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50 essential buildings in Toronto you need to know

Buildings in Toronto must be divided into two groups: those which came before the construction of New City Hall in 1965 and those which came after. Everything changed when Viljo Revell's spaceship-like civic hub put Toronto on the global architecture map, and since then we've continued to add bold and beautiful structures to the urban fabric.

Lead photo by

Jack Landau. With files from Derek Flack.


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