Canada Trust Tower
Toronto, Canada

HEIGHT: 261m/856 feet
FLOORS: 53 floors
COMPLETION: 1990
ARCHITECT: Skidmore, Owings & Merril / Bregmann + Hamann Architects

Although it is only the third-tallest building in Toronto, the 51-story Canada Trust Tower is still one of its signature skyscrapers. Its numerous setbacks and unusual number of bevels allow for an extraordinary number of pricey corner offices -- up to 16 on some floors. The red beacon shown in these pictures help distinguish it from its fraternal twin, the 47-story Bay Wellington tower. The symbol is the old Canada Trust logo. It has since been replaced with a green TD (Toronto Dominion) logo.

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Not one of my top rated :(

4/10

My favorite in Toronto...nice geometric design...9/10.

Very nice design that is the equivalent of that of Library Tower of LA or OUB Centre in Singapore.

9.5/10

very Toronto & definitely not my favourite

7

Scotia Plaza craps all over it!

tays

not badd.........8.5/10

mY second favourite in TO. 9.0.

I love it more with the new TD logo on top now. One of my favourite in canada 10/10

A bit bland, but I like it. Probably my 2nd favorite "tall" TO tower behind the proposed Ritz...

8.0/10

Up close, looks cheap.

6.5/10

7/10, theu tried to make it look ordenary! :D

8/10

Very interesting geometric design and very clean-cut. Excellent..the top looks a wee bit tacky though.

good except for the top, which just looks strange...

7.5/10

Maybe not a stunner but I kind of like it!
7/10

7.5/10 I like the top and design but not that eyecatching.

I don't like it. That red thing on top doesn't look to good either.

7.0

ewww what is with that red thing on the top

at first i thought it was a crane

dont like the top part as it doesn't match the rest

4

great design . . but looks better at sunset and at night . . 7/10

pretty damn good looking. 9/10

7.5/10 - Good shape - reminds me just a bit of the Petronas towers. And I like the setbacks on the top floors. But that spire just does not work, even if it IS supposed to be a functioning antenna. And it could use a few setbacks farther down, I think.

How the hell can people give THIS a 9?!

It looks cheap. Like a 1/100th scale model for a movie or something. And that little red doohickey up top ain't helping.

3. Safe to say I ABHOR this building. For some reason, it just looks like it's from Canada or Australia. Can't explain it.

it looks like an oversized condo, even in real life... because of the beige and green glass effect. i like the shape but the colours are horrible, i voted 7, change the glass to blue or dark reflective silver and my rating would go to 9.

BTW that red block was canada trusts logo, its a c and a t. since TD and canada trust merged its now a green box with the letters TD on it.

it's interesting but gets really busy towards the top..not a bad design..8/10..

7.5/10. Nothing special.

On it's own, it isn't bad...it just isn't a top rated example of it's design catagory. It competes with other buildings that are in the financial district....Mies's TD Centre...Pei's Commerce Court...WZMH's Scotia Plaza, and the very beautiful Royal Bank Plaza....even Stone's FCP.

Where it excels is inside, and on the street....Calatrava's soaring atrium, and great old preserved historical facades...PATH mall is also good quality.



KGB

Thanks to Alexis on the Toronto Forum:

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It's an icon for Toronto. I suppose due to the geometry and the spire's red feature it's instantly recognizable. It has a sort of friendly, open, "Canadian" character as well.

7/10

A very recognisable landmark in the TO skyline. I don't mind it one bit. I'd definitely like to see the interior.

7.5.

8.5/10

my favourite toronto skyscraper

its a fairly nice design that adds variety to the TO skylike... i like it. 7.5/10. but givin the massiveness of these two buildings, i think that the proposed phase III is overkill and will ruin the site.

love the coster 8

It looks alright. It's one of the few setback skyscrapers in Toronto, adding a little bit offlare to the skyline. But I have to agree the top could been better. I agree the spire looks like a crane. But still my 3rd favourite in Toronto.

7/10

6/10

The top doesn't work to me.

Dull and uninspiring; the cladding isn't very attractive. The upper "setback" floors aren't all real floors--just fakes covering mechanical equipment and the base of that tower (same with the Bay-Wellington Tower, its compatriot). The Galleria in the ground floor is very good, if a bit antiseptic. 5.5/10

The geometric design is ok,but the rest doens't appeal to me.
6.5/10

hard pushed to give it more than 4! and whats that red thing sticking out the top?

9 Perhaps Toronto's best... great looking PoMo with great geometry near the top... but the spire hurts it

A dissapointing tower.

The rotated sharp edges towards the top kinda remind me of the UOB.. Not bad at all :) The facade has much to be desired though... It looks very plain i tink :bash:

8/10

I like the shape but that top just ruins it for me. 6.5/10

nice

whoever gave it a 3or less is gay

Hmmm....in one short sentence, you've managed to convey the fact that you not only have poor taste in architecture, but are a bigot as well.


