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Frank Gehry's shiny King Street West towers advance in Toronto

2021-02-10T20:29:00-05:00

Frank Gehry is back in Toronto − at least via Zoom. At 91, the world’s most famous architect is actively working on a major project in the city where he was born: two towers on King Street West that are the biggest and the tallest buildings of his career. After more than eight years of discussion, this complex project is advancing. The developers say they will begin sales on its condo apartments in 2022.

The Frank Gehry-designed towers for a massive downtown Toronto development have come a long way since they were first proposed in 2012.

Image: Gehry Partners

Gone are the dramatic curves of the initial Mirvish+Gehry Toronto plan — the latest design updates propose two stainless steel-clad 'stacked-boxes' towers on King Street West, 308 meters (1,010 feet) and 266.5 meters (874 feet) tall respectively.

New designs for Toronto's Mirvish+Gehry development unveiled

2013-06-19T17:43:00-04:00

Three Gehry towers will replace low-rise brick warehouse office buildings and the Princess of Wales Theatre. The new buildings will contain condos, a new OCADU campus, and gallery space to house David and Audrey Mirvish's significant collection of modern art.

Gehry and Mirvish project officially unveiled in Toronto

2012-10-01T14:52:00-04:00

David Mirvish and world-renowned architect Frank Gehry formally introduced their plans for a major overhaul of King Street West this morning at the Art Gallery of Ontario — an appropriate setting considering the 2008 AGO redesign exists as Gehry's other major Canadian project.