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n reconstructed as a condo and four seasons adding thousands of new rooms to the market the economic downturn at the end of the 1980s saw several hotels run into financial trouble since the mid 2000s a booming real estate market especially in downtown toronto has led to a number of new hotel projects often in combination with condominium projects an unprecedented number of major hotel projects were completed in central toronto including the st regis toronto formerly known as trump international hotel and tower then the adelaide hotel toronto the ritz carlton living shangri la a new four seasons hotel and residences toronto and the delta toronto hotel main streets edit a widely implemented and important concept in the toronto cityscape is that of the main street not to be confused with the street actually named main street in east toronto which is not the city s main street which entails a streetscape that is storefronts on roncesvalles avenue in 2018 characterized by buildings on small lots frontages less than 12 5 metres 41 ft ranging in height from 2 to 5 storeys these buildings have street related retail uses at grade and residential uses above typically they are built to the lot line and span the width of the lot these characteristics produce the familiar retail strip in which there is a continuous wall of retail activity and there is a direct relationship between the main entrance of a store and the public sidewalk 13 the main street is the concept of small avenues and store frontages on busy roads which maintain the vitality of communities and the continuity of the streetscape shopping centres edit main article list of shopping malls in toronto interior of the toronto eaton centre in 2022 designed by eberhard zeidler the multi level toronto eaton centre represented one of north america s first downtown shopping malls it was designed as a multi levelled vaulted glass ceiling galleria modelled after the galleria vittorio emanuele ii in milan italy at the time of its opening in 1977 the interior design of the toronto eaton centre was considered quite revolutionary and influenced shopping centre architecture throughout north america plans originally called for the demolition of old city hall and the church of the holy trinity but these were eventually dropped after a public outcry ultimately louisa street downey s lane and albert lane were closed and disappeared from the city street grid to make way for the new office and retail complex since the 2010s the toronto eaton centre is the most visited tourist attraction in toronto and the most visited shopping mall in north america large sprawling retail centres are common in suburban toronto of the more notable such centres is yorkdale shopping centre which opened in 1964 as one of the largest malls in the world the mall was constructed with a novel system for its retailers to receive merchandise most shopping centres have their receiving doors located at the back side while yorkdale was constructed with a one way two laned road for trucks running beneath the centre that leads directly to retailers basement storages other large shopping malls in toronto include scarborough town centre fairview mall and sherway gardens institutional architecture edit government edit the modernist toronto city hall and nathan phillips square left were built adjacent to the victorian styled old city hall right toronto is the provincial capital of ontario the romanesque ontario legislature is one of the most prominent monuments in the city forming a terminating vista at the end of university avenue to the east of the legislature are a number of governmental buildings with the best known being the whitney block constructed over many decades they embrace a number of different styles the provincial government have been unwilling to pay for structures as lavish as those of the private sector and few of the provincial buildings are of much prominence two of the most distinct and well known structures in downtown toronto are the old and current city halls the old city hall was built in 1899 and is a prominent example of the late victorian romanesque revival style across the street is the starkly different new toronto city hall opened in 1965 this brashly modernist structure was designed by finnish architect viljo revell it fronts nathan phillips square which was also designed by revell the toronto sign was installed in nathan phillips square for the 2015 pan american games and a permanent version of the sign was installed in 2020 post secondary institutions edit designed by frederick cumberland using norman and romanesque revival styles university college s was completed in 1859 the university of toronto u of t has embraced dramatic design and monumentalism and its prominent location at the centre of the city has given its structures a wide impact built up over almost two centuries the university s buildings cover a wide range of styles the collegiate gothic style was embraced for many of the earliest buildings such as hart house trinity college and burwash hall but there are also examples of almost all the victorian revival styles on campus in recent decades the university has built examples of modernism such as mclennan physical laboratories brutalism such as robarts library and postmodernism such as the graduate house by pritzker architecture prize winner thom mayne sir norman foster designed the university of toronto s leslie l dan pharmacy building which is home to the largest pharmacy faculty in canada it was completed in 2006 scott library at york university this structure is an example of the brutalist architectural style that proliferated among several ontario universities from the 1950s to the 1970s the other two major universities york university and toronto metropolitan university formerly known as ryerson university until 2022 have largely been built in more recent years and have fewer architectural monuments toronto metropolitan was long mostly hidden within the downtown streetscape with the brutalist library podium and jorgensen hall complex being one half block east of yonge street but since the 1990s an unprecedented building project has greatly expanded the campus and made it much more visible york like many of the universities that largely came into being in the 1950s and 1960s has mostly eschewed monumentalism in pursuit of less dramatic but more egalitarian architecture particularly brutalist architecture such as the scott library ocad university formerly known as the ontario college of art and design for many years confined to a series of comparatively unprepossessing buildings in the western part of downtown toronto was transformed in 2004 by the addition of the will alsop s sharp centre of design it consists of a black and white speckled box suspended four storeys off the ground and supported by a series of multi coloured pillars at different angles museums edit opened in 1914 the royal ontario museum was designed in a romanesque revival style art deco neo byzantine and deconstructive styles were later incorporated toronto is home to a variety of museums of varied styles the hockey hall of fame is housed in a beaux arts building designed by frank darling that was formerly a branch of the bank of montreal several of canada s most prominent museums are located in toronto and since the late 2000s have seen a number of architecturally bold expansions the gardiner museum commissioned kpmb architects for a