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Toronto City Hall Service Canada Centre

Toronto City Hall Service Canada Centre

One of architect Viljo Revell's few projects outside of Finland, the modernist architecture of Toronto's city hall still impresses. Opened in 1965, it has starred in many movies over the years: alongside Jackie Chan in The Tuxedo (2002), with Milla Jovavich in Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) and with Michael Douglas in The Sentinel (2006). Take the time to go inside; city council actually sits inside that white 'cup'.
Royal Ontario Museum

Royal Ontario Museum

The jury's still out on Daniel Libeskind's 2007 addition to the Royal Ontario Museum. The fifth largest museum in North America, the ROM's venerable old Italianate Neo-Romanesque building explodes in a Deconstructivist form known as the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. More successful visually outside than in, the Crystal fell short of its ambition when water leakage forced a reality check. Still, it is a Libeskind.
Bata Shoe Museum The

Bata Shoe Museum The

We've all stored things in shoeboxes. The Bata Shoe Museum, opened in 1995, was designed by Raymond Moriyama as a deconstructed shoebox to hold Sonja Bata's fascinating footwear collection. The building, and its contents which span 4,500 fashionable years, is one of Toronto's real gems.
Art Gallery of Ontario

Art Gallery of Ontario

Though born in Toronto, 'starchitect' Frank Gehry had yet to grace our city with one of his designs until this year. His renovation of the Art Gallery of Ontario makes the most of its location on narrow, unassuming Dundas Street West. Looking remarkably like a mighty airship that has been forced to make an emergency landing, the light and airy shipboard feel carries successfully inside. A wonder to visit.
Allen Lambert Galleria

Allen Lambert Galleria

Flooding downtown's Brookfield Place with light, the Allen Lambert Galleria (1992) displays Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava's signature organic style in its evocation of an avenue of trees. Attached Heritage Square equally resembles a forest of ferns. Dramatic and delightful.
Ontario College Of Art & Design

Ontario College Of Art & Design

British architect Will Alsop's 2004 addition added workspace and award-winning style to the Ontario College of Art and Design. Playful and creative, just like the students who attend there.
Commerce Court West

Commerce Court West

Long before he created the Louvre's glass pyramid in Paris or the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's pyramids in Cleveland, I.M. Pei dreamed up this glittering stairway to heaven at the corner of King and Bay. Dating from 1973, it was the tallest building in Canada for a time.
Toronto Dominion Centre

Toronto Dominion Centre

We've got Mies! The cluster of six towers at the corner of King and Wellington represents the evolutionary end of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's North American period. Erected between 1967 and 1991, the towers' pleasing proportional relationships to one other display the best of International Style. The complex's dark drama is somewhat lightened by its sunlit plaza and Joe Fafard's bronze cows which lounge peacefully in 'The Pasture'.
Michele Peterson said 9 months ago:
I've never seen the city this way before.

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