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Firma completes home and museum for artist Charles Pachter

December 26, 2022 James Brillon 0

An extension made of blue corrugated metal panels has been added to a laneway house in Toronto’s Chinatown neighbourhood to create a new museum and residence for the Canadian artist Charles Pachter. Charles Pachter is a Canadian artist, known for his paintings of moose, landscapes and Queen Elizabeth. The artist wanted to renovate an existing

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Large fireplaces bookend Evangeline rooftop bar at Ace Hotel Toronto

October 29, 2022 Dan Howarth 0

The rooftop bar and lounge at the recently opened Ace Hotel Toronto, by local studio Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, continues the earthy tones and exposed concrete from the lobby. Named Evangeline, the 80-seat bar overlooks Toronto from the 14th floor of the new building by Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, with interiors by Atelier Ace – the hospitality group’s in-house

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Partisans designs Toronto high-rise informed by architectural “revision clouds”

September 30, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Canadian architecture studio Partisans has designed a residential tower in Toronto that takes its shape from both natural clouds and revision clouds – a notation architects use in technical drawings. If built at the proposed 15-17 Elm Street site in downtown Toronto, it will be 99 metres tall and contain 32 floors of apartments and

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BDP Quadrangle designs super-skinny skyscraper for Toronto

September 26, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

The Canadian branch of UK architecture studio BDP has released designs for the 15 Toronto Street super-skinny skyscraper in the city’s financial district. BDP Quadrangle designed the 54-storey tower to replace a 10-storey office tower built in the 1960s. The 209,450-square-foot (19,459-square-metre) tower will contain residential and office units, with amenities on the ground floor and on the

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Toronto airfield to be converted into district that aims to be “the opposite of suburbanization”

September 21, 2022 Ben Dreith 0
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Danish studio Henning Larsen Architects, local studio KPMB and landscape architecture studio SLA are set to convert an airstrip outside of Toronto into a residential district. Downsview Airfield, 15 kilometres northwest of Toronto, will be turned into a residential and commercial district with strong transport connections to the city. The development will be arranged around

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Hariri Pontarini rethinks cold medical interiors at Barlo MS Centre

September 18, 2022 Dan Howarth 0
Staircase at BARLO MS Centre

Canadian architecture studio Hariri Pontarini has completed a clinic in Toronto for multiple sclerosis patients that features warm wood tones and spaces designed to feel like “first-class airplane lounges”. The Barlo MS Centre is Canada’s largest clinic dedicated to those with MS, a complex autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system. Named after its

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Hariri Pontarini rethinks cold medical interiors at Barlo MS Centre

September 18, 2022 Dan Howarth 0
Staircase at BARLO MS Centre

Canadian architecture studio Hariri Pontarini has completed a clinic in Toronto for multiple sclerosis patients that features warm wood tones and spaces designed to feel like “first-class airplane lounges”. The Barlo MS Centre is Canada’s largest clinic dedicated to those with MS, a complex autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system. Named after its

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Metal-clad boxes form Everden house by StudioAC in Toronto

August 10, 2022 Jenna McKnight 0
Everden House by StudioAC

Gabled elements and corrugated aluminium siding feature in a family home that was designed by Canadian firm StudioAC to be “impactful without being indulgent”. The Everden house is located on a slender, rectangular lot in Toronto’s Cedarvale neighbourhood. “The brief was to create a home that felt unique and personal to the homeowners and unapologetically

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Victorian balusters pattern surfaces at Aesop Yorkville store by Odami

August 6, 2022 Dan Howarth 0
Counter at Aesop Yorkville store

The history of Toronto’s Yorkville neighbourhood informed this store for skincare brand Aesop, which local studio Odami has given ruby-toned walls and smooth beige counters. Odami, a design studio based several blocks west of the Aesop Yorkville shop, used features typical of the area as a starting point for elements of the design. “The interior

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Ace Hotel Toronto by Shim-Sutcliffe Architects features a suspended lobby

July 26, 2022 Dan Howarth 0
Ace Hotel Toronto lobby

Canada’s first Ace Hotel has opened in Toronto, housed in a new building by Shim-Sutcliffe Architects that features a lobby suspended from huge concrete arches. The ground-up project was built in the city’s Garment District, close to Downtown and the bustling Queen Street West area, which has a history of manufacturing but is now associated

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