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2015/SEP/04
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One of the newest additions to Exhibition Place is the Enercare Centre. Completed in 1997 and designed in joint venture by Zeidler Partnership Architects and Dunlop Farrow Inc., the centre provides...
2015/SEP/03
Photo Credit : OAAArchitectural Credit : n/aIn 1906 George Wallace Gouinlock was appointed as the official architect of the Industrial Exhibition of Toronto (which in 1912 would be renamed the...
2015/SEP/06
Photo Credit : CNE ArchiveArchitectural Credit : Page + Steele Inc., with Peter Dickinson as lead designerCompleted in 1956 as the Women’s Building and renamed in honour of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth...
2015/SEP/05
Photo Credit : Illustration of the Press Building (formerly Administration Building) as part of the 1928 CNE programme. CNE HeritageArchitectural Credit : George Wallace Gouinlock While the Scadding...
2015/NOV/15
Built in 1922 to hold livestock presentations and the Royal Horse Show, the Coliseum was a joint effort between the Canadian National Exhibition and the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair. When finished...
2015/SEP/07
Completed in 1929 to showcase the latest cars and trucks, the Automotive Building was the result of a design competition that saw 30 architectural practices submit proposals for the new exhibition...
Photo Credit : Horticulture Building Postcard, 1927Architectural Credit : George Wallace Gouinlock One of the 12 buildings designed by Toronto architect George Wallace Gouinlock for Exhibition Place...
2015/AUG/31
Photo Credit : The Princes' Gates, ca. 1927, City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 16, Series 71, Item 5795.Architectural Credit : Chapman and OxleyThe eastern entrance to the Canadian National Exhibition...
Photo Credit : Toronto Modern, https://robertmoffatt115.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/exhibition-place-goes-modernist/Architectural Credit : Philip R. Brook The original main entrance to the exhibition...