Heaslip House is an academic building located at 297 Victoria Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is home to the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education at Toronto Metropolitan University.
A new 7-storey addition, designed by Rounthwaite Dick & Hadley Architects, opened in the fall of 2005. It incorporates the façade of the O'Keefe Building, a 5-storey structure that was designed around 1938 by Toronto architect Alfred H. Chapman as the head office of tycoon E. P. Taylor's Canadian Breweries Limited. The O'Keefe Building's façade has limestone cladding, and there is an elaborate carving above the main entrance.
The building is named for businessman Bill Heaslip and his wife Nona Macdonald, whose aunt was Beatrice Mary MacDonald.[1] The Continuing Education School is named for entrepreneur G. Raymond Chang, who served as CEO of CI Financial.
The building is made mostly of glass panels and copper sheets. The structure is cantilevered over the Devonian Square reflecting pond, which becomes a skating rink for recreational use in winter.
References
- ↑ "Nursing Heroine Honoured at West Park". West Park Foundation. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
External links
- Heaslip House – Architectural Conservancy Ontario
- 297 Victoria Street, Toronto – ERA Architects