Toronto Dominion Centre

The Toronto-Dominion Centre, or T-D Centre, is a cluster of buildings in downtown Toronto, consisting of 6 towers and a pavilion covered in bronze-tinted glass and black painted steel, and serving as the global headquarters of the Toronto-Dominion Bank, as well as providing office and retail space for many other businesses. 21,000 people work in the complex, making it the largest in Canada. Designed by renowned architect Mies van der Rohe, the original TD Centre consisted of a grouping of two steel-and-glass towers and a banking pavilion. The 55-storey Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower was the first to be completed, officially opening on Canada’s 100th birthday, July 1st, 1967. The pavilion opened in 1968 and one year later the 43-storey Royal Trust Tower was completed. Three more buildings have since joined the complex: CP Tower in 1973, TD Waterhouse Tower in 1985 and the Ernst & Young Tower in 1991. Philip Johnson described the project as "the largest Mies in the world".