|
|
 |
 |
|
|
A
step forward in time
Toronto's New City Hall |
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
Introduction
International competition
Viljo Revell's winning design
Sod turning
|
Time
capsule
Construction
Official opening
Public art
|
|
| |
|
Construction
Built on 12.75
acres, City Hall originally had:
- 816,900 square
feet of space
- 1100 offices
and auxiliary rooms
- parking spaces
for 2400 cars
Over almost
four years of construction, City Hall used:
- 91,000 cubic
yards of concrete
- 9,000 tons
of reinforcing steel
- 94,000 square
feet of glass
- 170,000
square feet of precast marble panels
- 20,000 tons
of precast concrete panels
- 190 miles
of wiring
- 11,000 light
fixtures
- 8½
miles of snow-melting cables
|
|
| |
|
City Hall under
construction
May 15, 1962
Photographer: Panda Associates
City of Toronto Archives, SC 268,
Item 301
|
City Hall under
construction
August 16, 1963
Photographer: Panda Associates
City of Toronto Archives, SC 268,
Item 389
|
|
| |
|
City Hall under
construction
July 22, 1963
Photographer: Panda Associates
City of Toronto Archives, SC 268, Item 380
|
|
| |
|
City Hall under
construction
November 25, 1963
Photographer: Panda Associates
City of Toronto Archives, SC 268,
Item 410
|
City Hall under
construction
April 16, 1964
Photographer: Panda Associates
City of Toronto Archives, SC 268,
Item 446
|
|
| |
|
City Hall
under construction
June 22, 1964
Photographer: Panda Associates
City of Toronto Archives, SC 268, Item 460
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
