| Simcoe Place | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Office, Retail |
| Location | 200Front Street West Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Coordinates | 43°38′42″N79°23′09″W / 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[1] |
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.[2] It was completed by architectsCarlos Ott and NORR in 1995. The late-Modernist building was built by developerCadillac 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 projectThe 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 titledA Building Goes Up: The Making of a Skyscraper.
It is the head office forWorkplace 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.
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