Access ramp will blight Osgoode Hall, critics argue

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Archiseek / Canada / News / 2007 / October 2

An access ramp set to be built next year in front of the Osgoode Hall courthouse should be delayed because it would have a "serious negative impact" on the building's architectural heritage, say Toronto's preservation department. The provincially owned building, which houses the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Great Library and Convocation Hall as well as the Ontario Court of Appeal and Superior Court of Justice, was designated a national historic site in 1979. The $1.5 million ramp project by Ontario Realty Corp. is to start next April. But the city's heritage and planning departments are calling for a deferral.

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