POSTCARD – TORONTO – SKYLINE FROM WATERFRONT – AERIAL PANORAMA – LOOKING N – NOTE THE TALL SILVERY BUILDING, COMMERCE COURT, OPENED IN 1972 , AN I. M. PEI DESIGN – THE TWO BLACK BUILDINGS, THE TORONTO-DOMINION CENTRE, A MIES VAN DER ROHE DESIGN, OPENED IN 1969 – NOTE: THE ELEGANT ORIGINAL MIES DESIGN, TWO TOWERS PERFECTLY PROPORTIONED AND SITUATED BY A LOW TEMPLE-LIKE BANKING PAVILION ON THE CORNER OF BAY AND KING, HAS BEEN SPOILED BY A HERD OF ADDITIONS INCLUDING THE FOLLY OF A MIES KNOCK-OFF WITH REMNANTS OF THE FORMER ART-DECO BAY-STREET STOCK EXCHANGE EMBEDDED INTO ITS FACADE – 1974

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