Toronto-Dominion Centre
The Toronto-Dominion Centre (abbreviation: TD Centre) is a building complex in downtown Toronto, which consists of six high-rise buildings and a bronze tinted glass pavilion. It serves as the headquarters of the Toronto-Dominion Bank and other commercial tenants. A total of around 21,000 people work in the complex, which makes it the largest in Canada.
History
The project goes back to Allen Lambert, the former president and board member of the Toronto - Dominion Bank. The planning was carried out by the architectural firm Bregman Hamann Architects and the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Mies van der Rohe had a free hand in the design in the planning. The skyscrapers were completed in 1967-1991, four of the buildings were built only after the death of Mies van der Rohe in 1969. The opened in 1967 Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower was the tallest building in Canada at the time.
The building complex represents a classic example of the international style of architecture and marked Mies van der Rohe's completion of its " American period" that had begun in 1957 with the Seagram Building in New York City.