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Great Offices: Torys’ gallery-like headquarters at Wellington and York

By Frances McInnis
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Great Offices: Torys LLP
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What: Famed corporate law firm Torys’ Toronto headquarters Where: The soaring steel and glass Toronto-Dominion Centre at Wellington and York How Big: 180,000 square feet over nine floors for a staff of 700

The most ambitious aspect of Torys’ 2007 office revamp was the so-called client floor, which actually spans a storey and a half, on the 32nd and 33rd floors. It contains not a single lawyer’s office. Instead, there is a series of reception areas and interconnected meeting rooms, with eye-popping views of the lake, which the firm uses not just for client meetings and teleconferences but also to celebrate big deal closings and major promotions. The restrained palette showcases a curated selection from the firm’s multi-million-dollar Canadian art collection. KPMB partner Marianne McKenna and her colleague Steven Casey, the designers behind the reno, also widened the hallways from the usual five or six feet to a generous 10, to make sure both employees and visitors linger long enough to take in the art. Lawyers who pass by every day still stop to peer at a perspective-bending image by Alain Paiement, and occasionally, mid-meeting, someone will look up from the table to wonder if the originals on the wall are by A. J. Casson (they are).

Great Offices: Torys LLP
Great Offices: Torys LLP
Great Offices: Torys LLP
Great Offices: Torys LLP
Great Offices: Torys LLP
Great Offices: Torys LLP
Great Offices: Torys LLP
Great Offices: Torys LLP
Great Offices: Torys LLP
Great Offices: Torys LLP
Great Offices: Torys LLP
Great Offices: Torys LLP

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