Toronto Star

On the landscape of Toronto, what you see is rarely what you get. Buildings, roads and parks form the visible city, but beneath that is a tangled web of ownership, legislation and zoning bylaws that controls everything that happens above. For the old Riverdale Hospital, now called Bridgepoint Health, the differences are crucial. The 1963 structure, a landmark in the Don Valley at Gerrard St. since 1963, is best known as the "half-round" building. Though unique and much loved, the eight-storey semi-circular monument faces demolition. As a health-care facility, it has been declared obsolete. More important, however, Bridgepoint and its planners insist it must go to make way for a new up-to-date $200-million hospital.