Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings

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Casa Loma

Leading architect E.J. Lennox designed Casa Loma for the flamboyant Sir Henry Pellatt and Mary, Lady Pellatt as an enormous castellated mansion that overlooked the booming metropolis of Toronto. The first ...

Competing Modernisms

The 1958 competition for Toronto’s New City Hall and square was the largest competition of its era, attracting over 500 entries from architects across the globe. Weaving a tale that is equal parts civic, ...

The Allied Arts

During periods of close collaboration, championed by figures like John Ruskin and William Morris, architecture and craft were referred to as "the allied arts. " By the mid-twentieth century, however, ...