Why the terrible, canned script? Cast sounds like robots.

In 1972 I was taken by my parents to dine at the 54th - as the restaurant in the TD Tower was called. I will never forget looking down onto the roof of the Royal York hotel and marvelling at how high up we were. I also remember the waiters making Spanish coffees at the table-side, and their showmanship as they poured from a carafe held three feet above the cup. Haven’t been anywhere quite so spectacularly impressive since!

God the acting is APPALING

I LOVED the tour--so fun to get a peek behind the closed doors. Thank you TD for sharing and for valuing Canadian artists by purchasing, archiving and displaying significant works..

I worked in the South tower in the 1990s, the view out my window was the plaza beside the main tower, where office workers would congregate among the bronze cattle for lunch when the weather was nice. Our decor was nothing special, just your typical Steelcase cubicle farm/veal calf pens, but the meeting room was nice, and still had some original Barcelona chairs in the lobby. The South tower also had a great collection of Inuit sculptures on the second floor. What struck me about the place was the high quality of the materials, and the tastefully spare design. Later office towers along King and Wellington have loads of chromed mullions, blue-tinted glass and highly polished granite, and they now look tacky and shabby, very late 80s faded glitz, like a 15-year-old's idea of "rich". The TD towers still look fresh and brand new. If only the workers in the Towers dressed as nicely now as they did in the late '60s...

The thing that always stood out to me about TD Centre is the high quality of the materials used. Frankly, if you walk around in the banking area or the towers, everything looks simultaneously retro 1967 archaic and yet looking shining new. Mies only used the best stuff, and his buildings last without aging.

I remember visiting the tower in 1968 and ascending an express elevator to the 56th floor where there was a museum of Inuit art and the far shore was visible that day !

Rarely does one get to see this quality of acting outside of pornography of course. Nice building, but this would be far more enjoyable if it were a silent film.

My Dad took me to the observation deck at the TD Centre shortly after it opened in 1969. Still remember it like it was yesterday. That was the beginning of modern Toronto. Now, Toronto's future is world-class. Truly one of the world's greatest cities!!

Most awkward first date ever.

My favourite is Ori saying "I didn't know TD had an art collection" after having already been in several rooms that have . . . art . . . clearly in them.

Nice to see one of my family's works of art (Composition) showcased up there. I worked in that building for a number of years and really had no idea about the 54th floor so thanks for sharing

Thanks for sharing this once again. I cant get to the sites in person so this is a nice visit and I can share with others out of town/Canada who like architecture

That was fantastic, glad to see TD honouring this significant building, I visited the TD centre observation floor in about 1970, the height was amazing looking down on the Royal York. Thanks for the tour.

how to turn off captions??

Feel so mad men! I love it!

the first Canadian place is still the tallest skyscraper in Canada .

Wow! Beautiful! I wish they keep it for many decades to come. Love those wood panels.

Why do TD Bank employees express measurements in "feet"? Like the board room table for example? Canada was supposed to metric, but perhaps the U.S. does not really permit it, since they are also unable to convert to metric system.

The way her response to every fact she hears is “wow!” “cool!” “interesting”😭 Also “please, have a look at the rest of the floor” is straight from The Room

There's another time capsule in one of the towers. Near the end of construction one of the steel beams was painted yellow and set on low blocks in the square in front of the building. My mother took my brother and I downtown and when she realized we actually could write our names on it, she gave us her lipstick and we wrote our names on the beam. It was hoisted up and added to the structure. So somewhere at the top of one of the towers is a yellow I-beam with a bunch of graffiti on it including my name and my brother's name in red lipstick. And yes, the scripted dialogue of this video is a bit lame.

The buildings they knocked down to make TD Towers, Commerce Court, the Bank of Montreal building, etc...holy crap.

This made my day. Thank you

The first sky scraper in Toronto was 158 Sterling Rd

Beautiful!

Fantastic work - a Toronto treasure.

