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Architect Frank Gehry says there are only two buildings in his hometown worth saving: Old City Hall and Osgoode Hall.

Everything else is fair game to be torn down, Mr. Gehry suggested to Toronto and East York Community Council on Tuesday morning.

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“I don’t know whether we should be designating heritage buildings,” said Mr. Gehry, who was born in Toronto. “I think you should preserve [Old] City Hall because I used to go there when I was a kid.”

Mr. Gehry, 84, also said we should save Osgoode Hall, home to the Law Society of Upper Canada and the Ontario Court of Appeal.

Other than that, “the old General Hospital building I was born in should have been sacred. It was torn down.”

Mr. Gehry, head of Los Angeles-based Gehry Partners, LLP, and David Mirvish, the theatre impresario, sought permission on Tuesday from community council to build three condo towers, 82, 84 and 86 storeys tall, on the site of the Princess of Wales theatre and other buildings to its east on King Street West.