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.
Facts
Building Type LocationToronto, Ontario, Canada 3 Completed Year Height (m)99.5 m is the taller east tower (27 storeys); the shorter west tower is 79.4 m (20 storeys). Classification
Standing StatusSourced to the subject's own account Building Type
Building Type (category)Government / Parliament Building 2 Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In Style
Source Toronto City Hall (Wikipedia)
Uses Element
Source Wikidata: Toronto City Hall
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Canada, located there.
Sources
1. Toronto City Hall (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundationlead summary, first sentence
The Toronto City Hall, or New City Hall, is the seat of the municipal government of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and one of the city's most distinctive landmarks.
lead summary, first sentence, location clause
The Toronto City Hall, or New City Hall, is the seat of the municipal government of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and one of the city's most distinctive landmarks.
lead summary, architect and date clause
Designed by Viljo Revell and engineered by Hannskarl Bandel, this example of Neo-Expressionist Modern architecture opened in 1965.
Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
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.
In Style: Modernist Architecture, Infobox, architectural_style
architectural_style: Neo-Expressionist Modern
View the Source 2. Wikidata: Toronto City Hall
- Wikidata Q1093941, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q1093941, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
- Uses Element: Reinforced Concrete, Infobox material field: reinforced concrete
View the Source3. Wikipedia
Wikimedia FoundationArchitecture section, tower heights sentenceQuote, Architecture section, tower heights sentence
The east tower is 27 storeys (99.5 metres [326 ft]) tall and the west tower is 20 storeys (79.4 metres [260 ft]).
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