Architectural Index for Ontario


Information on Building Type: Exhibition Buildings

Address: 0 Bathurst Quay
Type of Building: Exhibition Buildings
Name of Building: Metronome
Notes: Proposed music museum. SEE ALSO: under building name: CANADA MALTING.


Architects: Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg (firm)
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Building 2002 Feb/Mar 6 52 1
Globe & Mail 1999 Feb. A5 Mon. 15th
Globe & Mail 2000 June A19 9th
National Post 2000 Nov. F1-F8 Sat. 18th
National Post 2002 May A18 Wed 1st
Toronto Star 2002 March F2 Wed 13th
Toronto Star 2000 June B7 6th
Toronto Star 2002 Mar. F2 Wed. 13th

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Address: 770 Don Mills Road
Type of Building: Exhibition Buildings
Name of Building: Ontario Science Centre

Dates
Building completed c1964

Architects: Moriyama & Teshima (firm)
Zeidler Roberts Partnership
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Architect 2001 April 10-13 46 4
Canadian Architect 1980 Nov. 36 25 11
Perspectives: Newsletter of the Ontario Assn of Ar 1997 spring 25 5 1
Process: Architecture 1992 n/a 121 107
Toronto Star 1999 Jan. B2 12th
Toronto Star 1969 March ? 22nd

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Address: 0 Exhibition Place
Type of Building: Exhibition Buildings
Name of Building: Manufacturers & Industrial Art


Architects: Gouinlock George
Gouinlock & Baker (firm)
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Saturday Night 1902 May 7th 7 15 23

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Address: 0 Exhibition Place
Type of Building: Exhibition Buildings
Name of Building: Crystal Palace
Notes: See also: Palace of Industry on King Street West at Shaw Street (1858-1878). Most of the Palace's original ironwork were reused for the Crystal Palace, and new sections were copied from it where necessary.

Dates
Building completed 1878
Demolished fire - 1906

Architects: Fleming Sanford
Schieber Collingwood
Stewart & Strickland (firm)
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Iron: Cast and wrought iron in Canada.... 1982 n/a 154 n/a n/a
Lost Toronto : images of the city's past 1993 n/a 170

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Address: 0 Exhibition Place
Type of Building: Exhibition Buildings
Name of Building: Food Products Building
Notes: The 24 metre "Needle" or trylon at the building's entrance was dismantled in 1989.

Dates
Officially opened 1954

Architects: Fisher Richard
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
AZURE 1995 Ju;y/Au 12-15 12 101
Architecture and Design 1959 August 23

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Address: 0 Exhibition Place
Type of Building: Exhibition Buildings
Name of Building: Music Building

Dates
Building completed 1908

Architects: Gouinlock George
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Architect 1990 July 4 35 7
Globe & Mail 1987 Jan. D4 15th
Globe & Mail 1986 Nov. A19 27th
Globe & Mail 1989 Feb. A16 16th
Metropolitan Toronto Business Journal 1988 Nov. 20-25
Newsletter / Architectural Conservancy of Toronto 1986 April 4 n/a n/a
Toronto Star 1986 Oct. D2 Mon. 27th
Toronto Star 1987 Oct. A6 1st
Toronto Star 1987 Mar. B6 4th
Toronto Star 1986 Aug. D19 Fri. 8th
Toronto Star 1989 Feb. A6 16th
Toronto Star 1987 Aug. A6 26th
Toronto Star 1988 Feb. A6 19th
Toronto Star 1987 Aug. A6 19th
Toronto Star 1987 Jan. D13 Fri. 30th

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Address: 0 Exhibition Place
Type of Building: Exhibition Buildings
Name of Building: Electrical & Engineering Bldg
Notes: A place where manufacturers and distrubutors of electrical equipment displayed their wares to the public.

Dates
Building completed 1928
Demolished 1972

Architects: Chapman & Oxley (firm)
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Bright Lights, Big City 1991 n/a 44-45
Toronto, Carved in Stone 1984 n/a 123

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Address: 0 Exhibition Place
Type of Building: Exhibition Buildings
Name of Building: Ontario Government Building
Notes: One time also known as t he Carlsberg Building. Was refurbished as a corporate / entertainment function site now known as the Liberty Grand.

Dates
Building completed 1927

Architects: Chapman & Oxley (firm)
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Alfred Chapman : the man and his work 1978 n/a 16-20
Newsletter / Architectural Conservancy of Toronto 1986 April 4 n/a n/a
Toronto Contruction News 2001 Oct. 14-15 19 3
Toronto Star 2001 May B2 Thur 31st

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Address: 0 Exhibition Place
Type of Building: Exhibition Buildings
Name of Building: Better Living Centre

Dates
Building completed 1962

Architects: Marani & Morris (firm)
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
AZURE 1995 July/Au 12-15 12 101

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Address: 0 Exhibition Place
Type of Building: Exhibition Buildings
Name of Building: National Trade Centre
Notes: The complex includes the Coliseum and the Industry Building. There is an underground tunnel leading to the Automotive Building.

