Toronto City Hall, also known as New City Hall, is the seat of Toronto's municipal government at 100 Queen Street West, designed by the Finnish architect Viljo Revell with the engineer Hannskarl Bandel and built between 1961 and its official opening on September 13, 1965. The design places a saucer-shaped council chamber atop a two-story podium between two asymmetrical curved towers, an east tower of 99.7 meters over 27 stories and a shorter west tower of 79.6 meters over 20 stories, their windowless back walls clad in precast ribbed concrete panels inlaid with strips of Botticino marble. The building was constructed at a cost of about 31 million dollars alongside Nathan Phillips Square, the public plaza designed as part of the same competition-winning scheme, and it has become one of Toronto's most recognizable landmarks. It was listed under the Ontario Heritage Act in 1991.
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