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Taking a cue from Philip Johnson

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2006 / April 28

On Yorkville's Cumberland Avenue, there's been a steel gate marked "Private residence" since the early 1960s. A strange thing to see on the side of an office tower, but the mystery wasn't explained until last year: This was the entrance, it turns out, to a unique penthouse apartment that may have been designed by the famous American architect Philip Johnson. The apartment made the news in the spring when a developer, KingStreet Capital Partners, bought the building. The city and preservationists worried over the future of the penthouse, commissioned by the late businessman and philanthropist Noah Torno. Would it be divided up? Or demolished to make way for a taller structure?

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