Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The area of Toronto City Hall and the civic square was formerly the location of Toronto's first Chinatown, which was expropriated and bulldozed during the mid-1950s in preparation for a new civic building. [9] The location of City Hall itself was also the site of the 1917 Land Registry Office.
It forms the forecourt to Toronto City Hall, or New City Hall, at the intersection of Queen Street West and Bay Street, and is named after Nathan Phillips, mayor of Toronto from 1955 to 1962. [3] The square was designed by the City Hall's architect Viljo Revell and landscape architect Richard Strong. [4] It opened in 1965.
The existing city halls of the various municipalities were retained by the new corporation for various purposes. The City of York's civic centre became a court office. The existing 1965 City Hall of Toronto became the city hall of the amalgamated city, while Metro Hall, the seat of the former Metro government, is used as municipal office space.
By 31 January 2011, industrial buildings were required to render 10% or 2,000 m 2 (22,000 sq ft) of their roofs green. [70] Toronto City Hall's Podium roof was renovated to include a 3,000 m 2 (32,000 square feet) rooftop garden, the largest publicly accessible roof in the city. The green roof was opened to the public in June 2010. [71]
Toronto's Old City Hall was one of the largest buildings in Toronto and the largest civic building in North America upon completion in 1899. [3] It was the burgeoning city's third city hall. [4] It housed Toronto's municipal government and courts for York County and Toronto, taking over from the Adelaide Street Court House.
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
Metro Hall is a 27-storey Postmodern-style office tower at the corner of Wellington and John Street in the downtown core of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It looks out onto Pecaut Square . Part of the three-tower Metro Centre complex, the building was completed in 1992 to house the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto (Metro) and its employees.
Although Arnell Plaza is privately owned, public access has been legally secured by the City of Toronto. Cloud Gardens, a 0.24-hectare (0.59-acre) public park, is located immediately to the east of the Bay Adelaide North site on land conveyed to the City of Toronto as a condition of the original development approvals for the complex.