Official Opening of Metropolitan Toronto Central Library

IIIF

Official Opening of Metropolitan Toronto Central Library

Date2 November 1977

Names

Metropolitan Toronto Library Board (subject)

Moriyama, Raymond (subject)

FormatPicture

Notes

Mr. Walter Cassels (Vice Chairman of the Board), Mr. John Parkhill (Library Director), Mr. Raymond Moriyama (architect) and Controller Brian Harrison at opening of Metro Toronto Reference Library.

Subject

GeographyBuilding Monument ParkToronto Public Library. Toronto Reference Library

GeographyCity, town, townshipToronto

GeographyNeighbourhoodYorkville

GeographyEast-west streetBloor Street East

GeographyNorth-south streetYonge Street

GeographyProvince stateOntario

GeographyCountryCanada

Medium

Black-and-white photographs

DimensionsImage size: 20.5 cm x 25 cm (8 1/16 in. x 9 13/16 in.)

CollectionToronto Public Library Archives

Usage Rights (not entered) (Learn More)

Object NumberTPL-A-0740

Discover More

Board member Thomas Goudge, architect Raymond Moriyama and Paul Gosgrove, Mayor of Scarborough at the official opening of Toronto Reference LIbrary

2 November 1977

A model of the proposed $30 million central library

19 November 1973

Invitation to a library lecture with photo of Raymond Moriyama on front.

The North York Public Library invited you to attend the first in our Director's Series of Prestige Speakers

25 January 1988

Before and after. Architect A. J. Diamond stands on the rooftop of Berkeley Castle, which he converted to offices. The building, shown unrenovated, housed Toronto's Toronto's first knitting mill

7/16/1985

Harvard Maverick R. Buckminster Fuller is remembered in Toronto for his revoluntionary concepts of geodesic spheres to enclose cities

1/5/1972

Buckminster Fuller loves Toronto's new City Hall: 'It's good for the workers to see the city they run'

4/6/1978

Toronto Architect Jack Diamond designed new housing

11/16/1973

Jack Diamond, Toronto Architect

n.d.

'Toronto will still be one of the best cities in North America'

12/23/1986

Kitchen efficiency is improved by a triangular layout of the stove, sink and refrigerator, says Eva Gordon, noted Toronto architect, shown here in her(...)

5/21/1975

Design team

5/7/1987

Eric Arthur: I haven't been to the Ex for years -- I can't stand the crowds and the dust

4/12/1979