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With the adoption of the Greenbelt throughout the Greater Toronto Area in 2005, the region has experienced a large condo boom amid the Canadian property bubble with many designs adopting neomodern styles.
- Canadian Architecture: 1867-1914
- Status of The Profession
- Late Nineteenth 19Th-Century Styles
- Economic Expansion and New Styles
- Professionalization of Architecture
- Richardsonian Romanesque
- Queen Anne Revival
- Commercial Style
- Beaux-Arts
- Domestic Informality
Between Confederation (1867) and the outbreak of the First World War (1914), Canada's development from British colony to modern, largely urban, industrial and effectively self-governing nation was reflected in its architecture. By 1914 western Canada had been annexed and settled; the country had expanded from a cluster of provinces hemmed in by the...
In 1867 architecture was a marginal pursuit and, where practised, was dominated by Victorian stylistic revivals. Most building was vernacular (copied from known and traditional models) and anyone could call himself an architect. Professionally trained designers were few although a small number of British trained architects had established themselve...
In the 1870s, the Second Empire style, French in origin, American by adoption and marked by rich classical sculptural effects and high mansard roofs (sometimes slate), was the dominant mode for public buildings. The style was applied to hotels, railway stations, city halls — especially Montréal's Hôtel de Ville (H.M. Perrault, 1872–78) — and provin...
The decade 1885–95 was an architectural watershed in Canada. In a time of cyclical economic booms and busts it was a period of relative prosperity marked by rapid large-scale building. The transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway(CPR) was completed in 1886, opening the western prairies to settlement and cementing Montréal's dominance of Canadian f...
The decade between 1885 and 1895 witnessed the organizing and professionalizing of architecture, its conversion to a recognizable modern form. Architects in several provinces federated into professional institutes with codes of ethics and powers over training and legislation. The Ontario Association of Architects formed in 1889; similar bodies bega...
The Richardsonian Romanesque style, a type of Romanesque Revival architecture named after American architect Henry Hobson Richardson, made its first prominent Canadian appearance in Richard Waite's design for the Ontario Legislature (1886–92) and in churches and commercial buildings in Toronto designed about 1886 by Edmund Burke and E.J. LENNOX. So...
As Richardsonian Romanesque dominated public, commercial and religious architecture, so the Queen Anne Revival held sway in house design from the mid-1880s to almost 1910. A hybrid mode rooted in early 18th-century design in England which became the speciality of such English architects as R.N. Shaw and J.J. Stevenson, Queen Anne Revival was marked...
Office buildings, as a type, developed mainly in the United States and first appeared in Canada in the 1880s. Early ones, however novel their height and structure, were rendered in historic styles. The New York Life Insurance building of 1888 (Babb, Cook & Willard, of New York), at eight storeys plus a tower, was Canada's first skyscraper; round-ar...
The other way the American presence made itself felt in the years before 1900 was in the introduction of Beaux-Arts methods of training and design and of the scholarly Neoclassicism that usually accompanied them. The French national École des beaux-arts offered a systematic training in analysis and design that Anglo-American traditions of apprentic...
So much formality was wearying in the home, as the long-lived Queen Anne Revival suggests, and the rational commercial style and learned Beaux-Arts provoked a naturalistic reaction in Arts & Crafts domestic architecture. Especially in Canada, such work usually had an English flavour, since the Arts & Crafts movement had originated as a reaction to ...
Feb 22, 2011 · This edition of The Great Canadian Architects series looks at two Toronto based architects who contributed greatly to the development of commercial and banking architecture in the early twentieth century in not just Toronto, but across western Canada. Frank Darling and John A. Pearson would create a solid association that lasted from the early ...
Neo-Classical Architecture. Both residential and commercial buildings were constructed on the traditional Georgian plan, but they had a new gaiety and light-heartedness. Detailing became more refined, delicate, and elegant.
Dec 11, 2020 · When an old building is destroyed, the stories are lost with it, both the good and the bad. More efforts should be made to keep old buildings alive, particularly in big cities like Toronto that are experiencing rapid growth.
8 hours ago · The Toronto census metropolitan area (CMA) accounts for 20 per cent of the national economic output as well as 52 per cent of Ontario’s," the report’s authors note.
Union Station is one of the finest examples of Beaux Arts and Neo-Classical architecture in Canada. It is the second busiest transportation hub in the country and a landmark building in downtown Toronto.
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