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The City Hall of Toronto has two towers of different heights, each a semicircle that from above looks a lot like a boomerang. You may also recognise the building as the headquarters of the Umbrella corporation in the film Resident Evil: Apocalypse.
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I’ve been told by some Torontonians that when the City Hall is viewed from above, it is supposed to look like an eye. The two boomerangs make up the white of the eye and the round thing in the middle is the pupil. It seems kinda “Big Brother”-ish to have the City Hall resemble an eye looking out over the city.
When viewed from the back, the two towers are suppose to look like a giant Roman Column, which is the obvious sign of power and authority. Many criticize it for not having any windows on the back and just being a dull gray but when you consider the true symbolic meaning behind the building it suddenly becomes iconic.