EY_Tower

EY Tower

EY Tower

Skyscraper in Toronto, Ontario

The EY Tower (formerly known as the Ernst & Young Tower and 100 Adelaide Street West) is a skyscraper in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at 100 Adelaide Street West.[2] The building was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and WZMH Architects.[3]

For the skyscraper in Cleveland, see Ernst & Young Tower (Cleveland).
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Original site

At its 1928 opening, 100 Adelaide Street West, was the Concourse Building which was a 14-story Art Deco structure. The building tenant was the Toronto Industrial Commission, which promoted the city as a hub of finance and business in Ontario. The building was famous for its mosaics by Group of Seven member J.E.H. MacDonald.[4] The Concourse was designed by the firm of Baldwin and Greene.[5] Oxford Properties took control of the building in 1998 and released plans to replace the Concourse Building with a new tower.[6] The Concourse's defenders tried to find a buyer for the building, though Oxford refused to sell the site.[7]

The decision to demolish the Concourse Building was controversial, but the Toronto and East York community councils ultimately voted in favour of the demolition in May 2000, with a vote of 38 to 12.[8]

  • Art Deco details of the 1928 Concourse Building. Facades were incorporated in the new glass tower project. 2016
  • Entrance to the Concourse Building. 2010

New building

Office Lobby

Oxford released plans for the new building on 17 June 2013.[7] The new proposal also announced that the building would be renamed from 100 Adelaide Street West, the street address of the site, to Ernst & Young Tower.[9] Ernst and Young, the primary tenant of the new building, will be leasing 20,900 square metres (225,000 sq ft) of office space.[9]

EY Tower is 188 m (617 ft) high, with 42 floors and a total area of 84,000 square metres (900,000 sq ft).[10] The base of the new tower includes the south and east walls of the original Concourse Building and is integrated into the PATH as part of Oxford's Richmond-Adelaide Centre. The main tenants of the building are Ernst & Young, OMERS and TMX Group. In addition to a new public space and renovated entrance through the Concourse Building, the tower also features a 460 m2 (5,000 sq ft) outdoor terrace on the 14th floor. The building is LEED Platinum certified.[11] The building was completed in 2017.[12]

Construction

After many stages of planning, the tower's construction started in July 2014.[13] On 23 April 2015, a worker fell 5 metres (16 ft) near the construction site and was pronounced dead at the scene.[14][clarify] The Tower was topped-out in June 2016 and opened in May 2017.[15][16][17]

See also

References

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    "EY Tower". Skyscraper Center. CTBUH. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  2. [2]
    "100 ADELAIDE STREET WEST – PUBLIC ART PLAN" (PDF). City of Toronto. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
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    Landau, Jack (25 November 2014). "Oxford's EY Tower Reaches Grade in the Financial District". Urban Toronto.
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    Hume, Christopher (14 June 2013). "Celebrated Toronto Art Deco Tower Victim of Growth: Hume". Toronto Star.
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    Landau, Jack (6 May 2013). "Demolition Imminent for Art Deco Concourse Building on Adelaide". Urban Toronto.
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    Perkins, Tara (12 June 2013). "Oxford Properties moves ahead with new Toronto office tower". The Globe and Mail. Toronto.
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    Bradburn, Jamie (21 June 2013). "Goodbye Historic Concourse Building, Hello Ernst & Young Tower". Torontoist.
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    "Draft By-laws - Official Plan Amendment and Rezoning - 100, 120 and 130 Adelaide Street West, 12 and 22 Sheppard Street and 85 and 111 Richmond Street West (Downtown)" (PDF). City of Toronto. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
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    Giuliano, Dylan (13 June 2013). "Oxford Renames 100 Adelaide West as the Ernst and Young Tower". Urban Toronto.
  10. [10]
    "100 Adelaide W". Oxford Properties Group. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
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    White, Craig (February 26, 2013). "Concourse Building Cleared for Redevelopment of 100 Adelaide West". Urban Toronto.
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    "100 Adelaide West". Urban Toronto. 26 February 2013. Archived from the original on 23 March 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  13. [13]
    "Construction of Toronto's EY Tower Approaching Grade". ctbuh.org. Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
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    "Man falls five metres at downtown worksite, dies". CBC News. 23 April 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
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    Novakovic, Stefan (30 June 2016). "Touring the Financial District's Recently Topped-Off EY Tower". Urban Toronto. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
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    "Toronto is getting ready to move to the new EY Tower". YouTube. 4 May 2017. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
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    White, Craig. "Oxford and EY Open Their New Downtown Toronto Office Tower". Urban Toronto. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
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