Limberlost Place, a building currently under construction at George Brown College’s Waterfront Campus in Toronto, has won a 2024 LOOP Design Award in the Eco & Sustainable Concept category!

The aspirational design of this project, completed with Acton Ostry Architects, has introduced mass timber into the Toronto lexicon of public buildings and will achieve sustainability targets well in advance of the city’s step plan to 2030 carbon reductions. The higher education facility’s exposed mass timber in a space where the assembly occupancies and the teaching spaces occupy the full verticality of the building, as well as the exceptionally efficient, prefabricated envelope system, make it unique. The team’s hope is that once Limberlost Place is complete and occupied, the inhabitants will be influenced by the visible intuitive operations, use of renewable materials, and low- and high-tech approaches to sustainability.

Thank you to everyone who cast a vote in favour of this project!