Just east of the Ontario Legislative Assembly Building in Downtown Toronto's Queens Park, are a number of buildings that provide office space for many of the provincial government's ministries. Clustered at the southwest corner of Wellesley and Bay streets are a group of these ministry office buildings known as the Macdonald Block complex. Completed in 1971, the four towers that rise from the Macdonald Block podium were aging and needed thorough updating, so all of them were closed, and the ministries relocated for about an 8-year period while the buildings got a complete retrofit. While no date for reopening has been announced yet, scaffolds are off the exterior now, and completion is getting closer. In this nighttime image by UrbanToronto Forum contributor yrt+viva=1system, we can see that new ceilings are going to and lighting being installed.

Mid-renovations, the buildings of the Ontario Government's Macdonald Block offices buildings glow at night, image by UrbanToronto Forum contributor yrt+viva=1system

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