Universal Man is a sculpture by Gerald Gladstone located today outside the Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. the 6.5-metre bronze figure was originally located in a prominent location at the foot of the CN Tower, there located to "give a balance of human scale" to the tower. It was commissioned by CN Rail in 1972 at a cost of some $100,000 and the statue was unveiled in 1976. According to Gladstone the work was inspired by da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. The giant arms and legs of the figure represent the range of motion possible to a human figure.