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Location DB > Canada > Ontario > Toronto > Historic Photos of Toronto > Axle's Archives > City Hall 15 / 24   City Hall Description The new Toronto City Hall under construction. The other building, probably demolished. Controls Return to Main Location Page Return to Gallery Overview Edit this Gallery Edit this Picture Subscribe this Picture Comments Posted by micro 3/1/2009 9:52 PM | remove   Hah, probably demolished is right. Apparently pieces of the columns can be found in the gardens of the Guild Inn. Posted by Stewie 3/2/2009 10:16 PM | remove   At least the new City Hall ended up being a fairly tasteful building. Posted by Boffo 3/2/2009 11:13 PM | remove   Apparently people HATED the new city hall when it was built though. Posted by Stewie 3/2/2009 11:53 PM | remove   Wasn't the Old City Hall also being threatened with demolition until many years after the new one was complete? Posted by Boffo 3/3/2009 12:06 AM | remove   Like Hamilton's old city hall? Just think, Toronto could have followed in Hamilton's footsteps and the Eaton Centre could be where old city hall is. *sheds a tear* Posted by Stewie 3/3/2009 1:20 AM | remove   Heh, yah. And Toronto's new city hall could eventually move to the Eaton Centre while the old one sits around empty, while idiots at City Hall decide whether to throw marble or limestone on it. Toronto is so lucky to not have as dysfunctional a city council as Hamilton does. It's truly pathetic. Posted by Hi/Po 3/3/2009 3:35 AM | remove   Council wanted to build a much less inspiring building which was actually built by Imperial Oil (the building is in the DB]), but university architecture students started a movement for an international competition. The result was this very tasteful modernist icon, one of several in the city. The bizarre mentality at the time of the Eaton Centre proposal was that height=bad, and some councillors suggested a compromise deal with Eaton's to sacrifice Old City Hall in exchange for shorter towers. But remember that in those days, the building wasn't in the restored condition you see today, and given the wave of liberalizing, it was seen by many in those days as a pretentious eye sore. Posted by Hi/Po 3/3/2009 3:36 AM | remove   (Wow, sorry about that formatting error. The link was supposed to be on what was in the brackets) Posted by yokes 4/17/2009 5:26 PM | remove   Stewie: Old City Hall was threatened by demolition to make way for the original Eaton Centre plan. If you'd like to add a comment, please login or register. All content and images copyright © 2002-2024 UER.CA and respective creators. Graphical Design by Crossfire. To contact webmaster, or click to email with problems or other questions about this site: UER CONTACT View Terms of Service | View Privacy Policy | Server colocation provided by Beanfield This page was generated for you in 390 milliseconds. Since June 23, 2002, a total of 740008463 pages have been generated.