Good job dude. LOL!!!!!






KGB

I like it. 8/10

7/10 i would have given it a higher rating, but the top one RUINED it big. reminds me of UOB, or was it OUB.:?

Can somebody cut that ugly looking spire?

7/10.

5/10

nice top

8.5

5.5/10 :)

9/10


I like it.

8.5/10

7/10

8/10
The crown looks amazing, the rest of the building has good design.

The top part is pathetic, is a very simple, boring skyscraper 3/10

I very much like it. I love the geometric design and the colours. I have a bit of an issue with the pinnacle. I think they should have given the building more height and done without the antena...it just makes it look bad and somehow "fat." FCP and Scotia are way better than this one...not bad though.
8.5/10

i like the building's shapes, but they gotta remove that red elevator on the top attached to the spire and replace the spire with something more eyecatching

8.5/10

7.5/10
I enjoy this building, like most of TO's top towers it really is impressive up close. The atrium is the icing on the cake.

8/10
It's okay...except for the top.

7/10

i love its cool design at the top and it looks very shiny...9

6.5/10

Not bad. I like the corners and the bevels. Really interesting. Facade is only ok, and the size and shape dont work together, they work against each other. Still results in a pretty nice tower, if a little ordinary.

I like the complex setback shape, but not the grey/green colour scheme. 7.5/10

Looks like the one in Singapore, but shorter.

7,5 / 10

average, don't like spire! 6.5

7/10
Not bad. It seems to be lacking something, though. The top is quite eye-catching at first glance ... but the more I look at it, the less special it seems. I can think of many other skyscrapers with better tops and more intricate setbacks than that. There's nothing particularly "wrong" with this building, it's just I've seen much better.

6/10

8

Really like the shape of this bldg but then it builds up to that crap on top. If u put a wig on an otherwise handsome guy he won't look like a total idiot but he still looks a little strange. That's what happens here and what a shame that is.

8.5

6/10 - I don't like it..

Looks like one or two others with the type of shape its got. But this one looks better so 9/10

don't like the TD thing on top 7/10

This building is a perfect case of looking better in person than a photograph. 9/10. The TD thing has to go though.

7.5/10

Great looking building, one of my fav in Toronto. One thing bugs me though, it seems kinda fat. If you look at it the building seems to be too short for its overall size.

8.5/10

My favorite building in Toronto and one of my most favorite crowns in the world. I give it a 9.5/10. :yes:

Blech.

So disticntive. 8 from me.

nothing special. 5

Boring 6/10

Grey :-(
Quite depressing sight.
The shape of the top is interesting, but doesn't work because of the color. The spire looks unfinished. Like if it was choped off.
The bottom part is just boring and sinister.
3.5

Two things I don't like: the color and the antenna.

Other than that, not bad. It reminds me of a similar building in Atlanta, but the setbacks are better-executed. They seem to be somewhat random at first, but quickly take on a pattern if you examine them. It's not a great scraper, but a very solid one.

10.

intersting, but i don't like it. sorry. 6/10

8.5/10

I like its setbacks and its shape overall.The antenna doesn't fit well and the cladding is kinda poor though.

Very beaultiful - 9/10

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7.5/10

7,5/10.

Love the top. 8.5.

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8.5 / 10

i like the inside lightening effect , 7/10

8/10.

7/10

Sorry 9/10 :cheers:

I don't really like it. 5/10

Very nice scraper, but I don't like that thing on the top ;) 8,5/10

a very nice looking building... a nice design that doesn't look boxy at all :)

7.5/10 because i thonk the top is not very good

Quite like it- cladding, design the only let down is that bizarre antenna!!
8.5/10

I like it but the spire antenna thing is ugly.

very nice, except for the top

7/10

I like the top, 8/10

6.

solid work, a 7

Probably my favourite in T.O. As many people seem to notice, most buildings in To and in Canada in general tend to be boxy. That's just our style. But this building has actually managed to incorporate some of the elegant style of spired buildings like the Chrysler building while still keeping some of the traditional Canadian boxiness.

I admit that boxes may not be the prettiest of designs, but it's more important to me that we be ourselves, and this building really fits the personallity of Toronto.

10/10

Interesting shape, but I don't like grey. 5/10.

