Location
Toronto, Ontario

Client
University of Toronto

Completion
2012

Size
161,500 ft² / 15,004 m²

Project Type
Education, Heritage

Sustainability
LEED® gold certified

KPMB Team
Bruce Kuwabara (design partner), Marianne McKenna (partner-in-charge), Luigi LaRocca (principal-in-charge), Paulo Rocha (associate/design/project architect, all phases), Dave Smythe (associate/project architect, contract administration), Myriam Tawadros, Bruno Weber, John Peterson, Janice Wong, Richard Wong, Victor Garzon, Lilly Liaukus, Bryn Marler, Rachel Stecker, Maryam Karimi, Carolyn Lee, Danielle Sucher, Laura Carwardine

Consultants
Halcrow Yolles (structural), Smith & Andersen (mechanical, electrical), BVDA Group (building envelope), Transsolar (energy), Halsall Associates Ltd. (LEED), Turner & Townsend cm2r Inc. (formerly cm2r) (cost), E.R.A. Architects Inc. (heritage), Leber/Rubes (life safety), Engineering Harmonics (AV), Janet Rosenberg + Associates (landscape), ACSI (elevator), Aercoustics Engineering Ltd. (acoustics), Kaizen Foodservice Planning & Design (food services), Brian Ballantyne Specifications (specifications), Entro Communcations/G+A (Signage), Cole Engineering (civil)

Project Manager
Capital Project, University of Toronto

Construction Manager/General Contractor
Eastern Construction Company

Photography
Tom Arban, Maris Mezulis

Awards
2014 Governor General’s Award
2014 Architectural Record, Good Design is Good Business Award
2014 Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award
2014 AZ Award of Merit
2014 Illumination Engineering Society of North America, Illumination Award of Merit
2013 Architizer A+ Awards
2013 Ontario Association of Architects Award of Excellence
2013 Pug Awards, Honourable Mention
2013 Canadian Interiors Best of Canada, Project Winner
2012 Ontario Concrete Award

Press
The Globe and Mail, January 2018
Architectural Record, June 2014
Canadian Interiors, November, 2013
Contract Magazine, March 2013