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The architecture of Toronto is an eclectic combination of architectural styles, ranging from 19th century Georgian architecture to 21st century postmodern architecture and beyond. Initially, the city was on the periphery of the architectural world, embracing styles and ideas developed in Europe and the United States with only limited local ...
Lawrence Richards, a member of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Toronto, has said, "Toronto is a new, brash, rag-tag place—a big mix of periods and styles." [119] Bay-and-gable houses, mainly found in Old Toronto, are a distinct architectural feature of the city. Defining the Toronto skyline is the CN Tower, a ...
Siamak Hariri, OAA, AAA, AIBC, FRAIC, RCA, Intl. Assoc. AIA (Persian: سیامک حریری; born 1958) is a Canadian architect and a founding partner of Hariri Pontarini Architects, a full-service architectural and interior design practice based in Toronto, Canada.
The book covers the architectural history of Toronto, [16] as well as Toronto history more generally from the First Nations' Toronto Carrying-Place Trail up to 1900. [17] The book was the first professional history of Toronto architecture, [7] providing overviews of the evolution of the city's building styles, mostly by focusing on monumental ...
Also known as the "First Toronto Post Office" (it was the fourth post office in York, but the first one to serve the settlement when it became Toronto in 1834), it is one of the earliest surviving examples in Canada of a building purpose-built as a post office; typical of small, early 19th-century public buildings, combining public offices and ...
Nader Ardalan (born 9 March 1939 [1]) is an Iranian American architect, urban planner, educator, theorist and author. [2] [3] [4] Ardalan has had a significant impact on contemporary architecture in Iran, the Middle East, and North America as an architect, researcher, and theoretician.
Shahrvand Editorial Team in their office in Toronto, June 2014. Shahrvand (Persian: شهروند) is the largest Persian language newspaper in North America, which serves the Iranian and Afghan communities across North America. [1] Shahrvand has been published since 1991.
The Georgian style Campbell House in Toronto, built in 1822. In Lower Canada the Georgian style was employed by the English minority, but this minority dominated the commercial and political class. French-Canadian architecture kept many of its traditional forms, but also adopted some English styles.