers Centre (the world's first fully retractable roof stadium)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Centre

Brookfield Place aka BCE Place (Architect: Santiago Calatrava)
www.galinsky.com/buildings/bce/index.htm

Toronto Eaton Centre (Architect: Eberhard Heinrich Zeidler)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Eaton_Centre

Toronto Dominion Centre (Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
www.galinsky.com/buildings/tdcentre/index.htm

Canadian Bank of Imperial Commerce (Architect: I.M. Pei)
www.galinsky.com/buildings/cibc/index.htm

CN Tower (Architects: John Andrews Architects, Webb, Zerafa, Menkes, Housden Architects) world's tallest free-standing structure until 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN_Tower

Toronto City Hall (Architect: Viljo Revell)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_City_Hall

Toronto Old City Hall (Architect: E.J. Lennox)
www.toronto.ca/old_cityhall/old_cityhall_tour.htm

Gooderham Flatiron Building (Architect: David Roberts Jr) - oldest in the world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gooderham_Building

Union Station (Architects: G.A. Ross and R.H. Macdonald, Hugh Jones of the CPR and John M. Lyle)
www.toronto.ca/union_station/history.htm

Casa Loma (Architects: E.J. Lennox)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Loma

Gooderham and Worts Distillery District
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillery_District