Toronto City Hall

Toronto City Hall

Lawrence Technological University

May 21, 2015

Revell, Viljo

O’Connor, Thomas (photograph)

Finnish

Single Built Works

August, 1969

Ontario (province)

Toronto (inhabited place)

Modern (styles and periods)

city halls

interior views

stairs

Detail view of stairway at the Toronto City Hall designed by Viljo Revell and completed in 1965. "Toronto City Hall is particularly memorable for two main reasons. First, the discrete disposition of its programmatic elements, namely the civic square, the podium, the council chambers and the office towers. Second, for its paradoxically spare yet flamboyant expression. The civic square, named for former mayor Nathan Phillips, has been since its opening an enormously successful public space. The site of many public events from music festivals to New Year's Eve and Canada Day celebrations to outdoor art exhibits to political rallies, it serves the function of a traditional city square. This element fulfills Eric Arthur's wish that the scheme look both forward and to the past. For while the complex's expression is resolutely Modern, even futuristic, the civic square respects traditions of public building in Toronto in being oriented south towards Lake Ontario, as well as in its generous aspect onto the old city hall by EJ. Lennox across Bay Street to the east,"--from Toronto City Hall by Marco Polo from Canadian Architect, March, 1994.

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