Architect:

Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects (KPMB)

Completion:

2009

Description:

The Telus Centre is a new performance hall for the Royal Conservatory of Music completed in September of 2009. Its small streetfront only hints at the three performance spaces inside, including the 1,100-seat Koerner Concert Hall. The construction company reports that the concert hall is a "floating structure having no fixed connection to the structures below or beside it." The angular composition of glass, steel and dark stone contrast markedly with the historically designated, neo-romanesque building it is attached to on the east.

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Address:

273 Bloor Street West

Toronto, Ontario M5S 1W2

Map/Directions/Info:

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The building is located on Bloor Street West, a block west of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto's Bloor-Yorkville district.

Train: Bloor-Danforth or Yonge-University-Spadina lines to the St. George station.

Nearby:

Early Learning Centre

Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art

Graduate House

Leslie Dan Pharmacy Building

Medical Sciences Building

Sharp Centre for Design

By the same architect:

Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art

Links:

Royal Conservatory of Music

KPMB Architects