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Tenant lounge reborn from vacant retail space
A former convenience store, adjacent to the lobby inside a downtown Toronto office tower, has been transformed into a private 1920s-style Art Deco lounge for tenant meetings and events.
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WELL evolves into residential communities
Minto Communities is the first developer in Canada to pilot the WELL for residential program, which sets out to create healthier homes.
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Opinion: Accessibility is everybody’s business
Society benefits, and invariably prospers, when people everywhere can more easily share their experience, knowledge and culture and exercise their spending powers
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New standards for sustainable material use
A new set of standards defines minimum sustainability criteria for high-volume materials used in architecture and interior projects.
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A new approach to mid-rise living in Etobicoke
A new spin on the concept of stacked townhomes is promised to boost missing middle housing typologies in the Greater Toronto Area.
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A new healthcare tower for a diverse community
The new Ken and Marilyn Thomson Patient Care Centre in Toronto’s east end ushers in a new era of healthcare.
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Probing the impact of renos on dementia patients
The quality of life awaiting future residents within the country’s institutional-like care facilities is facing scrutiny as researchers closely examine how these spaces are being reimagined for the better.
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Hospitality program transforms office portfolio
Over the next three months, Canderel will begin rolling out a workplace hospitality program called Okkto across its buildings.
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Archival preservation facility is a net-zero first
Library and Archives Canada’s new preservation storage facility opened as the first net-zero carbon archival centre in the Americas,
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Ontario requiring clean and safe washrooms
Ontario is making washrooms on construction sites private, clean and safe, while also requiring women’s-only washrooms.
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A supermarket becomes Meaford’s new library
The adaptive re-use project relocates Meaford Public Library from an inaccessible three-storey building to a one-storey facility.
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15-acre community planned in North York
A vast and vacant parking lot on Sheppard East in North York will become a brand new community replete with a variety of uses.
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At Scarborough’s newest collaborative workspace
LCH Developments wanted to bring something unique to the empty retail space on the ground floor of a condominium in Cliffside Village.
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Inside Manulife’s latest workplace transformation
Overhauling Manulife’s Canadian head office in Waterloo transformed into an even more significant project than previously intended.
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Designing for patient dignity in Grande Prairie
Inside the 681,000-square-foot facility, people are able to experience the landscape and natural light, even throughout Alberta’s harsh weather extremes.
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Designing the shopping experience of the future
New theories on retail centre on how experiences, convenience and a sense of community can draw people to a physical site.
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Going fully hybrid at HSBC’s new Toronto office
On a Friday morning, in HSBC Bank’s new corporate office at 16 York in downtown Toronto, sit-stand desks and meeting rooms are dotted with workers who’ve returned from pandemic lockdowns.