Toronto Condominiums: Festival Towers

With all of the attention the Toronto International Film Festival is getting, it’s surprising that there isn’t more light being shone on the Festival Towers, a 42-storey condominium building directly over the festival’s future permanent home.

The Bell Lightbox will have its grant opening during this year's Toronto International Film Festival.

There are about 400 condominium units and a five-storey underground parking garage at the King and John building, and suites are available now. The lobby of the tower promises to always be a red carpet event with a 24-hour concierge, valet parking and dramatic artwork.

The 10th and 11th floors of the Festival Towers contain a meditation garden, a cinema, a spa, exercise facilities and an indoor pool complete with a floor-to-ceiling waterfall.

Underneath the towers is the Bell Lightbox, a five-storey building that will be the new home of the Toronto International Film Festival as well as a space for all of Toronto to enjoy film and filmmaking all year round. It will contain a large atrium, five cinemas open to the public, a rooftop outdoor amphitheater, a lounge, learning studios and a centre for students, two restaurants and the offices of the Toronto International Film Festival staff.

Construction began on the project in 2007, but was conceptualized as early as 2003 by Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects, the same firm that designed Toronto’s Gardiner Museum and the National Ballet School.

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