Canadian architecture

While designed for a specific client and a site with opportune zoning and planning, Hi-Lo Hybrid tackles a prevailing narrow lot condition along Toronto's main streets. Despite the demand for increased density and housing options on these existing transit and mixed-use corridors, they remain largely underdeveloped, including an estimated 250km composed of existing single-family homes reinforced by low-rise residential zoning and planning. Outdated zoning and current planning policies limit the range of infill opportunities, driving homogenous stacked townhouse forms, as well as outsized mid-rise developments and retail spaces requiring long term lot assembly. Over time these development models become further entrenched. Hi-Lo Hybrid demonst... More

This house is 3900 square feet over three levels in Whistler, BC. The owners are a very active family of four and relocated from Vancouver to make Whistler their home. The primary focus was to develop a design that would support the outdoor activities and lifestyle of the family while ensuring that a sense of permanent - rather than recreational - home was created. Further, the house siting was to embrace nature, by engaging both the connection to mountain forest upon which it sits and the ski hill views beyond. The site is heavily sloped and there was also a desire to connect between indoors and outdoors on multiple levels. Southern exposure was to be utilized on the upper floor to bring much needed sunlight deep into the space on long win... More

Proposed redevelopment for a key site looking onto Dows’s lake and little Italy.   Graziani + Corazza designed this project icorporating 3 curved towers reaching 18, 45, and 55 storeys in height, resting on 3 to 5 story podiums. This site is an important gateway location to the Preston-Carling District and to an expanded downtown area. With the City’s transit oriented development objectives Graziani + Corazza is creating a memorable form at the city scale while reinforcing the landmark quality of the site, all while establishing a unique skyline. With the public in mind this project is evolving the context of the area by expanding pedestrian walkways. More

Phase I, II and III are spread out through College St, Bay Street, Younge Street and Gerard Street, anchored by the historic Barbara Anne Scott Park and the art deco College Park Eaton’s building. The first two Towers employ stone detailing who’s rectilinear forms address the existing context and heights. The individual towers rest on podiums which house a mix of commercial, residential and amenity uses. The podium built form provides the necessary transition to scale as to provide an urban edge condition with a series of permeations for pedestrian interactions. The podium uses a mix of stone, glass and metal cladding materials to generate a sense of solid and void as to further enhance the pedestrian experience in the urban context. Canopi... More

The Heron’s Hill Residential project aims to define the neighborhood of North York. With its location prominently on Sheppard Avenue across from Highway 404, it will become a beacon or gateway for the surrounding area. The slender, elegant composition of each of the three towers provides a rhythm in the skyline that is both optimistic and unobtrusive.   This project is designed with different programmatic scales in mind, which lend themselves to different architectural types. The residential scale of the tower is used to define the intersection of Sheppard Avenue and Yorkland Road, while at the same time having a dimension which can compete visually with the larger scale of Highway 404. The podium, on the other hand, is used to delineate a... More

"Located on Lake Shore Boulevard West, Voyager II at Waterview is part of a two-tower planned community developed by Monarch Group, Canada’s oldest real estate company. Standing just to the east of Voyager I, the 16-storey Voyager II building offers 194 Mimico condos for sale and for rent. The suites range in size and layout from cozy one-bedroom apartments to larger two-bedroom units, all with bright windows and spacious balconies. Mostly open-concept designed, the interior finishes include nine-foot ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows, granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, and kitchen breakfast bars. A wide range of building amenities will help residents experience an energetic lifestyle, with enjoyable ways to relax. Plu... More