Atrium on Bay

Atrium
Atrium on Bay Exterior Upview
General information
Type	Commercial offices
Location	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Address	595 Bay Street
Coordinates	43°39′23″N 79°22′58″W / 43.656443°N 79.382647°W / 43.656443; -79.382647
Construction started	1979
Completed	1981
Owner	H&R REIT
Management	H&R REIT
Height
Roof	48 m (157 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	above ground: 14 below ground: 3
Floor area	913,000 sq ft (84,800 m2)
Lifts/elevators	20
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Page & Steele Architects
Developer	Twigg Holdings Ltd. Trizec Properties
Structural engineer	Jablonsky, Ast and Partners[3]
References
[1][2]

Atrium (formally known as "Atrium on Bay") is a large 1,000,000-square-foot (93,000 m²) retail and office complex in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Atrium is located adjacent to Yonge-Dundas Square, and was built upon the former site of the former Ford Hotel Toronto, on the north side of Dundas Street West, extending from Yonge Street to Bay Street. The mixed-use building was constructed in 1981 with parking on the second and third underground levels and retail space street and concourse levels topped by an eight-storey office block that rises to 14 floors on the east end of the site and 13 on the west. As part of downtown Toronto's PATH network, Atrium's Concourse Level is directly connected underground to the Dundas subway station, the Toronto Eaton Centre south, across on Dundas Street. A now-closed underground tunnel connects the Atrium to the former Toronto Coach Terminal located west, across Bay Street.

In 2011, H&R Real Estate Investment Trust purchased the property from Hines Interests Limited Partnership who acquired it in 2007 from a joint venture of Brookfield Properties and The Ellman Companies.^[4][5] In January 2014, H&R received a zoning variance from the Toronto City Council which would allow it to add five floors to each of the office towers, expand the ground level to enclose areas now filled by a covered arcade, planters and seating areas and create additional retail space and to redesign a media tower at the southwest corner of the structure.^[6]

The Atrium houses the first Canadian location of Muji, as well as Long Tall Sally, Canada Post, Red Lobster and Rexall among other shops.^[7] The building features a variety of sit-down restaurants and a food court on the Concourse Level.

Major office tenants include the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and various arms of the Government of Ontario, including the Land Registry Office, and the Lottery Prize Claiming Centre for the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, located on ground level.

Atrium was filmed and used as a set for scenes in a shopping mall in the Canadian drama Flashpoint on the CTV Television Network. The interior was also used in the 1983 PBS TV movie Overdrawn at the Memory Bank.

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  Southeast view to the Edward and Bay Street façades
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  Looking southwest across Yonge Street
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  Interior of the atrium

References

External links

• Atrium Toronto Official Site
• Atrium Toronto at Urbandb

This page was last edited on 22 April 2024, at 21:33