Toronto | Tag (page 18)

Tetris House / Atelier RZLBD

October 04, 2013

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Architects: Atelier RZLBD
Area: 3000 ft²
Year: 2013

Totem House / rzlbd

September 25, 2013

Architects: Atelier RZLBD
Area: 1600 ft²
Year: 2013

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Humber Centre for Justice Leadership / Gow Hastings Architects

July 23, 2013

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Architects: Gow Hastings Architects
Year: 2012

Updated Renderings Released for Mirvish+Gehry Toronto

July 06, 2013

David Mirvish, founder of Mirvish Productions, and Toronto-born starchitect Frank Gehry have released updated renderings of their massive, mixed-used project planned to transform Toronto's downtown arts and entertainment district. The Mirvish+Gehry vision will include a triad of residential towers perched on top a six-story, wooden podium inspired by the site’s industrial past and covered in a ‘cloud-like’ sculptural skin.

The towers, rising over 80 stories each, will house condos, a new OCADU campus, and a gallery space to house the Mirvish's collection of modern art.

More renderings after the break...

Polar Securities Office / MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects

June 12, 2013

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Architects: MJMA
Area: 12000 m²
Year: 2011

One Yonge / Hariri Pontarini Architects

May 02, 2013

Located where the longest street in North America, Yonge Street, meets Lake Ontario, One Yonge will be a truly mixed-use development, re- defining the typical ratio between residential, commercial and retail space within a single city block. This landmark development will comprise six new buildings of varying height with a total of approximately 6.3 million square feet of accommodation including a 40-storey office tower, a 70-storey tower with a hotel and branded residence, and four residential towers surrounding a courtyard with a woonerf-style access.

Toronto Union Station: Go Transit Roof Proposal / Zeidler Architecture

March 15, 2013

As the 'last piece of the puzzle' at Toronto's Union Station, the renovation of the train shed roof covering the passenger platforms and tracks which connects GO Transit’s Union Station Bus Terminal to the station building delivers part of the “The Big Move” promise, Metrolinx’s twenty-five year regional transportation plan for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). Designed by Zeidler Partnership Architects, their train shed roof was recently awarded with a 2012 Canadian Architect Award. Most of the 8.6-acre train shed roof is being refurbished, and the central portion is being removed and replaced with a new glass atrium to celebrate the station. More images and architects' description after the break.

Cedarvale Ravine House / Drew Mandel Architects

February 19, 2013

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Architects: Drew Mandel Architects
Area: 3250 ft²
Year: 2011

POP-UP Office Installation / Dubbeldam Architecture + Design

Subscriber Access | February 16, 2013

Exploring the evolving way in which we work, the POP-UP Office is an installation by DUBBELDAM Architecture + Design that uses modular units that can be combined in different ways. The result is a workspace that is simultaneously bare bones and tailored to the individual. This design becomes a great response to the profound shift in the way we work; when all we need is a surface to work on and a place to plug in, the working environment is no longer static. More images and architects’ description after the break.

Toronto's Anti-City Mayor Ousted

November 28, 2012

Rob Ford, the Toronto Mayor famous for making enemies of "urban thinkers, designers and practitioners," has been ousted from office for violating a conflict-of-interest act (he spoke and voted on a matter which allowed his own Football Foundation to financially benefit).

Terrence Donnelly Health Sciences Complex / Kongats Architects

October 29, 2012

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Architects: Kongats Architects
Area: 6 m²
Year: 2011

The Offset / Ja Studio + ARTA Design and Build

October 22, 2012

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Architects: Ja Studio + ARTA Design and Build
Area: 2000 ft²
Year: 2012

Whale House / rzlbd

Subscriber Access | October 19, 2012

Architects: rzlbd Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Project Team: Reza Aliabadi, Ladan Niknam, Lailee Soleimani Project Manager: Amin Sheivari Project Year: 2012 Photographs: Courtesy of Atelier rzlbd

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'Harvest Wave' Exhibition for the Sukkahville Design Competition / Various Architects

Subscriber Access | October 17, 2012

Andrew McGregor, Robert Miller, Raymond Bourraine, and Teresa Cacho were recently named as the second prize winner in the Sukkahville Design Competition in Toronto. Organized by the Kehilla Residential Programme, five finalists were given the opportunity to build their designs for an exhibition with the challenge to design a temporary structure constructed for use annually during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot. Representing many conceptual themes surrounding the essential nature of dwelling, this proposal for an innovative Sukkah design delicately balances the inherent dichotomies of new/old, open/closed, and temporary/permanent. More images can be viewed after the break.

In Progress: Theatre at Nathan Phillips Square / Perkins&Will

October 16, 2012

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Architects: Perkins&Will
Area: 910 m²

Gehry and Mirvish unveil Toronto 'Sculptures'

Subscriber Access | October 02, 2012

David Mirvish, founder of Mirvish Productions, and Toronto-born starchitect Frank Gehry have officially unveiled a massive, mixed-use project that will transform Toronto’s downtown arts and entertainment district. The multi-phase project will significantly alter the city’s skyline with three, “sculptural” residential towers perched atop two, six story podiums.

Mirvish describes, “I am not building three towers, I am building three sculptures that people can live in.”

Continue reading to learn more.