Toronto's skyline has changed drastically in just a few years. Use our interactive to see the buildings transforming the view

Toronto Star · Shawn Micallef, Sadeen Mohsen, McKenna Hart · 2026-11-05 10:00 UTC

The development boom is redefining the city's iconic landscape, with a supertall building that meets the CN Tower observation deck.

Toronto's skyline in 2026, annotated

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Before the CN Tower and mid-century bank towers went up, Toronto’s skyline was largely comprised of low, soot-coated buildings thanks to years of coal burning, punctuated by the Royal York Hotel, the original 1931 Commerce Court Tower (for a few decades called the tallest in the British Commonwealth) and church steeples. It had an oppressive, suffocating air about it. Churches and striving to define ourselves in the far corner of a colonial empire: a skyline says a lot about a place.

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