Tommy Thompson Entrance and Pavilion 3 Leslie Steet

Design is often best when it does not try to do more than it needs to. This project with this expression: a beautiful building; scaled appropriately; built from appropriate materials; and detailed with the evolution of the site in mind. Despite its modern stature, expressive rooflines, and generally some contemporary notes, this building feels like something that might have always been here, with materials pulled from just underneath the surface, and beautiful gabion baskets to reinforce them. Simple; refined; elegant.

Project Information

Architect: DTAH Architects Limited

Landscape Architect: DTAH

Structural Engineer: Faet Lab

Electrical and Mechanical Engineer: Thomas A. Fakete Limited 

Civil and Stormwater Management Engineering: SCS Consulting Group Ltd.

Ecology: North-South Environmental

Cost Consultant: A.W. Hooker

Developer/Owner/Client: City of Toronto

General Contractor: Somerville Construction

Photographer: Scott Norsworthy