Toronto Dominion Center
The Toronto-Dominion Center (abbreviation: TD Center ) is a building complex in Downtown Toronto , which consists of six high-rise buildings and a bronze-tinted glass pavilion. It serves as the headquarters of Toronto-Dominion Bank and other commercial tenants. A total of around 21,000 people work in the complex, which makes it the largest in Canada.
history
The project goes back to Allen Lambert, the former president and board member of the Toronto-Dominion Bank. The planning was carried out by the architects Bregman + Hamann Architects and the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe . Mies van der Rohe had a free hand in the design during the planning phase. The skyscrapers were completed between 1967 and 1991, four of the buildings were built after Mies van der Rohe's death in 1969. Opened in 1967, the Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower was the tallest building in Canada at the time.
The building ensemble represents a classic example of the international architectural style and marks the end of Mies van der Rohe's “ American period ”, which began in 1957 with the Seagram Building in New York City .
The building hit the headlines when the 39-year-old attorney Garry Hoy tried to demonstrate to a group of students the unbreakability of the glass windows on July 3, 1993, which is why he threw himself against the pane. It wasn't the first time he had done this, but this time, tragically, the window peeled off the wall and Garry Hoy fell 24 stories to his death.
Individual buildings
| building | Year of construction completed |
height | Floors | address | Architects |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toronto Dominion Bank Tower | 1967 | 222.8 m | 56 | 66 Wellington Street West | Bregman + Hamann Architects, John B. Parkin Associates with advice from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| Royal Trust Tower | 1969 | 183 m | 46 | 77 King Street West | Bregman + Hamann Architects and John B. Parkin Associates with advice from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| Canadian Pacific Tower (formerly: Commercial Union Tower) |
1974 | 128 m | 32 | 100 Wellington Street West | Bregman + Hamann Architects |
| TD Waterhouse Tower (formerly: Aetna Tower, IBM Tower, Maritime Life Tower) |
1985 | 153.8 m | 39 | 79 Wellington Street West | Bregman + Hamann Architects |
| Ernst & Young Tower | 1991 | 133.1 m | 31 | 222 Bay Street | Bregman + Hamann Architects and Scott Tan de Bibiana |
| 95 Wellington Street West | 1986 | 97 m | 22nd | 95 Wellington Street West |
See also
List of tallest buildings in Toronto
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ William Dendy, William Kilbourn: Toronto Observed: Its Architecture, Patrons and History . Oxford University Press, Toronto 1986, ISBN 0-19-540508-0 , p. 277.
- ↑ Bruce Demara: Corporate Lawyer Plunges 24 Floors to Death . In: The Toronto Star , DairyLand.com, July 10, 1993, p. A4. Retrieved September 8, 2011.
Coordinates: 43 ° 38 ′ 52.5 " N , 79 ° 22 ′ 51" W.