Toronto: The Latest Architecture and News

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• Architects

  StudioAC

• Location

  Toronto, Canada

• Category

  Houses Interiors

• Lead Architects

  Andrew Hill and Jennifer Kudlats

• Area

  3383.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Andrew Snow Photography

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• Architects

  NADAAA

• Location

  1 Spadina Crescent, 1 Spadina Crescent, Toronto, ON M5S 2J5, Canada

• Category

  Extension

• Area

  155000.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Nic Lehoux

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• Architects

  Partisans

• Location

  Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Category

  Restaurants & Bars

• Lead Architects

  Partisans

• Clients

  Grant van Gameren and Owen Walker

• Area

  3000.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Doublespace Photography

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• Architects

  rzlbd

• Location

  Toronto, Canada

• Category

  Houses Interiors

• Project Lead

  Reza Aliabadi

• Project Team

  Sebastien Beauregard, Arman Azar, James Chungwon Park

• Area

  255.5 m2

• Project Year

  2019

• Photographs

  Borzu Talaie

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• Architects

  Reigo & Bauer

• Location

  Toronto, Canada

• Category

  Renovation

• Design Team

  Stephen Bauer, Merike Bauer, Fabian Grieco

• Area

  2150.0 ft2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Tom Arban Photography

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• Architects

  architectsAlliance

• Location

  Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Category

  Adaptive reuse

• Area

  9700.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Ben Rahn

Bogdan Newman Caranci have designed a new mass timber office building in Toronto that will become one of Canada's tallest. Dubbed 77 Wade Avenue, the project is being developed by Next Property Group and will include 150,000 square feet across 8 floors. Following 3XN's T3 Bayside project that will rise to 42 meters in height, BNC's office will be among the tallest modern mass timber office and commercial buildings in the country. The design celebrates the use of mass-timber construction within the ever-evolving architecture of Canada.

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For ten consecutive years, Vienna ranks first in the Mercer survey on cities with the best quality of life in the world. In this edition to the global ranking, eight Western European cities join the top ten, even when "trade tensions and populist undercurrents continue to dominate the global economic climate", as Mercer points out in its report.

3XN has released details of its plans for T3 Bayside, the first office building in Toronto’s emerging Bayside community, and the tallest timber office building in North America. Located on the shores of Lake Ontario, the structure stands at 42 meters in height and serves as part of the 2,000-acre revitalization initiative to transform Toronto’s waterfront.

The scheme is designed to reflect and emphasize the emerging neighborhood in which it sits, intertwining principals of life, work, and play. A continuously-activated ground level is abundant with retail opportunities, bleeding into a central plaza, exhibition spaces, flexible office spaces, and coworking facilities.

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Danish architectural firm COBE has designed a new mixed-use affordable housing development in downtown Toronto. Working with architectsAlliance, the team has designed three buildings that contain over 760 market rental units, 30% of which are affordable. Sited in one of the fastest growing areas of Canada, the new community project is designed to achieve LEED Gold certification. The development aims to combine spaces for recreation, living and working.

Alphabet-owned Sidewalk Labs is testing a "raincoat" for buildings, a prototype tensile structure that's made to make extreme weather more comfortable. Created as part of the Quayside smart city project in Toronto, the raincoat structure aims to help protect from wind and rain while lowering energy demands on buildings. Designed by Toronto-based RWDI and Partisans, the prototype debuted at Sidewalk's 307 office. Made from a thin plastic membrane, the raincoat will remain up for one year as teams test its performance.

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Six “Winter Stations” have been installed along Toronto’s beachfront, injecting new life into the shoreline during the Canadian city’s winter months. Completed as a result of the annual Winter Stations design competition, the six projects responded to this year’s theme of “Migration,” which sought installations that engaged with “complex social issues that surround humanity’s shaping of our global society, the flight of animals and the exchange of ideas."

Four professional and two student designs were constructed this year along Toronto’s Beach community. Bold structures sitting on the site of lifeguard stations dotted along the beach, the stations have been designed by teams from Mexico, Poland, Boston, and Toronto.

Sidewalk Labs has released new renderings from Snøhetta and Heatherwick Studio of the Quayside neighborhood development in Toronto. After announcing plans to create a model smart city, Sidewalk Labs has been working to pioneer a new approach to future urban developments. Plans for Quayside were first revealed last summer, designed to be interconnected smart neighborhood for the city. The latest renderings were released with further documents outlining how the company plans to pay for the ground-up development.

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• Architects

  StudioAC

• Location

  Toronto, ON, Canada

• Category

  Loft

• Area

  1.686 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Jeremie Warshafsky

Winter is hardly the high season for Toronto's waterfront. Nevertheless, the annual design competition Ice Breakers aims to draw people back to the outdoors, populating the frozen harborside with installations celebrating the winter. This year's winning designs are currently on show, centering around the theme "Signal Transmission."

For a third year in a row, Ports Toronto and the Waterfront Business Improvement Area (WBIA) partnered to produce this 2019 exhibition. Out of hundreds of international submissions, the winning designs include an illuminated starlight house, kaleidoscopic mirrors, and arches of bells, now on display until February 24.

See all five winning installations with descriptions by the architects below.

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• Architects

  Diamond Schmitt Architects

• Location

  Toronto, ON, Canada

• Category

  fitness club

• Lead Architects

  A.J. Diamond, Donald Schmitt, Vic Jaunkalns, Derek Revington, Jon Soules

• Area

  14400.0 m2

• Project Year

  1984

• Photographs

  Fiona Spalding-Smith, Lisa Logan, Steven Evans