Canadian Bank of Commerce building - Toronto, Ontario
N 43° 38.927 W 079° 22.743
17T E 630723 N 4834141
The Bank of Commerce retained Darling and Pearson, one of Canada’s leading architectural firms, with New York firm York and Sawyer as consulting architects.
Waymark Code: WMP5R0
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 07/06/2015
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Now dwarfed by everything around it, the Canadian (Imperial) Bank of Commerce Building (25 King Street West) once dominated the Toronto skyline. For three decades, its 34-storeys and 141-metre height made it the tallest building in the Commonwealth.
Pearson and Darling was an architectural firm based in Toronto from 1897 through 1923, a key player in shaping the urban look of the city and the rest of Canada in the first half of the 20th century.
The firm was organized first as Darling, Curry, Sproatt, & Pearson in 1892, with partners Frank Darling, S. George Curry, Henry Sproatt, and John A. Pearson. From 1893 through 1896 it evolved into Darling, Sproatt & Pearson, then finally Pearson and Darling was founded as such in 1897.
Darling was the first Honorary President of the Toronto Beaux-Arts Club, member of the Holt Commission for planning of Ottawa (1913–1915), and was the first Canadian to win the Royal Institute of British Architects Gold Medal in 1915.
Architect: Frank Darling
Prize received: RIBA Royal Gold Medal
In what year: 1915
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