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Ulster House / LGA Architectural Partners

Susanna Moreira — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000

Ulster House, Toronto's first multiplex condominium, exemplifies gentle density, market affordability, thoughtful design, and environmental responsibility. A self-initiated project by LGA principals Janna Levitt and Dean Goodman, the development challenges policies and perceptions, paving the way for a new housing typology. It presents a viable, sustainable infill strategy to introduce medium-density housing into established neighbourhoods.

Mabelle Park / LGA Architectural Partners

Hana Abdel — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Mabelle Park stands as a model for social and cultural innovation in a Toronto neighbourhood of dense vertical housing, home to a highly diverse community of newcomers. Its completion crowns a seven year collaboration between LGA Architectural Partners and the non-profit Mabelle Arts to transform an overlooked half-acre of land owned by Toronto Community Housing, (TCH) the city's largest social housing provider, into a vital public space. Surrounded by seven residential towers, and in an area long without community amenities, the site now anchors warmth, creativity, education, and connection. It is a reflection of its community, filled with joy, care, resilience, and a quiet insistence that everyone deserves beauty and a place to belong.

New Frontiers Aboriginal Residential Corporation / LGA Architectural Partners

Andreas Luco — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 15:00:00 +0000

LGA was hired by New Frontiers Aboriginal Residential Corporation (NFARC) to expand their affordable rental housing site on Coxwell Avenue, in East Toronto. Working around their existing 31-unit building, we replaced an underutilized at-grade parking area at the rear of the site with a three-story freestanding addition, creating 12 new one-bedroom units to be offered at affordable rates.

First Narayever Synagogue / LGA Architectural Partners

Andreas Luco — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 19:00:00 +0000

In the heart of Toronto’s Annex neighborhood, the First Narayever Synagogue modestly nestles within a block of Victorian brick houses. It is unusual to find an institution embedded within the residential street, but the location makes the Narayever an easy walk for its congregants, and the building contributes to the neighborhood’s charm and sense of community.

Meaford Public Library / LGA Architectural Partners

Andreas Luco — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:00:00 +0000

In Meaford, Ontario, a new library links a growing community with the natural beauty and history of its town. At the gateway to the downtown heritage district, and on the bank of the Bighead River, LGA Architectural Partners’ adaptive reuse of a supermarket establishes a light-filled hub that is welcoming to all residents and provides a deepened sense of place.

Toronto Public Library – Albert Campbell Branch / LGA Architectural Partners

Andreas Luco — Sun, 19 May 2024 11:00:00 +0000

The Albert Campbell Branch Library opened its doors in 1971 to serve Scarborough’s diverse community. In this rapidly growing Toronto suburb, the brutalist building stood as a beacon to the community. But after five decades, the Toronto Public Library (TPL) recognized the need for upgrades to meet contemporary needs. Working with LGA Architectural Partners, the design studio behind the celebrated Scarborough Civic Centre Library Branch, TPL sought to reimagine Albert Campbell as a more welcoming hub that brings people together and is connected to the community.

McEwen School of Architecture / LGA Architectural Partners

Rayen Sagredo — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 04:00:00 +0000

LGA Architectural Partners designed Laurentian University’s McEwen School of Architecture to prepare young architects for the critical design issues of the 21st Century. McEwen is not your typical architecture school – its curriculum emphasizes architecture and fabrication techniques focused on the traditional and evolving aspects of life in the north, including Indigenous culture, wood construction, local ecologies and resources, and design for the impact of climate change.

Garden House / LGA Architectural Partners

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000

After years of living in an Edwardian house in Toronto’s west end, the client decided it was time for change. She wanted to remain in her neighbourhood, but she was keen for a smaller home in order to declutter her life and she was excited to engage in the creative process of designing a house. Palmer found a small lot only a block away from her historic home and she approached LGA Architectural Partners to help her build a new home with a modest budget and a contemporary attitude.

York University Learning Commons / LGA Architectural Partners

Daniel Sánchez — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 01:00:00 +0000

The Scott Library at York University is a monumental concrete building, built in the late 1960’s that reflects the social and political spirit of its time period. In order to meet the current needs of the university, York required the interior of this building to be more welcoming, better suited to its diverse student population, and to an evolved ethos of relaxed, self-initiated and collaborative learning methodology. In response, we established a Learning Commons on the main floor with a variety of study and tutorial spaces.

Adams Fleming House / LGA Architectural Partners

Christopher Henry — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 01:00:00 +0000

On a street of historic, working-class cottages in Toronto’s west end, adjacent to a railway line and a supermarket parking lot, a vacant auto-body shop may have seemed like an unlikely impetus for a residence with a domestic character. The clients—a graphic designer and a furniture designer/craftsman—had a limited budget but considerable talent and resources. Working with Levitt Goodman Architects, the project became a laboratory for artistic collaboration and experimentation. Over several years they have transformed the industrial site into an artful urban oasis.

Welcome Hut at the Evergreen’s Brick Works / LGA Architectural Partners

Christopher Henry — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 01:00:00 +0000

To greet visitors in the months before its official opening later this year, Evergreen Brick Works commissioned a temporary Welcome Hut for the 12-acre community environmental centre. Designed by Levitt Goodman Architects, this 96 sqf hut is provides an immediate node for visitors and to support the Evergreen’s mission to showcase for green design and environmentally sustainable initiatives.

Up Inc. / LGA Architectural Partners

Christopher Henry — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:00:00 +0000

Up Inc. commissioned Levitt Goodman Architects to design the third floor of this historic industrial building to purposely suit it needs. Up Inc. is a Toronto-based branding, graphic design and communications firm with a reputation for clear and influential design. The firm had worked with Levitt Goodman Architects over many years, undergoing partial renovations to accommodate its growing business. The firm desired an environment that would improve operations and convey a distinctive character, reflective of its clean aesthetic, its proactive service and its knack for influential and economical design.

Native Child and Family Services of Toronto / LGA Architectural Partners

Kelly Minner — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:00:00 +0000

The new Native Child and Family Services of Toronto (NCFST) consolidates social and culture-based services for aboriginal children and families within a 30,000 square foot office building in the heart of downtown Toronto. The challenge for this project was to create a place that would reconnect urban aboriginals with nature in the heart of the city and project a bold visual presence for the First Nations community – which was difficult to conceive for a community that is comprised of distinctive bands with their own identities and customs.

Waterloo School of Architecture / LGA Architectural Partners

Nico Saieh — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:00:00 +0000

Relocating from the University of Waterloo campus to the century-old Riverside Silk Mills in Cambridge Ontario, the new School of Architecture has repositioned itself as a model for the instruction of architecture, sustainable design and urban renewal.

Euclid Avenue House / LGA Architectural Partners

Amber P — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:00:00 +0000

Toronto’s Official Plan outlines a future of growth, rebuilding, and regeneration within the existing urban structure. It is requires housing models that increase density, counter urban sprawl, curb unnecessary commuting, address the issue of affordability and flaunt the virtues of living efficiently. Euclid House addresses these issues, offering a unique alternative to the shortcomings of Toronto’s typical housing typologies and demonstrating how thoughtful and innovative design can create a home defined by its compactness, livability, flexibility and sustainability.