The most striking feature of Toronto’s Union Station is the row of twenty-two massive limestone columns standing before the main entrance. Each one rises twelve meters high and weighs seventy-five tons, a scale meant to signal the grandeur…
Hollywood North Film Locations
This walk takes you through downtown Toronto to visit real-life locations used in famous Hollywood films and Oscar-winning masterpieces. You'll see how local theaters, corporate plazas, and historic landmarks were transformed into iconic backdrops for everything from X-Men to Chicago.
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1. Union Station
2. Toronto Dominion Centre
The Toronto Dominion Centre is defined by its cluster of buildings wrapped in matte black steel and bronze-tinted glass. These towers rise from a granite-paved plaza, presenting a sharp, minimalist geometry that stood in stark contrast to…
3. Roy Thomson Hall
Roy Thomson Hall is defined by its dramatic, drum-shaped glass canopy that encases a circular auditorium. Designed by architect Arthur Erickson and opened in nineteen eighty-two, this concert hall sits on a site with a long, layered…
4. Metro Hall
Metro Hall stands as a twenty-seven-story Postmodern office tower at the corner of John and Wellington Streets. It is identifiable by its distinct vertical profile and its position overlooking the wide expanse of Pecaut Square. Completed…
5. Osgoode Hall
Osgoode Hall is distinguished by a high, ornate wrought-iron fence that rings its six-acre property, featuring narrow, revolving entrance gates often called kissing gates. Completed in eighteen sixty-seven, this barrier encloses a…
6. Elgin & Winter Garden Theatres
The Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre on Yonge Street is the last operating double-decker theatre in the world. Its masonry and terracotta façade hides a unique interior design where two separate auditoriums are stacked directly on…
7. Massey Hall
Massey Hall features a weathered Victorian facade with prominent arched windows. This exterior became the face of the Orpheum cinema in the two thousand seventeen film The Shape of Water, directed by Guillermo del Toro. The building…
8. Sankofa Square
Sankofa Square is defined by the massive, continuously glowing digital screens that wrap around its perimeter, casting a constant, shifting light across the granite plaza. Located at the southeast corner of Yonge and Dundas streets, this…