Toronto

Venice Beach informs Alexandra Hutchison’s La Palma restaurant in Toronto

December 12, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Canadian designer Alexandra Hutchison has opened an eatery with her husband in Toronto, creating interiors influenced by a trip to coastal California. La Palma restaurant is located on Dundas Street West, in the city’s Trinity-Bellwoods neighbourhood, and is run by Hutchison and her partner, chef Craig Harding. It is the couple’s second restaurant, following Campagnolo across

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Batay-Csorba envisions Triple Duplex as alternative to traditional housing in Toronto

December 10, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

Canadian studio Batay-Csorba Architects has designed a low-rise apartment building that challenges Toronto’s planning policies, which preference single-family homes and fail to address population growth. The Triple Duplex is meant to offer an alternative to the single-family homes that typically occupy the long, narrow lots that are ubiquitous in the Canadian city. The slender parcels

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Corrugated metal bar runs through Juice cafe-cum-barbershop in Toronto

November 11, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

This black and white space in Toronto by local firm StudioAC offers coffee in the front and haircuts in the back. Juice barbershop and cafe is located in the city’s West End neighbourhood, and is characterised by its minimal industrial interior. Based in the city, StudioAC designed the 800-square-foot (74-square-metre) space around functionality and flexibility. The

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StudioAC coverts Toronto church into minimal Pape Loft

October 16, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Toronto firm StudioAC has overhauled part of a church in the city, creating a contemporary two-bedroom home with a curved balustrade clad in pale wood. The converted religious building now houses the Pape Loft, which takes its name from an informal term for a Roman Catholic priest or pope, often used in Scotland in the mid-1900s.

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StudioAC outfits Toronto’s Annex hotel with plywood furniture

October 1, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Toronto firm StudioAC has used plywood to build custom platform beds and expansive desks for the rooms of this boutique hotel in the city. The Annex hotel is located in the Toronto neighbourhood of the same name, and is housed in a century-old, three-storey brick building. “The building was originally built as horse stables with

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BIG’s pixelated complex of “peaks and valleys” for Toronto gains approval

September 20, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Architecture firm BIG’s verdant mixed-use complex, reminiscent of Moshe Safdie’s experimental Habitat 67 housing in Montreal, has been approved for Toronto. The King West Street development, first revealed in 2016, has gained permission to begin construction in Canada’s largest city. Its design by Bjarke Ingels’ firm BIG comprises stacks of cubes, arranged in an undulated

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Sidewalk Labs unveils design for neighbourhood in Toronto “future city”

August 15, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs is proposing “unprecedentedly” tall timber buildings, sprawling public spaces, and heated pavements to melt snow, for the first neighbourhood in its major development on Toronto’s waterfront. Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company, and its project partner Waterfront Toronto released the designs for an unused 12-acre (9.5-hectare) lakeside site during a roundtable discussion

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Early Bird cafe in Toronto by MSDS eschews “grab-and-go” coffee culture

August 11, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

MSDS Studio has matched pale chairs and tables with woodwork and plaster inside this Toronto cafe, to create a serene atmosphere for customers to enjoy their coffee. The local studio designed the cafe as the second outpost of Toronto’s Early Bird chain, which it describes as having an “easy-going atmosphere”. The new 1,570-square-foot (146-square-metre) location

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Carlo Ratti and Sidewalk Labs collaborate to build reconfigurable Dynamic Street

July 20, 2018 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Italian architect Carlo Ratti and Alphabet company Sidewalk Labs have worked together on a modular paving system that can change the use of a street throughout the day. Dynamic Street is a prototype paver developed by Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) alongside Sidewalk Labs — the urbanism-focused subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet. The system of

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Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill reveals skyscraper for 160 Front Street in Toronto

July 12, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture has unveiled plans for a glass office tower in Downtown Toronto, the latest in a string of skyscrapers proposed for the city. 160 Front Street will rise 46 storeys close to the Entertainment District and the iconic CN Tower. The area is already dense with skyscrapers, but several more

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