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McKINSEY & COMPANY
110 Charles Street West, Victoria University, University of Toronto
Architect: Taylor Hariri Pontarini Architects
Landscape Architect: MBTW Group
Owner: McKinsey & Company
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An especially fine response, in scale and material use, to the academic architecture of Victoria College and the University of Toronto.
The degree of transparency of exterior façades creates a friendly relationship between building form and the street, in spite of a programmatic requirement for security.
The building is an exemplary response to municipal zoning and University urban design criteria.
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PROVIDENCE CENTRE
3276 St. Clair Ave. East at Warden Ave.
Architect: Joint Venture of Montgomery & Sisam Architects and
Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
Landscape Architect: Vertechs Design Inc.
Owner: Providence Centre
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This dignified and handsome Home for the Aged skillfully expresses exceptional architectural sensitivity and strength of detail in responding to its institutional context and place in the community.
The North Court is designed as an approach to the principal entrance, brilliantly integrating seating, parking, vehicular and pedestrian circulation with a diversified landscape beneath a canopy of trees. Ground floor level is reflected consistently in retaining walls and other landscape elements and is an elegant resolution for the provision of barrier-free usage of the area.
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ROBERTSON HOUSE CRISIS CARE CENTRE
291, 295 Sherbourne Street
Architect: Taylor Hariri Pontarini Architects
Landscape Architect: MBTW Group
Owner: Metropolitan Toronto Community Services
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A good example of urban infill skillfully executed in the immediate area and in relation to the overall heritage context of the district.
A natural residential feeling is created with the use of calming materials and residential architectural features.
The Centre successfully projects a welcoming domesticity onto the street and provides a soft response to security with the introduction of an activity-centred internal courtyard.
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Rotary Park Pool/"Swell"
25, 11th Ave.
Pool
Architect: MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects
Landscape Architect: Gunta Mackars Landscape Architecture
Structural Engineers: Blackwell Engineering Ltd.
Owner: City of Toronto
"Swell" Architect: Jarle Lovlin, Carol Phillips, with Robin Greenwood
Owner: City of Toronto
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A light and airy building that sits well in this local park and neighbourhood.
The Changehouse and pool deck exhibit a rich and disciplined use of materials and textures.
The public art component, SWELL, is skillfully integrated as elegant pool deck lounge seating.
This is a joyful place which will add architectural character to its urban residential context in all seasons.
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