Simcoe Place

Simcoe Place
General information
Type	Office, Retail
Location	200 Front Street West Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Coordinates	43.644981°N 79.385759°W / 43.644981; -79.385759
Completed	1995
Owner	Cadillac Fairview
Management	Cadillac Fairview
Height
Roof	140 m (460 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	33
Floor area	69,677 m2 (750,000 sq ft)
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Carlos Ott

Simcoe Place is an office building and shopping centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The tower is 148 metres (486 ft) metres (486 feet) with 33 floors. It was completed by architects Carlos Ott and NORR in 1995. The late-Modernist building was built by developer Cadillac Fairview. It was the only major office tower built in Toronto during the mid-1990s, a period between the early decade real estate bubble and the building boom of the 21st century.

As a special project The Globe and Mail reporter Mary Gooderham spent two years covering the construction, writing 110 columns on the subject. These were later compiled into a book titled A Building Goes Up: The Making of a Skyscraper.

It is the head office for Workplace Safety & Insurance Board. It is adjacent to the CBC National Broadcast Centre and was built as the commercial component of the complex. The design was the subject of a design competition, won by Norr Architects and Ott.

See also

• Canadian Broadcasting Centre

Further reading

• Gooderham, Mary (1998). A Building Goes Up: The Making of a Skyscraper. HarperCollins. ISBN 0006385575.

External links

• "Emporis building ID 112661". Emporis. Archived from the original on 2015-05-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
• "Simcoe Place". SkyscraperPage.