Architectural Index for Ontario


Information on Architect: Page & Steele, (firm)


Biography
Notes "Mainstrean firm designing big office buildings; came to fore in 1960s with Internatioanl Style projects" --Patricia McHugh in Toronto Architecture : A City Guide.


Address: 4 Avenue Road
Type of Building: Hotels
Name of Building: Park Plaza Hotel
Notes: Renamed as the Grand Bay Hotel 1998-99.


Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Architect 1989 Feb. 8 34 2
Journal / Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 1957 Jan. 5-9 34 1
New Buildings in the Commonwealth 1961 X 86

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Address: 500 Avenue Road
Type of Building: Apartment Houses


Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Architecture, Batiment, Construction 1958 Nov. 24 13
New Buildings in the Commonwealth 1961 X 88

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Address: 561 Avenue Road
Type of Building: Apartment Houses


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New Buildings in the Commonwealth 1961 X 89

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Address: 220 Bay Street
Type of Building: Office Buildings
Name of Building: Bay-Wellington Building


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Natural cut stone for fine buildings 1950 n/a unpgd

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Address: 243 Bay Street
Type of Building: Office Towers
Name of Building: Commerce Court
Notes: Comerce Court is a complex of four buildings occupying the area bounded by Bay, King, Melinda and Wellington Streets. It comprises part of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (1929-31, Darling & Pearson and York & Sawyer) which is listed as no. 25 King Street West. It was renovated in 1975-76 by Page & Steele and I.M. Pei.

Dates
Building completed 1973-Court

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canada Century Home 1992 Feb. 6 37 2
Canadian Architect 1981 Nov. 28 26 11
Canadian Interiors 1974 June 29-35 11 n/a
Contemporary Canadian Architecture 1982 n/a 119-1
Globe & Mail 1998 March E4 19th
Globe & Mail 1998 May A10 30th
Toronto : le nouveau Monde 1987 n/a 12-13
Toronto Places 1992 n/a 42-43
Toronto, Carved in Stone 1984 n/a 24-25

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Address: 595 Bay Street
Type of Building: Shopping Complexes
Name of Building: Atrium on Bay


Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Architect 1982 April 33 27 4
Canadian Architect 1983 Jun/Jul 35-37 28 6/7
Canadian Architect 1981 June 4 26 6
Globe & Mail 1983 March E3 Sat. 5th

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Address: 1 Benvenuto Place
Type of Building: Apartment Houses
Name of Building: Benvenuto Apartments
Notes: Originally the site of the mansion called "Benvenuto" by original owner Simeon Henan Janes. SEE: 350 Avenue Road for articles about "Benvenuto" the house.

Dates
Building completed 1955

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
AZURE 1998 Sep/Oct 44
Canadian Architect 2001 April 10-13 46 4
Canadian Architect 1996 Nov. 20 41 11
Canadian Architect 1989 Oct. 6 34 10
Journal / Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 1956 Jan 14-19 33 1
Toronto Modern: Architecture 1945-1965... 1987 n/a 60-61

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Address: 1 Benvenuto Place
Type of Building: Restaurants
Name of Building: Scaramouche Restaurant

Dates
Building completed 1955

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Architect 1981 Nov. 30-31 26 11

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Address: 121 Bloor Street East
Type of Building: Office Buildings
Name of Building: New York Life

Dates
Building completed 1983

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Architect 1983 Sept. 26-27 28 8
Canadian Architect 1982 April 35 27 4

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Address: 951 Carlaw Avenue
Type of Building: Colleges
Name of Building: Bell Centre for Creative Commun.
Notes: Remodeled on the original Toronto Teachers College by Peter Dickinson / Page+ Steele.


Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Aniques Collector 1995 May 28-31
Fashioned From Clay - Hardened by Fire 196? n/a ?

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Address: 155 College Street
Type of Building: Office Buildings
Name of Building: Toronto District School Board Office

Dates
Officially opened 1961

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Liberty Gleaner 2002 Mar. 5
Toronto Star 2002 Jan. B2 Thur 31st
Toronto Star 2000 July B2 26th
Toronto Star 2002 Jan. B4 Fri. 25th

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Address: 200 College Street
Type of Building: Research Buildings
Name of Building: Wallberg Memorial Building
Notes: University of Toronto. Houses the Chemical Engineering Department. Street address also given as 184-200 College Street.

Dates
Building completed 1947-1948

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Architecture and Design 1959 Aug. ? 23

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Address: 15 Dewbourne Avenue
Type of Building: Houses


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Canadian Homes and Gardens 1933 July 33

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Address: 0 Exhibition Place
Type of Building: Exhibition Buildings
Name of Building: Queen Elizabeth Building
Notes: Initially called the Women's Building.