renovation and expansion which was completed in 2006 the design consists of strongly pronounced rectangular and square windows with various asymmetrical setbacks opened in 1914 the royal ontario museum is canada s largest in 2007 daniel libeskind s expansion arrived giving the museum a series of enormous crystals that rise dramatically five storeys from the street surface these crystals are named after michael lee chin who funded a significant proportion of the façade frank gehry s redesign of the art gallery of ontario completed in november 2008 completely altered the museum inside and out the new front façade of the gallery became an exercise in transparency with the upper level transformed into a new sculpture court other museums include the bata shoe museum on the north end of the university of toronto and the aga khan museum and the former ontario science centre site in the don mills area a few kilometres northeast of downtown toronto houses of worship edit opened in 1853 the cathedral church of st james is one of many examples of gothic revival architecture in toronto one of the most common institutions in toronto is the large number of churches and other houses of worship in the 19th and early 20th century toronto was home to a wide array of christian denominations each of which erected a wide array of churches in what is today central toronto over time the decrease in population in the core and the move away from mainline denominations has seen many of these churches disappear many still remain and they are some of the more notable buildings in the city while some very early churches were in the georgian style gothic revival became the dominant gothic revival was used for essentially all major protestant churches in toronto up until the early 1950s roman catholic churches were also most often gothic though italianate and baroque churches were also erected the coming of modernism caused churches of all denominations to move away from the gothic and embrace modernist architecture with a wide array of designs these are the typical church style found in the suburbs that were created after the second world war opened in 2007 and carved from carrara marble baps shri swaminarayan mandir toronto is a hindu temple in the northwestern corner of toronto dedicated to vaishnavism toronto has had an important jewish community since the late 19th century originally several synagogues were erected in the downtown and a handful survive today after the second world war the jewish community recentred upon the bathurst street corridor during the late 20th century and the early 21st century a wide number of other religious groups have grown to considerable numbers in toronto and constructed traditional religious structures in the city several mosques as well as buddhist and hindu temples have been built one of the most notable is the hindu baps shri swaminarayan mandir toronto which opened in the northwest of the city in 2007 and is dedicated to vaishnavism cultural architecture edit toronto has numerous theatre and sports venues many of these theatre and sports venues have naming rights sold to major corporations theatre venues edit the royal alexandra theatre was completed in 1909 and is an example of beaux arts style of architecture common for theatres in early 20th century british empire the city hosts a number of music theatres and venues most notably roy thomson hall designed by canadian architects arthur erickson and mathers and haldenby the 2630 seat roy thomson hall opened in 1982 as the primary home of the toronto symphony orchestra the previous home of the toronto symphony orchestra massey hall is the oldest musical theatre venue in toronto and remains in operation today in june 2006 the four seasons centre for the performing arts opened as the new home of the canadian opera company and the national ballet of canada designed by diamond schmitt the 2 000 seat opera house has a european style tiered horseshoe shaped auditorium it is the first structure in canada specifically designed to house both opera and ballet with customized acoustics 14 15 other musical theatres and concert venues in toronto include the danforth music hall the opera house the rbc amphitheatre formerly budweiser stage and was opened as molson canadian amphitheatre which replaced the forum and rogers stadium the city also holds a number of live performance theatres including the royal alexandra theatre the oldest live performance theatre in north america the royal alexandra s design was inspired by turn of the century beaux arts architectural styles typical of british theatres other notable live performance venues include elgin and winter garden theatres ed mirvish theatre randolph theatre caa theatre princess of wales theatre and the meridian hall formerly the sony centre for the performing arts and the hummingbird centre and was opened as o keefe centre sports venues edit left rogers centre with roof closed right rogers centre with roof opened toronto is home to several sports venues most notably the rogers centre formerly skydome the scotiabank arena formerly air canada centre and bmo field which are all current venues the maple leaf gardens is perhaps toronto s best known former sporting venue as it was the home of the toronto maple leafs of the national hockey league nhl for much of said team s history the gardens were later converted to a grocery and liquor store for the first two floors respectively as well as clothing on the second floor and its upper floor a smaller arena the mattamy athletic centre for the tmu bold hockey team of toronto metropolitan university tmu as well as for basketball matches in the 2015 pan american games other sports venues in toronto include the coca cola coliseum formerly the ricoh coliseum and was opened as the cne coliseum lamport stadium and the sobeys stadium formerly rexall centre then aviva centre the golden horseshoe including toronto saw construction of new venues for the 2015 pan american games and the 2015 parapan american games as well as renovations to existing venues permanent venues constructed for the pan american games include toronto pan am sports centre at the university of toronto scarborough and the york lions stadium at york university transportation architecture edit main article toronto subway see also toronto subway public art this section needs expansion you can help by adding missing information september 2014 designed in the beaux art style union station was completed in 1927 early subway stations in toronto were utilitarian by design the stations are typically described as a series of bathrooms without plumbing due to the extensive use of vitrolite tiling for the original stations later subway stations were designed by notable architects particularly with the spadina section of line 1 yonge university as well as line 4 sheppard along the namesake avenue the 2017 extension of the spadina section of line 1 to vaughan metropolitan centre has unique architecture as well the spadina section later became part of the university section museum station was renovated to resemble that of the royal ontario museum s collection its renovation was completed in 2008 dufferin union and pape subway stations were renovated during the mid 2010s to add new artwork and in the case of union station a second platform was added as well though not as a spanish solution many other stations also have public artworks within them the toronto subway 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