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Toronto Central YMCA / Diamond Schmitt Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 12:00:00 +0000

Buildings that continue to prove their design intentions over the course of decades are the focus of an annual prize awarded by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and Heritage Canada The National Trust. The Prix du XXe siècle recognizes an outstanding contribution to Canadian architecture of 20th century design.

The Aga Khan Museum / Maki and Associates

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 11:00:00 +0000

The Aga Khan Museum is one of two buildings developed in a 6.8 hectare (16.8 acre) site together with the Ismaili Centre designed by Charles Correa and Formal Gardens by Vladimir Djurovic. The buildings are perched upon a small hillock that is visually prominent at the intersection of the Don Valley Parkway and Eglinton Avenue, two significant heavily travelled arteries north of downtown Toronto. From the site itself, panoramic distant views of the Toronto skyline unfold.

Vaughan City Hall / KPMB Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Originally a rural township located at the northern edge of Toronto, the City of Vaughan is one of the region’s fast-growing suburban municipalities. The new Civic Centre, the winning scheme in an invited design competition, is an exemplar for cultivating civic landscapes and environmentally responsible development for the 21 st century.

The Granite Club / Montgomery Sisam Architects

Florencia Mena — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 11:00:00 +0000

The Granite Club provides athletic and social facilities to its community of 10,000 members. The existing building, the fourth in its long history, dates from the early 1970’s and is remarkable equally for the high quality of athletic programming provided as it is for the opaque exterior walls that enclose many of those uses. The site is a beautiful natural setting perched along the edge of the steep wooded ravine of the West Don River.

Abilities Centre / B+H Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 11:00:00 +0000

The Abilities Centre was created with the objective to be a global centre of excellence for practical knowledge and insight into providing recreation, athletic and performing arts facilities for people with varying degrees of abilities and challenges.

John M. Harper Branch Library & Stork Family YMCA / Teeple Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 12:00:59 +0000

This mixed-use Library and Community Recreational facility posed the challenge of bringing together two diverse programs – and the needs of two diverse clients – to create an enhanced community experience. The desire was to create a single integrated facility in which the program elements interact and elevate each other through a series of strategic architectural gestures.

Stealth Cabin / Superkül inc

Karen Valenzuela — Fri, 09 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Sited on a lake near Bracebridge, this modest four-season cabin was designed to nestle into the landscape and tread lightly on the land. Its sculptural form relies on wood both for structural strength and aesthetic warmth, in a cost-effective manner that capitalized on the strength of the local carpentry trades.

Orillia Public Library / Perkins&Will

Jonathan Alarcón — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The new Orillia Public Library and Market Square dramatically refresh downtown Orillia.The library’s fritted glass facade shimmers in the sunlight—a delicate counterpoint to the weighty red brick piers of the adjacent, Victorian Opera House. The library’s windows, decorated with syncopated, vertical bands of foliage, add surprising decoration to the otherwise clean and contemporary building. This ornamentation stems from the town council’s desire, as is typical of many regional towns with a proud history, to construct a new building that would compliment its nineteenth and early twentieth century neighbours.

St. Johns Rehab / Montgomery Sisam Architects + Farrow Partnership Architects

Kritiana Ross — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This major addition and renovation to St. John’s Rehab Hospital takes full advantage of a remarkable site by reconnecting the major public spaces within the building to the surrounding natural landscape, which is part of the Toronto ravine system. The internal clinical environment has been transformed into a fresh, inviting space which will contribute to the patients’ rehabilitation and recovery. On entering the building, one sees directly through to the treed ravine edge, the hospital’s most precious asset.

Bay Adelaide Centre / WZMH Architects

Andrew Rosenberg — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 01:00:00 +0000

Similar in scale to the surrounding bank towers, the 51 storey Bay Adelaide Centre Tower, completed in January 2010, is located on the western edge of a development site that occupies 2 city blocks, in the financial core of the City of Toronto. The project contains over 111,000 m² of rentable class-AAA office space and includes over 3,700 m² of below-grade retail space linked to the downtown’s PATH system. The new tower is the first phase of a three tower complex, with an urban plaza at its heart. Over ½ acre in size, the urban plaza, constructed as part of the first phase of the project provides a public amenity suitable for casual enjoyment or major events.

Veer Towers / Murphy/Jahn

Igor Fracalossi — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:00:00 +0000

Murphy Jahn approached the Veer Towers design with the intention of exhibiting urban responsibility, paying particular attention to the building's performance in terms of function and systems. The larger challenge was to make the project an integral part of Las Vegas but also to give its buildings and spaces a unique and strong identity. Following the break are photographs and description about this 2010 LEED Gold Certified building.

Sugar Cube / KPMB Architects

Nico Saieh — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

This mixed-use development project introduces a new strategy for making contemporary architecture within Denver's historic Lower Downtown Heritage District (LoDo). The design responds to the precise urban design guidelines for LoDo, while helping the local Review Board to expand its guidelines to include contemporary buildings within its historic context. The architectural solution balances a larger vision of the building in the evolving context of LoDo with a specific contemporary response to the adjacent, heritage 1904 Sugar Building, the most important historic building in the district.