The Globe and Mail

The loss of the Inn on the Park to the wrecker's ball yesterday comes as heritage advocates make a belated appeal today to protect the former hotel as a tribute to 1960s-era Toronto architecture. "It's already disappeared," lamented Robert Saunders, chairman of the Toronto Preservation Board, which is scheduled to appear before North York community council today to ask that the building, by Toronto architect Peter Dickinson, be preserved as a heritage landmark. "One of the problems is that a lot of modern architecture is treated as if, because it is not 100 years old, it does not have any cultural heritage interest," Mr. Saunders said. Councillor Cliff Jenkins (Don Valley West), though sympathetic to the heritage activists, ultimately sided with the city officials who decided not to call for a special heritage designation to block the demolition.