7.5/10 a bit short

8.0

9/10.

looks awesome to me 9.5 :)

8.5

i don't like the logo on the top, but the geometric design its nice.
8/10

Its not bad 8.0

nice top. 9/10

7//10

:cheers: love this building 10/10

Looks great by night. Overall, it's not attractive and beautiful.7/10

7.5/10

the "crane" completely ruined this tower ... 6/10

For exterior I give it a 7, but for interior it get's a 10.
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7/10

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pretty good 10/10

7.5/10.

sophisticated design but Yeah, I agree that up close, it looks cheap... 9/10

8/10

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It's in the same vein as US Bank Tower in LA or UOB in Singpore with the square windows on a bland tan coloured facade, but I think I like Canada Trust a little better than the other two. It seems to be more reflective and the towers form breaks up the 'ordinariness' of the facade quite well. 8/10

8/10

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it looks like the empire state building and the crysler building mix i love it 10/10

SOM went a little overboard with the setbacks--they're too hectic. Also, the transition from the lower three-fourths of the building to the upper fourth looks awkward from some angles.

5/10

Not a bad looking tower 6

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9/10

Don't like this one, the top looks way too busy. And whats that thing on the top? 5.5

8/10

7/10... don't really like the top

one of the best symetrical buildings around. 9/10

7/10 :)

8/10

7/10

dont really like the top 7/10

7.5/10 looks okay

Its 100% Toronto and wouldn't fit in any other city. But its not my favorite tower. has some originality to it.

7/10

7,5/10

8.5/10

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8/10

7/10

6/10

6.5/10.......................

Not bad 6/10

9,5/10 ;)

on par with Scotia Plaza as one of Toronto's best... with a bunch of new beautiful skyscrapers on tap for the next few years that could change (Ritz Carlton, Trump Tower, Cityplace, etc).

5/10

not bad 8/10

9 out of 10

I kinda like it with the strong powerful feel

like it! 8.5/10

nice tower, i like it 8.5/10

8.5/10 impressive

5.5/10

poorly topped.

8/10

8/10

8/10

8/10.

8/10

5/10 Kinda boring, uninspired

4/10
don't like to much

8.5 :)

Can't tell much from that photo....gave it 5/10.

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8/10

Its nice. But not one of my favorites.

8 - quite outstanding in Toronto skyline

8/10

Nice one. 8

8/10

8/10

7.5

6/10

Not bad, although the proportion at the top is abit off. This building looks better from a distance. Up close, it's not sophisticated enough for it's surroundings.

The 'matching' Bay-Wellington Tower next to it is a disaster. I thought it was a joke when they built that. No sense of proportion and shape. It is so awkward looking it's difficult to look at.

The saving grace is the atrium by Calatrava that connects the two. Stunning!

doesn't look really nice

6.5/10

Not bad though 7.5/10

Looks allright. 6,5/10

10 - cool.

7.5/10

7.5 / 10

7/10

8/10

8/10

8/10

not bad but not my favourite 8/10

8/10

Not my favorite Toronto Tower.

7/10

7,5/10

7/10

6/10

Very interesting. 6/10

6,5/10

Not bad, although the proportion at the top is abit off. This building looks better from a distance. Up close, it's not sophisticated enough for it's surroundings.

The 'matching' Bay-Wellington Tower next to it is a disaster. I thought it was a joke when they built that. No sense of proportion and shape. It is so awkward looking it's difficult to look at.

The saving grace is the atrium by Calatrava that connects the two. Stunning!

I love how they also combined that old stone building within the atrium!!:cheers: When I was in T.O I sometimes couldn't resit getting my fix at the Marche.

nice building 8/10 IMO

7.5

Interesting but not good.

7.5/10

8/10

8.5 and in my opinion, the best building in Toronto (for better or for worse). It seems to create quite a polarizing effect within the masses....I personally love the design, especially the spire and the top portion in general. The only let down, in my opinion, is the lack of "polish" if you may. It does tend to feel a bit bland from close up. It would have been better if it were a bit taller and did not have two similar buildings right beside it.

ordinary looking

7,5/10

7. little boring but still got nice shape

7/10

7/10

nice 8/10

9 / 10

7/10

7/10

8.5/10

The top looks strange, like a giant torx wrench. The closeness of that other building with similar cladding takes away from it also. 7/10

7/10

3/10

7.5/10

8/10

8/10

8/10

7/10.Not bad...

7.5

7.5/10

8/10

7/10

8/10

8/10

Looks ok to me...

5.5/10

6/10

6.5/10

8/10.

8/10. Would look so much better without the lame ladder on the top..

Look how much better it looks?

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9/10. Very nice.

8/10. Would look so much better without the lame ladder on the top..

Look how much better it looks?

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The Canada Trust Tower is designed to be a modern variation of classic deco style. Spires are very prevalent in deco architecture, and I think that the "ladder" you refer to on this tower is meant to evoke that style.

And anyway, it looks terrible without it.

7/10

8. Good building. Regards.

9/10

9/10

I love the design. My second-favorite in Toronto after Scotia Plaza.

love the deco design. great building 9.5/10