| Simcoe Place | |
|---|---|
 | |
| General information | |
| Type | Office, Retail |
| Location | 200 Front Street West Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Coordinates | 43°38′42″N 79°23′09″W / 43.644981°N 79.385759°W |
| Completed | 1995 |
| Owner | Cadillac Fairview |
| Management | Cadillac Fairview |
| Height | |
| Roof | 140 m (460 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 33 |
| Floor area | 69,677 m2 (750,000 sq ft) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Carlos Ott[1] |
Simcoe Place is an office building and shopping centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The tower is 148 metres (486 ft) metres (486 feet) with 33 floors.[2] It was completed by architects Carlos Ott and NORR in 1995. The late-Modernist building was built by developer Cadillac Fairview. It was the only major office tower built in Toronto during the mid-1990s, a period between the early decade real estate bubble and the building boom of the 21st century.
As a special project The Globe and Mail reporter Mary Gooderham spent two years covering the construction, writing 110 columns on the subject. These were later compiled into a book titled A Building Goes Up: The Making of a Skyscraper.
It is the head office for Workplace Safety & Insurance Board. It is adjacent to the CBC National Broadcast Centre and was built as the commercial component of the complex. The design was the subject of a design competition, won by Norr Architects and Ott.
See also
References
- ↑ Simcoe Place
- ↑ "Simcoe Place". The Skyscraper Center. Retrieved 2017-06-12.
Further reading
- Gooderham, Mary (1998). A Building Goes Up: The Making of a Skyscraper. HarperCollins. ISBN 0006385575.
External links
- "Emporis building ID 112661". Emporis. Archived from the original on 2015-05-12.
- "Simcoe Place". SkyscraperPage.
