Toronto Star

Doors Open has crossed a threshold. In just its fifth year, the weekend-long city architecture festival has gone from a success to a phenomenon. Throughout the downtown core yesterday, thousands of people were wandering around with cameras, backpacks and their Doors Open/Toronto Star programs in hand. For a couple of days, Torontonians could be tourists in their own city. More than 150 buildings were available to visit, which people did in droves. At the Toronto-Dominion Centre, for example, the lineup for the 54th-floor lounge, an intact '60s interior, stretched from the elevators all the way to Joe Fafard's wonderful bronze cows. The T-D Centre, the city's acknowledged modernist masterpiece, isn't an easy place to love, but as one of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's last works, it is nothing if not perfect in its own achingly minimalist way.