Simcoe Place is an office building and shopping centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The tower 148 metres (486 feet) with 33 floors.
It was completed by architects Carlos A Ott and NORR in 1995. The late-Modernist building was built by developer
Cadillac Fairview
The Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited is a Canadian company that invests in, owns, and manages commercial real estate, mainly in Canada and the United States. As of March 2017, the company had 73 properties, encompassing 38 million square feet ...
. 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 project ''
The Globe and Mail
''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it ...
'' reporter Mary Gooderham spent two years covering the construction, writing 110 columns on the subject. These were later compiled into a book titled ''A Building Goes Up: The Making of a Skyscraper''.
It is the head office for
Workplace Safety & Insurance Board
The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB; french: Commission de la sécurité professionnelle et de l'assurance contre les accidents du travail, CSPAAT) is the workplace compensation board for provincially regulated workplaces in Ontario
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A Building Goes Up: The Making of a Skyscraper
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Skyscrapers in Toronto
Carlos Ott buildings
Cadillac Fairview
Skyscraper office buildings in Canada
Retail buildings in Canada
Commercial buildings completed in 1995
Office buildings completed in 1995