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When Toronto went BOOM!

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2005 / March 4

It's fitting that the new Dominion Modern exhibit -- "Mean City: From Architecture to Design: How Toronto Went Boom!" -- uses an image of the CNE's Dufferin Gates for the cover of its 112-page catalogue. Walking under Philip R. Brook's soaring masterpiece in 1959 -- toward the 80-foot stainless-steel pylon at Richard Fisher's Food Building, Peter Dickinson's zigzagging Queen Elizabeth Building and George Robb's sexy, sheer Shell Oil Tower -- it must have seemed like the future indeed belonged to Toronto.

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