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Civic Symbol: Creating Toronto’s New City Hall, 1952-1966

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When Toronto’s New City Hall opened in 1965, it was once an iconic modernist symbol for what was once still a sedate and conservative city. Its futuristic design by Finnish architect Viljo Revell, composed of 2 curved towers flanking a clam-shaped council chamber, remains as extraordinary and distinctive these days as it did fifty years ago.

In Civic Symbol, Christopher Armstrong chronicles the complex and controversial development of this urban landmark from the initial international competition to the various debates that surrounded its construction and furnishing. Armstrong catalogs the various twists and turns along the trail from idea to reality for the ordinary building that Frank Lloyd Wright claimed long run generations would say “marks the spot where Toronto fell.” Lavishly illustrated with recent photographs, plans, and drawings, Civic Symbol is the crucial history of this iconic Canadian building.

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