Dates
Building completed 1955

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Architect 2001 April 10-13 46 4
Journal / Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 1957 Sept 345-9 34 9
Journal / Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 1955 Oct 382 32 10

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Address: 43 Forest Grove Drive
Type of Building: Churches
Name of Building: Forest Grove United Church

Dates
Building completed 1960

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Perspectives: Newsletter of the Ontario Assn of Ar 2001 Aut, 34 9 3

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Address: 1 Front Street East
Type of Building: Theatres
Name of Building: O'Keefe Centre
Notes: Name of building was changed to the "Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts" in 1996.

Dates
Officially opened Oct. 1 1960

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Architectural Forum 1958 Jan. 38 108
Architecture, Batiment, Construction 1958 Jan. 37 12 141
Canadian Architect 1960 Sept. 85 5
Canadian Architect 2000 Feb. 7 45 2
Canadian Architect 1998 March 16-19 43 3
Canadian Architect 1961 Jan. 85 6
Canadian Architect 1960 Sept. 121 5
Canadian Architect 1963 March 27 8
Canadian Architect 1962 Dec. 55- 7
Canadian Architect 1961 March 70 6
Canadian Architect 1961 March 82 6
Canadian Architect 1961 June 34 6
Canadian Architect 1961 May 20 6
Canadian Architect 1961 July 34 6
Canadian Architect 1960 Aug. 82 5
Canadian Art 1962 May-Jun 199 19
Canadian Art 1961 Jul-Aug 210 18
Canadian Art 1960 Nov. 366- 17
Canadian Homes and Gardens 1962 Feb. 12-3 39
Canadian Interiors 1966 Dec. 39 3
Globe & Mail 1998 May C20 Sat. 9th
Globe & Mail 1997 May C17 Sat. 3rd
Globe & Mail 2000 Feb. A21 Wed. 23rd
Globe & Mail 1994 Oct. A11 15th
Globe & Mail 2000 March R1,R3 13th
Globe & Mail 2000 Feb. A22 Tues 22nd
Globe & Mail 2000 Feb. A24 Thur 24th
Habitat 1960 Jan-Feb 5-6 3
Marquee 1994 n/a 3-28 26 1
Monuments for the performing arts... 1994 n/a 78ff
National Post 2001 May A17 Tues 15th
Toronto Modern: Architecture 1945-1965... 1987 n/a 64-67
Toronto Places 1992 n/a 102-
Toronto Star 2000 Feb. A30 Thur 24th
Toronto Star 2000 March E1+ Sun. 5th
Toronto Star 2000 April B3 Wed. 5th
Toronto Star 2002 July A6 Sat 6th
Toronto Star 2000 Feb. E4 Wed. 23rd

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Address: 44 Gerrard Street East
Type of Building: Colleges
Name of Building: Ontario College of Pharmacy


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Natural cut stone for fine buildings 195? n/a unpgd

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Address: 2111 Lake Shore Boulevard West
Type of Building: Condominiums
Name of Building: Newport Beach

Dates
Foundation started c1998
Building completed c1999

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Toronto Star 2001 Oct. P12 Sat. 13th
Toronto Star 1998 Aug. P2 Sat. 1st

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Address: 1265 Military Road
Type of Building: Campuses
Name of Building: Scarborough College (U. of T.)

Dates
Building completed 1965

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Architect 2000 jan. 26 45 1

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Address: 132 Queen Street West
Type of Building: Courthouses
Name of Building: Osgoode Hall
Notes: Address sometimes given as # 116-138 Queen Street W.. Built as the headquarters of the Law Society of Upper Canada and has had a lengthy building history. The following is a summary taken from Patrica McHugh's TORONTO ARCHITECTURE : A CITY GUIDE (1985): EAST WING - John Ewart (1829-1832); altered by Henry Bower Lane (1844). Law school addition by William G. Storm (1880, 1890). Interior altered by Burke & Horwood (1899); and altered again by Vaux and Bryan Chadwick (1925); rear additions (1937, 1958). CENTRE BLOCK by Henry Bower Lane (1844); rebuilt by Cumberland & Storm (1856-1861); rear additions (1910, 1923). WEST WING by Henry Bower Lane (1844); additions by Kivas Tully (1883); interioir altered by Burke & Horwood (1897); rear addition (1910); renovated and rear addition by Page & Steele (1972-1973). FENCE AND GATES by William G. Storm (1866)

Dates
Foundation started 1829

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Bulletin / Soc. for the Study of Arch. in Canada 1985 Dec. 14-18 10 4
Bulletin / Soc. for the Study of Arch. in Canada 1988 Dec. 9-16 13 4
Canadian Interiors 1982 April 35 19 4
City: the Toronto Star Sunday Magazine 1980 March 14-19 4 23rd
Early Buildings of Ontario 1938 n/a 17
Fred Cumberland : Building the Victorian Dream 1997 n/a 160+
Globe & Mail 2002 May A20 Tues 21st
Iron: Cast and wrought iron in Canada.... 1982 n/a 70-71
Journal / Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 1959 July 250-2 36 7
Looking at Architecture in Canada 1958 n/a 76
Palladian Style in Canadian Architecture 1984 n/a 92
Romanesque Head Office of Confederation Life Assn. 1997 n/a 9
Toronto Architect Edmund Burke 1995 n/a 80-82
Toronto, Carved in Stone 1984 n/a 14

