BCE Place
| Brookfield Place | |
|---|---|
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| General information | |
| Type | Commercial offices |
| Architectural style | Postmodernism |
| Location | 161 and 181 Bay Street Toronto, Ontario |
| Coordinates | 43°38′49″N 79°22′43″W / 43.64694°N 79.37861°WCoordinates: 43°38′49″N 79°22′43″W / 43.64694°N 79.37861°W |
| Construction started | 1990 |
| Completed | 1992 |
| Owner | Tower I: Oxford Properties OMERS Tower II: Brookfield Properties |
| Management |
Brookfield Properties Oxford Properties |
| Height | |
| Antenna spire | Tower I: 263 m (863 ft) |
| Roof | Tower I: 227 m (745 ft) Tower II: 208 m (682 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | Tower I: 53 Tower II: 49 |
| Floor area | Tower I: 127,470 m2 (1,372,100 sq ft) Tower II: 148,640 m2 (1,599,900 sq ft) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect |
Bregman + Hamann Architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (interior galleria by Santiago Calatrava) |
| References | |
Brookfield Place (formerly BCE Place) is an office complex in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, comprising the 2.1 ha (5.2-acre) block bounded by Yonge Street, Wellington Street West, Bay Street, and Front Street. The complex contains 242,000 m2 (2,604,866 sq ft) of office space, and consists of two towers, Bay Wellington Tower and TD Canada Trust Tower, linked Allen Lambert Galleria. Brookfield Place is also the home of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Bay Wellington Tower is a 49-story office tower, designed by Bregman + Hamann Architects and completed in 1992. The TD Canada Trust Tower is noted for its recessed design and spire on the upper levels and stands at 53 storeys. Designed by Bregman + Hamann Architects and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the tower was completed in 1990 and was known as the Canada Trust Tower until 2000 when Canada Trust was purchased by the Toronto-Dominion Bank. Until July 2015, the "TD" logo was solely displayed on the Canada Trust Tower, unlike the nearby towers of the Toronto-Dominion Centre which were bare.
Although Brookfield Place is a modern office complex, it contains a significant heritage component. In the 19th century, this block was described in the Globe newspaper as "the most valuable business block in the city", although much of it was subsequently destroyed in the 1904 Toronto fire. The fire spared a row of a dozen commercial buildings at the corner of Yonge and Wellington streets, the facades of which were restored decades later and incorporated "in situ" into the Brookfield Place development. The facade of the 1890s-era Merchants' Bank building, originally located on Wellington Street, was similarly restored, although it was moved and incorporated into the Allen Lambert Galleria. The opulent former Bank of Montreal branch at the northwest corner of Yonge and Front streets, built in 1885, also forms part of the complex, and now serves as part of the Hockey Hall of Fame. It contains portraits of all Hall of Fame inductees, and houses a number of hockey trophies, including the Stanley Cup.
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