Toronto City Hall

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Toronto City Hall is a distinctive modernist civic complex in downtown Toronto that houses the city's municipal government and is one of its most recognizable architectural landmarks.


Statements (51)
Predicate Object
instanceOf architectural landmark
city hall
modernist building
municipal government building
address 100 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
architect Bertil Huttunen
Heikki Castrén
Niilo Kokko
Seppo Valjus
Viljo Revell
architecturalStyle Brutalism (elements)
Modernism
competitionWinner Viljo Revell
completionDate 1965
constructionStartDate 1961
coordinates 43.6535°N 79.3841°W
country Canada
designCompetition International architectural competition for Toronto City Hall
featuredIn City of Toronto logo (stylized towers and chamber)
featuredOn Canadian postage stamp
floorCount 20 (west tower)
27 (east tower)
function seat of municipal government of Toronto
groundbreakingDate 1961
hasPart Nathan Phillips Square
council chamber
east tower
podium building
rooftop garden
underground parking garage
west tower
hasSculpture The Archer by Henry Moore
height 79.4 m (west tower)
99.5 m (east tower)
heritageStatus listed on the City of Toronto Heritage Register
houses Toronto City Council
inaugurationDate 1965-09-13
locatedIn Ontario
Toronto
downtown Toronto
material glass
reinforced concrete
steel
openedBy Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
operator City of Toronto
overlooks Nathan Phillips Square
owner City of Toronto
publicTransitAccess Osgoode station
Queen station
replaced Old City Hall (Toronto)
structuralEngineer Hannu Heikkinen


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