Aside from New York City and Chicago, Toronto is another significant city with plenty of skyscrapers in North America, it is where famous CN Tower located, the 553 meters tower held the title of world’s tallest free standing structure for many decades, it is still the tallest free standing structure in North America, 12 meters taller than the One World Trade Center in New York City.
Toronto has long been a busy construction site which has more skyscrapers under construction than any cities outside Asia, such a city with so many skyscraper projects ongoing can be rarely found in North America, in where the most cities just see a few skyscrapers under construction or just doing nothing after had some new skyscrapers planned, New York City is an exception, the city is the only one that doing better than Toronto in North America.
Currently Toronto has 16 skyscrapers rise at least 200 meters completed or topped out, with 6 under construction or ready to be topped out.
And 30 skyscrapers beyond 200 meters have been proposed, among them 7 are supertalls, all of them were proposed in recent years.
Completed: As of 2017 Toronto has 2 supertall towers completed, including a telecom tower.
1. CN Tower
Standard height: 553.3 meters
Built year: 1976
CN Tower is the landmark of Toronto, it had been the tallest free standing structure of the world for more than 3 decades before Burj Khalifa surpassed it.
2. First Canadian Place
Total height: 355 meters
Standard height: 298 meters
Built year: 1976
Use: office
Architect: Edward Durell Stone
Developer: Olympia & York
While CN Tower is the tallest structure in Toronto, First Canadian Place had been the tallest building in Toronto. The name of the building is a bit like One Canadian Square in London, which maybe confused with it.
Note: This post is dedicated to skyscrapers above 300 meters (1000 feet) tall that known as supertall, so skyscrapers lower than 300-meter mark will not be featured here, for buildings under 300 meters, see tallest skyscrapers built in Toronto.
Proposals (7)
1. 385 Yonge Street
Standard height: 344 meters, 1128ft
Architects: KPF Developers: Cresford Developments, KingSett Capital
Proposed in February 2017, it's the latest proposal for supertall in Toronto.
2 & 3. Oxford Place Twin Towers
Standard height: 326 meters, 1070 feet
Uses: residential, office
Architect: Foster + Partners
Developer: Oxford Properties Group
These two supertall towers was proposed in 2012, the plot of this project is very close to CN Tower,will undoubtedly complement the sparse skyline there once topped out.
4, 5 & 6. One Yonge Tower 1, 2 & 3
Standard height: Tower 1, 320 meters, 1050 feet
Tower 2, Above 300 meters, 984 feet
Tower 3, Above 300 meters
Use: residential
Architect: Hariri Pontarini Architects
Developer: Pinnacle International
Proposed in 2013, the building complex contains 3 towers, all of which are exceeding 300m supertall mark.
7. LCBO site
Standard height: 304 meters, 998 feet
Uses: residential, office
This is a new proposal for Toronto that proposed in late 2016.
8. The One (One Bloor West)
Standard height: 304 meters,998 feet
Estimated built year: 2019
Uses: residential
Architects: Core Architects & Foster + Partners
developer: Mizrahi Developments
Proposed in 2015, this residential building's progress is fastest among these proposals, the project has entered into the preparation phase, the original building on the site is being teared down.
9. Mirvish+Gehry West Tower
Height: 304 meters, 998 feet
Estimated built year: unknown
Uses: residential, office
Architect: Gehry Partners
Developer: Projectcore
Proposed in 2012, the project contains three towers and one of them is a supertall, the designer of the whole complex is Gehry Partners, which best known for their work of Beekman Tower(8 Spruce Street) in Lower Manhattan, it can be seen in the render that the style of this project in Toronto is very similar to it.
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