Union Station

The limestone facade of Union Station stretches for two city blocks, defined by twenty-two massive columns that each weigh seventy tons. This is Canada’s busiest transportation hub, a Beaux-Arts cathedral built to handle the thousands of immigrants arriving by rail in the nineteen twenties. In the grand hall, the architect Hugh Jones insisted on covering the soaring ceiling with intricate Guastavino tiles. He died before the building opened, leaving behind a vaulted space designed to make every traveler feel like they were arriving somewhere important.