Design
An Old Mies For a New Toronto
How Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the final director of the Bauhaus school, sparked an architectural arms race in downtown Toronto among Canada’s major banks.
No single development has transformed Toronto’s skyline quite like the Toronto-Dominion Centre.
The arrival of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s twin office towers in the late 1960s signaled a dramatic and permanent change in the city’s prevailing architectural style: For the first time, a major commercial development took over almost an entire city block and a high-rise of steel and glass became the city’s tallest building.