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.
The chairman of TD Bank commissioned the construction in the late 1960s to meet the growing need for office space in the financial district. The finished complex became a model for later high-rise projects downtown and has shaped the cityscape ever since.
Sculptures by contemporary Canadian artists stand in the public hall and on upper floors, while a collection of works by indigenous creators from the country's far north is displayed in office areas. These pieces were assembled in the late 1960s and show motifs from life in the Arctic.
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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