Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture has unveiled plans for a glass office tower in Downtown Toronto, the latest in a string of skyscrapers proposed for the city.
160 Front Street will rise 46 storeys close to the Entertainment District and the iconic CN Tower. The area is already dense with skyscrapers, but several more have been unveiled for this and other parts of the city over the past year.

Towers by Studio Gang, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, Hariri Pontarini Architects, 3XN, and Foster + Partners are all in the works.
Chicago-based Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG) worked on the 160 Front Street project in collaboration with local firm B+H Architects, which served as the architect of record. AS+GG founding partners Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill acted as the design architects.
The office tower is designed to withstand the strong winds and snowstorms experienced in Toronto, where cold air masses meet the expanse of warmer water in Lake Ontario.
"The building's form was sculpted in response to extensive environmental analysis," said a statement from AS+GG. "One of which included that the main axis of the building should ideally be oriented parallel to the direction of the site's prevailing winds, minimising its resistance to the wind's lateral loads."

The curved top of the tower deviates from the more traditional rectangular shapes of buildings in the vicinity. Its slanted peak is echoed by an inward taper towards the base, crea...