Made modern: That was what happened to Toronto when it launched a 1958 international design competition and landed an emerging star of Finnish modernism, Viljo Revell, to design its futuristic ...

Nobody at city hall is asking ... Don’t even ask about the roads budget. Yet while Toronto’s Official Plan calls for “interesting architecture and urban design,” the reality is often ...

Toronto's old City Hall was built in 1899 and declared a National Historic Site by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada in 1989. • Finnish architect Viljo Revell's design was chosen ...

Conversations about Toronto architecture often focus on the birth of the City Hall and the TD Centre in the 1960s as defining moments in the modernization of design in Toronto. It's tough to argue ...

For Toronto-based architect Philip Beesley ... night exhibition of contemporary art — where he transformed its city hall rotunda into an immersive dark ocean of recycled textiles and floating ...

J. Lennox Toronto's most prominent architect at the turn of the century, Lennox is responsible for both Old City Hall and Casa Loma, amongst a stable of impressive Romanesque structures scattered ...

Over Memorial Day weekend the City of Toronto unveiled a stunning green roof on top of City Hall, and it is getting glowing praise from all who have seen it. Lloyd Alter was on hand for the ...

Toronto City Hall Architect: Viljo Revell Completed: 1966 For Toronto residents, their new modernist City Hall was a symbol of progress and pride for a young city boldly striding on the world stage.

SUBJECT : The 1958 Toronto City Hall and Square competition was the largest competition of its era. It attracted over 500 entries from architects across the globe, even more than the 1956 Sydney Opera ...

More than any building in town, it is City Hall that defines Toronto ... Christopher Hume was the Toronto Star’s architecture critic and urban issues columnist and remains a freelance ...

One of the best things about Toronto is there’s always something new to explore. Like, did you know there is a rarely opened observation deck at City Hall? This May, Toronto is bringing back Doors ...