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Top - L-R: - Bank of Montreal; Elgin Theatre
Middle - L-R: - Northern Ontario Building; the Sterling Tower;
Bank of Nova Scotia; Windows of vacant building across from
the Elgin Theatre (I think it's being renovated)
Bottom - L-R: CIBC Mellon; 357 Bay Street; The Bay at Queen Street
Here are shots of building facades in downtown Toronto, mostly south of the downtown, below Queen Street and near the harbor. I find them to be the most interesting in the city. Most of these buildings are banks: Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Montreal. The two on the top right are of the Elgin Theatre, and the bottom right is the Bay department store. The building with the grand golden doors is a commercial complex. All these buildings are close to the "banking district" on King and Bay, and few were built later than 1950. Even the (in)famous Toronto Dominion Centre (here is my blog post on the complex), by Mies van der Rohe, was completed almost fifty years ago in 1967. Contemporary architecture so far (there's hope yet) doesn't compare to these older buildings.