The Romanesque Head Office of Confederation Life Association

PUBLICATION DATE: 1997

DESCRIPTION:A history of the Confederation Life Headquarters, an exuberant Romanesque/French Gothic skyscraper designed by Knox and Elliot in 1889. It remains today one of the most beautiful exteriors in Toronto. In the dark ages of the 1980s politics, planning, and aesthetics collide as Ron Thom and Raymond Moriyama both attempt to integrate the building into a new development, eventually undertaken by Page and Steele. Comprehensively illustrated with new and archival photos, drawings, paintings, maps, plans, blueprints, elevations, charts, advertisements, and newspaper clippings. A tour de force of critical research thatwon a Heritage Toronto award for Ms. Hudson.