TORONTO ARCHITECTURE:

Toronto architecture is the most marked by its being the financial and cultural capital of Canada.

The architecture of Toronto has grown up so much that is dominating the economy of Toronto.
Toronto has traditionally been a peripheral city in the architectural world, embracing the styles and ideas developed in Europe and United States.

Many of the most importants architects have worked in Toronto city.

A thriving multicultural city, home to nearly 2.5 million people (five million in the Greater Toronto Area), Toronto boasts one of the most eclectic cultural scenes in North America.
From architecture, art, dance, design, festivals, film, history, music, reading and theatre — in Toronto, there is a cultural event for everyone every day of the year.
Toronto is the largest city in Canada and the fifth largest city in North America. The capital of Ontario, Toronto, it is also the economic and commercial centre of Canada.

The post war years and the rise of the personal automobile saw the rapid rise of the suburbs, as occurred across North America. The most important suburban development was that of Don Mills in North York. Begun in 1952, it was the first planned community in Canada, and it initiated many practices that would become standard in Toronto suburbs. The Don Mills project put into practice many of the ideas of the Garden city movement, based on the ideas developed by Sir Ebenezer Howard, creating a multi-use community focused on distinct neighbourhoods.






Flying Rectangle:
Award of Excellence - Building in Context

Sharp Centre for Design
Address: 100 McCaul Street
Architect: ALSOP Architects Ltd. and Robbie/Young & Wright Architects in joint venture
Landscape Architect: Yuk Woo Lee & Associates Ltd.
Client: The Ontario College of Art and Design.

The Bay-and-Gable is one of the most distinct style of architecture on traditionals houses of Toronto. This style was very built late of nineteenth and early of twentieth centuary.

This style was very common because the lots were very narrow and longs. Usually only 13 to 20 feet (6.1 m) wide.






Royal Ontario Museum:
Inauguration in 1914
It has more than six million items among its most outstanding collections, plus 40 galleries of art, archeology and natural science. Notably, this past June 2007, the ROM announced to its audience the dramatic new expansion, with the help of Michael Lee, known more popularly as common: Chin Crystal. This is a link to the splendid modern prismatic shapes presented in the museum, in addition to being considered one of the most challenging projects done before, anyway bet worth the effort.

CN Tower:
Is a 553.33 m-high (1,815.4 ft) concrete communications and observation tower in Downtown TorontoIt was completed in 1976, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure and world's tallest tower at the time. It held both records for 34 years until the completion of Burj Khalifa and Canton Tower in 2010. It remains the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere, a signature icon of Toronto's skyline, and a symbol of Canada, attracting more than two million international visitors annually


SkyDome:
It is a multi-purpose stadium in downtown Toronto situated next to the CN Tower near the shores of Lake Ontario. Opened in 1989, it is home to the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball and the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. From 2008 to 2012, the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League are scheduled to play at the stadium for eight games (five regular-season and three pre-season) as part of the Bills Toronto Series. While it is primarily a sports venue, it also hosts other large-scale events such as conventions, trade fairs, concerts, funfairs, and monster truck shows.