EY Tower

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EY Tower
EY Tower Toronto - 2017.jpg
The building in May 2017.
EY Tower
Former namesErnst & Young Tower
100 Adelaide Street West
General information
StatusCompleted
TypeOffice, Retail
Architectural style Neomodern
Location100 Adelaide Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Coordinates 43°38′58.902″N79°22′56.611″W / 43.64969500°N 79.38239194°W / 43.64969500; -79.38239194
Completed2017
Owner Oxford Properties
Height188 m (617 ft)
Technical details
Floor count42
Floor area199,335.0 m2 (2,145,624 sq ft) [1]
Design and construction
Architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox
WZMH Architects
EngineerStephenson Engineering
Civil engineer MMM Group
Website
www.100asw.com

The EY Tower (formerly known as the Ernst & Young Tower and 100 Adelaide Street West) is a skyscraper in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at 100 Adelaide Street West. [2] The building was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and WZMH Architects. [3]

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Original site

At its 1928 opening, 100 Adelaide Street West, was the Concourse Building which was a 14-story Art Deco structure. The building tenant was the Toronto Industrial Commission, which promoted the city as a hub of finance and business in Ontario. The building was famous for its mosaics by Group of Seven member J.E.H. MacDonald. [4] The Concourse was designed by the firm of Baldwin and Greene. [5] Oxford Properties took control of the building in 1998 and released plans to replace the Concourse Building with a new tower. [6] The Concourse's defenders tried to find a buyer for the building, though Oxford refused to sell the site. [7]

The decision to demolish the Concourse Building was controversial, but the Toronto and East York community councils ultimately voted in favour of the demolition in May 2000, with a vote of 38 to 12. [8]

New building

Office Lobby Ernst & Young Tower Toronto Office Lobby 2021.jpg
Office Lobby

Oxford released plans for the new building on 17 June 2013. [7] The new proposal also announced that the building would be renamed from 100 Adelaide Street West, the street address of the site, to Ernst & Young Tower. [9] Ernst and Young, the primary tenant of the new building, will be leasing 20,900 square metres (225,000 sq ft) of office space. [9]

EY Tower is 188 m (617 ft) high, with 42 floors and a total area of 84,000 square metres (900,000 sq ft). [10] The base of the new tower includes the south and east walls of the original Concourse Building and is integrated into the PATH as part of Oxford's Richmond-Adelaide Centre. The main tenants of the building are Ernst & Young, OMERS and TMX Group. In addition to a new public space and renovated entrance through the Concourse Building, the tower also features a 460 m2 (5,000 sq ft) outdoor terrace on the 14th floor. The building is LEED Platinum certified. [11] The building was completed in 2017. [12]

Construction

After many stages of planning, the tower's construction started in July 2014. [13] On 23 April 2015, a worker fell from the building's third floor and landed near the construction site entrance on Adelaide Street. He was pronounced dead at the scene. [14] [15] [16] The Tower was topped-out in June 2016 and opened in May 2017. [17] [18] [19]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "EY Tower". Skyscraper Center. CTBUH. Retrieved September 23, 2017.
  2. ↑ "100 ADELAIDE STREET WEST – PUBLIC ART PLAN" (PDF). City of Toronto. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
  3. ↑ Landau, Jack (November 25, 2014). "Oxford's EY Tower Reaches Grade in the Financial District". Urban Toronto.
  4. ↑ Hume, Christopher (June 14, 2013). "Celebrated Toronto Art Deco Tower Victim of Growth: Hume". Toronto Star .
  5. ↑ Landau, Jack (May 6, 2013). "Demolition Imminent for Art Deco Concourse Building on Adelaide". Urban Toronto.
  6. ↑ Perkins, Tara (June 12, 2013). "Oxford Properties moves ahead with new Toronto office tower". The Globe and Mail . Toronto.
  7. 1 2 Bradburn, Jamie (June 21, 2013). "Goodbye Historic Concourse Building, Hello Ernst & Young Tower". Torontoist .
  8. ↑ "Draft By-laws - Official Plan Amendment and Rezoning - 100, 120 and 130 Adelaide Street West, 12 and 22 Sheppard Street and 85 and 111 Richmond Street West (Downtown)" (PDF). City of Toronto. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
  9. 1 2 Giuliano, Dylan (June 13, 2013). "Oxford Renames 100 Adelaide West as the Ernst and Young Tower". Urban Toronto.
  10. ↑ "100 Adelaide W". Oxford Properties Group. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 1, 2015.
  11. ↑ White, Craig (February 26, 2013). "Concourse Building Cleared for Redevelopment of 100 Adelaide West". Urban Toronto.
  12. ↑ "100 Adelaide West". Urban Toronto. February 26, 2013. Archived from the original on March 23, 2015. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
  13. ↑ "Construction of Toronto's EY Tower Approaching Grade". ctbuh.org. Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. Archived from the original on August 15, 2016. Retrieved July 1, 2016.
  14. ↑ "Man falls five metres at downtown worksite, dies". CBC News . April 23, 2015. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
  15. ↑ Davidson, Terry (April 24, 2015) [23 April 2015 – Original publication date]. "Construction worker killed in on-site fall". Toronto Sun . Archived from the original on February 14, 2025. Retrieved February 14, 2025.
  16. ↑ "Series of workplace accidents called 'intolerable'". CBC News. May 1, 2015. Retrieved February 14, 2025.
  17. ↑ Novakovic, Stefan (June 30, 2016). "Touring the Financial District's Recently Topped-Off EY Tower". Urban Toronto. Retrieved July 1, 2016.
  18. ↑ "Toronto is getting ready to move to the new EY Tower". YouTube. May 4, 2017. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved July 18, 2017.
  19. ↑ White, Craig. "Oxford and EY Open Their New Downtown Toronto Office Tower". Urban Toronto. Retrieved July 18, 2017.
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