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…
Inside the PATH Network
This tour guides you through the world's largest underground shopping complex, exploring subterranean plazas, food halls, and architectural quirks beneath Toronto's financial towers.
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1. Union Station
2. Royal Bank Plaza - North Tower
The Royal Bank Plaza North Tower stands out in Toronto’s financial district for its triangular footprint and a shimmering, gold-bronze glass exterior. Completed in nineteen seventy-six, the tower is one of two buildings that make up the…
3. Brookfield Place
Brookfield Place is a massive city-block complex in downtown Toronto, recognized by the towering, skeletal white steel arches that form the roof of the Allen Lambert Galleria. Designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and completed…
4. Commerce Court
Commerce Court is a four-building complex in Toronto's financial district, anchored by the thirty-four-storey tower now called Commerce Court North. You can identify this historic structure by its limestone cladding and the series of…
5. 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…
6. First Canadian Place
First Canadian Place is a seventy-two-story skyscraper defined by its brilliant white facade of Italian Carrara marble, a striking contrast to the steel and glass towers that fill the rest of the financial district. Located at the…
7. Bay Adelaide Centre East Tower
The Bay Adelaide Centre East Tower is marked by a prism-like skin of clear glass that extends beyond its roofline, giving the forty-four-storey skyscraper a distinct profile against the Toronto skyline. Completed in twenty-sixteen, this…
8. CF Toronto Eaton Centre
The CF Toronto Eaton Centre features a soaring glass-and-steel galleria. This long, barrel-vaulted skylight runs the length of the shopping complex, flooding the interior corridors with natural light. Suspended high above the main…