It's shrunk from three buildings to two, and the eerie cloud at the base is gone, but Frank Gehry's King West project for David Mirvish is still very much alive. At 82 and 92 storeys, the controversial towers will still be taller than anything around them.

Will Alsop's deisgn has been called a lot of things—the crossword box, the pencil-legged table, "that hideous thing"—but OCAD's students and neighbours are grudgingly fond of it, as are a lot of architecture critics.

Neighbours in staid Lawrence Park are up in arms about Will Alsop/Quadrangle's Alaska condos. The bold design and huge footprint are seen as jarring and incongruous in the UMC enclave of single-family homes.

Daniel Libeskind had to back off from his original, glassier design for the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal; it was deemed unsuitable for Toronto's unpredictable climate. The version that was eventually built still uses a lot of glass, but it's dispersed through a whole lot of aluminum cladding. The result: polarized opinions and a lot of controversy. At least you can see the dinosaurs from the street.

The TD Centre is the only Mies van der Rohe building in Toronto, and one of just a handful in Canada (including a gas station on Nun's Island, just outside Montreal).

Daniel Libeskind's L Tower condo jabs up through the city like a carving knife: it's the most striking highrise yet in the city. The L Tower (its profile is, naturally, L-shaped) should be complete and move-in ready later this year.

Monde is Moshe Safdie's first residential project since his Habitat '67 complex, built for Montreal's 1967 World's Fair. Monde will be a 40-storey tower at the base of Sherbourne Street, overlooking the lake and the Eastern Port Lands.

Canada's most well-known contributor to the Arts & Crafts movement built this home for his family in 1896. It sold last year for $1,169,000 (the most ever paid for a house in the area that has no parking).

Another Eden Smith building, the Studio Building was commissioned by Group of Seven member Lawren Harris for use by cronies. In 1948 Harris sold the building to artist Gordon MacNamara, who lived in it until he died in 2006. It's now owned by his estate; its future is uncertain.

Designed by Philip Johnson as a side project when he was in Toronto working on other buildings, the Cumberland Street penthouse recently sold for around $19,000,000.

Designed by Philip Johnson and completed in 1992, the CBC head office brought together the production studios and offices that had been spread all over the city. The enormous Barbara Frum atrium is a big hit with most people; the bathroom-tile-reminiscent exterior less so.