Come Out and Play with the TSA at Doors Open Toronto 2025

Monday, May 5, 2025

This Doors Open Toronto, the Toronto Society of Architects (TSA) is inviting you to come out and play with a number of special events and programs reflecting on the theme “Get Ready to Play.”

An annual event organized by the City of Toronto in partnership with the wider community, Doors Open Toronto provides rare public access for one weekend only to architecturally and culturally significant buildings across the city. The free weekend-long celebration of architecture and public space is taking place on Saturday, May 24 and Sunday, May 25, and will feature more than 150 sites for exploration, walking tours, and more.

As part of this year’s festival, the TSA has organized three special programs reflecting on this year’s theme including a public panel discussion exploring how play can be built into our cities and three unique one-hour playground tours led by their designers: Sara Jackman Playground, St. Andrew’s Playground Park, and St. James Park Playground. Speaking of play, this year will also see the return of the TSA’s Paper City—hosted for the first time at Toronto City Hall—which invites kids and their families to be the architects, city planners and builders of a paper metropolis.  

In addition to play-related programming, Doors Open Toronto 2025 will once again see the return of Open Studio, one of the TSA’s most popular initiatives providing behind-the-scenes access to architecture studios across the city. This year’s edition will include the participation of 12 studios, as well as the Ontario Association of Architects and the schools of architecture at the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University. 

You can find more information about these programs, including specific times and locations, on the TSA website by using the buttons on this page. All Doors Open Toronto programming is free of charge, but tours and the panel discussion have limited spots and advance registration is required.