Dates
Building completed 1997
Officially opened April 1997

Architects: Dunlop Farrow Aitken (firm)
Zeidler Eberhard
Zeidler Roberts Partnership
Designers: Lexier, Micah
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Building 1997 Jan/Feb 20-21 47 1
Canadian Architect 1996 Feb 8 41 2
Canadian Architect 1997 Sept. 16-17 42 9
Canadian Architect 1996 Aug. 17
Canadian Interiors 2001 Jan/Feb 6-8 38 1
Globe & Mail 1997 April C22 Sat 5th
Perspectives: Newsletter of the Ontario Assn of Ar 1997 Spring 10-11 5 1
Perspectives: Newsletter of the Ontario Assn of Ar 1999 Summer 20 7 2
Perspectives: Newsletter of the Ontario Assn of Ar 1997 Summer 8-9 5 2
Toronto Contruction News 1995 Jul/Aug 12 13 4
Toronto Star 1997 April A1 4th
Toronto Star 1995 June E4 Mon. 19th
Toronto Star 1997 April M7 Sat. 5th

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Address: 0 Exhibition Place
Type of Building: Exhibition Buildings
Name of Building: Horticultural Building
Notes: Built over the site of the former "Crystal Palace".

Dates
Building completed 1907

Architects: Gouinlock George
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Beaux-arts Toronto 1973 n/a 11-12
Toronto Star 1999 May B3 28th

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Address: 0 Exhibition Place
Type of Building: Exhibition Buildings
Name of Building: Coliseum

Dates
Design conceived 1920
Officially opened 1922

Architects: Price G.F.W.
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Building for Beauty 194? n/a 32
Explore Historic Toronto 1997 Fall/Wi 5 2 1

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Address: 0 Exhibition Place
Type of Building: Exhibition Buildings
Name of Building: Automotive Building


Architects: Kertland D.E.
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Year-Book 1933 n/a pl.76

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Address: 0 Exhibition Place
Type of Building: Exhibition Buildings
Name of Building: Arts and Crafts Buildings

Dates
Building completed 1912

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Toronto Star 1999 Jan. B1 Thur 14th

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Address: 0 Exhibition Place
Type of Building: Exhibition Buildings
Name of Building: Circular Exhibition House
Notes: Circular HOuse built for a c1965 National Home Show situated inside the Coliseum.

Dates
Building completed c1965

Architects: Kohl Harry
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Ontario Homes and Living 1965 April 36 4 4

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Address: 0 Exhibition Place
Type of Building: Exhibition Buildings
Name of Building: Food Building
Notes: Replaced with a new building in 1954.


Architects: Chapman & Oxley (firm)
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Building for Beauty 194? n/a 26

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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

Architects: Dickinson Peter
Page & Steele (firm)
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: 123 Front Street West
Type of Building: Exhibition Buildings
Name of Building: Cyclorama
Notes: The Cyclorama was built in 1887 by the Toronto Art Company as a showroom for instructional art of the time.


Architects: Kennedy & Holland (firm)
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
A Street Called Front 1983 n/a 4-5

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Address: 0 King Street West
Type of Building: Exhibition Buildings
Name of Building: Palace of Industry
Notes: See also: Crystal Palace in Exhibition Place. The Palace of Industry was used until 1878, when it was disassembled and rebuilt as the Crystal Palace in the present Exhibition Place. Most of its original ironwork and some of its plans were utilized.

Dates
Cornerstone laid July 1858
Building completed 1858
Demolished 1878

Architects: Fleming Sanford
Schieber Collingwood
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Lost Toronto : images of the city's past 1993 n/a 168-

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Address: 955 Lake Shore Boulevard West
Type of Building: Exhibition Buildings
Name of Building: Ontario Place
Notes: Entire site was designed in 1968 by Eberhard Zeidler. Consists of a number of elements that may be listed separately under the same address (i.e. Ontario Place Forum, Goh Ohn Bell House, IMAX Theatre, Children's Village, etc.)

Dates
Building completed 1971

Architects: Craig Zeidler Strong (firm)
Hough Stansbury Assoc. (firm)
Zeidler Eberhard
Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Canadian Architect 1980 Nov. 37 25 11
Canadian Architect 1974 Oct. 38-40 19 10
Eberhard Zeidler : In search of human space 1992 n/a 152ff
Modern Canadian Architecture 1983 n/a 156-
Perspectives: Newsletter of the Ontario Assn of Ar 1996 Fall 30 4 2
Perspectives: Newsletter of the Ontario Assn of Ar 1999 Summer 30 7 2
Process: Architecture 1991 1991 36-41 96

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Address: 245 Queens Quay West
Type of Building: Exhibition Buildings
Name of Building: Marine Museum (Pier 4)
Notes: Situated adjacent to the Simcoe Street Slip. Site of the new Marine Museum [SEE older location at Exhibition Place]. The Pier 4 marine warehouse was built in 1930 for the Tree Line Navigation Company.

Dates
Foundation started 1930
Altered 1997/1998

Journal or book Year Month Page Vol. No.
Explore Historic Toronto 1997 Fall 1,8 2 2
Eye Weekly 2001 April 13 5th
Globe & Mail 1998 July Suppl Sat. 11th
Toronto Star 1998 Aug. G2 Thur 27th

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Address: 30 Yonge Street
Type of Building: Exhibition Buildings
Name of Building: Hockey Hall of Fame
Notes: SEE: Bank of Montreal under the same address.


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