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Architects Win Design for Toronto Waterfront Neighborhood

© Quayside+Aerial. Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto
© Quayside+Aerial. Courtesy of Waterfront Toronto
24 February 2022 | Toronto, Canada

Alison Brooks Architects, Adjaye Associates and Danish practice Henning Larsen have been appointed to deliver a new waterside neighborhood in Toronto, Canada
The companies, working with developers Dream Unlimited and Great Gulf, were selected from a shortlist, which also included Foster + Partners, MVRDV and local practice Diamond Schmitt Architects.

Plans for the L-shaped site will feature five towers, providing more than 800 affordable homes alongside market homes, which will be used for performing arts, education activities and indigenous cultural celebrations.

The plans will also have new public spaces, including a 0.8-hectare "community forest" and a "significant" urban farm atop an Adjaye-designed block–which could be one of Canada’s largest residential mass timber buildings. The project team said the 4.9ha masterplan will be "Canada’s first all-electric, zero-carbon master plan."

For more on this story, go to Architects' Journal.