Large scale residential developments are popping up all over the downtown core these days, but this wasn't always the case. Construction work on the first major high-rise condominium to ever see construction in Toronto's Financial District - One King West - was already underway on August 25th of 2002, with the gutting of the architects Darling and Pearson's 1914 Dominion Bank Building at Yonge and King.
Almost 12 years later, the completed hotel/condominium tower stretches 51 storeys into the Toronto skyline, with one of the thinnest floorplates of any high-rise in the city. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the original 1914 building, the preserved facade is now undergoing a full-scale revitalization.
We will return next week with another look at the changing face of Toronto!
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