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Ravine House / OrangeInk Design

Hana Abdel — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Commissioned as a 'forever' home for a local couple, a key priority was to design a space that was comfortable and intimate enough for the family yet flexible and inviting for entertaining guests and extended family. The vision was to transform a low-slung, inward looking, dark space into a warm, welcoming light filled modern home that respects its context.

Churchill Meadows Community Center and Sports Park / MJMA

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 03:00:00 +0000

This project is situated within a rapidly growing neighborhood in Mississauga, a suburban city west of Toronto, Canada. It converts a 50-acre agricultural field into a richly textured parkland with a 75,000 sf Community Centre as its focus. The park connects to an existing multi-use trail system, making it a new destination in the network.

Pine Sanctuary / MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY

Daniel Tapia — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 11:00:00 +0000

A Tree Unlike Other Trees
On the road to Riverwood, a peak among pines announces the sprawling park, a scenery of natural splendor, but unreal experiences. Pine Sanctuary by MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY is a “placemaker” for Riverwood Conservancy in Mississauga. It signals the entrance to the park and provides a unique spatial experience for visitors to wander through and enjoy. From the speed of a car driving down Burnhamthorpe Road West, the piece stands out as a visual icon, but its tall and pointed profile is at home in the context of Riverwood’s pine trees, even if it provokes a second look.

Sheridan College Hazel McCallion Campus Phase II / Moriyama Teshima Architects + Montgomery Sisam Architects

Valentina Villa — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:00:00 +0000

The design concept is built on an understanding that learning and creativity are not only fostered in the traditional classroom environment, but also happen in open and inspiring interstitial spaces that allow for serendipitous encounters and collaborative activities. The design focuses its attention on the essential qualities of collaborative spaces that include: natural light; connection to nature and views; warmth of materials; and comfortable scale. Building users can choose amongst a variety of collaborative spaces.

UTM Innovation Centre / Moriyama & Teshima Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 12:00:34 +0000

The University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM), the second-largest campus of the University of Toronto, is set on a park-like campus on the valley of the Credit River, surrounded by a mature forest, approximately 33 kilometers west of Downtown Toronto. Since establishing its first building in 1966, the campus has been comprised of bold architectural statements that have intensified in recent decades as the university responds to increased enrollment with an influx of buildings.

Clear Lake Cottage / MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects

Jonathan Alarcón — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

A Toronto family of five required a new four-season cottage to replace their existing 1950's structure. The goal was to blend with the rural character of the quiet lake community and provide a clean modern environment that engages the landscape and captures a 'cottage' feel.

University of Toronto Instructional Centre / Perkins&Will

Jonathan Alarcón — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The University of Toronto at Mississauga’s Instructional Centre presents new possibilities for social and intellectual engagement both during classes and beyond. The Centre’s luxurious materials, smart classrooms, inviting public spaces and environmental features demonstrate the University of Toronto’s commitment to strengthening the educational experience with inspirational architecture and sustainable principles that are increasing the pleasure and wellbeing of its students, faculty, staff, and visitors.

The Mississauga Public Library Project / RDH Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The Mississauga Library Project is an adaptive re-use strategy for the major renovation and addition to the Lakeview, Port Credit, and Lorne Park branch libraries, all dating from between 1956 and 1967. The three renovations have been structured as one project, a strategy put forth by the client as a means to use public infrastructure stimulus funds in an efficient manner. Each of the three libraries are situated in park settings; Lakeview and Lorne Park are embedded within established 1950's suburban neighbourhoods and Port Credit is situated adjacent to the Credit River along Lakeshore Road, the commercial 'high' street of the old town of Port Credit.

Absolute Towers / MAD Architects

Jonathan Alarcón — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Throughout the process of urbanization, skyscrapers have been symbols of technological bravado, prime capitals and the societal projections of wealth and prosperity. This limited framework for skyscrapers often results in solutions limited by homogenous, linear structures and degenerative duplication in business districts across the globe. Forced into an unnatural state of conformity, metropolitan life is negatively affected by these unchecked, efficiency-centric development practices. Without a challenge to the status quo, our cities will continue to lack the cohesion of life as implied by the term: forest. A forest is a thriving ecosystem wherein every organism survives only in a state of symbiosis. New ambitions nurtured in a changing global consciousness challenge the aging pattern of last century's development and favor fresh thoughtful, inspiring and eloquent solutions for tomorrow's high-rises.

CPC Port / Kingsland + Architects

Victoria King — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000

We were given the task to design a single storey building, the ubiquitous factory / warehouse building with front office. A dissection of the program provided us with a simple theme. By nature of its program, the building consists of two independent spaces. The heart and soul of the building is the letter carriers sortation facility, a function likely defined as ‘blue collar’ and not far from functioning and appearing just like that of a “factory.

The Birchview House / Prototype Design Lab

Andrew Rosenberg — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The Birchview House is a project that introduces a narrated landscape into an otherwise flat site. The relationship between the interior and natural environment outside is blurred by continuous planes of floor-to-ceiling glass in key spaces, and accentuated by the movement of textures and colours from outside to inside. The elegant palette of natural materials draws from the surroundings and grows into distinct volumes that appear as if they belong in place.

CCT Building / Saucier + Perrotte architectes

Nico Saieh — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Located at the edge of the Campus, the new Communication, Culture and Technology Building assumes the role of an interface. Organized along the principal façade, the building is closely bordered by a park on one side and a new courtyard garden on the other. Its main circulation creates a linear public space that provides a line of connection between the Student Centre and the future library as well as between the landscape and the building's public and educational spaces. CCT becomes a place of transition, adjacency and inhabitation all at once.