About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Bank buildings in Canada, Media company headquarters in Canada, Toronto-Dominion Centre, Corus Quay, First Canadian Place, Place Ville-Marie, 299 Queen Street West, 9 Channel Nine Court, Commerce Court, Imperial Oil Building, Complexe Desjardins, Tour CIBC, Canadian Broadcasting Centre, Scotia Plaza, Royal Bank Plaza, Suncor Energy Centre, Fifth Avenue Place, Epcor Tower, CBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre, Bankers Hall, Manulife Place, CN Tower, TD Canada Trust Tower, Calgary, Land Titles Building - Victoria Armoury, Maison Radio-Canada, First Canadian Centre, Connaught Building, Telus Plaza, Rogers Building, Icon Towers, Bank of Canada Building, BDC Building, Two Bloor West, Canwest Place, One Yonge Street, Oxford Tower, Commerce Place, Scotia Tower, 500 Place D'Armes, Scotia Centre, Bell Tower, Royal Centre, TD Tower, Scotia Place, Bank of Commerce Building, Windsor, Canada Place, Station Lands, Victoria Building, HSBC Canada Building, La Promenade Building, Bank of Montreal Building. Excerpt: Toronto-Dominion Centre, or Centre, is a cluster of buildings in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, consisting of six towers and a pavilion covered in bronze-tinted glass and black painted steel. It serves as the global headquarters of the Toronto-Dominion Bank, as well as providing office and retail space for many other businesses. 21,000 people work in the complex, making it the largest in Canada. The project was the inspiration of Allen Lambert, former President and Chairman of the Board of the Toronto-Dominion Bank, with Phyllis Lambert recommending Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as design consultant to the architects, John B. Parkin and Associates and Bregman + Hamann, and the Fairview Corporation as the developer. The towers were completed at different times between 1967 and 1991, with one additional building originally built outs...
