The CHIN Radio building on College Street just east of Grace Street was completed in 1990 under the direction of company president and Italian-Canadian icon Johnny Lombardi. Its red-granite façade contrasts the well-worn brick of flanking Victorian commercial storefronts. Taking leads from Italian piazza architecture, the building's central skylight sheds light through all six stories via a central open space. The midnight blue colour used throughout the building's interior on doors and railings, dubbed McCurdy blue, was most likely picked to match the colour of the radio equipment at the time of construction, which was manufactured by McCurdy broadcasting. 

CHIN is one of Canada's oldest multilingual radio outlets. Founded by Lombardi and former North York mayor and reeve James Service in 1966, the station is strongly identified with both Toronto's Italian-Canadian culture and its linguistic pluralism. CHIN's programming includes broadcasts in Italian, Cantonese, Mandarin, Tamil, Russian, Croatian, Bengali, Somali, Bosnian, Greek, German, Hebrew, Ukrainian, and other languages.

(Research and text by Alessandro Tersigni.)