ACO Toronto - Design Exchange

BUILDING INFORMATION

Name & Location:

Design Exchange
234 Bay Street
Toronto
Yonge-Bay Corridor

Year Completed:

1937

OTHER IDENTIFICATION

Awards:

1997: Governor General's Awards for Architecture

Award of Merit. For restoration of the Design Exchange

1997: Ontario Association of Architects Awards

Architectural Excellence Awards - Honourable Mention. For the redesign

Alternate Name:

Stock Exchange Building; Toronto Stock Exchange; Design Museum

Notes:

This building was constructed to house the Toronto Stock Exchange. In 1991, when the Ernst & Young Tower was built on top of this building, the façade and the interior of the building were preserved, but mostly surrounded by the new structure. The building was renovated to house the Design Exchange, which was completed in 1994.

Renovations to this building to incorporate the Design Exchange won an Award of Merit from the Governor General's Awards for Architecture in 1997. It also won an Honourable Mention for an Architectural Excellence Awards from the Ontario Association of Architects in 1997.

Status:

Completed

Map:

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Companies:

The following companies are associated with this building

Architect - Strong Associates Architects <-- More buildings by this architect.
Architect - KPMB Architects - Bruce Kuwabara, Thomas Payne, Marianne McKenna and Shirley Blumberg <-- More buildings by this architect.
Architect - George and Moorehouse <-- More buildings by this architect.
Architect - S.H. Maw, Associates <-- More buildings by this architect.
Construction company - Jackson Lewis Company Limited
Developer - Olympia & York Properties Corporation
Electrical engineer - Carinci Burt Rogers Engineering, Inc.
Mechanical engineer - Merber Corporation Consulting Engineers
Muralist - Charles Comfort
Structural engineer - Yolles Group Inc.

BUILDING DATA

Building Type:

Mid-rise

Current Use:

Cultural

Former Use:

Office

Heritage Status:

Designated under Part IV Ontario Heritage Act

Main Style:

Art Deco <-- More buildings in this style.

Sources:

