Toronto-Dominion Centre
Title
Toronto-Dominion Centre
Publisher
Lawrence Technological University
Date Created
July 23, 2015
Creator
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
Creator2
O’Connor, Thomas (photograph)
Creator Nationality
German
Work Type
Single Built Works
Date
August, 1969
Work Location
Ontario (province)
Toronto (inhabited place)
Style/Period
International Style (modern European architecture style)
Subject
office buildings
interior views
Description
Interior view of the Toronto-Dominion Center in Toronto, Ontario designed by Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1967. "The towers that Mies designed for Toronto have an elegance that has outlasted shifting architectural trends. The retail-banking pavilion at the corner of the complex is a thing of beauty: a huge, open, light-filled space meant to mark a move away from the glassed-in teller booths and cloistered bankers’ offices of the past to a more welcoming era. The ground-floor lobbies have interior walls of creamy travertine, a stone that contrasts with the severity of the buildings’ exterior. At the base of the towers, the granite plaza is a rare expanse of open space in a crowded downtown,"--Five things the TD Centre can teach us about how to build Toronto, by Marcus Gee, from The Globe and Mail, May 01, 2015.
Material/Medium
glass (material)
steel (alloy)
Reproduction Type
jpeg
Copyright Statement
©2013 Lawrence Technological University. These images may be used for personal or educational purposes. They are not available for commercial purposes without the explicit permission of LTU.
ID Number
LTU-TO-759
- Date Added
- July 23, 2015
- Collection
- LTU Digital Images
- Item Type
- VRA Core
- Tags
- interior views, office buildings
- Citation
- “Toronto-Dominion Centre,” LTU Digital Images, accessed April 24, 2024, https://ltuimagecollection.omeka.net/items/show/14783.