Civic symbol : creating Toronto's new City Hall, 1952-1966

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Label

Civic symbol : creating Toronto's new City Hall, 1952-1966

Title remainder

creating Toronto's new City Hall, 1952-1966

Statement of responsibility

Christopher Armstrong ; foreword by John Sewell

Creator

• Armstrong, Christopher, 1942-

Contributor

• JSTOR
• Sewell, John

Author

• Armstrong, Christopher, 1942-

Provider

• JSTOR

Subject

• City halls
• City halls -- Ontario | Toronto -- History
• Electronic resources
• Ontario -- Toronto
• Public architecture
• Public architecture -- Ontario | Toronto
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
• Toronto (Ont.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
• Toronto City Hall (Toronto, Ont.)
• Toronto City Hall (Toronto, Ont.) -- History
• Toronto City Hall (Toronto, Ont.) -- Pictorial works
• ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings | Public, Commercial & Industrial
• Buildings

Genre

• Pictorial works

Language

eng

Summary

"When Toronto's New City Hall opened in 1965, it was an iconic modernist symbol for what was still a sedate and conservative city. Its futuristic design by Finnish architect Viljo Revell, composed of two curved towers flanking a clam-shaped council chamber, remains as strange and distinctive today as it did fifty years ago. In Civic Symbol, Christopher Armstrong chronicles the complex and controversial development of this urban landmark from the initial international competition to the many debates that surrounded its construction and furnishing. Armstrong catalogs the many twists and turns along the path from idea to reality for the extraordinary building that Frank Lloyd Wright claimed future generations would say "marks the spot where Toronto fell." Lavishly illustrated with contemporary photographs, plans, and drawings, Civic Symbol is the essential history of this iconic Canadian building."--

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Cataloging source

N$T

Index

index present

LC call number

GRC NA4475.C32

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography