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New landmark: The TD Centre didn't need computer to see some risk in fourth tower started without major tenant, but IBM Canada has agreed to lease 14 floors
New landmark: The TD Centre didn't need computer to see some risk in fourth tower started without major tenant, but IBM Canada has agreed to lease 14 floors

New landmark: The TD Centre didn't need computer to see some risk in fourth tower started without major tenant, but IBM Canada has agreed to lease 14 floors

Date8/27/1984
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Original Toronto Star caption: New landmark: The TD Centre didn't need computer to see some risk in fourth tower started without major tenant; but IBM Canada has agreed to lease 14 floors.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0110741F
Chicago Beaches are in the shadow of some of the world's tallest buildings and with easy walking distance of major hotels. The John Hancock Centre, above is the world's fifth talles. Tenants occupying upper floor suites sometimes wake to sunshine and find clouds down below.
Chicago Beaches are in the shadow of some of the world's tallest buildings and with easy walking distance of major hotels. The John Hancock Centre, above is the world's fifth talles. Tenants occupying upper floor suites sometimes wake to sunshine and find clouds down below.
7/30/1974
Laying A Sidewalk--4 Storeys High, First of two 85-foot, 90-ton spans for a pedestrian walkway between the fourth floors of Simpsons-Sears mail order (...)
Laying A Sidewalk--4 Storeys High, First of two 85-foot, 90-ton spans for a pedestrian walkway between the fourth floors of Simpsons-Sears mail order (...)
7/15/1970
Meticulous handcrafting: That's what keeps renowned architects and major developers knocking on Ed Cotton's door. His model for Fidinam Inc. of a 37-storey tower in Chicago's banking district involved sculpting to scale elaborate 90-year-old carvings on its first three floors.
Meticulous handcrafting: That's what keeps renowned architects and major developers knocking on Ed Cotton's door. His model for Fidinam Inc. of a 37-storey tower in Chicago's banking district involved sculpting to scale elaborate 90-year-old carvings on its first three floors.
11/8/1983
On top of things: Glen Garwood, who's co-ordinating the building of North York's $250 million city centre, stands on the 24th floor. In the background is the centre's computer-controlled carillon, with 14 bells made in Holland. At just 32, Garwood has ris
On top of things: Glen Garwood, who's co-ordinating the building of North York's $250 million city centre, stands on the 24th floor. In the background is the centre's computer-controlled carillon, with 14 bells made in Holland. At just 32, Garwood has ris
9/16/1986
Home is a castle, or soon will be for Stuart family of Donlea Dr. in East York. Charles Stuart has taken out a 20-year lease on a castle near Inverness, Scotland, built in 1625 by the third Earl of Moray. The rent - $95.50 a year, but Stuart says it will need about $38,000 worth of work to make it habitable. It has a ghost, but a friendly one, Stuart said. He and his wife, Elizabeth, show off a photo of their new home with daugher Lucie, who is 13.
Home is a castle, or soon will be for Stuart family of Donlea Dr. in East York. Charles Stuart has taken out a 20-year lease on a castle near Inverness, Scotland, built in 1625 by the third Earl of Moray. The rent - $95.50 a year, but Stuart says it will need about $38,000 worth of work to make it habitable. It has a ghost, but a friendly one, Stuart said. He and his wife, Elizabeth, show off a photo of their new home with daugher Lucie, who is 13.
10/7/1977
Lewis Boles, 38, a quadriplegic who, since 1971, has lived at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, works part time on an IBM PC-XT computer specially adapted with a voice recognition system
Lewis Boles, 38, a quadriplegic who, since 1971, has lived at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, works part time on an IBM PC-XT computer specially adapted with a voice recognition system
5/5/1987
53 storeys and rising. The Scotia Plaza Tower will be 68 storeys high when it is completed about the end of this year. The first 23 floors are already(...)
53 storeys and rising. The Scotia Plaza Tower will be 68 storeys high when it is completed about the end of this year. The first 23 floors are already(...)
10/21/1987
Floors o' the forest: Alan Macaulay has been piping for five years. He plays weddings for scotch whiskey.
Floors o' the forest: Alan Macaulay has been piping for five years. He plays weddings for scotch whiskey.
6/15/1983
A case of lofty symbolism. The symbol of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce started its journey up to 38th floor of the Commerce Court tower yeste(...)
A case of lofty symbolism. The symbol of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce started its journey up to 38th floor of the Commerce Court tower yeste(...)
11/30/1970
Generations will mix as famlies with young childrn find emergency shelter in top floors of former soldiers' club where veterans still live in first tw(...)
Generations will mix as famlies with young childrn find emergency shelter in top floors of former soldiers' club where veterans still live in first tw(...)
5/8/1967
Fifth tower: Cheryl Ferguson, a media consultant with the Summit Square Management office, views architect's model of a proposed fifth tower in Toronto's TD Centre
Fifth tower: Cheryl Ferguson, a media consultant with the Summit Square Management office, views architect's model of a proposed fifth tower in Toronto's TD Centre
6/20/1988
United front: Tenant Jane Cameron, right, agreed with tenants' group chairman Dale Marin that tenants must organize
United front: Tenant Jane Cameron, right, agreed with tenants' group chairman Dale Marin that tenants must organize
11/29/1982