Toronto Dominion Bank Building (1963)

1080 Douglas Street

Architect: Frank Musson with Dominion Construction

After the 1952 construction of Lever House in New York by Progressive architects Skidmore Owings and Merril, every city had to have a version of the this classic Interntional Style design which placed a soaring glass curtainwall tower over a horizontal podium. Victoria received its scaled down version ten years later. The design is remarkably well scaled for the town; the extruded aluminum and glass detailing well conveys the intended mass production/machine technology look.