Simcoe Place

Simcoe Place
General information
Type	Office, Retail
Location	200 Front Street West Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Coordinates	43°38′42″N 79°23′09″W / 43.644981°N 79.385759°WCoordinates: 43°38′42″N 79°23′09″W / 43.644981°N 79.385759°W
Completed	1995
Owner	Cadillac Fairview
Management	Cadillac Fairview
Height
Roof	140 m (460 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	33
Floor area	69,677 m^2 (750,000 sq ft)
Design and construction
Architect	Carlos Ott[1]

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. 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 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.

References

1. Simcoe Place

External links

• Simcoe Place profile on Emporis
• Simcoe Place profile on Skyscraperpage