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The Brentwood Library has re-opened following a two-year renovation and expansion designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects. The updated library adds 30 percent more public service, collection and staff space configured on a tight site in the suburb of Etobicoke.
The Whale house is another spatial experiment by rzlbd, a monochromic contemporary manifesto that evolves around a central detached box painted in red standing free inside a three storey height foyer. The building appears to have swallowed the box symbolizing the contemplation space inside the spacious jaw of the whale that swallowed Jonah.
Daniel Libeskind’s L Tower became an aerial playground as five members of the Vancouver-based Aeriosa Dance Society whirl and twirl down its north façade to the sounds of J.S. Bach’s ethereal “Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello,” played live by Toronto musician Liza MeClellan.
The Gallery House is a contemporary residential structure that adapts an institutional/commercial typology in that all of the spaces have been aligned and arranged along a galleria. One can imagine that all of the served and servant areas of the house have been plugged in to this empty spine.
Ryerson University is the home of the famous Black Star Collection of approximately 292,000 black and white photojournalistic photographs that represent the personalities, events and conflicts of the 20th century.
Toronto-based multi-award-winning artist and architect Paul Raff designed the park’s new permanent public artwork named Mirage, and was on site to unveil it.
Installation has dancing windsocks and billowing blue banner: an architecture firm more accustomed to creating superb performance spaces than taking centre stage unveils Windscape at the Luminato Festival (June 8-17) in Toronto.
Patio House in the Nortown area in Toronto, Ontario, is a minimalist two-storey wood structure house, which carefully responds to three major questions: the needs of the residents, the situation of the site, and the environmental concerns.
A newly transformed Osgoode Hall Law School opened officially today at York University in Toronto. An extensive renovation and expansion of the 43-year-old facility adds study and administrative space and brings a welcome infusion of natural light and improved amenities to better serve Canada’s largest law school.
Alliance Française de Toronto (AFT) celebrates 110 years of service to the Toronto community. To meet the growing need for educational, cultural and programming space, the AFT is planning a new facility designed by renowned Canadian firm Hariri Pontarini Architects.
The client secured a last minute, long-term lease of a large, generic two-storey commercial space, but was able to negotiate the change of use and appendage of what would have been the parking garage underneath as additional retail space.
With its carefully scaled massing and richly patterned cladding of spandrel and clear glass, the Durham Consolidated Courthouse makes a significant contribution to the civic architecture of the emerging urban framework of downtown Oshawa.
The Creemore Farm is a renovation and extension to a turn of the century farmhouse north of Toronto near Creemore, Ontario.
Five out of six is the key formula to the brightness and openness in this house. In a city where severe weather conditions created houses with small openings the residents in this house will experience daylight to its fullest level in both winter and summer days.
The Pan American Games will take place in Toronto. For two weeks, the Pan American Village, located in Toronto’s waterfront district, will serve as a central hub of sports, celebration and international friendship.
Ryerson University President Sheldon Levy today unveiled the spectacular design of the Ryerson Student Learning Centre, which will be built at the corner of Yonge and Gould Streets.
Toronto City Hall Podium Roof Garden – the first phase of the Nathan Phillips Square Revitalization Project, and the country’s largest accessible green roof – has just won a CSLA (Canadian Society of Landscape Architects) Regional HONOUR Award
Located in downtown Toronto’s Queen West art and design district, the design concept for the two-phase project, Red Bull Music Academy (Phase 1) and Headquarters (Phase 2), investigates the notion of spaces as vessels for transformation.