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Address: 550 Queens Quay West
Type of Building: Condominiums
Name of Building: 550 Queen's Quay West

Dates
Officially opened c2000

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Toronto Star 2001 may P6 Sat. 5th
Toronto Star 1998 Aug. P2 Sat. 1st

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Address: 111 Richmond Street West
Type of Building: Office Buildings

Dates
Officially opened 1954

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Architect 1977 Nov. 48
TRAC : newsletter of the Toronto Region Arch.... 1999 Fall 6-7

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Address: 0 Shuter Street
Type of Building: Housing
Name of Building: Regent Park South
Notes: Bounded by Shuter to Gerrard Street, Parliament to River Street. Peter Dickinson of Page & Steele Architects designed the "towers" and received a massey medal for Archietcture. John E. Hoare Jr. designed the Row Housing. For Regent Park North, see Gerrard Street East.

Dates
Building completed c1957

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Cabbagetown: The Story of... 1998 n/a 65+
Canadian Architect 1999 August 10-12 448
Habitat 1964 July/Au 5 12
Heritage 2001 Sum. 10-13 4 3
Journal / Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 1957 April 122-7 34 4
Journal / Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 1957 Oct. 371-4 34 10

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Address: 170 St. George Street
Type of Building: Office Buildings
Name of Building: Medical Arts Building

Dates
Excavation started Aug 1928
Building completed Sept 1929

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Architectural Forum 1930 June 829 52
Canadian Architect 1982 Nov. 6 27 11
Canadian Buildings / by Anglin Norcross 1930 n/a ?
Canadian Geographical Journal 1931 May 367
Canadian Homes and Gardens 1929 July 109 6
Canadian Homes and Gardens 1929 May 136 6
Construction 1928 Aug. 292 21
Construction 1931 Feb. 64,68 24
Construction 1929 Nov. 357++ 22
Contract Record and Engineering Review 1928 May 519 42 16th
Contract Record and Engineering Review 1929 Dec. 1535+ 43 25th
Contract Record and Engineering Review 1928 July 719 42 4th
Contract Record and Engineering Review 1928 Oct. 54 42 24th
Contract Record and Engineering Review 1927 Aug. 64 42 8th
Contract Record and Engineering Review 1928 Aug. 825 42 8th
Contract Record and Engineering Review 1929 jan. 22 43 16th
Contract Record and Engineering Review 1928 Oct. 1132+ 42 24th
Journal / Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 1933 Nov. 178 10 11
Journal / Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 1930 ? 55-65 7 2
Journal / Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 1931 n/a 416 8 12
Journal / Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 1931 Mar. 78-99 8 3
Marani, Lawson & Morris, architects 1932 n/a unpgd
National Post 2002 July TO1 Sat 13th
Toronto Star 2002 Mar. B2 Fri. 15th

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Address: 115 Torbarrie Road
Type of Building: Rehabilitation Centres
Name of Building: Workers' Compensation Board
Notes: Name of Building changed from Workmans Compensation Board to Workers' Compensation Board.


Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Architect 1956 Aug. 45 1
Canadian Architect 1997 Oct. 26+ 42 10
Canadian Architect 1959 Jan. 14 4
Journal / Art Gallery of Ontario 1959 Nov. 399++ 35 11
Journal / Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 1958 Dec. 451 35 12
Journal / Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 1955 Oct. 392 32 10

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Address: 0 Yonge Street
Type of Building: Squares
Name of Building: Confederation Square
Notes: Originally the Confederation Life Building at no. 20 Richmond Street East. Renovation by the Thom Partnership in 1981-1982. Redevelopment of the site by Page & Steele, 1988.

Dates
Building completed 1890-1892
Altered 1898,1988
Restored 1981-1982

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Interiors 1979 May 20 16 4
Romanesque Head Office of Confederation Life Assn. 1997 n/a many
Toronto Star 1978 April ? 22nd

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Address: 475 Yonge Street
Type of Building: Hotels
Name of Building: Westbury Hotel
Notes: Renamed the Howard Johnson Hotel in the mid 1990s.

Dates
Foundation started 1955
Building completed 1957

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Journal / Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 1957 Nov. 340-4 34 11
Looking at Architecture in Canada 1958 n/a 204

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Address: 1145 Yonge Street
Type of Building: Office Buildings


Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Architect 1982 Oct. 6 27 10