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Grand Designs: Innovative Urban Design and Toronto’s City Hall

September 22, 2015 | TPL Staff | Comments (4)

See the full website:A Grand Design: the Toronto City Hall Design CompetitionModernist architectural drawings & models submitted from forty-two countries.   To mark the 50th Anniversary of Toronto's "New City Hall", we've posted blogs, celebrated at City Hall and highlighted a wonderful exhibit curated by George Kapelos and Christopher Armstrong, at Ryerson University in the […]

Grand Designs : Modernist Architecture and More

September 10, 2015 | TPL Staff | Comments (0)

See the full website:A Grand Design: the Toronto City Hall Design CompetitionModernist architectural drawings & models submitted from forty-two countries.   The actual 50th Anniversary of the New City Hall is Sunday, September 13, 2015. To mark this event, we have posted a couple of blog posts. We’ve looked at past City Halls, we’ve talked […]

Grand Designs: The Toronto City Hall and Square Competition 1958

September 1, 2015 | Myrna | Comments (0)

See the full website:A Grand Design: the Toronto City Hall Design CompetitionModernist architectural drawings & models submitted from forty-two countries.   This is the second in a series commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Toronto's "New City Hall" designed by Finnish architect, Viljo Revell. Opened in 1965, the distinctive "clam shell" design and large public square is […]

Grand Designs: Toronto’s City Halls

August 28, 2015 | TPL Staff | Comments (0)

See the full website:A Grand Design: the Toronto City Hall Design CompetitionModernist architectural drawings & models submitted from forty-two countries.   Take a look at these pictures.  When we think of Toronto's City Hall, we are willing to gamble that most Torontonians would pick the picture on the left - still referred to as The "New City Hall". And […]