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The Trinity College School campus is made up of historic neo-gothic brick and stone buildings dating from the late 1800s, woven together with buildings built throughout the 1900s. Complementing this architecture, the primary goal of the Learning Commons Project was to create a space that supports and encourages multiple learning styles: social learning, individual study, group study, group projects, one-on-one guidance, and classroom instruction.
This major expansion and renovation doubled the size of the West District Library, the second-highest circulating branch in the Ottawa Public Library system, and created welcoming, engaging, light–filled and technology-enabled public spaces. The two-storey addition established a far more substantial visual presence for the library, welcoming patrons with a transparent facade of floor-to-ceiling glass and an entrance terrace with seating areas and naturalized gardens.
A major expansion of the former Kaneff Centre, the Innovation Complex is a new gateway to the University of Toronto Mississauga campus, an incubator for industry partnerships and a multifunctional hub of academic, administrative, and social activity. The focal point of this dynamic synergy is the Rotunda, an open and airy circular atrium created at the heart of the building.
The St. George Campus of the University of Toronto, is a uniquely rich architectural precinct, with some of the city’s most celebrated buildings, superbly sited within a complex network of stunning indoor and outdoor learning spaces. The Goldring Student Centre at Victoria University within UofT is a renovation and addition to Eric Arthur’s Wymilwood Building.
The major renovation and expansion of the Toronto French School integrates an all-new athletics complex, event space, and student lounge into a sensitive heritage rehabilitation of the 1923 Sir Clifford Sifton estate. Stepping down a dramatic slope overlooking the forested Don Valley Ravine, the Athletics Complex includes a 25-metre pool for competitive swimming in addition to a divisible double gymnasium with retractable bleachers, a multipurpose exercise and dance studio, and facilities for aerobic and weight training.
To create the Guelph Civic Administration Complex, Moriyama Teshima Architects and heritage architects Goldsmith Borgal renovated and physically integrated two important historical structures: the 1856 Guelph City Hall, a national historic site expanded as the City’s courthouse, and the 1900 Winter Fair Building, incorporated into the new Civic Administration Centre and council chambers. The City Hall is a National Historic Site and a provincially-designated heritage property, and was designed in the Renaissance Revival style by William Thomas, architect of Toronto’s first City Hall.
