Inside CIBC’s new headquarters in Toronto, which aims to be a different kind of workspace - Veni Iozzo
<p>King and Bay in downtown Toronto is the most prestigious corner in the country. Those names are synonymous with Canadian finance, and with swaggering showpiece towers. The matte-black Toronto-Dominion Centre. The golden serrated surfaces of Royal Bank Plaza. And the shimmering steel of Commerce Court, which was for 50 years the headquarters of CIBC.</p>
<p>Not any more. Staff come back to the office in large numbers this month, and their new address is CIBC Square, several blocks to the south and connected to the city’s Union Station. Designed by the distinguished British architecture firm WilkinsonEyre with Toronto’s Adamson Associates, the “Square,” when finished, will comprise two towers wrapped in a diamond-grid of blue glass and linked by an elevated public space. It promises to be a new type of workspace for the bankers as they come out of the pandemic: informal, comfortable, flexible and totally self-contained.</p>
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