I used to go to the restaurant called "The 54th" back in the 90's. Such a great restaurant.

This was wonderful. A tad "overproduced (?)", but wonderful. We (Canadians) need more content like this.

Really good segment.

They are still my favourite buildings.

Only thing missing is the ashtrays

The TD Centre architect may have designed the Seagram's building in NYC.

It's amazing how the green chair is no longer there

I toured this place back in the 1980s. There was a bank vault in the basement with huge tall doors. the door was over six feet thick. And there were many gold bars stored there. It looked like something out of the movies.

I was in Dentons office. Interesting facts about Italian stone and the table. But still it is MCM style, old times, classic interiors.

Love these buildings…we are so lucky to have them.

Dear you may wish to do some research and ask some questions

Anyone know the model of the sofas and single chairs at the @4:00 mark?

Why describe it as mid century modern? They’re in the International Style, a well established global aesthetic for architecture. The whole MCM moniker is way overused, vague and often inaccurate.

Too Bad Cadillac Fairview didnt Conserve Their in-House Workers like the Furniture-The Decor Stayed But The workers were all fired after many years of service

A lot of that decor wouldn't look too out of place today

How do they clean the travertine floor with all the pores? 2:18

what a great video! beautiful board room and table.

"Mid-century modern" isn't a term used in the world of architecture. It's a term for a style of interior decor widespread from about 1945 to 1970. (It wasn't used at that time, though. It came into wide use in the last ~20 years.) The TD Centre is in the _International Style._ And it was not the first of that type in Toronto. These are basic facts, not obscure or highly specialized ones.

Despite Modern day TD these Towers Rival any anywhere on Earth they Scream Money and are so staid, have always thought this of these towers! to bad no one can see them anymore with all these condos littering the city! Thanks to those in the past Whom made these Glass and Steel Monuments Real! Thanks Ori! Cheers!

IT WOULD BE GRREAT IF THESE DEI HIRES COULD WRITE THEIR OWN SCRIPTS

Thank you for this. It was a delight.

Interesting.

Great video but seriously folks...add some metric subtitles!

It looks like the set of madmen

ORI = DEI - speaks volums JR

Mies van der Rowe kind of ate this up ngl

Straight out of "Madmen."

I can't get rid of the fuckin subtitles and I'm not happy about it !

"Meece" not "Mees" van der Rohe

That video made me cringe so hard i think i pulled a muscle.

Banker art 😅.

Art collection? So that’s where those banking fees go.

Camera work is disastrous.

Nice. But hey, an art collection? TD Bank made only $7.6 BILLION DOLLARS PROFIT in 2023... Way down from the $13,300,000,000 MILLION (13.3 billion) from the year before. Why am I watching this? I can't get a job right now and I'm watching this. My Mom is giving me a hard time about losing my job and ironically she worked for the TD Bank for whole career.

I wonder who paid for all that stuff?

This should be re-done with a more natural approach to conversation and exploration of the space. The lack of seeing some things out of shot; adding aiming at people's faces and the ridged script, is tiring to listen too

Interesting but oof, the “conversations” are cringy. I think they could have loosened up a little.

Absolutely gorgeous building, complex and space... Terrible video with awful awkward DPRK-like scripting!

These bankers all seem creepy and speak so strange.

This is how English sounds when u first are learning English.

Typical TD Bank. Promise you a tour of the 54th floor and leave out the restaurant. Meh.

Soviet style acting

Neither of you two would have been there that’s for sure…

Eat the rich .

Masterpiece? This type of soul-less architecture is not a masterpiece.

Thank you racialized historian they/them! Now our corporate financial overlords feel a lot more relatable!

The dialog is was to scripted!! Be your self.

The acting is really bad.

Toronto canada garbage town.

The acting is so stilted and cringey, it was distracting from the point of the piece.

A fake effort of pronounciations, underbite, and terrible lisp has me questioning “wtf is wrong with this country?” 🤷🏻‍♂️🫣🙂‍↔️