The Globe and Mail

Although humility would surely cause him to deny it, Morden (Mordy) Yolles is a towering figure on the Toronto landscape -- at least 72 storeys, if not higher. While perhaps not well-known outside of architectural circles, Mr. Yolles and his firm contributed much to post-war Toronto, including ensuring that Canada's tallest building, the 72-storey First Canadian Place, didn't fall over. Since graduating from the University of Toronto's civil engineering program in 1948 and establishing M.S. Yolles and Associates in 1952, the 80-year-old has worked with a who's who of architecture: Raymond Moriyama, Ron Thom, Arthur Erickson, Jack Diamond and Barton Myers, to name but a few.