Toronto

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners reveals visuals for new Toronto skyscraper

March 26, 2018 India Block 0

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has released the first visualisations of The HUB, a skyscraper that will “hover” above a historic building in Toronto, Canada. Renders show an external steel structure supporting the building and allowing it to cantilever over the Toronto Harbour Commission Building, a six storey building erected on the site in 1917. “Our

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Grimshaw creates curved mirrored ceiling inside Toronto metro station

March 21, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Grimshaw Architects has completed the latest station for the expanded Toronto subway system, with a huge curved roof that swoops down to form walls and is covered in mirrors underneath. Vaughan Metropolitan Centre (VMC) Station acts as the new terminus of the Toronto Transit Commission’s 1 train line, which was recently extended north. Designed by global firm

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Female co-working club Make Lemonade opens in Toronto

March 19, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Phone booths with grassy carpets, a floral mural, and rose-pink and lemon-yellow furniture feature in this women-only co-working club in Toronto, designed by locally based MMNT Studio. Launched in September 2017, Make Lemonade provides 3,000 square feet (278 square metres) of workspace just for women in the Canadian city’s Downtown area. It was founded by Rachel

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Renzo Piano unveils new courthouse for Toronto

February 27, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Renzo Piano Building Workshop has revealed its first project in Canada: a Toronto courthouse elevated on columns to expose tall glazed walls and a 20-metre-high atrium. Italian architect Piano and his firm will build the Toronto Courthouse in the Downtown area – close to the city’s current major courthouse, which was completed in 1967, and the

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DesignAgency turns former strip club into boutique Toronto hotel

February 14, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Canadian studio DesignAgency has transformed a 19th-century building in Toronto, once home to a strip club, into a boutique hotel featuring patchwork flooring, patterned wallpaper and brass lighting. The Broadview Hotel is located in the east of the city, on the corner of Queen Street and Broadview Avenue. It occupies a Romanesque Revival-style building, featuring

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DesignAgency turns former strip club into boutique Toronto hotel

February 14, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Canadian studio DesignAgency has transformed a 19th-century building in Toronto, once home to a strip club, into a boutique hotel featuring patchwork flooring, patterned wallpaper and brass lighting. The Broadview Hotel is located in the east of the city, on the corner of Queen Street and Broadview Avenue. It occupies a Romanesque Revival-style building, featuring

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DesignAgency turns former strip club into boutique Toronto hotel

February 14, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Canadian studio DesignAgency has transformed a 19th-century building in Toronto, once home to a strip club, into a boutique hotel featuring patchwork flooring, patterned wallpaper and brass lighting. The Broadview Hotel is located in the east of the city, on the corner of Queen Street and Broadview Avenue. It occupies a Romanesque Revival-style building, featuring

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Ice-skating trail transforms unused space beneath Toronto highway

February 7, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

The latest instalment of our Dezeen x MINI Living video series explores an unused space beneath a highway in Toronto, which is being overhauled to create a new park complete with an ice-skating track. Developed by urban designer Ken Greenberg and Toronto landscape architecture firm Public Work, the Bentway will be a linear park that occupies a

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Colourful booths, furniture and cables enliven Slack’s Toronto office by Dubbeldam

January 26, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

A trail of rainbow-coloured cables, which match brightly hued walls and seating, threads through the Toronto offices of tech company Slack by Dubbeldam Architecture + Design. After starting up in San Francisco, Slack – which provides cloud-based tools for collaborative work – has grown rapidly and opened offices in Vancouver, New York, Melbourne, London, and

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Colourful booths, furniture and cables enliven Slack’s Toronto office by Dubbeldam

January 26, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

A trail of rainbow-coloured cables, which match brightly hued walls and seating, threads through the Toronto offices of tech company Slack by Dubbeldam Architecture + Design. After starting up in San Francisco, Slack – which provides cloud-based tools for collaborative work – has grown rapidly and opened offices in Vancouver, New York, Melbourne, London, and

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