ODIN Bar & Café / Phaedrus Studio

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Text description provided by the architects. Odin Bar and Café is located in downtown Toronto’s east end on King Street East, where the recently reclaimed industrial lands of the City’s new Canary District meet older main streets and their adjacent single family homes. It is a neighborhood increasingly defined by the newly constructed, contemporary glass and concrete condo buildings, as much as it is by the often under cultivated concrete shell retail spaces on their ground floor. The café and bar hybrid is a direct response to this rapidly-developing neighborhood’s growing and diverse needs, spurred by an influx of young professionals and urban dwellers. Odin and its design embraces the neighborhood's newly refined industrial aesthetic, along with the changing culture of how people eat, drink, work and socialize; and, the playful complexity that comes with the day to night transformation.