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Architecture Canada: the Governor General's Awards for architecture
Date - 1997
Page - 114-121
Canadian Building
Date - Annual, 1988
Page - 13
Daily Commercial News and Construction Record
Date - 22 April 1990
Inventory of Heritage Properties
Author - City of Toronto
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Perspectives (OAA Newsletter)
Author - Ontario Association of Architects
Date - Summer 1997
Page - 19
Toronto Architecture: A City Guide
Author - Patricia McHugh
Date - 1985
Page - 98
Notes - eBook available through the Toronto Public Library.
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Toronto Society of Architects Guide Map 1953-2003
Author - Toronto Society of Architects
Notes - Entry is for the Design Exchange, not the building itself.
About
Author - Design Exchange
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Toronto Stock Exchange, Trading Floor
Author - Alexandra Studio; City of Toronto Archives
Date - 193-?
Page - Fonds 1257, Series 1057, Item 459
Notes - Photograph.
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Toronto Stock Exchange, Trading Floor
Author - Alexandra Studio; City of Toronto Archives
Date - 193-?
Page - Fonds 1257, Series 1057, Item 460
Notes - Photograph.
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Toronto Stock Exchange, Trading Floor
Author - Alexandra Studio; City of Toronto Archives
Date - 193-?
Page - Fonds 1257, Series 1057, Item 461
Notes - Photograph.
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Toronto Stock Exchange
Author - City of Toronto Archives
Date - Between 1970 and 1980
Page - Fonds 200, Series 1465, File 727, Item 3
Notes - Photograph.
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Toronto Stock Exchange
Author - City of Toronto Archives
Date - 3 June 1977
Page - Fonds 1526, File 54
Notes - Series of five photographs.
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West side of Bay Street, north of Wellington Street West
Author - City of Toronto Archives
Date - May 1964
Page - Fonds 124, File 1, Item 128
Notes - Photograph.
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Toronto Stock Exchange building at 234 Bay
Author - City of Toronto Archives
Date - Between 1982 and 1994
Page - Fonds 200, Series 1465, File 513, Item 14
Notes - Photograph.
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Toronto Stock Exchange building at 234 Bay
Author - City of Toronto Archives
Date - Between 1982 and 1994
Page - Fonds 200, Series 1465, File 513, Item 36
Notes - Photograph.
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Drawing of Stock Exchange building redevelopment
Author - Strong Associates Architects, Olympia & York Developments Ltd.; City of Toronto Archives
Date - ca. 1983
Page - Fonds 200, Series 1465, File 92, Item 3
Notes - Photograph of an architectural drawing.
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Proposed Exchange Tower development, east elevation on Bay
Author - City of Toronto Archives
Date - between 1978 and 1987
Page - Fonds 200, Series 1465, File 433, Item 4
Notes - Photograph of an architectural drawing.
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Toronto's architectural gemsâ€“the Design Exchange (The original Toronto Stock Exchange)
Author - Doug Taylor; Historic Toronto
Date - 15 June 2012
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By-law Status Details
Author - City of Toronto
Date - 14 August 1978
Document - By-law Number: 1978-0570
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The Design Exchange - Neat Design in a Cool Old Building
Author - Eugene; BlogTO
Date - May 2007
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Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Stock Exchange - Building - Old
Author - Toronto Star; Toronto Public Library
Page - tspa_0115026f
Notes - Photograph.
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The Toronto Stock Exchange recently moved into its magnificent new ticker palace on Bay St. Containing all the latest devices for the speedy handling of transactions; it is the most up-to-date int he world. Here is a corner of the huge trading floor.
Author - Toronto Star; Toronto Public Library
Date - 1937
Page - tspa_0115025f
Notes - Photograph.
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This stock exchange sandwich is for bay street types. This edible toasts is dedicated to the Toronto Stock Exchange on civic holiday
Author - Boris Spremo, Toronto Star; Toronto Public Library
Date - 1968
Page - tspa_0115052f
Notes - Photograph.
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Expansion and face-life are being planned by the Toronto Stock Exchange. Building is likely to be taller and will harmonize with Toronto Dominion Centre; in background. Exchange also plans to fit itself to the TD plaza. Now cramped for space; exchange is
Author - Norman James, Toronto Star; Toronto Public Library
Date - 1969
Page - tspa_0115056f
Notes - Photograph.
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Stock exchange floor a litter bug's paradise. Canadian industrial stocks have shredded more than $1.2 billion in paper value in the first two days of trading this week on the Toronto exchange. Here a sweeper begins to tidy up the real paper litter - but
Author - Doug Griffin, Toronto Star; Toronto Public Library
Date - 1973
Page - tspa_0115061f
Notes - Photograph.
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Clever new machines never before used save in the New York stock exchange; will be used in the new stock mart here. In (1) is one of the new quotation boards. The young man with the head telephones mingles with the traders; tells operators downstairs up-t
Author - Toronto Star; Toronto Public Library
Date - 1937
Page - tspa_0115033f
Notes - Photograph.
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Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Stock Exchange - Miscellaneous - 1970-80
Author - Keith Beaty, Toronto Star; Toronto Public Library
Date - 1981
Page - tspa_0115059f
Notes - Photograph.
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The trading floor in (2) is a striking combination of natural maple with black trim; and is specially treated for acoustics. An ingenious new type of trading post is being used in conjunction with equipment which will have its world debut on this; the sec
Author - Toronto Star; Toronto Public Library
Date - 1937
Page - tspa_0115034f
Notes - Photograph.
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Trading will be somewhat quieter and less spectacular on the trading floor of the new stock exchange; because of new equipment; but it will still look like a seething mass of angry humanity to the outsider. In (1) is one section of the new trading floor p
Author - Toronto Star; Toronto Public Library
Date - 1937
Page - tspa_0115030f
Notes - Photograph.
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Last day on Bay St. one big bash. Historic trade tinged with sadness as chapter closes on 46 years
Author - Tony Bock, Toronto Star; Toronto Public Library
Date - 1983
Page - tspa_0115068f
Notes - Photograph.
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Canadian artist Charles Comfort, 77, stands in front of frieze he created in 1936 to decorate Toronto Stock Exchange on Bay Street. Artist deies hiden symbolism on frieze depicts capitalist, with his hand where worker's pocket should be pping off the wor
Author - Frank Lennon, Toronto Star; Toronto Public Library
Date - 1977
Page - tspa_0039827f
Notes - Photograph.
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World of high finance; blue chips and investment; the Rotonto stock exchange; is another Male stronghold that's fallen with female invasion. Frances Cassidy is among the 13.83 per cent of women shareholders in the Exchange and her sound investments in st
Author - Reg Innell, Toronto Star; Toronto Public Library
Date - 1966
Page - tspa_0115038f
Notes - Photograph.
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You can make plenty or lose it around one of these trading posts on the floor of the exchange. In busy markets you'd swear you were in a bug house; what with bells ringing; lights flashing and everybody trying to out-yell each other to complete transacti
Author - Toronto Star; Toronto Public Library
Date - 1948
Page - tspa_0115028f
Notes - Photograph.
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