Library Collections
- Property Data Maps - City of TorontoTo download Property Data Maps in DWG and PDF format, use the index map to navigate to your location. Click on the tile for a link to download.
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Films On Demand is a Web-based digital video delivery service that allows you to view streaming videos. Toronto Metropolitan has access to Master Academic Collection and World Cinema Collection. Master Academic Collection is a video collection of 39K titles, with many well-known producers, such as A&E, PBS,National Geographic, TED, and HBO Documentary Films. World Cinema has 1000+ foreign language films. - WGSN This link opens in a new window
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WGSN is the leading online trend-analysis and research service providing creative and business intelligence for the apparel, style, design and retail industries. It delivers accurate trend forecasting and analysis up to two years in advance, in addition to consumer attitude and behaviour research; coverage of 80 international catwalks and 140 trade shows; plus up-to-the-minute global news; city guides; media and celebrity reports; and retail and street fashion analysis.
To download images from this site, you will need to create your own login within the WGSN site. Only basic information is required for the account - First Name, Last Name and TMU Email address. You will then be sent a link via email to set up a password for your account. Remember to use your TMU email, otherwise your account will be removed. WGSN accounts need to be renewed every 90 days. Go to create User Accounts for more information.
Canadian Architect Magazine Image Collection
The archive contains thousands of negatives, transparencies and photographs taken for publication in Canadian Architect magazine such as public/pririvate structures, including churches, homes, businesses, airports, government offices and public spaces.
TMU Library Maps
The TMU Libraryrch project is a collaboration between the Toronto Metropolitan University Library & Archives, Department of Architectural Science, and the School of Interior Design. It showcases the architectural, and historical relevance through information and photos of various buildings.
TMU Campus Information Request Form
For Campus information such as floor plans, please email Campus Facilities.
DVDs
The Library collection includes videos, films, and audio recordings related to architecture. AV materials are located on the 5th floor, and are listed in the Library Catalogue.
Use keyword to find your topic. Example: architecture and videorecording
Art & Architecture Videos (Films on Demand)
This vibrant selection of documentaries, interviews, biographies, and how-to videos spans the visual arts—from architecture, sculpture, painting, and photography to history, theory, criticism, and appreciation—with enough range to suit the needs of both basic and advanced courses.
Kanopy (Architecture Streaming Video)
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that provides students and faculty access to a large collection of films.
OnArchitecture (Architecture Streaming Video)
OnArchitecturee is an online audiovisual service providing a synthetic, deep and detailed panorama of the world's main authors, works and experiences related to the field of architecture.
Curio (Architecture Videos)
Curio.ca is CBC and Radio-Canada’s online subscriber-based streaming service developed expressly for Universities.
Free Web Access
Canadian Architectural Archives
The Image Bank provides an image repository containing 10,000 photographs of the Canadian built environment. It also contains educational resources related to Canadian architecture and architectural photography.
Virtual Reference Library (TPL)
Explore Ontario, present, past and future, through historic photographs, maps, digitized books, videos, and blog posts.
GeoSpatial Datasets: Toronto
Download property data, building height, zoning shape files, contours and aerial photography.
RIBApix
Offers images from collections of the Royal Institute of British Architect's British Architectural Library. The database includes world architecture with related subjects such as interior design, landscape, topography, planning, construction and the decorative arts.
Wikiarquitectura
More than 1,207 Buildings and 58 Projects from 1,123 Architects in 88 Countries around the World
Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)
Classic Buildings includes 100 iconic buildings from each state included in SAH Archipedia. The building histories are supplemented by the same sets of photographs and interactive maps that are in the subscription version.
Luna Commons Collection
Provides access to thousands of high resolution digital images from various institutions to download. Users can also create their own image groups, presentations, and upload their own images.
Monoskop
Monoskop is a wiki for collaborative studies of art, media and the humanities.
Great Buildings Collection
Presents 1,000 classics of world architecture and features photographic images and architectural drawings, integrated maps and timelines, 3D building models, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more.
Google Art Project
"A unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail." Partners include, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington DC, The Frick Collection, NYC, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC , MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Tate Britain, London and Palace of Versailles, France.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art collects, preserves, organizes, and disseminates images documenting the rich history of the Museum, its collection, exhibitions, events, people, and activities. Many of these images are available to be licensed for study, editorial, and commercial usage.
Smithsonian
The SIRIS Image Gallery contains a sampling of visual records that are part of the Collections Search Center. The Image Gallery includes over 530,000 electronic images from several archival repositories and museums at the Smithsonian.
VADS
VADS is the online resource for visual arts. It has provided services to the academic community for 12 years and has built up a considerable portfolio of visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in learning, teaching and research in the UK.