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Toronto Architecture Tours

Ontario Architectural Guides – Exclusive Building Walks in Southern Canada tailor made for Groups.

post updated 4 May 2024

Contact e-architect for your city walking guide in Ontario: isabelle(at)e-architect.com

Toronto Architecture Tour: Exclusive Guided Walks

Our Toronto guided tours are all tailored to suit each booking, we do not allow for bookings to be joined. Our guided tours in Ontario are all exclusive to each client.

Should you be planning a trip in Ontario please contact us.

Some recent Toronto buildings added on e-architect:

Sheridan College Hazel McCallion Campus in Downtown Mississauga designed by Montgomery Sisam Architects with Moriyama & Teshima Architects:
Sheridan College Hazel McCallion Campus Phase 2A
photo : Montgomery Sisam Architects

[Misfit]fit Building design by Batay-Csorba Architects:
MisfitFit Building Toronto Architecture Tours
architecture image from architects studios

7 St. Thomas in Toronto building design by Hariri Pontarini Architects:
7 St Thomas Toronto Architecture Walking Tours
architectural image courtesy of architects offices

Toronto Walking Tours

Toronto Architecture – Introduction

Toronto is located in Ontario, in the south of Canada. The city is the largest in Canada. Situated close to the US border the city is set on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario.

York University Student Centre by Architects CannonDesign, opened January 2020, second student center for Canada’s third-largest university:
York University Student Centre Toronto Building
building photo © Connie Tsang

Toronto is now the fourth largest city in North America (after Mexico City, New York City and Los Angeles). This Canadian city eclipsed Chicago earlier in 2013. Toronto also has more highrises under construction – something like 170 (at time of writing, Oct 2013) – than any other city in North America.

Key new Toronto architecture added on e-architect:

Etobicoke Commons in Toronto building designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects:
Etobicoke Commons Toronto Architecture Tours
building image courtesy of architects

Daniels Building, University of Toronto DFALD by NADAAA with Adamson Associates:
Daniels Building, University of Toronto DFALD
architecture image courtesy of architecture office

Major architecture in Toronto includes Royal Ontario Museum building and the L Tower. Key recent buildings are the Ryerson Student Learning Centre and Max Gluskin House. The city feels quite young and there are few historic or early 20th Century classics here. However there is plenty of development ongoing, especially skyscrapers in the CBD. All these buildings are possible to visit on our Toronto Architecture Tours.

Famous architects with buildings in Toronto include Studio Daniel Libeskind, Snøhetta, Diamond Schmitt Architects, Hariri Pontarini Architects and Zeidler Partnership Architects.

Key contemporary building close to the city – Stephen Hawking Centre, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Québec, designed by Teeple Architects:
Stephen Hawking Centre Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo
architectural photo : Scott Norsworthy

Metropolitan Toronto Central YMCA Building design by Diamond Schmitt Architects:
Metropolitan Toronto Central YMCA Building
architecture photo : Fiona Spalding-Smith

Toronto Architecture Walking Tours

Toronto Architectural Tours can focus on traditional Ontario buildings, contemporary buildings or both. e-architect can provide information on building types and geographical areas ahead of your architecture tour. For example, a group interested in Toronto office buildings could be provided with information ahead of their visit to Ontario.

Visitors can be met from their hotel or at the starting point of their Ontario walking tour.

Toronto Architecture : key buildings

Toronto Walking Tours

Contact e-architect to arrange your Ontario architecture tour: isabelle(at)e-architect.com / mobile phone

Architecture Tours

Other than Toronto, e-architect organise architecture walking tours in other Canadian cities such as Montreal and Vancouver, and in other North American cities like Chicago, San Francisco, New York City and in Alaska.

Architecture Walking Tours

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada, North America

North American Building Tours

Vancouver Architecture Walking Tours

New York Architecture Tours

San Francisco Architectural Walking Tours

Major Toronto Architecture

Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Transit Station Building designed by celebrated British architects office Grimshaw, with an artwork integrated into the dome:
Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Transit Station Toronto Architecture News
building photo : Shai Gil

L Tower Toronto
Architects: Studio Daniel Libeskind / Page + Steele/IBA Architects

Ryerson Image Centre Toronto
Design: Diamond Schmitt Architects

Royal Ontario Museum Building
Design: Daniel Libeskind

Ryerson Student Learning Centre (not yet built)
Design: Snøhetta / Zeidler Partnership Architects

Max Gluskin House
Design: Hariri Pontarini Architects

Canadian Buildings

Canadian Architecture

Toronto Buildings

Toronto Houses

Toronto Architect

University Toronto Faculty Law

University Toronto Scarborough

Waterfront Toronto Building

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada