The Legislative Chamber is directly on this axis, in the centre of the building, and is lit by the three large and prominent arched windows above the main portico. The main façade fronts south, with the central axis of the building an extension of that for University Avenue, meaning that the Legislative Building creates a terminating vista for the north end of that main thoroughfare. Lennox added two floors to the west wing. The 1909 North Wing was built by noted Toronto architect George Wallace Gouinlock and E.J. The exterior is punctuated with uncharacteristically large windows, allowed by the nature of the iron structure. There can also be seen over the edifice a multitude of stone carvings, including gargoyles, grotesques, and friezes. This is clad inside and out in Canadian materials where possible the 10.5 million bricks were made by inmates of the Central Prison, and the Ontario sandstone-with a pink hue that has earned the building the colloquial name of The Pink Palace -comes from the Credit River valley and Orangeville, Ontario, and was given a rustic finish for most of the exterior, but dressed for trim around windows and other edges. Waite, the Ontario Legislative Building is an asymmetrical, five-storey structure built in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, with a load-bearing iron frame. The building's exterior is defined by its characteristic pink-hue sandstone.ĭesigned by Richard A. The building and the provincial government are both often referred to by the metonym 'Queen's Park'. The southern portion of the site was later handed over to the provincial government. The building is surrounded by Queen's Park, sitting on that part south of Wellesley Street, which is the former site of King's College (later the University of Toronto), which was leased from the university by the municipal government of Toronto in 1859, for a ' peppercorn' payment of CAD$1 per annum on a 999-year term. It houses the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and the viceregal suite of the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and offices for members of the provincial parliament (MPPs). The Ontario Legislative Building ( French: L'édifice de l'Assemblée législative de l'Ontario) is a structure in central Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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