Simcoe Place is an office building and shopping centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The tower is metres (486 feet) with 33 floors. It was completed by architects

Carlos Ott Carlos Adolfo Ott (born October 16, 1946) is a Uruguayans, Uruguayan-Canadians, Canadian architect. He became famous when he won the international design competition in 1983 for the construction of the Opéra Bastille in Paris, which was inaugu ...

and NORR in 1995. The late-Modernist building was built by developer

Cadillac Fairview The Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited, branded as Cadillac Fairview, 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, enco ...

. 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 Newspapers in Canada, Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in Western Canada, western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of more than 6 million in 2024, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on week ...

'' 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. 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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* * {{Authority control Skyscraper office buildings in Toronto Carlos Ott buildings Cadillac Fairview Retail buildings in Canada Commercial buildings completed in 1995 Office buildings completed in 1995 1995 establishments in Ontario

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