Toronto-Dominion Centre

Photos by Alan L Brown - June 2005

Standing tall and black in Toronto's financial district is the Toronto-Dominion Centre. An Ontario Heritage Trust plaque, on the south side of King Street between Bay Street and York Street, tells us about those buildings:

Designed by Modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in association with John B. Parkin Associates and Bregman and Hamann Architects, the Toronto-Dominion Centre is located in the heart of Toronto's financial district. The Centre was commissioned by Allen Lambert, chairman of TD bank, in partnership with Fairview Corporation. The complex is arranged around a granite-paved pedestrian plaza and originally consisted of three buildings: the 56-storey Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower (1967), the one-storey Banking Pavilion (1968), and the 46-storey Royal Trust Tower (1969). An underground shopping concourse is located beneath the granite plinth. The buildings are steel structures, clad with bronze-coloured glass and black painted steel, with steel I-beam mullions attached to the exterior. A leading example of the International style in Canada, the Toronto-Dominion Centre altered the Toronto cityscape and influenced many buildings throughout the country.

Plaque Location Co-ordinates: N 43 38.917 W 79 22.915

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Posted August 23, 2008
If you could have the sketches on the site? The plan?

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