Toronto-Dominion Centre, Office complex in Old Toronto, Canada.
The Toronto-Dominion Centre is a building complex of six office towers with dark steel frames and bronze-tinted glass facades in Toronto's financial district. The towers stand around a granite-paved plaza where passers-by meet and through which one can move between the individual buildings.
After the 1955 merger of the Bank of Toronto and the Dominion Bank, TD directors commissioned a new headquarters; Allen Lambert secured a 50-50 partnership with Bronfman-owned Fairview Corporation in the late 1950s. Phyllis Lambert brought in Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as design consultant after Gordon Bunshaft's proposal was rejected. The TD Bank Tower opened on 16 May 1967, during Canada's Centennial, at 222.8 m the tallest building in the country; the banking pavilion and Royal Trust Tower followed in 1968 and 1969.
The TD Centre holds the TD Gallery of Inuit Art, a permanent public gallery created through a partnership between TD Bank, described as the world's largest collector of Inuit art, and Cadillac Fairview. The easternmost tower at 222 Bay Street contains the 1937 Toronto Stock Exchange building at its base, home since 1994 to the Design Exchange, Canada's only museum devoted to design. The complex takes part in Doors Open Toronto.
An underground passage connects the towers with each other and leads directly to subway stations, so you stay dry in bad weather. On this shopping level you will find cafes and shops that are busy mainly on weekdays during lunch breaks.
In the boardroom stands a table made of solid English oak that was shipped in five parts from an estate in Hampshire to Canada. The wood comes from trees that had grown for several centuries before they were felled for this purpose.
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