Toronto

Snøhetta and Heatherwick Studio unveil designs for Sidewalk Labs’ Toronto neighbourhood

February 19, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0
Quayside at Sidewalk Toronto by Snøhetta and Heatherwick Studio

Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs has tapped Thomas Heatherwick’s studio and architecture firm Snøhetta to develop proposals for the smart, mass-timber city that the company is developing on Toronto’s waterfront. Renderings by Snøhetta and Heatherwick Studio were used to illustrate a document outlining the updated concepts and proposals for Sidewalk Toronto, a project under development by Sidewalk Labs – a subsidiary

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Agency 59 office by MSDS celebrates “rawness” of historic Toronto car factory

February 5, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0
Lunch room in Agency 59 by MSDS Studio

MSDS Studio championed the “explicit materiality” of coarse concrete columns and floors when designing the offices for an advertising agency, located inside a former car factory in Toronto. The local studio created the office for Agency 59 in the city’s Tower Automotive Building – a 20th-century production facility for auto parts. Left vacant since 2006, the

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Williamson Williamson places office above Pilot Coffee roasting warehouse in Toronto

January 29, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Pilot Coffee by Williamson Williamson

Canadian architecture firm Williamson Williamson has added administrative offices on top of a coffee roastery in Toronto, where structural elements are highlighted in bright yellow. Pilot Coffee Roasters is an independent company with a handful of cafes in the greater Toronto area. Its roasting facility was designed in 2014 inside a former warehouse by local

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Burdifilek evokes Canadian winters at Toronto outerwear store Moose Knuckles

January 21, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Moose Knuckles by Burdifilek

A display rack for winter coats is covered in fur and suspended from leather straps inside this Toronto store, designed by local studio Burdifilek. The flagship for Canadian jacket brand Moose Knuckles features dimly lit interiors intended to evoke winter’s frigid darkness. Burdifilek selected black walls, hot-rolled steel and pale tile floors create a minimal

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Sidewalk Labs Toronto offices occupy fishery renovated by Lebel & Bouliane

January 7, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Sidewalk Labs office by Lebel and Bouliane

A black geometric volume evocative of a ship defines these spacious offices for Sidewalk Labs in Toronto, where the Google-owned company is planning an ambitious “future city” neighbourhood. Designed by local studio Lebel & Bouliane, the Sidewalks Labs Toronto offices are based within a former fish processing plant in Toronto’s Port Lands, an industrial area

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StudioAC links Candy Loft interiors with arched hallways in Toronto

December 18, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Toronto firm StudioAC has outfitted this apartment in an old candy factory with custom arched volumes, exposed elements and white rooms throughout. The one-bedroom Candy Loft is located in the converted, former confectionary building on a busy street in Toronto’s downtown west end. The project measures 1,686 square feet (156 square metres) and is a “hard loft

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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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