According to some prominent residents of the city and some important architects who've designed buildings here, Toronto city has no single dominant, architectural style. Toronto is a city with a very diverse style of architecture, some structures dated back to the 1800s, while some others were just newly built in the 2000s.
Toronto city is an architectural hotspot featuring uniquely designed buildings from many of the most celebrated architects in the world. The list includes such names as Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind, Norman Foster, Will Alsop, I. M. Pei, Santiago Calatrava, and Mies van der Rohe as well as award-winning local firms, such as Shore Tilbe Irwin & Partners, Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg (KPMB) and Diamond + Schmitt Architects.Daniel Libeskind (Architect design) has redesigned the internationally recognized Royal Ontario Museum, North America's fifth largest. Libeskind reinvented Canada's largest museum as a series of enormous “crystals” that will rise dramatically five storeys from the street surface.
Frank Gehry's (Architect design) redesign of the Art Gallery of Ontario will completely alter the museum inside and out. The new front façade of the gallery will become an exercise in transparency, with the upper level transformed into a new sculpture court.
The Toronto skyline is Will Alsop’s “tabletop” at the Ontario College of Art and Design on McCaul Street. This spectacular structure consists of a two-storey rectangle suspended about 130 ft above ground on brightly coloured steel legs.
The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts opened as the new home of the Canadian Opera Company and The National Ballet of Canada. Designed by Diamond & Schmitt, the 2,000 seat opera house has a European style tiered horseshoe-shaped auditorium.
University of Toronto campus is another site of major change. Since 2001, Canada’s largest university has expanded adding many new buildings. Included are a number of residences and faculty buildings designed by the noted Norman Foster and Behnisch Architekten. The main buildings, the Leslie Dan Pharmaceutical Building (Foster) and the Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research (Behnisch), are lantern-like towers that bring the university happily into the modern.
The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, the Royal Conservatory of Music and the National Ballet School of Canada. These were designed by Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg (KPMB), a firm that is playing a major role in transforming Toronto architecture. KPMB are also responsible for the design of Bell Festival Centre, a major new cultural facility dedicated to the celebration of film and the Toronto International Film Festival... and etc. Achitect in Toronto Canada